RoboBob3000
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Let me express my undying love for this feature in DROD RPG. I'll give you five dollars if you port it back to TCB.

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[Last edited by RoboBob3000 at 09-19-2008 01:07 AM : Ohhh, it was a bad apostrophe. That explains the mod down.]

Vike91
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If you are going to port the advanced scripting to TCB, you could make a check-box to setting screen.

This check-box could toggle advanced commands in scripting.

If checked, the advanced commands are shown too.
If not, only the original commands will be shown.

This will make basic character scripting easier.

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Mechadragon
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Speaking of advanced scripting, any chance RPG/TCB scripting could be made turing complete? Pretty please?

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DROD is already turing complete. It just makes for a really large computer.

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Dex Stewart
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I think he meant DROD scripting, not DROD itself.

mrimer
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Hmm...to *really* do that, we'd need an infinite memory tape. So, either we need on-the-fly room generation or on-the-fly variable generation. The first sounds really awesome, and the second turns DROD into PHP.

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All we really need is arrays and the ability to index into them with a variable. Like I've suggested before, use, for instance, a # at the beginning of a variable to make it an array. Then use the text field or a new variable _MyIndex to indicate a numerical index. You do that, then I can prove that a single character can be Turing Complete via isomorphism with BF.

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eb0ny
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Can't we just adapt python to do the job?

On topic, I would like to suggest the addition of comments and empty lines to the scripting commands. These are purely aesthetic features and should not influence scripts in any way other than readability.

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Sillyman
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eb0ny wrote:
Can't we just adapt python to do the job?

No, no we can't. I like my actually writable scripts, thank you very much.

(Although whether or not DRODScript is easy to write in is highly debatable. Seriously, it's a pain sometimes.)

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Sillyman
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... I just thought of something... on the fly room generation could be very, very possible (at least for a level builder to do)... from the scripting room, add a command called "Generate room at X,Y with entity F primed at H,W".

This makes a room at a particular point on the level's map with a character at the specified spot. This character can then build the room when you enter.

What would be more difficult is on the fly level entrance generation. And, of course, modifying the code to let you add a whole room during play and have a whole room saved in the save file.

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mrimer
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Implemented in 4.0.

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