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[The-Moon]

Ive been keeping up with everything you have been posting and doing for the past year toady.

I really cannot wait for the next release! its been a whole year now. Not complaining tho of course.

Just wondering if there was any you could pre release the "Scripts"

You have noted and said you did alot with them and said that you have added in alot more customizable features.

I dunno if its possible for you to release them so we can get a head start on making our own scripts.

However, if it is possiable for you to release those new scripts so we can start getting a look into what you have done, and start working on our custom worlds. That would be great.

Might be good for a pre testing of the scripts. Maybe we will find some errors you didnt notice at first, never know eh?

Anyways.....

[PTTG??]

Scripts?

Do you mean Raws?

[Neonivek]

Well Toady would need to finish the RAWs first.

I have nothing really against this suggestion, though by the time the RAWs are finalised the game will be out in 1-2 weeks.

Not to mention that a lot of the Raws are useless without explanation.

So to sum up my possition: Sure, but it is kind of pointless at this point.

[profit]

Toady does not release his scripts because they are part of the game code.

The raws are and will be in flux until he releases this version... so he could release them but it would not matter much.

After this version....

Then they will be in flux again...

[G-Flex]

Honestly, I have no idea what the OP means by "scripts". I don't think any of us do.

Maybe they mean the raws, or maybe they're referring to the game code itself. Or some other thing that doesn't actually exist.


I'm going to figure that they mean raws, since nothing else makes a whole lot of sense, and that by "testing" they mean "proofreading".

[Foa]

Scripts, erm what do you mean by scripts?

[Draco18s]

If you mean the RAWs, then he did.

[G-Flex]

If you'd look at the URL you just posted, those were from approximately a year ago. Things have changed since then, and he hadn't even finalized their form back then, much less finalized/transcribed all the data for everything.

[The-Moon]

Yes i ment the RAWS heh.

I call them scripts since thats what they technically are.

But either way. I dont know how far along the raws are for toady to pre release them.

But i had to ask / make a thread any how.

[Blacken]

Yes i ment the RAWS heh.

I call them scripts since thats what they technically are.

But either way. I dont know how far along the raws are for toady to pre release them.

But i had to ask / make a thread any how.

No, they "technically" aren't, any more than an XML file is a "script." They're data storage. (XML files can have scripts inside them, but that's not what we're talking about and DF raws can't anyway.)

[G-Flex]

Blacken's right; they aren't scripts at all, just object data.

[The-Moon]

My bad....

I ment to say "Data Scripts" lol....

I know its not a official name, but i think of the Raws or things such like that as data scripts.

Real scripts of course would contain code and functions which the program would read and perform. These of course are not scripts no, but data scripts yeah ?

[Lord Dullard]

Nah. 'Scripts' is a misleading word to use in this case. Anyone familiar with code will associate it with an actual programming language, whereas the RAWs in question are just saved information for the (actual) code to work with and interpret. The fact that they are written in a specific format doesn't make them code any more than, say, a MySQL database file (which is stored in a specific format but is not, in and of itself, a piece of code).

[Jay]

Script, in the sense of computers: A simple program in a utility language or an application's proprietary language.

The raws are not programs.  Thus, they are not scripts.
They are Removed (from the internal code) Automatic (-ally compiled) Widget (synonym for object - the more you know!) files

By the way, that was completely made-up.
If you want a proper term to use rather then raws, use databases.  It comes closest to describing them.
Though you're best off calling them raws if you want any comprehension of what you're asking.

[Lord Shonus]

Just call them data files. That's the standard I've seen in othr games that use a similar system.