Lua Programming Help Thread

[FaT3oYCG]

sigh, my code was perfect for what you wanted, if you set the directionFlag to 0 in my code then it stops moving, to fade in and out pictures you would have to use transparency and set the alpha value, i suggest you use pge luaplayer

[yaustar]

this is mine.i firmly know how to Move,But i want to {STOP},how to stop is the question.

Past any number for MType expect for 1-4.

Ps this code moves two fast,and how to slow it down??

Change the speed.

[hupengwei]

Past any number for MType expect for 1-4.

en,,,i dont konw what you mean,could speak some easy English???

Change the speed.

even change the speed to 1 i think it is still too fast^_^
could we slow it a little more?

[dan369]

en,,,i dont konw what you mean,could speak some easy English???


even change the speed to 1 i think it is still too fast^_^
could we slow it a little more?

Your code is hardcoded but...
Anyway, Mtype has a range from 1-4, you check if Mtype == 1-4. If Mtype isn't in the range of 1-4 then you've 'stopped' whatever you were moving. It doesn't get easier than that.
You can have it as fast/slow as you want it, use a float i.e 0.2345.

[hupengwei]

get clear of it...
another problem appears
the lua skipped the command " Message("嘿～跑得了和尚跑不了庙，你们能往 哪里逃？","LiXiaoYao","001"," 李逍遥",false)"

--┍━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┑
--│Windows XP For PSP                                      │ 
--│制作人:胡鹏伟                                           │
--│联系我：QQ:315362463   E—mail:[email protected]     │
--┕━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┙
--###########################################################
--■ 0000002.lua
-------------------------------------------------------------
--     本部分主要用于储存地图0000002的内容。（罗刹洞口）
--###########################################################
--背景图片
MapBack = Image.load("Pictures/Maps/0000002/Stage0000002.png")
--背景音乐
--可行动区域
--事件位置与内容
 event={}
 event[1]={x=1,y=1,runtype=true,move=false}
 event[2]={x=1,y=1,runtype=false,move=false}
 event[3]={x=1,y=1,runtype=false,move=false}
 event[4]={x=1,y=1,runtype=false,move=false}
function Event(num)
 if num == 1 then
  img1 = Image.load("Pictures/Maps/0000002/Event1.png")
  x=480
  y = 270
  while y>130 do
   screen:blit(0,0,MapBack)
   screen:blit(x,y,img1)
   x=x-2
   y=y-1
   screen.flip()
   screen.waitVblankStart()
  end 
  Message("嘿～跑得了和尚跑不了庙，你们能往哪里逃？","LiXiaoYao","001","李逍遥",false)
  screen:clear()
  screen:blit(0,0,MapBack)
  screen:blit(x,y,img1)
  while y>100 do
   screen:blit(0,0,MapBack)
   screen:blit(x,y,img1)
   x=x-2
   y=y-1
   screen.flip()
   screen.waitVblankStart()
  end 
 end
end

the following is the code of "message":

 --┍━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┑
--│Windows XP For PSP                                      │ 
--│制作人:胡鹏伟                                           │
--│联系我：QQ:315362463   E—mail:[email protected]     │
--┕━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┙
--###########################################################
--■ Function_Message
-------------------------------------------------------------
--     本部分主要用于显示对话框。
--###########################################################
function Message(text,person,number,name,l_side)
 SaveScreen(0,0,480,272,scr)
 Mback=Image.load("Pictures/System/Message.png")
 Mperson=Image.load("Pictures/Heads/"..person.."/"..number..".png")
 Mname=Image.load("Pictures/System/ShowName.png")
 --定位图片，定位
 local mx =1
 local my =1
 local sx =1
 local sy =1
 if l_side==1 then
  mx=0
  my=152
  sx=97
  sy=210
  nx=97
 else 
  mx=480-Mperson:width()
  my=152
  sx=10
  sy=210
  nx=264
 end
 --处理文字信息
 local lines={}
 lines[1]=string.sub(text,1,46)
 lines[2]=string.sub(text,47,92)
 lines[3]=string.sub(text,93,138)
 while true do
  if pad:circle() then
   break
  end
  screen:clear()
  screen:blit(0,0,scr)
  screen:blit(0,192,Mback)
  screen:blit(mx,my,Mperson)
  screen:blit(nx,160,Mname)
  GbkPrint(nx+30,168,name,yellow)
  GbkPrint(sx,sy,lines[1],white)
  GbkPrint(sx,sy+16,lines[2],white)
  GbkPrint(sx,sy+32,lines[3],white)
  screen.flip()
  screen.waitVblankStart()
 end  
end
function SaveScreen(left,top,width,height,scr)
    scr = scr or screen
    if scr ~= screen then
        tmp_canvas = Image.createEmpty(width,height)
        tmp_canvas:blit(0,0,scr,left,top,width,height)
    else
        screen.flip()
        tmp_canvas = Image.createEmpty(width,height)
        tmp_canvas:blit(0,0,scr,left,top,width,height)
        screen.flip()
    end
end

