[quake3] Python game code

[Thilo Schulz]

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:34, Neil Toronto wrote:
> As long as I'm writing, I'll give a status update. :D I've got the
> engine loading Python files and using them as entry points now. (You set
> vm_cgame and friends to 3.) It can call them to initialize the game,
> render frames, etc. -  not that the Python game does anything right now
> - and it receives return values. One especially nice thing is that
> Python can use zip files in its system path, so the first thing it does
> after initializing the interpreter is add the engine's search path to
> sys.path. When a Python game file does something like "import cengine"
> (the client engine wrapper), the interpreter loads cengine.py from
> baseq3/pygame.pk3 (or an overriding file).

Looks pretty neat. Someone who wanted to use this will have to write the mod 
code all over again, though. Isn't that a bit large task to do compared to 
actually get python stuff running?

-- 
Thilo Schulz
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