GAE/Lua
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consoleMsg( text )
Writes a message to the console. This is intended for debugging purposes, the text is not looked up in the lng file.
Parameters:
text - the text to write to the console.
scenarioDir()
Returns the scenario's path relative to the executable, useful for defining scripts in external files and including them with dofile()/loadfile().
Example:
<startup>
-- load and run 'foo.lua' which is located in this scenario's directory
local chunk, error = loadfile( scenarioDir() .. "foo.lua" )
if chunk == nil then
consoleMsg( error ); -- error
else
chunk(); -- Ok, run chunk
end
</startup>
playerName( factionIndex )
Returns the name of the player of the given index
Parameters:
factionIndex - the faction index of the player whose name you desire.
setTimer( name, type, interval, periodic )
Sets up and starts a timer, you then create 'timer' events in the XML to match the name.
Parameters:
name - a name for the timer. This is used for your callback event.
type - the type of timer, either "game" or "real", meaning measured in game time, or real time.
interval - the timer interval, number of frames for type "game", number of seconds for "real".
periodic - false if this is a 'one-shot' event, true for a repeating event.
stopTimer( name )
Stops a named timer.
Parameters:
name - the name for the timer to stop.
example:
<startup>
-- start a timer, to go off every 5 seconds of 'play' time (at normal speed)
setTimer( "boo", "game", 40*5, true )
numBoos = 0
</startup>
<timer name="boo">
showMessage( "Boo", "..." )
numBoos = numBoos + 1
if numBoos == 3 then stopTimer( "boo" ) end
</timer>
