Lua priority again

[YouGroove]

I think Lua is something to priorize again , more high level stuff again.

That's even asked on forums by other people.

 

Lua :

A come back as it can be considered as

-make your game fast, re use libraries and people code

-No compiling or visual Studio needed (unless LE3 resolve it's big problem of needing to compile each time projects specially after some update

- Powerfull enought ( even C++ can't save anything with a bad performance on physic library)

- Fast to learn

 

It would just need some auto completition tool, but that don't exist for LE3 functions.

Perhaps a future kickstarter campaign ?

 

Hight level Flowgrahps have also lot of possibilties and potential.

It needs severe bug corrections and some new features (box/unbox flowgraph parts , possibility to create them visually ,i mean create he new Lua code, from a Lua script that don't have any Flowgraph specific stuff)

[Marleys Ghost]

Are you asking for a way to make a game without having to program?

[Mumbles]

-make your game fast, re use libraries and people code

 

Yeah, because C++ doesn't have like 100 million+ free libraries available to reuse...

 

 

 

- Fast to learn

 

So is C++... Both languages are just methods of writing a very long sequence of events that you want the computer to perform. One uses lots of meaningful symbols to reduce how much you have to write, and the other prefers a more "verbal" style of writing that long list...

 

The symbols are quick to learn, like when you learn numeracy at school, it's very quick to learn what the + sign means. Before long you know that 123+456 means 579. The symbols in C++ are the same, once you've seen them a few times, you know what they mean and how they work...

[Rick]

I don't feel like Josh has given a priority to one or the other recently. Being that the engine is written in C++ it's natural that things will be missed/delayed when exposing to Lua just by pure accident on his part.

 

@YouGroove There are more libraries (outside of LE) for C++ than Lua. There is more code for Lua inside LE than C++ (since it's easier to plug and play Lua code in LE), so not sure if that's what you meant?

 

Autocompletion would be a slick feature if Josh could implement it.

 

I agree with the flowgraphs. I hope Josh gets the logical entities in soon like he was talking about as it helps not litter the scene with pivots when using flowgraphs, but we can do a lot with how it's setup now. It's not perfect but rarely anything is

 

It really is amazing how easy it is to setup scene functionality with reusable flowgraph scripts. Love it!