I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing. When Duke 3D came out, the editor was so robust and easy to use, that literally hundreds of crappy one or two room "maps" were released within the first 48 hours. People didn't care if their map wass playable or not; they just wanted to show that they could create an empty sector with the teleporter tile flooded onto every floor, wall and ceiling, slap the end boss right at the player start point, upload it, and then challenge the world to "b347 mY m4p!!" (beat my map, for you non-leet speakers)jmpayne wrote: Without accessibility (GUI), the modding community will be completely restricted. Doesn't matter if writing a bit of LUA is the easiest thing in the world. People are not going to want to write the code to create basic dungeons.
Adding the lua scripting will help eliminate some of that junk.
Ready? Here it is, straight from the code of the first map: "addPullChain." I'm not trying to be a smartass; I'm just trying to show you that it really *is* that simple. Don't count yourself out of the things you can achieve before you even get the chance to see whay you can do.gambit37 wrote:It has been implied that to make even the simplest door work, we'd need to write a function.regomar wrote:Not sure why this is a debate, I'm pretty sure it was already confirmed that they're developing a visual interface for the layout and scripting for events. Why are people whining at each other?
A general point to everyone and no one:
The bottom line is this: People are panicked and stressed when, as of yet, there is no reason to be. The thing hasn't even been released yet!! Let's wait to see what we've got first, and *then* start jumping on the devs. Just don't forget that it's FREE and it's a GENEROUS GIFT that they didn't have to release at all. Let's also not forget that the original game was entirely code. No GUI. At all! They are busting their butts creating something completely new for us to use. How about some gratitude instead of jumping all over them?
My 2 cents. And please, PLEASE note that I am not picking on any single individual in here. It's just that the whole vibe of this forum has gone from something positive to negative in a matter of days. If I were one of the original devs, I'd be wondering right now why I was even bothering.