Hints on writing Lua code for mods

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Hints on writing Lua code for mods

Postby EntropyWins » 17 Dec 2016, 21:01

Recently I cleaned up the Final Rush 4 survival map. It's Lua code was totally horrible, like apparently most mod and map code around FA. I've written a short blog post on this topic, which can help you write Object Orientated Lua code:

https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2016/1 ... -lua-code/
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Re: Hints on writing Lua code for mods

Postby Brutus5000 » 17 Dec 2016, 21:38

Ahh the sweet smell of good refactoring. This really warms my developer-heart.
It would be awesome if you could write a wiki-article giving some advice to new developers (http://wiki.faforever.com). I'm not sure whether people will find your article in a year or so.
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