War3:Source

This is the basic (proposed) structure I'm thinking of using.. if anyone has suggestions or comments, please do reply.

I plan to add more possibilities and such, and even the ability to create external addon plugins to be triggered from the race created by the configuration file.

// A List of possible configurations

"character"
{
    "Basic Details"
    {
        "racename"              "Race Name"
        "raceshortname"         "raceshortname"
    }

    // skill = passive skill
    // ability = push button
        // ability1 = +ability or +ability1
        // ability2 = +ability2
        // ability3 = +ability3
        // ability4 = +ability4
    // ultimate = ultimate

    "Restrictions"
    {
        "restrictteam"      "0"
        "restrictitem"      ""
        "team2limit"        "0"
        "team3limit"        "0"
    }

    "skill1" or "ability1" or "ultimate"
    {
        "name"               "name of skill"
        "description"        "description of skill"
       
        "W3Buff1"            "fLowGravitySkill"
        "W3BuffValue1"       "0.9/0.8/0.7/0.6"
        "W3Buff2"            "fMaxSpeed"
        "W3BuffValue2"       "1.05/1.10/1.15/1.20"
    }

    "skill2"
    {
        "name"               "name of skill"
        "description"        "description of skill"

        "aura"                "slowaura"
        "auratarget"          "team" // self, team, enemies
        "auradistance"        "300.0/400.0/500.0/600.0"
        "aurabuff1"            "fSlow"
        "aurabuffvalue1"       "0.8/0.75/0.70/0.65"
    }

    "ability1" or "ultimate"
    {
        "name"               "name of skill"
        "description"        "description of skill"
       
        "type1"                     "damage"
        "type1_arg"                 "25/50/75/100"
        "type2"                     "healself"
        "type2_arg"                 "1/2/3/4"
        "sequence"                  "type1,type2"
        "delaybetweensequence"      "0.5" // seconds
        "trigger"                   "player_spawn" //
        "distance"                  "0" // 0 unlimited distance
        "cooldown"                  "60" // number of seconds for cooldown
    }

    "ability1"
    {
        "name"               "name of ability"
        "description"        "description of ability"
       
        "WARDS"              "red"
        "MaxWards"           "4"
        "WardDuration"       "60.0"
        "pulseInterval"      "1.0"
        "behavior"           "damage"
        "wardtarget"         "enemy" // self, enemy, allies
        "team2color"         "red"  // Custom color to use on team 2 (terrorists in CS:S)
        "team3color"         "blue" // Custom color to use on team 3 (counter-terrorists in CS:S)
        "disableOnDeath"     "true" // Disables the ward when the owner dies
    }
}


are you using key value syntax?

id prefer json but there is really no parser for it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSON_sample

What about this?
I also saw something written in pure SP on github..

i think i'll stick with something that is natively supported.   That extension is outdated, and what would happen if it just stopped working for some reason?


FF2 uses keyvalues, and seems to be popular enough, although for some of it I may use adt_array.

Which of the two would be more better to use?

I'm starting to think it might be easier for me to create a php program that people could go to, and create a race, and it would create the source file and compiled file for them.

I was also thinking of maybe creating a java web application to do this, but since java is highly untrusted ... nobody would probably use it.

I then could constantly update the program.

This is what I plan for it to look like... Anyone have improvement ideas, let me know.

I'm going to continue to work on this, and hopefully have something running soon that will output a source file / compiled file after someone creates a basic race template with this.

https://war3evo.info/war3source/index.php