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Good Lua tutorials?


mghtyred

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So, like some of you I'm sure, I'm excited to see what can be done with LUA in game. In order to prepare for that, and get a bit of a head start, anyone recommend some good LUA tutorials, online lessons, etc? 

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If you have done any scripting at all in the past you can get lua basics in an hour using google . I found this most useful:

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html

 

The tricky part will be using the api, documentation will be the key or the killer depending how bad it goes, i'm expecting that not to be priority for some time.

 

I've not touched C in 25 years, but am finding playing with c# in space engineers very satisfying, I'm quite thick but even I have managed to do some nice things.

 

this is a nice bit of fun too

https://codecombat.com/play/dungeon

 

Also World of warcraft uses lau and I made a few addons for myself years ago. WOW is free to play these days and google "lua wow addon tutorial" brings up a few option, 

 

 

 

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If you have a history of working with programming languages and you're some what comfortable with them. Picking up Lua will be a peace of cake. The first time I used Lua was for the Minecraft mod Computer Craft. I learned Lua super quick by looking at this site https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/. It took me 15 minutes to understand it, then within a hour I had built a functioning mining bot in Computer Craft. Sadly until we know the the DU Lua API is going to look like, it's hard to prepare. Speaking of that, is there any released details about what the Lua API is going to look like?

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  • 1 month later...
On 10/2/2017 at 10:11 PM, Haunty said:

codecombat.com has some Lua stuff. It starts out super basic, I'm not sure how advanced it gets later.

I know this post is old but I stumbled onto it and started using codecombat to learn lua. I have taken intro couse to C so I know the basics. If anybody needs to learn from scratch I think this website would be good but they do not support LUA, as in support staff, so if you have any problems you have to post in forums and hope someone can help you.

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