I suppose the alternative is to combine all of the Lua files and have huge if statements all the way through. That would be an entertaining read.

It would also be about as efficient as a car running on condensed hamburger meat, so I would suggest against it

No-no, I respect that your way is better. I'm going to have to work out the exact properties of a dofile, though.

Dofile does exactly what you'd think. It runs the script in a file. So, let's say you have a file called "FileA.lua":

And let's say "FileB.lua" contains this:

If you call the "foo()" function, it prints "Hello world". However, if you call "bar()", the "foo()" function is overwritten, and then it prints "Function overwritten".
Hopefully that helps a bit.

I think you meant FileB.lua to have a print rather than a dofile, but otherwise that makes perfect sense.

Oops, yeah, my bad. I fixed that in the last post.

Presumably I enter the entire ScriptPath in dofile.

That was actually what I was suggesting in the first place(except with function calls in the ifs instead of the code), but dofile does work alot better now that I remember it.
EDIT:
And yes, you put the path from the main CC dir.

How do I control the scene a script is going to start in?

Check SceneMan.Scene.PresetName.

Well, it's being run through:


How can I choose beforehand which scene to run?

Put the check I described in the StartActivity function for the mission script.

No, in Unmapped Lands when the mission is begun from the strategy screen, using the above code, I need to pre-emptively choose a scene.

Exactly.
All of your activities should be exactly the same, but with a different scene and a different name. They should all point to one master script.
In that script, the StartActivity function checks what the current scene is and calls dofile on the actual script file.
That should be all you have to change.

Except I'm trying to go from one activity to another, but I can't force it to go to a different scene.