Re: Simple AI Scripting, Help Me!

["Brett Bibby" <research@...>]

Tim,
The people here are really trying to help you.... get it?  That doesn't sound very nice does it?  Think about that.  People here are helping you in spite of your rudeness, not because of it.

Meanhwile, I also had, and continue to have, problems with Lua. But I have even MORE problems with my compiler on PS2, GameCube endian bugs, etc. etc., so don't blame Lua or the people on this list for your problems.

Also, do you realize the calibre of people on this list? What you want is for somebody who has less time and more experience than you have to do your work for you. What would you do if you didn't have Lua? Or an internet connection?  Remember, you're free to stop using Lua and go use some other language any time you please!

Have you actually tried to implement any of the proposed help offered to you? Did you check the archives?

Brett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <tryness@comcast.net>
To: "Lua list" <lua@bazar2.conectiva.com.br>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: Simple AI Scripting, Help Me!


> If I had the time, this is all predicated on time, which I have nill.  We
> have like a short
> time to do a game, we don't have much staff to work this game, we have most
> of an engine
> I have little to no gameplay, I wanted to use lua to help get gameplay fast,
> then offload
> the scripting to someone else who can read a sample script I provide, and be
> good to
> add other things, and basically bug me about exposing more functions, I
> don't have the
> time to read lua manual 45 times, and sit back and drink a beer, and read it
> again, this isn't
> rehab, what I want to do is so basic, it blows my mind.
> 
> what I want in simple form.
> 
> player 1 uses player1.lua
> in the script there are 3 functions, init, proc, exit
> 
> player 2 uses player2.lua
> in the script there are 3 functions, init, proc, exit
> 
> player3 uses player3.lua
> in the script there are 3 functions, init, proc, exit
> 
> etc etc, get it?
> 
> init is called once in my game init.. it does whatever it needs to do, to
> set up the player.
> 
> proc is called once per game frame, until game end, or player die etc.
> 
> exit is called once on exit
> 
> I would guess I would need co-routines, or muliple lua_states, how to I set
> them up, THE BIG THING how do I interface them with my GAME to make them
> work, you know how much time I have spent reading nothing but .lua files, I
> don't care about how they work inside lua, I want to know how they work
> together with my app, there is plenty of good documents on the scripting
> langauge itself, I can figure that out, but there is little or no
> documentation on interfacing it with your app.
> 
>