[SuggestionTool] Create content without learning ManiaScript

[TheBigMiike]

This suggestion has already been posted in the french forum but i don't think you understand french so i post my idea again in english

I'm learning by myself somes languages (PHP/HTML/CSS) to create my own websites. But i still impressed by the aspect of ManiaScript which seems to be difficult : The documentation is so huge, there are many functions we don't know how to use and ManiaScript isn't easy to read. I find it more difficult to understand than PHP. Not good :/

Here is my suggestion : My suggestion is a copy another software called Scratch. Scratch is a software for people who want to create apps and content without learning language. These peoples don't know anything about programming, they just have to place blocks and to stack them (1block = 1 action) to create a program, a game....

An image of a Tetris game made by Scratch and we can see stacks of blocks which made the game :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 3%A9mo.png

This tool is work for Nadeo but i think this tool can invite many players to create a title pack easily.

Can we hope seeing this tool in the future of ManiaPlanet ?

[TGYoshi]

Don't waste time with this (visual languages like those are really not handy to work with if you are slightly more advanced; waste of resources for smaller studios), instead, scrap ManiaScript and create a proper API for a proper language such as Lua (very common, beginner friendly too). That way we can finally have proper performance (ManiaScript arrays are terribly slow), custom structures (ManiaScript flat out does not support them; result: array mess - see the animation lib source how messy it gets just because this essential feature lacks) and all that kind of fancy stuff any proper language has. So much time is being wasted on creating ManiaScript while proper embedded-able languages already exist.

Just my honest opinion.

Although this is unlikely to happen either way .

[novationx]

Don't waste time with this (visual languages like those are really not handy to work with if you are slightly more advanced; waste of resources for smaller studios), instead, scrap ManiaScript and create a proper API for a proper language such as Lua (very common, beginner friendly too). That way we can finally have proper performance (ManiaScript arrays are terribly slow), custom structures (ManiaScript flat out does not support them; result: array mess - see the animation lib source how messy it gets just because this essential feature lacks) and all that kind of fancy stuff any proper language has. So much time is being wasted on creating ManiaScript while proper embedded-able languages already exist.

Just my honest opinion.

Although this is unlikely to happen either way .

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