I'm only going to use Lua for cheap tricks and such. I'll never be able to do complex stuff
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| Author: | Grif [ Fri May 15, 2009 8:28 pm ] |
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LUA IS ALL WELL AND GOOD ALRIGHT, THAT'S COOL, YOU CAN DO COOL STUFF GUESS WHAT, IT'S NOT LIKE LUA MODDING NERFED .INI MODDING. YOU CAN DO JUST AS MUCH WITH .INI MODDING AS YOU EVER COULD, IN FACT MORE, WE'VE GOT NEW VARIABLES. STOP THINKING EVERYTHING REQUIRES LUA. You don't need ♥♥♥♥ lua to make breakwounds not do damage. You don't need lua to play a ♥♥♥♥ sound. You don't NEED lua for ♥♥♥♥ ANYTHING, it's just useful to do something you normally couldn't. Scripts are just that, scripts; things that add functionality to a preexisting mod, not replacements for one. |
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| Author: | p3lb0x [ Fri May 15, 2009 8:29 pm ] |
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Just my thoughts, someone even thought I needed Lua for making my dummy rocket launchers :\ |
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| Author: | Darlos9D [ Fri May 15, 2009 8:55 pm ] |
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p3lb0x wrote: Just my thoughts, someone even thought I needed Lua for making my dummy rocket launchers :\ Oh lawd, that's rich. Yeah, Lua is clearly for going above and beyond the .ini's. Basically, the way to look at it is this: if you need variables to change dynamically, you'll need Lua. If not, you just need .ini's. And even if you need Lua, you still need a robust and well-written .ini for it to run off of. Actually, looking at a couple recent mods, I was a bit disappointed with how lazy the .ini handling seemed to be. One mod has four separate things with different Lua functionality, but they all have the exact same graphics. Yeah, that's not confusing... |
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| Author: | Manticore [ Fri May 15, 2009 10:06 pm ] |
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in fact most of the things that are done with lua in the game now were done before with scripts. |
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| Author: | Flammablezombie [ Fri May 15, 2009 10:08 pm ] |
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That's because Lua is still Lua, attached to a scene or a module. |
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| Author: | Azukki [ Fri May 15, 2009 10:28 pm ] |
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Grif wrote: You don't NEED lua for fudge ANYTHING, it's just useful to do something you normally couldn't. Contradictory. But otherwise, yeah. .ini modding lives on stronger than ever, albeit eclipsed in attention by Lua. I don't know why anyone has thought otherwise. |
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| Author: | zalo [ Fri May 15, 2009 11:05 pm ] |
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I'm only going to use Lua for cheap tricks and such. I'll never be able to do complex stuff
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| Author: | Prod [ Fri May 15, 2009 11:09 pm ] |
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I figured this out before the first build involving Lua was released, which was great for me, because I was terrified of Lua being too complex to learn as fast as I learned how to deal with .ini's. |
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| Author: | Metal Chao [ Fri May 15, 2009 11:14 pm ] |
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zalo wrote: I'm only going to use Lua for cheap tricks and such. I'll never be able to do complex stuff I am glad because this is all that lua should be used for. |
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| Author: | Lord Tim [ Sat May 16, 2009 2:06 am ] |
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Can your not-lua navigate terrain obstacles? This works in theory: http://lordtim.pastebin.com/f6c5aab81 Not in practice, because GetClosestActor doesn't work. Data did not change the float to a Lua number. |
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| Author: | Azukki [ Sat May 16, 2009 2:18 am ] |
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metal chao wrote: zalo wrote: I'm only going to use Lua for cheap tricks and such. I'll never be able to do complex stuff I am glad because this is all that lua should be used for. I disagree. Complex Lua is a great addition to CC possibilities and I encourage it entirely. However I don't practice it myself because I don't know how to do it. |
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| Author: | Miles_T3hR4t [ Sat May 16, 2009 2:38 am ] |
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Lord Tim wrote: Can your not-lua navigate terrain obstacles? This works in theory: http://lordtim.pastebin.com/f6c5aab81 Not in practice, because GetClosestActor doesn't work. Data did not change the float to a Lua number. I just mentioned simmilar in the thread about some weird targeting algorithm. Mentioned patsy's magic bullet from worms. Azukki wrote: Grif wrote: You don't NEED lua for fudge ANYTHING, it's just useful to do something you normally couldn't. Contradictory. But otherwise, yeah. .ini modding lives on stronger than ever, albeit eclipsed in attention by Lua. I don't know why anyone has thought otherwise. Oh I don't know that exact statement is what I've been screaming about on the forums all day. |
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