Alien Swarm as modding base

[marks]

C# and C++ are basically the same language anyway ¬_¬

[ScarT]

Far from tbh.

[stoopdapoop]

C# and C++ are basically the same language anyway ¬_¬

wtf?

[Gary]

Marks is a coder?

[marks]

Not really, I'm just messing I code quite a bit of maxscript at work, but nothing serious like C.

[Dr. Delta]

Oh you guys. As a general rule, most GOOD engines are written in C++, because it has less overhead, making it more efficient and faster. And yes, some games (smaller ones, mostly) might use XNA, which is a framework you can use with C#.

Though, I must admit, you could write something like this in C#, something like Hammer, something that crashes a lot, doesn't have a separate thread for it's render window, making it freeze while it compiles.. :').

[Valar]

Glad to see this being discussed. I'm actually looking into building my mod on AS and looking for a brave programmer who's interested in working on a new game.
For details PM me.

[Mr. Happy]

All good engines are written in assembly.

[marks]

I hope thats a troll ¬_¬

[MrTwoVideoCards]

Glad to see this being discussed. I'm actually looking into building my mod on AS and looking for a brave programmer who's interested in working on a new game.
For details PM me.

lol.

[Valar]

I guess choosing any other engine over Source would make our lives a lot easier and i'm aware of that. That said, nothing i've seen elsewhere comes close to Source. I don't know how to explain it and I don't think I need to. I guess I should give it at least a fighting chance and then see what happens. After all this project is rather ambitious.

[Jangalomph]

I'm thinking about asking gary to see if he wants to team up with me to make a new version of my base mod source code. I'm thinking about implementing particle impacts, and particle based explosions etc.

EDIT: Though this post was off topic, I was just saying

And ASW isn't exactly easy to add to hl2 so says gary.

[Dr. Delta]

All good engines are written in assembly.

Never heard about companies doing that. Only small parts of operation systems are written in assembly, so didn't expect they're writing whole game engines in assembly, but it's very efficient, so you might be right. However, you can't just revise assembly code.

[zombie@computer]

All good engines are written in assembly.

Never heard about companies doing that. Only small parts of operation systems are written in assembly, so didn't expect they're writing whole game engines in assembly, but it's very efficient, so you might be right. However, you can't just revise assembly code.

small parts? Windows' kernel was written in Java then?

[Gary]

Low level stuff is best written in assembly. Some game developers use assembly when writing programs to run on the GPU.

I'm not a real programmer, I can do basic modifications in Cpp but that's pretty much it.