/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5527875
> instead a new scripting language which can do more will be worked on
Elaborate? because it sounds like you're talking about something other than zscript

>>5527869
>>5527841
>>5527852
My take on it is there's a push to try and get as many people as possible to get into programming languages by forcing them to jump the divide by not giving them old style practical and intuitive tools anymore.
That isnt going to work... but dont tell that to Graf or any of the other new age programmers who are addicted to caffeine.

It takes a certain mindset to do it, and programming is full of so many shortened words and abbreviations (presumably to shorten keystroke entry times) that there's a doubled up learning curve not just because its hard to think in that way, the language is also as unintelligible as old fashioned cursive writing from england. Yeah... if you look at it hard and carefully you can make out what its talking about, but that's a research project not an afternoon exercise for fun.

Coding, programming itself, is in for a major reformation and overhaul to bring it tangibly and easily to the masses so that casuals can make programs if they need to. But the programmers who are already good at it (and thus, egotistical because of the time they invested in it) dont want to recognize that.
Its like massive stockpiles of .30-06 ammunition laying around still making decisions about what kinda guns are going to be made for a world war, just because thats whats there rather than doing the right thing and making something new. Even if it gets the job done its no longer efficient or ideal, its cumbersome, heavy, and it has alot of blowback.

> 1/1000 of the time interacting with a created thing
The weapons in Rise Of The Triad certainly weren't that way. No telling how long it took for them to decide on the coding of those, but thats definitely a case of Objectively Well Made.
> that staff weapon and drunk missile

>>5428151
>>5428154
the only thing I want to do with DEH is change the ammo capacities, thats it
>>5427606
>>5427587
I, for one, am not touching zscript
when Decorate is gone and there's nothing like it to replace it in some other port im finished with doom
> zscript is too complicated, its not like decorate
> if I could do zscript, id be making my own damn sourceport

Also when are people going to get palette remaps working in 24 bit images?