After some pondering I've decided to go to the script oriented thingy, but not like a text file or anything, imagine klick n play, you have the basic scene and then put the objects with small script in them, i think it is the best choice )

now, im not brazilien, im portuguese ) so mail me (cause now i cant send any mail, not at home) and ill mail u back

later dudes

bruno sousa

See SMAUG 1.4 MUD source code for an example of this. The mob scripting in this engine is enough to get you started.

Kressilac www.smaug.org I think?

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Derek Licciardi

Im writing and adventure game like doot or sam n max and ive having a little problem doing the main engine. My problem is the following : Some objects only appear when something has happen, other can only used with special things and all that stuff, this is not to do hardcoded but it shall be hell if it is hardcoded, so I decided to write a scripting engine where I can make all of this options in a separate script from the main .exe but this is also very hard to do and then i had to make a scene editor and all that stuff.

my idea was something like this

Scene
-Objects
--bla bla bla (object stuff)
-NPCs
--bla bla bla (NPCs stuff)
-bla bla bla (otherr stuff)

this way it would be easir for the person writing the story, he coould design the scenes in a external program and then the main eexe would take care fo it, but this would build an generic engine and some effects and special features we want to implement cant be done this way.

any ideas how other games are being done ??
or any ideas how it should be done ??

thanks a bunch

(does anyone here think 3d adventure games have future ?? 'cause i certanly dont and maybe i must program one ;( )

bruno sousa

And if you need to do really crazy stuff, there's nothing wrong with having a script command that runs a hardcoded command like execute("universe implodes"). It also gives the programmers a chance to double check if and when that crazy stuff is needed.