Scripting

The Scripting section will introduce the script system of BME4.

Reading suggestions:

• BME4 uses MiniScript as its scripting language. This tutorial doesn't include a MiniScript language tutorial, please go to the MiniScript official site to learn it yourself
• After learning everything in this section, you will be able to write scripts and create maps with unique mechanics

MiniScript Simple Guide

• MiniScript official site: https://miniscript.org/
  • Read official manual and quick start first
  • There's an official playground
• MiniScript is a weak and dynamic typing language (similar to PHP)
  • Variables will be converted to another type automatically and implicitly whenever possible, without raising exceptions
• MiniScript has these variable types: number string list map
• MiniScript doesn't have int type (similar to JavaScript)
  • All numbers are doubles
  • No exception of division by zero, and there's INF and nan
  • Take care of floating point comparisons
• MiniScript doesn't have bool type (similar to C)
  • true is 1, false is 0
  • In if statements, 0 "" [] {} null are regarded as false, others as true
• MiniScript passes everything by reference whenever possible (similar to Python)
  • When copying a list, remember to use syntax like b = a[:]
  • No deep copy function, so avoid using complicated data structures