Its in my app, but System.Collections.Generic
could well be the cause if that is a new requirement,
as i may well not have that included in my main.cs.
Will try this in about 5 mins as i am not at home.
thanks for quick reply.

It seems that was needed.
Thanks again.

Glad it worked ^^

Hi,

I'm new to 3DGS and will be purchasing the Commercial version on Friday next week (when I get paid). I will be using your C# wrapper as I've been using C# for many years now so feel comfortable with it.

I will be writing the main game code in C# and scripting objects with Lite-C. I have seen that I can call Lite-C functions within my C# code, which is fantastic, now my question is can I call my C# functions from within Lite-C. I have though of a way that I could get around it if not, I will use a queue, which I will add calls/params to then parse this from within C#. However it woulf be infinitely nicer if I could directly call the functions.

Thanks in advance.

Hmmm yes, this should be possible i guess, because C# functions are called from the engine, for example in ent_create or when events occur !

But I don't really see a need for lite-c if you use C# ! The only thing were you really need (from what i know) lite-c instead of C# is for declaring bitmaps which you use in shader (at least i know of no workaround for this..). You can also access all engine objects like entities and modify them in C#, the wrapper also has a scheduler, similar to the one in lite-c !
Did you have a look at the examples at the wrapper homepage ? http://acknexwrapper2.matthias-auer.net/

If you got more questions don't hesitate to post or e-mail them !

Hi,

What I'm planning on doing is writing the main code in C# then for things like AI behaviour I was going to use Lite-C as the scripting language to save me from recompiling every time I tweak the behavioural script. This is how I've done it in the past but with LUA or something similar.

What method do you use for calling managed functions from within Lite-C?

Yeah I've looked at the examples on your site, they were very informative. I would like to extend my gratitude to you for creating this wrapper it is very useful.

I think you'll have to make a choice - either C# or lite-c mixing them isn't possible. 'acknex.dll' is the heart of the engine which C# uses, so I can't see any reason why you would want to call lite-c functions.

You can of course write a lite-c parser which converts lite-c code to C# wrapper code.

Hi,

It is possible I have already got the process for calling Lite-C from C# resolved and the process for Lite-C to C# calls is something that I have a method of doing but would like to improve it.

The reason I'm wanting to use a scripting language as well as C# is that after many years of being a professional developer I have learnt that hard coding things that are likely to change is a bad idea.

I was thinking that I could just use C# as my scripting language and compile the scripts at runtime, but I would prefer to use Lite-C for this.

lite-c is a c compiler, not an interpreted language like lua.

if you use c# and additionally want a real scripting language then you could combine it with something like ironpython, lua.net,...

Hi Ventilator,

Yeah this is what I've been contemplating over the past day or so. The reason why I'm trying to figure out if Lite-C is suitable for my needs is that the functionality is already there for me to load and call the functions within LC code from C#. Now if I interface with LUA or something similar it would require me integrating it (not a difficult task I know, but still a task none the less). Thus using LC would save me time, plus LC obviously already has full integration with all the engine functionality, whereas LUA does not and it would require me to implement this functionality myself.

I'm aware that LC is not a "scripting" language, I'm trying to figure out if it would lend itself to my needs or not. I have several options, I could use dynamically compiled C# code as my script, LUA or Lite-C.

To be honest I will probablly go with C# for the scripts, but I thought I would just ask you kind people for your input because you have far more experience with 3DGS than I.

Thank you for your help guys and sorry for derailing this thread a little