Where shall I start with learning Lua?

[Aveee]

Hello I've decided to learn the Lua language, but I don't know where shall I start.

Can you guys tell me where do I start and what should I learn?

I don't know any other scripting or programming languages, I'm beginner at it, I just want to start right now with it.

[Vision]

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[Anubhav]

I suggest wiki.

[Deepu]

Friend, I think you gotta start off with the LUA basics as Wiki doesnt have all of lua.....

Just google lua tutorial and then go to the first topic

after learning the blocks or chunks or functions and all then you gotta go to the mta wiki

Soon after that you gotta start making some simple scripts like outputChatBox and others

[glowdemon1]

I just youtubed some videos to get started, after that I started using the wiki and the IRC which helped me ALOT.

[Atton]

Play with run code and try things like outputChatBox.

For exmaple srun outputChatBox("Tuna")

[Thorxx]

The most easy way is looking to code in free scripts, it helped me a lot.

And also trying some things with outputChatBox as Atton said above me.

Then you can try some mathematical things, they are also easy.

[Insid]

I definitely agree with looking at free resources' code and looking up the functions on the wiki. I had written my first Lua script within hours of setting up my server. Y'all can check it out here and tell me how noobish it is: https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ls&id=8808

[Thorxx]

I definitely agree with looking at free resources' code and looking up the functions on the wiki. I had written my first Lua script within hours of setting up my server. Y'all can check it out here and tell me how noobish it is: https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ls&id=8808

That's a good job for your first script!

There are two from my beginnings:

Random Clan Colors:

function teams () 
  team = createTeam("YourTeam") 
  setTimer(randomCOLOR, 5000, 0) 
end 
addEventHandler("onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), teams) 
function movePlayer () 
  if isObjectInACLGroup("user."..getAccountName(getPlayerAccount(source)),aclGetGroup("Admin")) then 
  setPlayerTeam(source, team) 
  end 
end 
addEventHandler("onPlayerLogin", root, movePlayer) 
function randomCOLOR () 
local R3 = math.random( 0, 255 ) 
local G3 = math.random( 0, 255 ) 
local B3 = math.random( 0, 255 ) 
  setTeamColor(team, R3, G3, B3) 
end 

Date & Time:

function real () 
local days = {"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"} 
    local time = getRealTime() 
    local timeINFO = string.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", time.hour, time.minute, time.second) 
    local dateINFO = string.format("%02d/%02d/%04d", time.monthday, time.month+1, time.year+1900)    
    local wd = time.weekday+1 
  
outputChatBox("#ff8f00------------------------------------------------------------------", 255,255,255,true) 
outputChatBox("#ffffffTime: "..timeINFO, 255,255,255,true) 
outputChatBox("#ffffffDate: "..dateINFO, 255,255,255,true) 
outputChatBox("#ffffffDay: "..days[wd], 255,255,255,true) 
outputChatBox("#ff8f00------------------------------------------------------------------", 255,255,255,true) 
end 
addCommandHandler("date", real ) 

[xeon17]

My frist script was a Deagle Event

function mensagemEvento ( ) 
    outputChatBox ( "#00FFFF [sERVER]  To Enter the Event write /participar in chat", getRootElement(), 255, 0, 0, true ) 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement ( ), mensagemEvento ) 
  
function funcoesEvento ( thePlayer ) 
    takeAllWeapons ( thePlayer ) 
    setElementDimension ( thePlayer, 300 ) 
    setPedArmor ( thePlayer, 100 ) 
    setElementHealth ( thePlayer, 569 ) 
    giveWeapon ( thePlayer, 24, 1000000000 ) 
    setElementPosition ( thePlayer, -260.60818481445, 2336.3356933594, 108.55751037598 ) 
    outputChatBox("[EVENTO] You got a Deagle !.",thePlayer,0,255,255) 
    outputChatBox("[EVENTO] You got health & armor.",thePlayer,0,255,255) 
    addEventHandler ( "onPlayerSpawn", thePlayer, onSpawn ) 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "participar", funcoesEvento ) 
  
function parandoEvento ( ) 
    outputChatBox ( "#00FFFFEvent Closed", getRootElement(), 255, 0, 0, true ) 
end 
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStop", getResourceRootElement ( ), parandoEvento ) 
  
function onSpawn ( ) 
    takeAllWeapons ( source ) 
    setElementDimension ( source, 300 ) 
    setPedArmor ( source, 100 ) 
    setElementHealth ( source, 569 ) 
    giveWeapon ( source, 24, 1000000000 ) 
    setElementPosition ( source, -260.60818481445, 2336.3356933594, 108.55751037598 ) 
end 

[Thorxx]

Isn't the maximal dimension 255?

[WhoAmI]

Mximal dimension is about 65k.

[Karuzo]

65535 is the Maxium

[xeon17]

65535 is the Maxium

More then enough

[myonlake]

Isn't the maximal dimension 255?

No, the interior count is 255, you mixed those two