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Originally posted by MrChristopher

I agree, how about showing one of the bloom examples? I also think some examples of how it can be tied into animation would be good.

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I guess I have a script-noob question... How will all of this be implemented? do we have to actually type out a script into a text field? will there be a way for us to exchange / post / and share scripts with each other as little files of some sort? Maybe there'd be a place on the Cafe that will have scripts to download?

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and generally, how hard do you think it will be for people to start scripting simple things? do you need any programming experience or will some of it be pretty intuitive?

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Originally posted by jquan8799

While images and animations of scripts in action would be great, I'd also like to see some example code. Other topics would be error and syntax-handling (what happens if I input bad code?) and file I/O (am I protected from deleting my own hard drive?).

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--  The axis we'll spin on
local axis = s3d.vec.y_axis:Clone ()

--  The rotations per second
local rps = 4

--  The amount we'll rotate the object each time
local angle = 2*rps*math.pi

--  Local variable in the rotation node is "rotation" representing
--  the current rotation at "time"
local rot = s3d.vec.Quaternion (rotation)

--  Create a temporary quaternion that represents the axis we'll
--  rotate around and the angle we'll be at, at a specific time
local addRot = s3d.vec.Quaternion (axis, time * angle)

--  Finally multiply our rotation quaternion by the temporary
--  quaternion, setting the actual rotation of our object at the time
return rot : Multiply (addRot)

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Originally posted by dannepop

Is there a way to attach these scripts to the timeline?

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Originally posted by jbradley

-- Local variable in the rotation node is "rotation" representing
-- the current rotation at "time"
local rot = s3d.vec.Quaternion (rotation)
>SNIP<
some of the conventions I've used in the above code may change at any point before CX 5 is released.

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Ooh -- quaternions: powerful juju. I hope these don't go away! Thanks for the code snippet; really useful to see something.

I see that Lua's math library seems to be intact. Is there any way we can get a preview of what sort of vector and quaternion functions might be included?

For example, I've used quaternions in another language to make a camera lag smoothly when tracking another object in 3D. It'd be great if I could replicate that.

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