A newbie question

[CTCCoco]

It really matter if you use multiple scripts or if you just use one (one for client-side, and one for server-side) for everything?

Thanks for the help.

[karlis]

just for better finding of something, and so if something doesn't work you can turn it off, and restarting something wont cause whole reset.

its really recommended to at least use few groups( interface, vehicle, player, login, etc systems, utilities)so you don't get lost.

also you have to separate gamemodes from maps, to swap maps w/o stopping gamemode.

[eAi]

Karlis, you're answering a different question - he's asking if there's a benefit to having multiple script files, not multiple resources.

So, no, it doesn't matter from a technical sense - as far the Lua is concerned they may as well all be one file. The benefit to splitting it up is that it makes it easier to find what code you're after, and generally lets you separate different areas of your code from each other. You'll probably find your code easier to understand if you split it up, especially if you come back to it in 6 months time!

[CTCCoco]

Karlis, you're answering a different question - he's asking if there's a benefit to having multiple script files, not multiple resources.

So, no, it doesn't matter from a technical sense - as far the Lua is concerned they may as well all be one file. The benefit to splitting it up is that it makes it easier to find what code you're after, and generally lets you separate different areas of your code from each other. You'll probably find your code easier to understand if you split it up, especially if you come back to it in 6 months time!

Thank you all for the help. I will do what you say.