Scripting Language

[Hermundure]

Sorry for this dumb question guys, but:

Is the scripting language for Grimrock 2 Lua 5.1 or 5.2?

Do you know any resource for complete starters which can be used to learn this language and get a start-up?

[Ixnatifual]

5.1

http://www.grimrock.net/modding/
http://www.lua.org/start.html

[Hermundure]

Thank you for this quick answer!

Two more questions just came up:

1.) what does this () mean behind some lines for example here: combination_lever_1.lever:isActivated() or here checkLevers() ?
and 2.) what purpose do these { have in the functions as I often see many of them just below each other for example here:

defineObject {
name = "door_of_closing",
baseObject = "dungeon_door_portcullis",
components = {
{
class = "Door"
}
}
}

Herm

[Isaac]

1.) what does this () mean behind some lines for example here: combination_lever_1.lever:isActivated() or here checkLevers() ?
and 2.) what purpose do these { have in the functions as I often see many of them just below each other for example here:

Parentheses ~in this context... indicate a function call, and parameters for that function can be included within those parentheses.

The "Curly Braces" normally indicate a collection of data; a table; array.

eg. myVar = {10,20,30,"goblins"} ; print(myVar[3], myVar[4]) ..... would print: 30 goblins

[NutJob]

The thing that caught me off guard are arrays start at 1. How silly (lua). At least starting at 1 is going very old-school. ~laughs~

[Hermundure]

Thank you for the infos!

@NutJob
Sorry, I didnt get what you tried to tell me here, which arrays have to start with 1 and why? I am a bit puzzled oO

[Komag]

Not being a programmer, I've not yet understood why arrays often start with 0

[NutJob]

Then if you're ever extremely bored some day you'll have this to read.

[petri]

Not being a programmer, I've not yet understood why arrays often start with 0

It's a relic from old programming languages like the C language. Of course all sensible languages like Lua start with 1. The 1st item of an array is logically at index 1

[Isaac]

Not being a programmer, I've not yet understood why arrays often start with 0

It's a relic from old programming languages like the C language. Of course all sensible languages like Lua start with 1. The 1st item of an array is logically at index 1

I'm neutral... but... is it just me or doesn't it seem that starting from 1 has the stigma of VB all over it.

*(Coming from someone with VB6 still.)