Difference between revisions of "ACS"

Latest revision as of 04:45, 13 December 2013

ACS (Action Coding Script?) is a compiled scripting language that works along side with the Hexen map format. The compiled scripts are stored in a map's BEHAVIOR lump in a binary format decoded by the zdoom/hexen engines. Odamex supports ACS inherited from ZDoom 1.22, however what works and what does not is not documented.

Specs and Resources

http://odamex.net/doc/thirdparty/acsspec.txt - Unspecified author, found in the zdoom utilities source.

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-ACS (Action Coding Script?) is a compiled scripting language that works along side with the Hexen map format.  The compiled scripts are stored in a map's BEHAVIOR lump in a binary format decoded by the zdoom/hexen engines.  The license the ACS interpreter was released under is not GPL complaint, so there is no ACS support in Odamex.  Here is an interestinf file I located which can aid in rewriting the interpreter. (formatting...)
+ACS (Action Coding Script?) is a compiled scripting language that works along side with the Hexen map format.  The compiled scripts are stored in a map's BEHAVIOR lump in a binary format decoded by the zdoom/hexen engines.  Odamex supports ACS inherited from ZDoom 1.22, however what works and what does not is not documented.
+== Specs and Resources ==
+http://odamex.net/doc/thirdparty/acsspec.txt - Unspecified author, found in the zdoom utilities source.