LUA Snippets/Help Section

[Slasher]

So, your new to programming and what to get a good grip on what it's all about? LUA is the perfect coding language for you. It's aimed at 'new' developers and is quite easy to learn. It's like a stepping stone towards some of the more difficult languages such as C/C++.

You can pick up a copy of Luaplayer over at pspupdate. Luaplayer is basically an interpreter and it will run your code for you.

Also, check out these great tutorials courtesy of Whitehawk, Shine/Lumo, and our very own C5cha7!

Whitehawk -
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Shine/Lumo -
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C5cha7 -
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I'll be posting various snippets and things to help you out later.

[Ace High]

If you want to make your Lua app launch from the memory stick menu under game then you:

1. Create one or two folders (depending on what version you have) under PSP\Game directory. Name them whatever you want it doesn't matter except if you use 1.5 then add a % on the end of the second folder.

2. Copy the eboot from the luaplayer folder into your new folder.

3. Copy all your lua files to the same folder as the eboot.

4. rename your Index.lua file to script.lua (make sure it doesn't screw up anything in the code by renaming the file)

Now your game will launch from the menu but launch screen will look like the luaplayer one. To fix this one you down load a eboot editor program. I use PSPbrew. you can find it online, google it. I'll upload it in awhile. with this program you can change the background of the eboot, the icon, and the music that plays in the background (atrac3) you can also have an animation play but I haven't figured out how to use a custom one.

note: with the eboot editor the pictures have to be the right dimensions and they have to have the right file name.

voila, custom eboot for your app!

[c5cha7]

Neat Idea Slasher !
Atleast your involving PSPCrazy more into
development !
I will contribute soon so i will edit this post .
I might create a Lua Tutoiral for begginers cause
pspcrazy doesn't have one yet !

Unless you beat me to it .

[Ace High]

edit update

[TexasKing]

will this stuff work wit tha gta loader

[Slasher]

Originally Posted by TexasKing

will this stuff work wit tha gta loader

Yes, luaplayer works with it.

[dan_barney]

Originally Posted by TexasKing

will this stuff work wit tha gta loader

Yes, but the newer versions of Lua Player don't seem to work on higher firmwares.

[Slasher]

Originally Posted by dan_barney

Yes, but the newer versions of Lua Player don't seem to work on higher firmwares.

I'm pretty sure 2.0+ users must use luaplayer version 0.14, or if not that version, than it's version 0.16.

[Luc1d]

hi,
im pretty new to this thing of coding and i need alittle bit help...
well what does this comand do and what will happen if i change it:
x = math.sin(pi * 2 / 360 * time) * 150 + 192.5
and this one please
pi = math.atan(1) * 4

[Nardok]

Can you explain me what is an homebrew coder.
I know that is a stupid question but please telll me!