about lua script in beta

[Xantcha]

I have found orbiter_beta_070927 and was really amazed by Lua*. I mean having a built-in scripting language is excellent thing to have.

Also current set of functions is somewhat limiting (poor user i/o, no attachment management, can't set state of a ship, no i/o beetween script ans ship modules/plugins (other than sending keystrokes to ship, but that's one way mesage). Heck I can't even AddForce at will with lua $) Anyway this is beta, so it's normal.

But one particular behavior of lua-console drives me crazy. It looks like it can't handle too many lines of text - something as simple as "for i=1,300 do term.out('blah-blah')" causes CTD. That's really annoying since it makes script debugging really painfull.

Now off to try and make some scripted missions, STS-114 probably $)

P.S. What's your record for sample challenge? Mine is 5797.66
(tried it only a couple of times but doubt that I could improve it by much)
P.P.S. Sorry if posted it in the wrong subforum - could not find anything beta-related :-/

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*And that was my first encounter with Lua - damn thats a pretty language, i have tried python but lua looks so much suitable and easier to use.

 

[jarmonik]

Source code of Orbiter's Lua Interface seems to be located in Orbitersdk/Samples/LuaScript/LuaInterpreter if you have C++ programming experience you shoud be able to add missing functions you require.

However, there has been no discussion about how to migrate user made modifications into the official code.