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Re: New feature: easily placed extra civilians[message #344872 is a reply to message #344871] Tue, 05 April 2016 14:07 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Flugente

 
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 Hmm. I guess I could expand both functions. Items are somewhat of a problem though - I currently create armed civilian as soldiers, which takes care of their equipment. Having custom items override that requires a lot of additional stuff (deleting preset items depending on what custom items are set,taking care of ammo, attachments, all this with regard to the progress values...).

Additionally, it seems to me that huge problem any modder would have with lua is that they cannot store any state variables. There are the games facts, which we access with CheckFact() and SetFact(), but these are hardcoded, and modders only know those that coders deemed intersting enough to put them into the script. Theoretically, a modder can store things (like whether they spawned someone somewhere) in there, but as you don't know without code knowledge wwhich facts exist and what they are used for, that's a recipe for disaster.

Perhaps it would be an idea to create, say, an array of 1000 integers that are solely used as a modder-administered 'memory' for lua purposes? That way, you could, say, remember whether you spawned, say, a custom armed civilian bounty hunter. You would then know whether to spawn him again or not somewhere...
...though the drawback is that currently, you have no way in lua to know whether a specific enemy dies (you also have no way to get the specific ID of someone). All requires additional code interfaces.

Hmpf.

I guess what I try to say is: I am aware that modders would like to be able to have better interaction with lua, but this requires a lot more work on the coding site of things, as you have to create interfaces for every function. Additionally, as we cannot debug lua, any stuff a modder does in there becomes so much harder to test and check for errors.

I know now that it could never work between us, as much as we wanted to, it could never be! Not because you're a rabbit, but because you're black.

If you want, you can donate to me. This will not affect how and what I code, and I will not code specific features in return. I will be thankful though.

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