SRB2 2.1 LUA script
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Jayoshi
Younger than SRB2
Lua isn't an acronym, for one.
Yes, Lua scripting will be used in the new version, (2.1) but it will not need WADs to function. WADs and Lua will be entirely different, as I'll explain below:
WADs add content to the game, usually in the form of maps, music, sound, characters, textures, or whatever. WADs have no control over changing the way SRB2 works, they only add things to it.
Lua scripting (and most scripting in general) doesn't work the same way. Lua scripting specifically modifies SRB2's code, rather than just adding content to it, making it able to do lots of things that WADs wouldn't normally be able to do.
You should probably look here if you want to know how hard Lua is to learn, as well as just generally know more about it: http://www.lua.org/
Yes, Lua scripting will be used in the new version, (2.1) but it will not need WADs to function. WADs and Lua will be entirely different, as I'll explain below:
WADs add content to the game, usually in the form of maps, music, sound, characters, textures, or whatever. WADs have no control over changing the way SRB2 works, they only add things to it.
Lua scripting (and most scripting in general) doesn't work the same way. Lua scripting specifically modifies SRB2's code, rather than just adding content to it, making it able to do lots of things that WADs wouldn't normally be able to do.
You should probably look here if you want to know how hard Lua is to learn, as well as just generally know more about it: http://www.lua.org/
M.V
Alright!
Well, it seems that will have to study plenty if I want to learn, I don't only understand how it will be used in SRB2. I know, the wads increase maps, sounds, characters; but and if I wanted to know if I can use Lua in a Wad, as add a together script when I add the wad in the game. In SRB2 Wiki it will have tutoriais of how to learn Lua?
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When 2.1 is released the SRB2 Wiki will most certainly need to have some form of documentation for Lua. I'll be making sure of this at the very least if noone else will.
As for your questions, yes, Lua scripts can be used in WADs themselves. But they can also be in seperate files of their own, so in a way they're similar to SOC lumps (except they're not).
As for what Jayoshi is saying about WADs though, that's not quite true. Existing objects's properties and states etc are obviously changable by SOC, and sprites, maps, sounds and music are easily replacable too. And then there's also all the "MAINCFG category" timers etc that can be modified. So basically SOC and the like can already change how SRB2 works, just not to a very large extent.
As for your questions, yes, Lua scripts can be used in WADs themselves. But they can also be in seperate files of their own, so in a way they're similar to SOC lumps (except they're not).
As for what Jayoshi is saying about WADs though, that's not quite true. Existing objects's properties and states etc are obviously changable by SOC, and sprites, maps, sounds and music are easily replacable too. And then there's also all the "MAINCFG category" timers etc that can be modified. So basically SOC and the like can already change how SRB2 works, just not to a very large extent.
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M.V
Alright!
If I understood, Lua is separate, as well as a soc. Then if I wanted to add Lua with a wad, Moon would already have of to be ready and to be in the paste of SRB2 with the wad, and also to place some script type in MAINCFG for the wad to add Lua. Is that?
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