Bernd Liefert --- The game I'm working on. (yeah this is an old topic)

[DontCare4Free]

Its how the lua functions know what robot is sending them.

So all robots share global state?

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[DrenDran]

So all robots share global state?

Yes, not the best way, but it dosent cause problems.

[DrenDran]

Hopefully if I have time ill fix and upload it tonight.

[DrenDran]

link added because I fixed the memory leaks and it seems to preform well
even though it's barly started

[DontCare4Free]

Download link seems down. Nvm, just really slow.

[DrenDran]

Added more links.

[DrenDran]

Last bump for the day, but ill update it tomarrow.

[Kingdaro]

consider using moonscript? it's an extension of Lua, while being like a weird python/ruby/lua hybrid. seems like something a lot of people would like.

also, with the AI script you posted on the front page, you could just throw all of the comments at the top in a block comment

--[[
example ai file

Command dump:

Action commands:
fire(robotID)
jump(robotID)
fall(robotID)
stop(robotID)
moveRight(robotID)
moveLeft(robotID)

Status commands:
getRuntime()
getHealth(robotID)
getPosX(robotID)
getPosY(robotID)
getVelX(robotID)
getVelY(robotID)
getTile(x,y)
getPlayerX()
getPlayerY()

Other:
echo(message)
setRobotVar(robotID,variableName,variableValue)
getRobotVar(robotID,variableName)

The script below will only fire if the player is close enough.
It will also change directions to face the player.
]]

playerx = getPlayerX()
playery = getPlayerY()
botx = getPosX(robotID)
boty = getPosY(robotID)

distancex = math.abs(playerx-botx)
distancey = math.abs(playery-boty)

totaldistance = distancex+distancey

if totaldistance < 500 then
 fire(robotID)
end

if playerx > botx then
 moveRight(robotID)
else
moveLeft(robotID)
 end
stop(robotID)

[DontCare4Free]

consider using moonscript? it's an extension of Lua, while being like a weird python/ruby/lua hybrid. seems like something a lot of people would like.

also, with the AI script you posted on the front page, you could just throw all of the comments at the top in a block comment

--[[
example ai file

Command dump:

Action commands:
fire(robotID)
jump(robotID)
fall(robotID)
stop(robotID)
moveRight(robotID)
moveLeft(robotID)

Status commands:
getRuntime()
getHealth(robotID)
getPosX(robotID)
getPosY(robotID)
getVelX(robotID)
getVelY(robotID)
getTile(x,y)
getPlayerX()
getPlayerY()

Other:
echo(message)
setRobotVar(robotID,variableName,variableValue)
getRobotVar(robotID,variableName)

The script below will only fire if the player is close enough.
It will also change directions to face the player.
]]

playerx = getPlayerX()
playery = getPlayerY()
botx = getPosX(robotID)
boty = getPosY(robotID)

distancex = math.abs(playerx-botx)
distancey = math.abs(playery-boty)

totaldistance = distancex+distancey

if totaldistance < 500 then
 fire(robotID)
end

if playerx > botx then
 moveRight(robotID)
else
moveLeft(robotID)
 end
stop(robotID)

Funny how nobody can really decide on the block comment syntax for "--"-comments. SQL (other than T-SQL) doesn't seem to support any blocks, Haskell uses  {- ... -}, and lua uses --[[ ... ]]. Any other versions?

[DrenDran]

Funny how nobody can really decide on the block comment syntax for "--"-comments. SQL (other than T-SQL) doesn't seem to support any blocks, Haskell uses  {- ... -}, and lua uses --[[ ... ]]. Any other versions?

/*
comment here
*/
for c++

consider using moonscript? it's an extension of Lua, while being like a weird python/ruby/lua hybrid. seems like something a lot of people would like.

Does it have a C++ libary?

[Kingdaro]

Funny how nobody can really decide on the block comment syntax for "--"-comments. SQL (other than T-SQL) doesn't seem to support any blocks, Haskell uses  {- ... -}, and lua uses --[[ ... ]]. Any other versions?

i think python uses """ """

Does it have a C++ libary?

correct me if i'm wrong, but i think it was made with lua, so it would need a lua library if anything

EDIT: looking at the source, at some point it seems as though he started developing moonscript with moonscript

dafuq

EDIT2: i think he just compiled all of the lua to moonscript, so you could use the moonscript library within moonscript. makes sense.

[DontCare4Free]

/*
comment here
*/
for c++

I was talking specifically about the languages that insist on using "--" to delimit comments.

Does it have a C++ libary?

Pretty sure you'd just load it through an extra lua library on the lua "side".

i think python uses """ """

Python doesn't have any real block comments either, that's the syntax for multi-line strings.

[Kingdaro]

Python doesn't have any real block comments either, that's the syntax for multi-line strings.

codeacademy lied to me then :C

[DontCare4Free]

EDIT: looking at the source, at some point it seems as though he started developing moonscript with moonscript

dafuq

Actually a pretty common thing to do, it's called self-hosted languages. Scala does this too (at least partially), as well as CoffeeScript. There was a project to do this for C# too, although I don't think it's actually used in VS (yet).

codeacademy lied to me then :C

That said, literals as lone statements in Python are no-ops, so for all intents and purposes they behave like multi-line comments, EXCEPT for if they're the first thing at the start of a new function/class (in which case they're something called "docstrings" which means that they're stored in __doc__ for the object).

[Kingdaro]

EXCEPT for if they're the first thing at the start of a new function/class (in which case they're something called "docstrings" which means that they're stored in __doc__ for the object).

that is something codeacademy taught me, yes.