Lua

[Azu]

Will I need to know ANY C/C++ to learn Lua? Just enough to use it for MTA?

[orappa]

You don't need to learn C++ at all. I learnt Lua just by looking at scripts that people had made, and the wiki documentation that we created.

[Robix]

Yep that's rely easy to learn!And im sure what someone will make example script like

SWEP.Primary.ClipSize = 10 //And here go description what this comand do!

This would be wery usefull for beginers!

[Hedning]

Now I want to learn Lua ^^

[erorr404]

Will I need to know ANY C/C++ to learn Lua? Just enough to use it for MTA?

To code in LUA you will need basic programming knowledge, so knowing some other language like C++ will definately help. If you don't know one, then you should probably just start with LUA.

Here is some documentation, you should know sections 2-5 at the very least: http://www.lua.org/pil/index.html

[Azu]

Sweet. Thanks.

[The Beyond]

Hello world in LUA:

# Hello World in lua

print "Hello world"

lol, that looks easy (source)

I know pretty much about PHP, will that help?

Edited December 27, 2006 by Guest

[erorr404]

Hello world in LUA:

# Hello World in lua

print "Hello world"

lol, that looks easy (source)

I know pretty much about PHP, will that help?

I bet it will since you probably know about functions and control structures.

'print' has no use in MTA though.

[Hedning]

What software should I use to script in Lua?

[lil Toady]

What software should I use to script in Lua?

hmm, notepad or wordpad or anything else you want

[Hedning]

lol

But I need something so I can check if it works.

[Robix]

Hmm ye you need somthink where you can check...like mta dm .... lol

Or you can get GMOD 10 and script there.For example my 1 LUA code was gun for GMOD! After that i maked more guns then i maked a gamemode.

Anyway if you are beginner you should not make a new script but edit already maked script.

[Brophy]

u could always use luaedit to check, tho i just use notepad++ now ive got used to it

[Azu]

Notepad ++ FTW!

[Oli]

On the C++ note, Lua is FAR simpler than C++ as a language, for 1 thing, Lua isn't really a "typed" language, like PHP, which makes things a lot easier for people with no experience.

There are Lua tutorials all over the internet, just google for it. I had to learn it when i was first adding the scripting engine to the server so i could test if it was working properly, and it took me no time at all to get used to it.

[darkdreamingdan]

Yeah, Lua has been the first language ive ever learnt and i have become really fluent in it.

As Oli said its a really "typed" language. When you read the code it almost sounds like a sentence (at least i find it does).

[The Beyond]

Yeah, Lua has been the first language ive ever learnt

How do you know english then?

[darkdreamingdan]

Yeah, Lua has been the first language ive ever learnt

How do you know english then?

lol okay smart ass, i learnt English after learning Lua. i have a Lua -> english translater which is how i learnt.

[The Beyond]

Yeah, Lua has been the first language ive ever learnt

How do you know english then?

lol okay smart ass, i learnt English after learning Lua. i have a Lua -> english translater which is how i learnt.

[gooch]

sounds great

maybe ill give Lua a try

[Azu]

Will we be able to do something with the SAMs? I want to try to make something like an UAV in BF2.

[Guest]

can smo tell me how i can learn LUA ^^

It sounds great and i want to learn it

[slick]

LUA is nice, has to be my favorite scripting language.

[BTH]

It's Lua not LUA, it's not an acronym but portugese for moon!

[Slothman]

heh, "Moon language"