clean minimalistic Quake C for schools

[daemonicky]

[qbism]

Somewhere around is a "Quake from Scratch" or "scratch qc" series of tutorials, building up the qc code from zero.

[Feared]

[FrikaC]

[Cobalt]

Ah was looking for this, Nice - !

Additionally:

DecodeLevelParms () >>> This is called whenever you spawn at the next level.


The setspawnparms builtin [ void (entity e) setspawnparms = #78; ] refills the globals as they were when the player first entered the current level.

** I assume by "globals' they mean the parms.....

[Cobalt]

Got a question for the guru's:

During either a:

Changelevel , restart or map command, is the global (time)== 0 ?
Or is nothing thinking except maybe startframe or Main () ?

[Baker]

[JasonX]

I've thinking about this and started thinking about turning QuakeC into a weakly typed language, like PHP. This would decrease the learning curve and make it even more clean for newbies.

[Baker]

[mh]

I suspect that once upon a time time did begin at 1: there's a "host_time" variable in the engine which is initialized to 1 with a comment on it in Host_InitLocal: "so a think at time 0 won't get called". host_time appears to date from an earlier evolution of the engine and it's use has been completely relegated to the vcr system (does anybody actually use that?) and the totating "Q" logo in the menus - everything else uses realtime (or the appropriate cl.time or sv.time) and the remaining uses of host_time can be easily and painlessly replaced with realtime. Another instance of "multiple globals scattered throughout the engine all of which store broadly the same info and all of which must be kept in sync", although thankfully it's not as bad as some of the others that exist.

[frag.machine]

[Cobalt]

[Baker]

[Cobalt]

[JasonX]

Where can i find some documentation on the QuakeC VM and so on? I wanted to improve it's syntax a little bit and i wanted to know how much my changes would affect the VM. Basically, i would change the lexer in FTEQCC, right?