[hupengwei]

figured it out myself

[hupengwei]

a question :
i konw that if i input

h={}
h[x]={y=125,z=25}

then when i want to use the data 25,i could simply input

a=h[x][z]

but what should i do to get the value of x if i know that"y=125,z=25" ??

[Da_MerV]

I don't think I understand your question. Could you please rephrase that?

[hupengwei]

i want a function that can output a number x,which makes h[x].y=125,h[x].z=25.

[Nielkie]

It sounds like you're doing something retarded, but hey.

function youFail(t)
	for k, v in ipairs(t) do
		if v.y == 125 and v.z == 25 then
			return k
		end
	end
end

[FaT3oYCG]

It sounds like you're doing something retarded, but hey.

haha you just gotta love Nielkie .

[hupengwei]

problem happened again!
When i used the comand"ShowStage(4,12,9)" ,i get an message:
can't compare nil with a number
i don`t know why.
i put the following between "local dxmax=MapBack:width()/16
local dymax=MapBack:height()/16" and" if dx<dxmax+1 and dx>0 then
if dy<dymax+1 and dy>0 then".To my surprise ,dx and dy is nil???
writing codes is a really confusing thing......

 while true do
  screen:clear()
  GbkPrint(0,0,Moveable[9][11],white)
  GbkPrint(0,16,dx..dy,white)
  GbkPrint(0,32,px..py,white)
  screen.flip()
  screen.waitVblankStart()
 end

the following is the codes for ShowStage(direction,px,py )

function JudgeMove(direction,px,py)
 if dircetion==4 then
  dx=px-1
  dy=py
 end
 if direction==6 then
  dx=px+1
  dy=py
 end
 if direction==8 then
  dx=px
  dy=py-1
 end
 if direction==2 then
  dx=px
  dy=py+1
 end
 local dxmax=MapBack:width()/16
 local dymax=MapBack:height()/16
 --出界判定
  if dx<dxmax+1 and dx>0 then
    if dy<dymax+1 and dy>0 then
 --不可行动区域判定
     if Moveable[dy][dx]==1 then
 --事件阻挡判定
      if MapEvent[dx][dy]~=1 then
	   return true
        end
     end
    end
   end
end

[yaustar]

if dircetion==4 then

Your error is caused by this line. It should be really obvious why if you look carefully and consider the possible reasons for a variable to be nil.

[cmbeke]

can i put a table with in a table? ie
image = {
x = 10,
y = 20,
buffer = {x = 2, y = 3},
}

[Nielkie]

Why don't you try?

Lua code - 9 lines - codepad

[cmbeke]

im trying to figure out how the 3d functions in lua player work, so i modifyed the cube demo:

System.usbDiskModeActivate()

-- Colors
red = Color.new(255, 0, 0) 
orange = Color.new(255, 140, 0)
yellow= Color.new(255, 255, 0)
green = Color.new(0, 255, 0) 
blue = Color.new(0, 0, 255)
blue2 = Color.new(30, 144, 255)
blue3 = Color.new(16, 78, 139)
blue4 = Color.new(25, 25, 112)
purple = Color.new(153, 50, 204)
pink = Color.new(255, 110, 199)
black = Color.new(0, 0, 0)
brown = Color.new(107, 66, 38)
white = Color.new(255, 255, 255)
grey = Color.new(84, 84, 84)
light_grey = Color.new(211, 211, 211)
silver = Color.new(230, 232, 250)

-- Move Values
movX = 0
movY = 0
movZ = -10
extra = 0
-- Rotate Values
rotX = 0
rotY = 0
rotZ = 0

