[HELP] Implementing Lua

[Christian Schamara]

it is not difficult to install lua if you understand anything about it

We can gladly make a small project lua times to see if we can use it

[petbat]

I know LUA, but my C++ is soooo bad

So... please if you can make "a small project for LUA support" this will be so great

Thanks in advance and good luck

[Christian Schamara]

loss when people have to do something to give I would be happy here

if anyone wants to help with an LUA project he should sign on to with me

[yasuno]

LUA is to crashy, and is not checked very well. Like Vladmir said just like ScriptDev2 if someone wants to hook it you can load it externally like you would ScriptDev2, but personally i prefer C++ over any LUA Engine, + like i said LUA Engines are quite unstable in a lot of.. retarded cases.

This is most likely why it wasnt even looked into here, you can do loads with C++ already and at least we know C++ is stable as long as who ever writes the code does it right. I agree that LUA is very simple, but simple things have a habit of being unstable and easy to break. ;]

Mangos isnt Ez Mode like ArcEmu and in turn, its 100% more stable see the give and takes?

[Ayane]

I agree, Lua has no place in Mangos, just for the AI script, I was not talking about something else.

I can help for a ScriptDevLua Project.

[darkstalker]

why not python?

[petbat]

Damn... EventAI is much better than LUA

I've got a scripting EventAI tool and now everything is 10000000% easier for me

and let's leave MaNGOS with C++

[Ayane]

why not python?

Because Lua is more faster than Python:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=luajit&lang2=python3

[darkstalker]

thats not a good reason..

if you want speed better stay with C++, i personally dont have any problem with coding in C++, but never used Lua so cant say anything about that

[Lynx3d]

He compared apples to oranges anyway, i.e. a JIT compiler vs. a pure interpreter.

Compare with interpreted LUA and see quite a bit different numbers...

I'm not familiar with JIT projects for Python, but there are some like PyPy and unladen-swallow (whoever came up with that name...)

And i don't think a JIT compiler is a silver bullet either...

[Patman128]

Because Lua is more faster than Python:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=luajit&lang2=python3

Write a JIT Lua compiler for mangos, then you are allowed to post this.

Actually, looking at the source of LuaJIT, it's not ridiculously hard to include this. But I can't find any good examples of using it.

[dereka]

Write a JIT Lua compiler for mangos, then you are allowed to post this.

default lua is faster than Python too http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all〈=lua&lang2=python3

[Ayane]

JIT or interpreter has same functionality and langage is comparable, the technology JIT just offer more performance than interpreter. By example PHP 1/2/3 is interpreted, PHP 4/5/6 use JIT.

LuaJIT is a library like the original Lua library, it is just more faster.

[Christian Schamara]

Now we want the time to start doing something or not =)

[freghar]

Now we want the time to start doing something or not =)

Then go on, mister.

[Christian Schamara]

would no longer are working on this thing?

[darkstalker]

what i would like to do is add more OOP style to ScriptDev2, like get rid of all that "if (m_timer < uiDiff) { .. } else m_timer -= uiDiff" thats copy-pasted all over the place and could be easily encapsulated in an object.

[VladimirMangos]

And this not related to mangos core... If you want discuss SD2 code style then discuss this at SD2 forum

[Grobii]

Blizzard is using LUA for WoW how I know.

[Patman128]

Blizzard is using LUA for WoW how I know.

Yeah. The API is well documented: http://www.wowwiki.com/API

Why are you reviving this thread?

[vladex]

there is another thread in core modifications ,im preety surprised to see that blizzard uses LUA ,well thats not the only gaming company that uses it ,implementing would be nice

[freghar]

Why are you reviving this thread?

Because I'm deleting any new "it would be nice to have LUA in mangos" threads ... perhaps?

[Patman128]

Because I'm deleting any new "it would be nice to have LUA in mangos" threads ... perhaps?

Thanks freghar.

[Christian Schamara]

not can enter to this "ace/Basic_Types.h"

you forgot

..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\dep\\ACE_wrappers\\

in luascript.sln

AdditionalIncludeDirectories="..\\..\\..\\src\\shared;..\\..\\..\\src\\framework;..\\..\\..\\dep\\include;.\\;.\\lua\\include;"\\ ..\\..\\dep\\include";.\\lua\\src;..\\..\\..\\src\\mangosd;..\\..\\..\\src\\game;".\\cpp-scripts"..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\dep\\ACE_wrappers\\"