I think it would be cool for newbies to have a SED (or compiler feature) that automatically creates a define for skills? It's a bit difficult to explain. Here is an example:


Wouldn't it be nice, if SED would prompt a message(like in Eclipse?): "use unused skill for health". It would then search for a skill that's not yet used and reserve it for health(automatically generating the following snippet on top of code: #define skill1 health)

For noobs, it would be even easier if this is implemented in the compiler. If the compiler finds an entity attribute that's not defined, it automatically uses it as an unused skill.

Well, it probably isn't something THAT important but sounds like a very nice idea to me.
I really like stuff like this which makes the workflow simpler / better.

+1 from me.

EDIT: I'm sorry for the triple-post, the page was not loading so I thought it's offline and refreshed seveal times

Under what circumstances is a skill "unused"?

if, after the preprocessor ran, "skill[x]" is nowhere in the code. Of course, this would work best if it gets implemented in the compiler and not by the IDE (Sed f.i.)

And if a shader is reading from a skill? Or a plugin? Or you access a skill by its address, not by its name? Or you access multiple skills at once with a vector instruction?

I see your (OP's) point but it really isn't hard (and much cleaner) to define an attribute as a skill yourself.