Chris: what programming language is most simular to the lanuage used to program Elderscrolls 3: Morrowind?
I want to learn to script for Morrowind since i already mod for the game. Getting people on the Morrowind forums to do scripts for me can sometimes be a challenge so i want to cut my teeth on a programming language that is the most simular to the game. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Answer by Colanth
Why don’t you ask someone who wrote a script for you?
The question you asked is a little misleading. The programming language(s) used to program Elderscrolls 3 in the first place (the ones the company used to create the game) are probably different from the scripting language(s) players can use to modify the game.
I did a little research and while I’m not certain, this guide:
makes me think it has quite a bit in common with Visual Basic (though I’ve only ever used the slightly different VBA = Visual Basic for Applications to write macros in Microsoft Excel).
If you really want to learn programming, C++ is probably the way to go There are sometimes reasons to start with something else like Java, LISP, PHP, Perl, Python. It’s possible that there has been more software written in C++ and C that all other programming languages combined.
Asking the people that program Morrowind would probably be more fruitful than asking here.
If you really want to just learn how to mod Morrowind, then don’t worry about other languages … look at the guides available such as those you see here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=morrowind+scripting+tutorial
and look at existing scripts and try to figure out what they do and how they do it.
Good Luck!
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