The New 64

[Scuba Steve]

Bastet Furry said:

On Player.Uses Line(200)
  Message("You pushed the button! Now die!")
  ShowThing(76) ' A CyberDemon
  ActivateThing(76) ' Activate Him
  Disable Line(200)
End On

On Thing(76).Destroyed
  Move Sector(30).Ceiling Up 96
End On

Something like that.
Everyone should be able to read that and understand that.
Its simplified normal language ;)

What?

[Bastet Furry]

Scuba Steve said:

What?

That!

A Doom Scripting Language where you use a simplified english language.
If you like, call it DSL ;)

[Fredrik]

When the level starts, play a cool sound effect.
Then spawn a couple of imps right in front of the player.
When the player picks up the yellow key, make bars slam shut behind him
so he can't get out, then spawn some revenants.
Let him out when they're dead.

[Bastet Furry]

Fredrik said:

When the level starts, play a cool sound effect.
Then spawn a couple of imps right in front of the player.
When the player picks up the yellow key, make bars slam shut behind him
so he can't get out, then spawn some revenants.
Let him out when they're dead.

That would result in this scriptfile:

On Game.Start
  PlaySFX("foo.wav",ONCE)
  For a = 10 to 15
    ShowThing(a) 
    ActivateThing(a)
  Next a
End On

On Player.PicksItem(YELLOWKEY)
  For a = 36 to 40
    Move Sector(a).ceiling down 128
  Next a
  For a = 212 to 215
    ShowThing(a) 
    ActivateThing(a)
  Next a   
End On

On Thing(212).Destroyed And Thing(213).Destroyed And Thing(214).Destroyed And Thing(215).Destroyed
  For a = 36 to 40
    Move Sector(a).ceiling up 128
  Next a
End On

[Bloodshedder]

Having programmed in both C and Visual Basic before, I would much prefer the syntax of ACS as opposed to VBScript.

[Fredrik]

Bastet Furry said:

That would result in this scriptfile:

What I posted was a script, in SuparDoomProgrammajing.

[Bastet Furry]

Fredrik said:

What I posted was a script, in SuparDoomProgrammajing.

Yeah, a scriptlanguage that we could interpret in ca. 15 Years.
But then we will have a doom emulator running inside Quake 561 ;)

Ok, KiddingMode Off!
What do you think of my idea in using something that resembles Basic for Doom Scripting?

[Udderdude]

Bastet Furry said:

On Player.Uses Line(200)
  Message("You pushed the button! Now die!")
  ShowThing(76) ' A CyberDemon
  ActivateThing(76) ' Activate Him
  Disable Line(200)
End On

On Thing(76).Destroyed
  Move Sector(30).Ceiling Up 96
End On

Uh, yeah. I'd rather have ACS. :P

[Bastet Furry]

udderdude said:

Uh, yeah. I'd rather have ACS. :P

Then, how would my example look like in ACS?

[boris]

Bastet Furry said:

Then, how would my example look like in ACS?

On Player.Uses Line(200)
Message("You pushed the button! Now die!")
ShowThing(76) ' A CyberDemon
ActivateThing(76) ' Activate Him
Disable Line(200)
End On

script 1 (void)
{
   print(s:"You pushed the button! Now die!");
   SpawnSpot("Cyberdemon", 1);
}

On Thing(76).Destroyed
Move Sector(30).Ceiling Up 96
End On

You don't even need a script for that...

Of course you'll have to set the line specials accordingly.

[Linguica]

Fredrik said:

What I posted was a script, in SuparDoomProgrammajing.

More like SubparDoomProgrammajing

[Anders]

Bastet Furry said:

There is one port using a lingo similiar to c, but forgotten the name.

eternity