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(04-14-2012 09:03 PM)Homicide13 Wrote:  Is "global" supposed to refer to primitives that can be accessed from anywhere within the .hps script file, or is it supposed to refer to primitives that can be shared between hps files? (I really hope I'm using the word "primitive" correctly in this situation. >_> )

Classes aren't primitives (though they are their own data type). But, yes, things that are in the global scope can be accessed anywhere within the script, but in HPL2 it is only within that one script.

(04-14-2012 09:03 PM)Homicide13 Wrote:  Can you give me some examples of these reasons?

Let's say, for example, one of your classes has members that are supposed to reference other classes. If you try to call a method that accesses these members without first instantiating these other classes, this will crash the program, or at least exit out with an error. However, AngelScript seems to instantiate the class at the time of declaring the variable that references the object, so this may not be an issue here. There are other reasons why one would want to define their own constructors (e.g. you want a member to have a different value at construction time), but these reasons usually do not relate to accessing members that don't necessarily exist.