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What is Lua?

  • epix2000     7th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Hello TPT forum. I have seen this Lua thing everywhere. What is it and how do i use/get it?

  • boxmein     7th Aug 2013 Former Staff 0 Permalink
    xhrBDcQq2DMWatch video on youtube


    It is actually a programming language that is designed to be easily incorporated into other projects as an embedded scripting language. TPT uses it to allow you to get hands-deep in the game code and do cool stuff with it. Like add multiplayer support.
    Edited 3 times by boxmein. Last: 7th Aug 2013
  • epix2000     7th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    where can get it?

  • Cacophony     7th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink
  • epix2000     7th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    ok thanks

  • mniip     8th Aug 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    all you need to do lua scripting in TPT is a text editor, even notepad will work
  • MiningMarsh     8th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    You guys are teh wrongz, wikipedia says so!

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_%28goddess%29

     

    "In Roman mythology, Lua was a goddess to whom soldiers sacrificed captured weapons.[1] She is sometimes referred to as "Lua Saturni," which makes her a consort of Saturn. It may be that Lua was merely an alternative name for Ops.[2]"

  • greymatter     8th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink
    @epix2000 (View Post)
    Use notepad, the perfect IDE.
    Go to luatut.com for a good tutorial.
  • MiningMarsh     8th Aug 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Both Eclipse and vim make for nice IDEs, vim less soon windows because of how terrible cmd.exe is. I don't recommend Notepad, for just simple text editors its nice to use one that never forces you to switch to mouse. Also, emacs is nice too.

  • mniip     8th Aug 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    ew emacs
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