Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua is widely used as a scripting language by game programmers, perhaps owing to how easy it is to embed, its fast execution, and its short learning curve.
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Assertion fails with events in lua, Corona SDK
So I have two objects, an Enemy and Bullet Object. In the level there are several different instances of Enemy Objects, about 16. Each of which are linked to their own Bullet Object. keep in mind ...
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Tile-Based Platformer Infinite Terrain Generation
I'm using the LÖVE game engine (which uses Lua). My terrain generation works good. But I'm planning to make the terrain generate as the player walks so that the terrain will be infinite size. I'm ...
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Why does this LUA code not render any objects on the screen? [closed]
Did I mess up something somewhere? If i put a putsxy in the same box, it renders a string just fine, but for some reason this code hates objects. What this code is supposed to do is render a set of ...
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Overload C++ functions in lua [closed]
I have had a look around but I believe this to be impossible due to compile time of c++.
However is it possible to have a class registered in lua and c++ that has a overload update function which I ...
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How to generate an explosion? [closed]
I'm currently working in an Angry Bird-esque game, where the user flings a bomb at buildings and the bomb explodes.
How do I create explosions in Corona? Essentially some sort of area of effect ...
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Love2D : How can I keep up with lots of small sprites' collision data?
So I'm using a SpriteBatch to keep up with lots of small pieces for a falling-piece puzzle game. I have an array of Quads (for different color blocks), and they are randomly added to the ...
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Love2D : Problem rotating image in a SpriteBatch
I'm working on a falling blocks type of game with triangular pieces. I'm using a SpriteBatch to accumulate and remember the pieces and their locations.
The problem is that when I rotate a scaled ...
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C++ formatted serialization [closed]
I've decided it's time to implement serialization in my simple engine but this has caused me many headaches for the past couple of days/weeks. My engine uses an entity/component based approach similar ...
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How to use LuaJIT the same that Lua in a C++ program?
I'm using Lua in my C++ program, as an library. But I read that LuaJIT is a better implementation.
Is it posible to replace with LuaJIT with little change? How?
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How to share Lua script between instances?
I'm doing an agent based framework with C++ and Lua. I want to use Lua to code the Agent behaviour having an AgentClass class that have the name and source code and an AgentInstance class that have ...
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Platform independent replacement for LuaInterface
I'm currently working on a project in C#/XNA, however I'm planning to migrate this to MonoGame so that it can go onto more platforms. The problem is that I am currently using a lot of Lua, and for ...
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Does it make sense to use Lua scripting in a game developed in Python?
Well for C++ written games using Lua scripts for easy changing ai, quets etc is very reasonable and it's common. However now I'm going to write a game in pure python and I don't know if I should use ...
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How might I script the creation of CLR objects?
I am looking for a method to script the creation of entities (arrays of components) for delivery through my entity factory, i.e scripted creation of .net objects.
I have looked into Lua but it seems ...
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How can you implement Lua into your game? [closed]
I am trying to implement Lua into my game, but am having trouble. Say I have a weapon class, which is just a hollow shell, lacking real functions. I was thinking of creating an onFire function, which ...
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How should I manage the AI using lua scripts?
My game is in C++ and I want to make AI being managed by lua scripts, but I have no idea how should the scripts look like and the integration in C++.
Should the script be like
if ...
