embeding the autoit language

[ironmanexe]

I was kind of wondering what the pros/cons of using autoit as an embeded language might be, It would be used to control ingame events/triggers and possibly over ride default ai behaviour of npc's (Non player charecters) and the like. I was considering writing something to compile the scripts into some type of binary file, like a bytecode mabey and just have the server application read that into memory on start and parse it from there, for speed.

I want you to debunk my idea, I don't want to go to the trouble and find a major flaw in the idea...

If you can, suggest other scripting languages, Preferably open source..

Edited June 19, 2007 by ironmanexe

[Richard Robertson]

AutoIt is, has been, and probably will be for some time, interpreted. It won't get much faster until the developers find a way to actually work a compiler in.

I don't know that AutoIt is meant for games, but many users seem to make them. I don't know that it would be best to have interpreted NPC control because more tech savvy users could modify it.

And we know what NPCs are.

[SteveBabineau]

I think Lua is a popular language to embed: http://www.lua.org/

[ironmanexe]

Server side, end user cant touch the script

Edited June 30, 2007 by ironmanexe

[Richard Robertson]

Why can't you just compile it then? It would be much faster.