question concerning the scripting language in ags

[skyfire2]

how powerful is the scripting language in ags? do you have low level access to your hardware and all that stuff?

[RickJ]

how powerful is the scripting language in ags? do you have low level access to your hardware and all that stuff?

I find it quite powerful and have done a number of non-game things with it.   However, to get "low level access to your hardware and all that stuff" you  will need to write a plug-in in C++, if you're up to it. 

[GarageGothic]

I thought the whole point of Windows and DirectX was that you didn't need "low level access to your hardware"?

[Pumaman]

The whole point of scripting languages is to make games easier to code ... if you had low-level access and had to start locking surfaces, creating textures, allocating and freeing memory, blitting to VRAM and so forth you'd may as well just write your own engine in C++.

[monkey0506]

And if you threaten to do it, you can get anything implemented!





[/sarcasm (directed at self of course )]