prints 1, 2, like it should
However the particle that I created still has self.var as nil

Is there a workaround to this? Am I doing something wrong?

no part.Pos?

Why would that matter? It was in the original script, but has no meaning here.
Instead it would just spawn in the scene origin with this one.

because you can't read or write self variables from an external script unless they're the specific lua properties (mass, etc)

"part.var" is probably just being created as a new global variable

try putting print(part.var) somewhere else in your script (after that bit runs)

if you want a variable to act as a property of an object then you should use metatables

Guess I will go with goldcost then.

perhaps self.var need to be defined as a number

like "self.var = 0"

Please correct me if I am wrong but isn't "nil" a string value??

Obiviously self.var has been initialized.

"nil" means the variable has not been assinged any value; numeric, string, boolean or any other datatype.

Which I did. But it didn't work.

Hence this thread.

This sounds very interesting. I thought lua code could not change the metatables of userdata. Maybe you could you explain how to do this?

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaClassesWithMetatable

lmao data should just give the source to me because whatever swede he has working on it doesn't know how to implement lua for ♥♥♥♥

There's no global metatable index, p much everything has something wrong with it.

prints should not be prefixed with PRINT: that is dumb

hey. i know guys. lets just store everything as completely inaccessible static objects. there u go!!

Oh yeah, could you also use a hashed global table? Like, insert the variable into _globaltable[particlepointer] and then get whatever particle particlepointer is pointing to to grab it from _globaltable[self]? I'm not sure if this works in CC, I haven't been able to tinker in a while.