Since I don't get this language at all, this is my code for the DSTech Gold Generator, what exactly am I doing wrong?



And does "~=" equals "!="?

should work.

edit: also, yes ~= is the lua "does not equal".

The gold doesn't seem to be incrementing in-game though, should I try switching to timer based?

yeah, almost certainly.
that one should be a lot better. while loops like that one you had would have locked the game up while they were actually running though, so they should be done away with. i cant believe i missed it before.

Hey Geti.

Stop posting.

DSMK, yes, that is what ~= is.


That really ought to work. You just weren't incrementing Addfunds, so it'd constantly set your gold to 10. Then again, you may want to change SetTeamFunds' second argument, the 0, to self.Team if this is on an actor. That'd guarantee that the actor sets his team's money and not just team 0.

But if you're not telling me what error you're getting, I can't really help any more than that.

Actually, you really don't need a while loop at all. This would be more proper--



And then when you test that out, you'd probably want to prefix Addfunds with self. as well, so you can have more than one on the field.

ohkay, with some actual testing, heres code that works. i failed at some unclosed brackets. >_<
note to all involved, it makes your money go up pretty fast.



also, he didnt need to increment addfunds because it was already using the new value grabbed from GetTeamFunds(), which had ten added onto it from last time.

Thanks, is there anyway for an object to check distance from ground via lua?

For function calls, its:
<object name>:<functioname>();
Not like:
<object name>.<functionname>();
Right?

And I don't need to declare variable types? Not only that, cc only "uses" two functions, create and update? Update is constantly used after the object is created?

yeah there is. im using it in the jump code for my zombies.
there is also a Destroy(self) function, for when an object is destroyed. and no you dont need to declare variable types, unless you are constructing a vector
on top of all that, yes function calls are made with a colon, and variable calls are made with a dot.

EDIT: better code for the first code box. i didnt realise this function existed. woot, optimisation

Wow I can't believe no one noticed the IsDead was missing capitalization and arguments.

you dont need arguments when checking true/false in lua, and a while loop would lock up the game indefinitely.

Gah, I'm trying to redo my Cannon SS... With a somewhat crazy recoil-less feature, though I can't figure it out, any help?

so far I'm trying this:

I figured it was isDead because I had to edit my post from IsDead after noticing he had isDead in his original code.

on what, the HDFirearm? wont work unless its just lying on the ground, cause they're treated as attachables when an actor is holding them and scripts are (for some reason) disabled on attachables for the moment..

if self:IsDead() == true then

You need to specify that there AREN'T arguments.

i dont see why we're still discussing this, cause the code i posted works.
however, he was checking IsDead as a variable, like self.IsDead which funnily enough is also invalid. which would explain why CC didnt lock up and then crash, as is the nature of while loops that are intended to span across separate frames. but whatever, that issue is all sorted.