[DiscordArchive] WDYM? The XML of Live?
[DiscordArchive] WDYM? The XML of Live?
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WDYM? The XML of Live?
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:23 PM #1Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:23:57.268000+00:00
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WDYM? The XML of Live?
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Because reading the existing XML (of 3.3.5) is exactly what you're seeing in the video
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:24 PM #2Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:24:25.822000+00:00
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Because reading the existing XML (of 3.3.5) is exactly what you're seeing in the video
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Hmmmm, yea I suppose if the priorties of the project didn't drastically change and I went back afew years creating a transpiler or interperter for WoW's LUA/Addon/UI stuff would have been on the TODO list. Thankfully, I have no intention to support actual public 335 servers anymore. I personally don't like LUA and don't have the intention to allow any users of the games I publish to execute their own code if I want to make a game, I just write some C# and slap it on top of all this work. Has worked out well. It's not like there isn't a similar API to the WoW LUA API in that project, it's just in C#. In fact, a lot of the API function names are the same and the documentation even links to them hehe.
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:24 PM #3Archived author: HelloKitty • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:24:40.045000+00:00
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Hmmmm, yea I suppose if the priorties of the project didn't drastically change and I went back afew years creating a transpiler or interperter for WoW's LUA/Addon/UI stuff would have been on the TODO list. Thankfully, I have no intention to support actual public 335 servers anymore. I personally don't like LUA and don't have the intention to allow any users of the games I publish to execute their own code if I want to make a game, I just write some C# and slap it on top of all this work. Has worked out well. It's not like there isn't a similar API to the WoW LUA API in that project, it's just in C#. In fact, a lot of the API function names are the same and the documentation even links to them hehe.
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That's what I was asking.
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:24 PM #4Archived author: Snowcraft • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:24:59.992000+00:00
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That's what I was asking.
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Also, it can load addons
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:25 PM #5Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:25:49.350000+00:00
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Also, it can load addons
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But no, these addons aren't actually going to work, since I haven't implemented enough API for them to be useful, by far
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:26 PM #6Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:26:25.289000+00:00
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But no, these addons aren't actually going to work, since I haven't implemented enough API for them to be useful, by far
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As far as it being able run to current live XML (master), it will generate a lot of errors. I have in the past tested it against more current versions of WoW than 3.3.5, but last time I tried is quite a while ago, first video is from Nov 2020, so I think last time I tried must have been in BfA timeframe?
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 01:34 PM #7Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T13:34:50.048000+00:00
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As far as it being able run to current live XML (master), it will generate a lot of errors. I have in the past tested it against more current versions of WoW than 3.3.5, but last time I tried is quite a while ago, first video is from Nov 2020, so I think last time I tried must have been in BfA timeframe?
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I think we had this discussion in the past, so I'm not going to reiterate it
What I am going to say is this though: if your stated goal is to have a WoW client, the Unity choice is a defendable one. If the goal however is to create a generic game client, then that choice is a whole less obvious.
Someone wanting to create their own game based on your client is probably going to want to replace your UI with their own and with their own artwork. Which probably requires C# knowledge. You say yourself that a lot of your API resembles WoW API.
At which point the choice for C# is a whole lot less obvious, given the amount of existing addon code they could base their UI on.
rektbyfaith
06-11-2024, 02:34 PM #8Archived author: chipzz • Posted: 2024-06-11T14:34:21.363000+00:00
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I think we had this discussion in the past, so I'm not going to reiterate it
What I am going to say is this though: if your stated goal is to have a WoW client, the Unity choice is a defendable one. If the goal however is to create a generic game client, then that choice is a whole less obvious.
Someone wanting to create their own game based on your client is probably going to want to replace your UI with their own and with their own artwork. Which probably requires C# knowledge. You say yourself that a lot of your API resembles WoW API.
At which point the choice for C# is a whole lot less obvious, given the amount of existing addon code they could base their UI on.
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