Idea Scenario Story Module

[escapetomsfate]

How about this - A module/MFD that carries out a story, with goals and checklists. It could parse a section of a scenario file, and put it into orbiter. to be honest, I'd code it myself, but my C++ skills are limited

 

[eveningsky339]

Artlav developed a beta version of a scripting engine for Orbiter.

http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2578

Most scripting languages aren't that difficult to learn, so I recommend giving this a go.

I'm not sure if he is still developing this addon. I believe he was working on a plug-in for the Lua scripting language a while back.

 

[TSPenguin]

The next orbiter version will feature a LUA engine with nearly endless possibilities.

 

[Artlav]

How about this - A module/MFD that carries out a story, with goals and checklists. It could parse a section of a scenario file, and put it into orbiter. to be honest, I'd code it myself, but my C++ skills are limited

Interesting and was done before, unfortunately, no one seems to be interested in making the actual scenarios.

I'm not sure if he is still developing this addon. I believe he was working on a plug-in for the Lua scripting language a while back.

The Lua scripting was what Martin decided to put into Orbiter, likely independently from me, so with an embedded scripting being supported in the next release, Sdvig got obsolete before it was well made.

 

[escapetomsfate]

Wow! sdvig rocks! I'm gonna try to learn the language pretty well, and make a few scenarios. Excellent work Artlav!

 

[eveningsky339]

The Lua scripting was what Martin decided to put into Orbiter, likely independently from me, so with an embedded scripting being supported in the next release, Sdvig got obsolete before it was well made.

Ah, my mistake. Can't wait for the Lua scripting support.

 

[escapetomsfate]

So, is the native lua in the beta versions of orbiter 2008?

 

[Tommy]

So, is the native lua in the beta versions of orbiter 2008?

Yes, although as I recall it's still somewhat limited as to what Orbiter API functions it can use. That may have improved since the last time I checked out the beta

 

[escapetomsfate]

I've tried the beta, it's pretty good, but obviously very unstable. It always seem to crash when I run a command in the Lua console. Meh.
Anyways, there seems to be quite a lot of orbiter APIs created, just not well documented atm. When is Orbiter 2009 coming out anyway?

 

[ar81]

When is Orbiter 2009 coming out anyway?

On tuesday...:lol:

 

[Scarecrow]

I'm pretty excited about lua in Orbiter 2008/9/10/whenever. It has some really awesome possibilities. For example, for a previous beta, I implemented some rudimentary collision detection. I'm not releasing it until the next version of Orbiter comes out, and I find a solution for reliably detecting high speed intercepts (relative velocities above 10km/s), but it's kind of neat. I'll probably be one of the people writing story scenarios with it.