Dirty Programming

[Matrix]

How much programming is needed for game creation? Because i hate programming!! Is this engine artist friendly?

[Roland]

You need to at least be able to make Lua scripts

[Rick]

It requires programming. Sorry. Perhaps you can team up with someone.

[Josh]

Leadwerks Engine 3 will actually allow you to reasonably make games with no programming at all, but the current version does not.

[dre38w]

Well, I on the other hand love programming and the challenges it brings and would rather be doing that than dragging and dropping and what not. But I have a question about the languages used. I see C and C++. But then I see something about C#. But it's unclear to me if Leadwerks can program the game using C#. Does the engine use C Sharp or just C/C++?

[Canardia]

You can program Leadwerks with any language, but you need the headers first.

Here is a list of programming languages which you can theoretically use with Leadwerks, as long it supports loading dlls:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

 

Actually I just fell in love with COBOL when I looked at the hello world examples of those languages. It's the first language ever invented, in 1959

In COBOL you can just say:

ADD YEARS TO AGE

while in most other languages you have to say it in less human readable format like:

age = age + years

or

age += years

 

So a Leadwerks example in COBOL could look like this:

CALL 'CREATECUBE'
   USING BY REFERENCE WS-FLD-E
END CALL.
CALL 'TURNENTITY'
   USING BY CONTENT WS-FLD-E, WS-FLD-V1X, WS-FLD-V1Y, WS-FLD-V1Z
END CALL.

[Rick]

LE 2 uses BMax but makes itself available to be programed in other languages like C/C++, .NET, Java, etc. C/C++, Lua, & BMax are the only "officially" supported languages though.

 

LE 3 will be programmed in C/C++ but other languages will be unofficially supported just like today.

 

 

Actually I just fell in love with COBOL

 

That's the first time I've ever heard that in my life

[dre38w]

That's great! And that link you posted with the list of pretty much every language out there literally made me laugh and I said "That's pretty epic." haha But if that's the case then I have finally settled on a game engine. I'm really looking forward to using the Leadwerks engine. Thanks guys!

[Canardia]

I think I will make Fortran G77 headers for LE2 now, at least a minimal header to play around and learn new things

I heard that Fortran is faster than C++, so I must test it a bit.

The MinGW suite includes C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Java, Objective-C, and at least the MinGW C++ compiler is one of the fastest I've seen.

 

EDIT: OMG! I made a test program, and fortran was 3.6% faster than C++ with the same compiler options. I think I found finally a better language than C++!

 

EDIT2: 4.3% faster with G95. I will write a post when I get some first G95 LE2 demo working.