Functions that handle the game's mechanics

[jeffnz]

I'm not interested in specialised things like animation, graphics or ai. Where do I find the functions that are responsible for basic gameplay mechanics? I mean the functions that handle practical things, like unit creation/unit death, construction, and the in-game UI. What files should I look at? I can use ctrl + f in Visual Studio 2013 but it isn't very useful.

[niektb]

The gameplay code is written in JavaScript and can be found data/mods/public/simulation/components/. It's explained here too: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Finding_Your_Way_Around 

[jeffnz]

Cool, 'spidermonkey' in sources is the one.

"spidermonkey: Mozilla's JavaScript engine written in C/C++. JavaScript is the game's scripting language of choice (game logic, AIs, random maps, etc)"

I'm so stupid I thought that Spidermonkey was written in javascript, but it's written in C/C++ and it handles javascript but it isn't javascript itself LOL

Update: what files are part of spidermonkey? Is it source\scriptinterface?

Update 2: "ScriptEngine scriptEngine" that looks like the initialisation of Spidermonkey and it's in main.cpp

Update 3: I searched the entire VS 'solution' for references to 'ScriptEngine' and 'scriptEngine' and couldn't find very many. It doesn't seem to lead me to anything that I was looking for.

Edited March 10, 2017 by jeffnz

[Imarok]

(nearly?) Everything starting with JS in cpp is using spidermonkey.

source\scriptinterface is probably the interface between js code and c++ (manages the Engine.foo() calls in js)