well there are a bunch of really good tutorials on youtube and on the Internet out there.Īll you need to do is finding a good tutorial playlist on youtube, so go ahead and search the web for a good lua tutorial, sit down with a bottle of coffee and watch these tutorial footages. Now I wont cover this part completely myself because. / Step 2: Learning the stock lua languageįirst of all you need to learn the basic syntax of lua and the way it actually functions. Integrated Development Environments you could use instead: Here you can set for example comments to be displayed in green and strings in purple, so highlighter colors have the same meaning like for Xml. You might want to select the "Lua" tag on the left we just added and edit the "Colors" tag. On the left list, select one of the "" tags and on the right site scroll down and choose Lua from the list > ok. Select Settings menu > Highlighter settings. xml editing and easy to use, that's why I am using it, Download: The first thing you will need is a text editor or a IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Lua editing.Īny text editor with lua interpreter will do it, some freeware suggestions: I rather explain a bit too much then leaving open questions. I never planned to make this tutorial as long as half of a damn book, so I'm sorry for this wall of text. But a tad of basic technical understanding for the way computers work is indeed required. This is a tutorial for beginners so you don't need to know anything about coding/scripting at all, but it would be quite helpfull if you already had some experiences in any other programing language, especially C languages. LUA doesn't need to be compiled, which is a great advantage. It will offer you additional options to get the engine doing almost what ever you want it to.Īdditionally it is a powerful language, often used for games and quite easy to learn. xml engine offers a lot of simple parameters you could manipulate, I think the lua part of this hybrid game engine is the more powerful one.Īnd probably the biggest benefit you don't have to always restart the damn game for testing changes you applied to the lua script.
xml files and already experienced first modifications on the game assets you might want to do "more" things.Īlthough the. If you are one of the few guys who enjoy tinkering around on. Why would you want to learn lua coding for Empire at War? Beginner Lua Scripting Tutorial for Star Wars Empire at War / Forces of CorruptionĪlthough there already is one tutorial on the Internet which adresses this topic I thought, I could provide a different and deeper view into the (special) and weird way EAW is handling lua.
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