Spawning weapons / items in use

[C-Dawg]

I don't see anything in the documentation for ZScript that lets us spawn items in use yet. That is, creating a bomb with the fuse already lit, or creating an arrow at some location.

I'm interested in this functionality to script missiles (ffc shoots out from player, when it hits a solid combo or enemy it spawns a bomb with 0 fuse) and spread weapons (three arrows shoot out in front of player).

[Revfan9]

The functions don't exist in Zscript yet because the Zasm functions just crash the game. Once that is fixed, we'll probably see some way to do it in Zscript.

[DarkDragon]

I plan on doing a large overhaul of the ZScript language in the future, after the bugginess of ZC dies down a bit. Included in this update would be better inter-script communication, arrays, and weapon scripting.

Weapon scripting requires a good amount of overhead to implement because the current setup, with enemy and player weapons using an identical set of differently named variables, is poor.

[C-Dawg]

Just don't screw up ZScript so much that the previous scripts won't work anymore. If you can help it.

[DarkDragon]

Scripts that are already compiled into ZASM and integrated into quests ideally will work forever.

I will strive to make sure old scripts continue to compile in new versions of the compiler, but some syntax will probably have to be deprecated (the current system of using -> to refer to global variables comes to mind.)

In any case you'll have plenty of warning about any changes that might break old scripts.

[C-Dawg]

There's a problem with the way the compiler works now that might interfere with this plan. If I have scripts loaded into FFC slots 1 - 26, for instance, and I compile a new, updated ZScript, it will clear out all of the old scripts. Seems like I can only have one thing in the buffer at once. Am I missing something about how ZScript scripts work?