I have a bunch of tools in the Lua works

[TrailMyx]

The rail engine is coming along nicely.  Those that have used this before will be really impressed with the load times.  Probably won't have time to finish it this weekend, however.

Just for giggles, I loaded one of SuperSlayers rails to test the functions:

Rail index = 0
Load time = 0.019000 sec
Engine Version = 41
Current Engine command = NONE
Current server mode = SUBROUTINE
Current server status = IDLE
Current rail index = 0
Current rail waypoints = 59
Rail name from index = Luna_MSL7
Current rail name = Luna_MSL7
Present waypoint in current rail = 0
Rails loaded = 1

And a rail that's over 1000 waypoints:

Rail index = 0
Load time = 0.754000 sec
Engine Version = 41
Current Engine command = NONE
Current server mode = SUBROUTINE
Current server status = IDLE
Current rail index = 0
Current rail waypoints = 1084
Rail name from index = worldtour
Current rail name = worldtour
Present waypoint in current rail = 0
Rails loaded = 1

[Paulonius]

So that second rail that takes forever in EUO takes less than a second in LUA? I thought the script had gone into a loop the first time I did it.  Pretty powerful illustration.

[TrailMyx]

So that second rail that takes forever in EUO takes less than a second in LUA? I thought the script had gone into a loop the first time I did it.  Pretty powerful illustration.

It takes about 17 seconds with EUO to load.  Funny thing about the OEUO code; it's a terrible hack to get it working to test with, so I know I could probably make it 100 times faster.  So for crappy inefficient code to run 22x faster is kinda funny.

[TrailMyx]

The rail engine is ALIVE!  MUAHAHHAHAHA

[Endless Night]

Only thing stopping me from jumping headlong in is the lack of a usable UI... 

[TrailMyx]

Only thing stopping me from jumping headlong in is the lack of a usable UI... 

I hear ya.  I've tried a couple ideas to try and allow for an asynchronous method to run a script and manage the UI much like what EUO does.  To date, I haven't found a good way.  I thought I was on to something with nested timers, but since you can only have one running per Obj instance, it's kinda hard to work it.  The only thing that will fix this is to allow for 2 separate threads per script.  One to handle the UI, and the other to manage the script.

I hope Cheffe gets this worked out soon; I'd love to start working that aspect of OEUO.

[TrailMyx]

I'll be posting my find item info for OEUO this weekend.  That one is nice because it gives you a quick overview of how to integrate a usable UI into your OEUO stuff.  Also, it's not written with any "advanced" programming; it's pretty basic.   I'll even dissect it verbally and try and explain in detail how each part works and make a little tutorial out of it.

But hopefully it'll be enough for you guys to start playing with a complete graphical script; and rip it up to see how it works.