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blazespinnaker2
Up and Coming
February 15, 2016

Scripting like webvr?

I know Carmack worked on a scripting language but seems to have abandoned it for the time being.

I've seen three.js / webvr, which is cool but a bit juddery unfortunately and not very performant.

Any other good, high performance alternatives?

    3 replies

    jherico
    Inspiring
    February 16, 2016
    High Fidelity lets you build worlds with scriptable entities, or run client scripts that allow you to create tools or customize the UI.
    Brad Davis - Developer for High Fidelity Co-author of Oculus Rift in Action
    jimbo00000
    Up and Coming
    February 16, 2016
    I recommend luajit: http://luajit.org/ It's as fast as can be and the ffi lets you call directly into any DLL/.so(such as OpenGL).

    Here's a writeup about using it for VR with sample code: http://jimbo00000.github.io/opengl/portable/programming/vr/scripting/2016/01/09/vr-scripting.html
    onefang
    Up and Coming
    February 16, 2016
    Someone mentioned High Fidelity, but not Second Life? There's also OpenSim. Both use a language called LSL, Linden Scripting Language, to deal with in world objects and stuff. It's a crap language, with more quirks than features.

    I'll also recommend LuaJIT though. Fastest scripting language around, which is one reason why I'm using it for my rewrite of OpenSim. I already have an experimental LSL -> LuaJIT compiler. It compiles several orders of magnitude faster than either SL or OS. I've not benchmarked actual running performance yet, but I expect it to be really fast.
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