Pattern/Enemy Script, How To?

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I was wondering how all you guys create your patterns and shooting scripts for enemies?
Im thinking something along the lines of Danmakufu that uses scripts, so a script might contain something like:

ring(20,10,0,false,0) fire ring of 20 shots, 10 times, no angle mod, dont change num, no num mod
arc(10,10,p,0,true,1) fire arc of 10 shots, target player, 0 ang mod, do reduce num each round, reduce num by one

my main question is how do you go about having these in a text file and parsing them to your game? i need lots and lots, each to be chosen randomly(ish) do i store them all as some kind of object?

Thanks guys

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To answer your initial question, I store everything in XML documents and parse them with .

You might want to start by doing everything in code instead of trying to parse external data files. You'll need to create game logic and data structures (or classes) anyway so you might as well start there.

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thanks for this VERY useful info, i tried looking at converting a string to hex values, i cant seem to get it formatted like yours so i decided to maybe use the string hashcodes instead? (java seems to have a DataType.getHashcode() method that returns an int)

unfortunately im still getting my renderer to work when generating ships, ive just finished the bullet managers classes. This xml stuff is going to link in with that and the 'behaviors' which are up next

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