-- Loads Seamless Image To Tile On Cube
logo = Image.createEmpty(64, 64)
logo:clear(silver)
logo:print(5, 8, "Lua", black)
logo:print(10, 17, "3D", black)


require("System\\analog")
require("System\\cube")

while true do
pad = Controls.read()
screen:clear(white)
	analogSet(1,1)
Gu.start3d()
	-- clear screen
		Gu.clearDepth(0);
		Gu.clear(Gu.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT|Gu.DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT)
	-- setup projection and view matrices
		Gum.matrixMode(Gu.PROJECTION)
		Gum.loadIdentity()
	-- perspective length, ratio(15/8.5 is psp screen), how close to screen you can get to object before break point
		Gum.perspective(25, 15/8.5, .5, 10000)
		Gum.matrixMode(Gu.VIEW)
		Gum.loadIdentity()
	-- setup texture
		Gu.enable(Gu.BLEND)
		Gu.enable(Gu.TEXTURE_2D);
		Gu.texImage(logo)
	-- Colors/Textures Object
		Gu.texFunc(Gu.TFX_MODULATE, Gu.TCC_RGBA)
	-- Makes Smooth
		Gu.texEnvColor(white)
		Gu.texFilter(Gu.LINEAR, Gu.LINEAR)
	-- Scale of Texture, large number small texture is, slower fps
		Gu.texScale(.25, .25)
	-- setup matrix for cube
		Gum.matrixMode(Gu.MODEL)
		Gum.loadIdentity()
		Gum.translate(movX, movY, movZ)
		Gum.rotateXYZ(rotX, rotY, rotZ)
	-- draw cube
		Gum.drawArray(Gu.TRIANGLES, Gu.TEXTURE_32BITF|Gu.COLOR_8888|Gu.VERTEX_32BITF|Gu.TRANSFORM_3D, cube[0])
Gu.end3d()
	
	if pad:start() then
		break
	end

	screen.waitVblankStart()
	screen.flip()
end

i want to make a line of cubes so i have the for i=0,3 do thing. I want it so whatever i is you add/subtract it to the x of the cube:

for i=0,3 do 
cube[i] = {
-- Each 3 part section create a triagnle
	-- unknown,unknown, color, x, y, z
	{0, 0, red, -1+i, -1,  1},  -- 0
	{2, 0, red, -1+i,  1,  1},  -- 4
	{2, 2, red,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 5

	{0, 0, red, -1+i, -1,  1},  -- 0
	{2, 2, red,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 5
	{0, 2, red,  1+i, -1,  1},  -- 1

	{0, 0, orange, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 3
	{2, 0, orange,  1+i, -1, -1},  -- 2
	{2, 2, orange,  1+i,  1, -1},  -- 6

	{0, 0, orange, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 3
	{2, 2, orange,  1+i,  1, -1},  -- 6
	{0, 2, orange, -1+i,  1, -1},  -- 7

	{0, 0, yellow,  1+i, -1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 0, yellow,  1+i, -1,  1},  -- 3
	{2, 2, yellow,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 7

	{0, 0, yellow,  1+i, -1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 2, yellow,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 7
	{0, 2, yellow,  1+i,  1, -1},  -- 4

	{0, 0, green, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 0, green, -1+i,  1, -1},  -- 3
	{2, 2, green, -1+i,  1,  1},  -- 7

	{0, 0, green, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 2, green, -1+i,  1,  1},  -- 7
	{0, 2, green, -1+i, -1,  1},  -- 4

	{0, 0, blue, -1+i,  1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 0, blue,  1+i,  1, -1},  -- 1
	{2, 2, blue,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 2

	{0, 0, blue, -1+i,  1, -1},  -- 0
	{2, 2, blue,  1+i,  1,  1},  -- 2
	{0, 2, blue, -1+i,  1,  1},  -- 3

	{0, 0, purple, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 4
	{2, 0, purple, -1+i, -1,  1},  -- 7
	{2, 2, purple,  1+i, -1,  1},  -- 6

	{0, 0, purple, -1+i, -1, -1},  -- 4
	{2, 2, purple,  1+i, -1,  1},  -- 6
	{0, 2, purple,  1+i, -1, -1},  -- 5
}
end

there is no error code, is there anything that i am doing wrong

[cmbeke]

what i meam by no error code is that all i get is

Error: No script file found
press start to restart

[yaustar]

what i meam by no error code is that all i get is

Error: No script file found
press start to restart

That's your error. LuaPlayer can't find the script file.

