On one of the fun blogs I subscribe to posted an overview of how LUA scripts are written.
http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/05/0 ... -dynamism/
An overview of LUA
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An overview of LUA
by PapaXpress » Sat May 05, 2012 6:35 pm
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Re: An overview of LUA
by Kali » Sat May 05, 2012 7:09 pm
You can do some fun stuff ( and get in an almighty mess! ) with dynamic code - I would warn anyone who's starting out not to try tricks like that yet though! also that evaluating code at runtime is relatively expensive computationally; I'm not sure how much the latter matters to RW code yet.
Overloading functions is something you do every time you write your own Update() or OnControlValueChange() functions - you can quite handily do that with your own functions too, if you define them in a script and then load that script into another one. That way you can make say, one core engine script for an entire model and still customize each individual repaint's script.
Overloading functions is something you do every time you write your own Update() or OnControlValueChange() functions - you can quite handily do that with your own functions too, if you define them in a script and then load that script into another one. That way you can make say, one core engine script for an entire model and still customize each individual repaint's script.
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