Imagine a game where each and every character required unqiue AI to react. Or a game where you can turn an electric switch on to turn on a fan 3 floors above, which would be one of hundreds of tasks that could be performed. Using scripts can make things like this pretty simple after you get the engine set up. I always use linked lists for my scripts. There are 3 node types. Events, Conditions, and Actions. Just put a true and false link in the node, and maybe some arguments, and have the actions invoke functions. Events would be nothing more than a pointer showing where to start running through the list. Of course something like this requires making an editor, which is not too much fun.

Jiia

Why not do a search on Google for "scripting languages"? That should give you a heap of links for your research. Also look up Python and Lua for 2 of the more popular scripting languages today used in game development. And look up java-script and VBScript while you''re at it.

Scripting in the context of computer programming is generally thought of as ''simple programming'', and tends to be at a higher and more abstract level than the ''real'' programming. You use it when you don''t want to have to recompile the program just to make a simple change, or when you want non programmers to be able to modify the system, or even when you just want a simpler and less error-prone language available for developing your game logic.

[ MSVC Fixes | STL | SDL | Game AI | Sockets | C++ Faq Lite | Boost | Asking Questions | Organising code files | My stuff ]