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Day 1 of learning Lua / Metascript

So, one of my coworkers is teaching me to script in Metaplace, using Metascript - a sandboxed version of Lua. Whee!

He explained everything beautifully and my “homework” was just to make a hello world script, which I did - however, I forgot one thing: to run a command, you have to attach the script to your player template. Oops! I spent a few minutes staring at the tiny little script I had written before my deskmate noticed my error. Silly me. It worked like a dream.

In case you are wondering, here’s what Hello World looks like in Metascript. It’ll only show up in the debug menu for now, but it’s a start!

Define Commands()
MakeCommand(“hello_world”, “this is a hello world script”)
end

Command hello_world()
Debug(“Hello, world!”)
end

Now on to my other “homework” - getting comfy with data types (Just working with Numbers, Strings, and Nil for now), and variables - and if I am feeling particularly saucy I might do some simple math. :)

Posted 2 years ago

Day 1 of learning Lua / Metascript

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