which le3 language?

[cassius]

I have written my le2 game in the c language without too many probs but when I buy le3 I will have to decide on c++ or lua.

 

I know almost nothing about lua so my question is this: is it a short step from c to c++ or should I learn lua?

What do you think?

 

Maybe after a short time someone should run a poll on which language is most used with Leadwerks 3.

[Canardia]

I would say it's trivial.

[Admin]

I think Lua is good for simple behavior and learning. For performance you will want to write demanding code in C++. We made Darkness Awaits in pure Lua just because it's easy to understand, but in reality you would probably use C++ for the AI and player, just because it would allow you to have more characters active at once.

 

Most games will probably use a combination of C++ and Lua. C++ for the main code, Lua for simple things like doors and game level interactions.

[cassius]

Thanks. I will be looking for a first person example to get me started. I am no good at setup code but ok at gameplay stuff. Anything in the main loop I can handle.

[Chris Vossen]

Often times C++ is considered a superset of C (This is not technically true) but it is very close to C. I've always felt that if you can learn C you can learn anything.

[Furbolg]

Please dont make the mistake and equal c with c++, c++ is based on c but has some major improvement (new(constructor)/delete(destructor), templates, classes (private/public/proctected, inheritance, virtual)..... etc.)

 

When you mastered c, c++ isnt that hard but there are differences (malloc/realloc/free vs new/delete ... dont to mention stl).

[cassius]

Now your scaring me.

 

I probably won;t need most of those.

[Furbolg]

Oh you will, because

 

class mytest
{
public:
 mytest() : someint(0), somefloat(0.0f)
 {
   calcsome();
 }
private:
 int someint;
 float somefloat;
 void calcsome()
 {
 }
}

int main()
{
 mytest* test = new test();
 // or
 mytest test2();
}

 

is much better then somethind like

int someint;
float somefloat;
void calcsome()
{
}

void xyz_init(int a, float B)
{
someint = a;
somefloat = b;
calcsome();
}

int main()
{
 xyz_init(0, 0.0f);
}

[Josh]

Please dont make the mistake and equal c with c++, c++ is based on c but has some major improvement (new(constructor)/delete(destructor), templates, classes (private/public/proctected, inheritance, virtual)..... etc.)

 

When you mastered c, c++ isnt that hard but there are differences (malloc/realloc/free vs new/delete ... dont to mention stl).

I probably use about 2/3 of those things. The subset of C++ we stick to is pretty simple to use. I wanted to keep things simple so we could be sure it would compile everywhere.