Hi there!

Im currently working on a first person multiplayer shooter. Ive defined many variables and constants (#define) which have much influence on the game (like key defines, bulletspeed, number of bullets for each weapon, player speed and so on). At the moment iam working on the game-balance, so i have to adjust each of these defines and variables a lot to figure out which values are the best for a balanced game. Problem is that i always need to compile a new exe for every change i made (exe file for the other computer). So is there a way, to compile the game with alle the scripts so that i can adjust things after compiling? I dont wanna do everything in the console and of course the defines arent changeable ingame.

Maybe i could use some extern textfiles, and read them on game start, but hopefully there is an easier way.

For info: i use A8 commerical

I appreciate for you help!

kingda_ka

this should be really easy...
use variables instead of defines!
you can save the variables in a file and load them, so the users can change those values
there is no easier way than this

sry but i dont get it. do you mean an extern text file which i open with "file_open" or something like that? If i include a file in my script, it will be published in the .exe also, so that i cant make changes after publishing.

supposably its very easy but i have a mind blockage atm

Try to set up a loader-function in the beginning of your main,
and (as mentioned) excange the defines
in alle your scripts with something like this:

#define HEALTH 100
#define SPEED 55

..

my.skill1=HEALTH;
my.skill2=SPEED;

----------------------
to a new approach:

var tuning[1000]; //containing the var for tuning
#define HEALTH 1
#define SPEED 2

...

my.skill1=tuning[HEALTH];

my.skill2=tuning[SPEED];


So you load it from an array filled in the loaderfunction.


The loaderfunction fills your array with the variables,
read from a file.


In the manual read about how to save/load variables from a textfile. It not very complicated.

You could even use EXCEL to define all this data, and export
it to a CSV file.

ok, maybe its some more work as i thought

Basically, if you dont want to recompile, you have to load such tuningdata from an external file.

Or just keep it like it is, and put all defines nicely into the same
script, so you have them all visible at the same place.

Since you cant just compile a specific file in Lite-C (at least I dont know of a practical way to do this)