As you know, Lua is integrated into everything now. Everything from simple pixels, to gargantuan scenes, can now have Lua.

But as for the old ways of modding.

The endless time spent to figure exploits to simulate some feature.

Will that have all been just a waste of time?

not a chance in hell. think about it.

Lua can't control any more than it did before. All those wonderful things that INI files do like assigning a material or firing a weapon are impossible with Lua. So, no. It isn't obsolete. In fact, you need INIs to tell the game which Lua file to load and what object to load it on

All that the Lua scripts can do is supplement the actors/weapons etc. that you have set up with the .inis. Modding using the .ini files is still the meat of creating things in CC, I think that Lua will open a huge amount of new coding exploits for the modding community to find through the use of .ini files and Lua scripts together.

Ini will always rock. And I can't code in Lua, so I'm ♥♥♥♥ if ini becomes obsolete.

I like to use the metaphor of a sandwich.

.ini is the filling.

Lua is the bread.

You can eat the filling without the bread, but you can't eat the bread without the filling (it'd be boring to eat. D:).

I eat the bread without the filling, not the filling without the bread

INI modding obsolete? Not while i'm alive. :U
But really, it won't get obsolete, ever. Sooner or later, people would get tired of seeing the same vanilla guns being Lua'd to death. They'll want new, shiny stuff that has been Lua'd, and that's where INI modding comes in. Or rather, is.

Let me explain this in a way similar to CC.

Lua is the arms and legs of an actor. INI files are the head and torso. The arms are non essential to the survival of the actor, but the head and torso are.

INI will never be obsolete. Sure, Lua will add some fancy stuff. But the main chunk of things will always be the INI files.

Wait, so I can't make an actor's head pop off spontaneously?
Shoot, that would've been so awesome.

Actually, it's true, you can't. And in case you're not just being sarcastic, whitty was making a metaphor

Oh, actually I wasn't. I thought he meant that literally.
But, now you've confused me. Can you make an actor's head pop off or not?

Yes, if it has an insanely high amount of health. But then it dies.

He means can I make it pop off with Lua, and the answer is no. The only part of an actor that can be controlled is its body.

Until Lua is fully documented, it is pretty useless.
Also, because the INI settings are just a bunch of switches interpeted in the game's C++ code, I imagine it is faster then Lua. I will always use as much INI as possible when I make mods.

~DtD