Hi all. Here is a little example of what I have been playing about with of late. I was inspired by AUShadows Xp scripts and decided to look into them. I have improved them and added some extra stuff in to meet with the farming scenario.



The scripts are still rough and would really need more work for a full game, at least if they were used heavily, but as a wip it seems good enough to at least show. I definitely have to spend a little more time with Lua than I have so far. I keep waiting for a stable release first though, it does not encourage one to go too mad when you pretty much know your work could be lost quite easily. Still, it's all good practise I suppose!







If there is interest I will do another video on how the scripts were altered and also release the scripts for people to see. I worked form AUShadows scripts to start with and just rewrote them a little to make them less set in stone and more automatic. Take a look at those to get an idea.



Edit in fact here is the Xp script for you to peruse anyway.



Obviously there are some globals to be added to the main global file and other scripts also, but I will include those when I go into detail.

Glad to see my scripts could inspire further scripting, I'll be looking out for your work in the future, once we get some more commands I'll be making some more basic scripts

Thanks AuShadow. I apologise for calling your scripts basic, but I'm sure you won't argue the fact The Leveling and XP gain are now automatic and you can specify a level limit in the global file Indeed these scripts I have made from yours are themselves basic, but do the job.



I'll be hopefully improving these to be more general purpose than they currently are. If I was using DB or AGK, I would have already done so, but am still green when it comes to Lua and FPSC still. As you say we need more info and commands from the engine to do much more than has been done to date.



Thanks for watching!

Lol believe me I intended them to be very basic, they are aside from the mandatory hello world my first ever scripts. I am extremely new to any scripting and I am also keeping these very basic so that others who are just starting out have some scripts that are very easy to read and see how they work

Fantastic work I could really see this type of script

being used for many applications

Thanks BioDragonLord, that was the idea The selling and storage scripts could be improved, but at the moment, I can't see an easy way to choose what you sell etc, so they simply have to deal in the 1 item presently. You could probably cycle through each plant type using the e key to select which crop to sell, but that sounds a little strange and awkward. It would help if you could display more than one line of text at a time Probably best to wait for more options on this front. I'm not sure we will get any in the next beta though, as performance is the main focus again at the moment.

Great work.. i am absolutly interrested.



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Thanks Harry, I'll hopefully be making the explanation vid later today or tomorrow. Glad you liked it!



Edit - New video up.



http://fpscrforum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=208097&b=2

When Rick told me about this, I was shocked! I've only put a handful of script commands in just to test the new LUA engine and the next thing I know, we have a whole farming game with experience points and cash from it. Wow! makes we want to set performance aside and provide even more script commands, just to see what would happen Fear not, I will stay at my post and in good time you shall have your fifty powerful script commands! Once again, AWESOME STUFF!!

Thanks Lee. Feel free to mention it, if you are after any user made examples for GDC. I must admit I was missing a way to create or show an entity with this as it would be nice to be able to plant seeds also, not to mention show what you have stored and sold visibly, rather than just text and see the plants grow to maturity of course! I could have done that with a plant designed to grow from small to big of course, but I'd prefer to keep the script simple, rather than locked into a specific object for now. If scaling options become possible in scripting I could then add in growth logic later for any object

Oh and i only just heard you say it in the video, yes i am Australian and either way it was meant to be be Aus_Shadow but i stuffed it up a few years back and have been running AuShadow ever since, well in most games its AuShadowHunter

@aUshadow either way your a top dude for sorting out the basic scripts.



I think you rock for sorting out rpg elements.



Also a class system would be awesome too

Yeah I'll work on class systems once we get a bit more controlled with scripts. It is in the plan though

@DVader : Keep pestering me for a hide/show entity command in the LUA command table and I might just give in

Creating a new entity would be useful also, but show/hide would cover most things well enough. I am also looking forward to making things go boom