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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / #include at runtime

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 19:28
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Hey, I was wondering if there was any way to do something similar to this, as both IDE (obviously) and #Include including both do their work at compilation rather than on the fly.

This would normally be fine, but I've found it's easier to hard code my cutscenes, and I thought that a good way to handle it more dynamically would be to store them as include files and then search for and load them in within the engine.
So, is there any way to do this or would I be better off creating some kind of interpreter for it?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 19:30
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dbp is a compiled language, and won't make include files, so nope, not possible. You'd need to make an interpreter.


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Blobby 101
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 19:36
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ehhh, thought as much. Oh well, thanks anyway Jerico

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 20:51
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Sorry about double posting, but this is a slightly unrelated question - what other ways would you consider creating real time cutscenes? Ideally, they'd need to be able to control the camera and currently loaded actors/props plus play model animations, but I can't really hardcode them because of how dynamic the engine is.

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Rudolpho
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 21:35
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Maybe a scripting system would be appropriate then?


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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 14th Dec 2011 23:25 Edited at: 14th Dec 2011 23:27
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Yeah, you'd have to write an interpreter.

I looked into doing this with a DBPro LUA plugin, but I never really got anywhere (because I didn't get around to implementing it).

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I reread your post, and I think that unless you're working with a team (so someone else would be making the cutscenes) or are planning to add in heavy modding support, you don't really need to worry about not hard-coding cutscenes. Getting an interpreter up and running might take a while, and it would be time better spent coding.

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MrValentine
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Sooo... LUA is good for rt-cut scenes?... Point me in the right direction please

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 15th Dec 2011 15:05 Edited at: 15th Dec 2011 15:07
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The Unity LUA plugin interprets Lua scripts and also provides a number of script based object manipulation commands. With the plugin you can alter the scenes without having to recompile the source code.

Another alternative or complement to scripting is using key frame timelines. You could create timelines in a text file and parse it into DBPRO using Matrix1 utility 31 or a CSV or XML parser.

In certain situations; creating animated X files in a comprehensive animation editor would be easier.

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 15th Dec 2011 18:22
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ahh, that's helped Chris, thanks!

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