Help with Lua

**yaustar** · August 4th, 2006, 05:15

Originally Posted by fg-54

create games for the pc, and psp...and ds...

Then quite frankly I would NOT use Lua if you are trying to create a cross platform application. Especially with the DS in the mix. The DS does not have LuaPlayer, it uses a different Lua framework so the applications you develop for PSP (LuaPlayer) will NOT work with the DS unless major changes are made to the code.

LuaPlayer for windows doesn't cut it, you be better off using GameMaker and the internal scripting language in the engine (which is not too dissimilar in usage as Lua).

**fg-54** · August 4th, 2006, 05:18

i ment any of them, not all of them, it would be extremly hard to make a game for all of those systems.

**BL4Z3D247** · August 4th, 2006, 05:20

Originally Posted by Shadowblind

I want to run a script.lua by itself. I made it from the tutorial, and since I cant run it on my computer I want to run it on PSP. How can I do that?

just make a folder with the script.lua and anything else need to run the script, such as sprites or backgrounds and put it in the Applications folder in the Luaplayer .16 folder on ur psp

**Shadowblind** · August 4th, 2006, 05:22

-- Lua program 1
-- Author: Shadowblind

-- Green Color Object
green = Color.new(0, 255, 0)
-- Store birth year in variable myBirthYear
myBirthYear = 1992
-- Store current year in currentYear
currentYear = 2006
-- create an empty variable
myAge = nil
-- Store some text in a variable
someText = "My age is roughly 14 "
-- Subtract myBirthYear from currentYear and store in myAge
myAge = currentYear - myBirthYear
-- Print our text variable and age to the screen
screen

rint(10,100,someText .. myAge,green)
-- Buffer offscreen to onscreen
screen.flip()
-- Loop forever
while true do
screen.waitVblankStart()
end

will this work?

**yaustar** · August 4th, 2006, 05:22

Originally Posted by fg-54

i ment any of them, not all of them, it would be extremly hard to make a game for all of those systems.

In which case:
PC: Either stick with GameMaker and the internal scripting language in the engine (which is not too dissimilar in usage as Lua) or learn Pygame which will be FAR better for you in the long run.

PSP: Short route: LuaPlayer and Lua in which case, start reading evilmana.com tutorials.
Long Route: C/C++ with SDL and/or OpenGL

DS: Short route: Lua with their homebrew Lua Framework which as far as I can see is completely different to LuaPlayer barring the base Lua language.
Long route: C/C++ with SDL or without SDL.