SE4 Scripting in Python (templatizer again)

[Ruatha]

ETA next week.. Darned, you'll beat my eta for the companion


(Don't really understand what this does but have nothing to do and wants to post)
Impressive amount of functions though!
To bad it wasn't a zip archive, I dont feel up to download an unrar proggie here at work, only have zip support.
Will have to try it when I get home.

[ July 24, 2004, 14:03: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Alneyan]

Hmm. This perfectly sums up my understanding of your program, Ed, and therefore I will unlikely able to provide any kind of feedback.

Before you threaten to totemise me: does this program allow modders to plug in various formulas ruling any value in the SEIV files? For example, is the purpose of this program to automatise a geometrical suit ruling the cost of devices? (Such as what SJ seems to have done for his latest mod)

If so, I can indeed see its usefulness for modders (well, as long as they can understand the whole array of mathematical functions better than I do; I flunked maths at kindergarten after all). If I am wholly mistaken, I guess it is simply too complicated for my poor mind.

[Yimboli]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
The other two are really statistical operators, but I figured I'd throw them in because I'd already done factorials - the "P" operator calculates permutations while the "C" operator calculates combinations, if you happen to know (or care) what those are...

Ed, I fully understand combinations and permutations... I'm just wondering how you think they would be useful? And how do they work? i.e. if I say P(1234), what happens?

[Ed Kolis]

Do I need .NET Framework? I got errors about missing dlls when tried to work with it.

Yeah, you need the .NET Framework 1.1. You can find it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo...t/default.aspx

Before you threaten to totemise me: does this program allow modders to plug in various formulas ruling any value in the SEIV files? For example, is the purpose of this program to automatise a geometrical suit ruling the cost of devices? (Such as what SJ seems to have done for his latest mod)

Yes - at least it will, once I get the part that reads and writes SE4 files working with the expression evaluator. Right now all I've posted is the expression evaluator part In addition, I'm planning on making pretty much any of the fields able to get formulas into, not just the cost... even the text fields! So you know how you do [%ShieldPointsGenerated] but you can't do that for any other ability? Well now all you have to do is copy over the formula that you used in the actual ability (maybe I'll put in special variables that act like [%ShieldPointsGenerated] so you can just use those instead of the whole formula), and it will be inserted into the description string!

Ed, I fully understand combinations and permutations... I'm just wondering how you think they would be useful? And how do they work? i.e. if I say P(1234), what happens?

That's not how you'd call the function - actually, it's an infix operator, so you'd call something like 4P3, and that would find the number of permutations of 4 objects in Groups of 3. As for how it would be useful, I really don't know in terms of SE4, but I figured I'd include it because I'd be releasing this math parser for general use anyway and someone somewhere might need it

[Aiken]

25 Mb? Good god! Nice size for a set of libraries.

Burn the .NET!!!

[Ed Kolis]

Sorry about that... hope you download them anyway, because you will need them to run the program

(Hey, think of it this way - it's about the same size as the Java libraries, and nobody complains about Java, do they? )

edit: judging from your sig, you might be interested in this: www.go-mono.com
It's the GNU Version of .NET and allows you to run .NET applications on Linux as well as Windows - as long as they're compiled for Mono and not the regular .NET. Mine isn't but it should be able to be compiled for Mono - I think...

[ July 24, 2004, 20:51: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

[Ed Kolis]

The SE4 Templatizer is ready for download, ahead of schedule!

http://home.fuse.net/koliset/SE4/SE4_Templatizer.rar

You'll need the .NET Framework ( ), EEE (as mentioned in previous Posts), and a RAR extractor to use this program.

Try it out - it's pretty darn cool!