Ill have to get back to you about randomseed (hint, do a search), but I cn certainyl tell you about the brackets.

Its known as parameter passing. Say you declare a variable in your main procedure, and then you want to do stuff to it, well, thats what parameter passing is, sorta.
Ill give you the easiest example. Don't say that its just convoluted code, it's an example!!!


function multiply(a,b)
x = a*b
end

while true do
multiply(8,2)
screenrint(0,0,x,black)
end

the output on the screen would be 16, get it?
it assigns the variables of the function by passing the parameters over.
Hope this helps.

yea kinda'f but still i really need to know wut mth.randomseed() is
and wut dose the # between the bracets do for it
btw, wuts the diffrence between a local and and the function for example:
function input()
local player = 2
pad = Controls.read()
end
so wuts the diffrence between the local and the pad = Controls.read()
we could've jus put
function input()
local pad = Controls.read()
end
dosent that work?

Read this it explains how the function works

http://www.indigorose.com/webhelp/vp...d_Examples.htm

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a local variable is one thats only in scope in one part of a program.

And randomseed thingy seeds the ran# generator.

hi,
randomseed is required for AI and im coding an enemy.
So i would like an explanation of this chunk of codes:

math.randomseed(os.time() )
time = os.time()
dateString = os.date("%c", time)

I was reading a script and I found this code ( the script has AI).
And from before i heard that AI requirs randoomseed etc.
I understand the first line but these lines seem to be very complex to me
so please i need an explanation of these codes

time = os.time()
dateString = os.date("%c", time)

thank u all in advance

wow. this is like a new language for me... .... ill bet its hard

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never mind about my prev question
i have another question but now it not definitions
the only probelm with my game is that it getting very messy cuz all of my codes are in one script
and if i want to put them in seperate scripts i have to use the dofile command its gonna immediatly excute the code and the code is not ment to be excuted it just some arrays so i heard about the io.open() but that only reads one line so is it possible to use the io.open() to read the whole file with out excuting the code ?
thnx in advance

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ye, you create a lua file of all the little functions you want to do, for example drawing the different mode screen's outputs, then dofile on it in index.lua. Nothing will appear to change, but you will then be able to call the functions you declared in your other lua script. Not difficult, but its a bad explanation!!!

EG: in one lua file, perhaps called functions.lua:

function menu(
screenrint(x,y,option,color@new(255,255,255)
end

then in index.lua

dofile ("./functions.lua")
while not pad:start()
menu()
end

Obviously not a working lua script, but its pseudocode that outlines how it works.

Actually, though I have no programming experience in any language, Lua and Python are probably the two easiest languages you could find.

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