[manaxed]

Hey guys, I need some help..

i need to figure out how to download files from a URL Using lua Player, Is there any function of that sort in LuaPlayer?

-Manaxed

[FaT3oYCG]

which version by which author?

PGE has a pge.net.getfile() function

[manaxed]

Hey guys what's wrong with this code?

myfile = pge.file.open(”info.txt”, PGE_FILE_RDONLY)

i get error message unexpected symbol near 'Ö'.

The rest of my program is...

Spoiler for OPEN:

verdana16 = pge.font.load("verdana.tt f", 16, PGE_RAM)


if not verdana16 then
error("Failed to load font.")
end


if not pge.net.init() then
error("Error on net init.")
end


if not pge.utils.netinit() then
error("Error on net dialog init.")
end


white = pge.gfx.createcolor(255, 255, 255)




while pge.running() do



pge.gfx.startdrawing()


pge.gfx.clearscreen()

verdana16:activate()

if pge.net.isconnected() then
verdana16rintcenter(130, white, "UPDATING INFORMATION...")
else
verdana16rintcenter(130, white, "ERROR.. YOU ARE NOT CONNECTED TO WLAN.")
end

pge.gfx.enddrawing()


pge.gfx.swapbuffers()

if pge.net.isconnected() then


pge.net.getfile("http://manaxed.freehostia.com/info.txt", "info.txt")


pge.net.shutdown()


pge.gfx.startdrawing()


pge.gfx.clearscreen()


verdana16:activate()


verdana16rintcenter(130, white, "Finished UPDATING!")


pge.gfx.enddrawing()


pge.gfx.swapbuffers()
string = " "
i=130
while pge.running() do
while string~=null do

myfile = pge.file.open(”info.txt”, PGE_FILE_RDONLY)
name = pge.file.read(myfile, 15)
fid = pge.file.read(myfile, 5)
pge.gfx.startdrawing()
pge.gfx.clearscreen()
verdana16rintcenter(i, white, name)
i=i+10
pge.gfx.enddrawing()
pge.gfx.swapbuffers()
end
end
while pge.running() do
pge.controls.update()
if pge.controls.pressed(PGE_ CTRL_START) then
if pge.net.isconnected() then
pge.net.getfile("http://dl.qj.net/dl.php?fid="..fid, name..".zip")
else
break
end
end

-Manaxed.

[dan369]

Try:
myfile = pge.file.open(”info.txt”, PGE_FILE_RDONLY+PGE_FILE_ CREATE)

[yaustar]

Probably something wrong with the speech marks. ” is not the same as ".

[manaxed]

na i got it to work had to retype but now im havin a hard time reading from a text file...
-manaxed

[Ollin]

Can somebody tell me how to write something into a file by using SystemOSK?
I tried this:

nickname = System.startOSK("","Enter your name")
name = io.open("name.txt","w")
name:write(nickname)
name:close()

but it does not write...

[Creator]

How do I copy a file then paste it in another directory?

[cmbeke]

try this, it "fakes" copying a file

-- Sets locations of oringial file and place to copy it
orignialFile = "ms0:/psp/common/file.txt"
copyFile = "ms0:/psp/game/luaplayer/file.txt"

-- Opens files to read and write
file = io.open(oringinalFile,"r")
copy = io.open(copyFile,"w")

-- writes entire "oringinal file" to the new copy
copy:write(file)

-- Closes the files
file:close()
copy:close()

-- removes the oringial file (optional)
os.remove(orignialFile)

[Nil3E]

Please help me...

here IS LINK:
I need a help ! (LUA code sample)

I really need this...its urgent for my next project
i need it until 25-12-2009

Plss,I donate 10-15 dollars for help..thanks !

[Creek]

I apologize for asking something nooby in advance. >_<


Alright, so i'm working on an rts, however, i have no idea how to make the cursor move.
I've been looking through some peoples code, and have not been able to find a way to get this done

This is what i have so far. (-.-), also, how would i go about making the cursor go faster the farther you push along the analog pad?

if pge.controls.analogx() < -50 then

end

if pge.controls.analogx() > 50 then

end

if pge.controls.analogy() < -50 then


end
if pge.controls.analogy() > 50 then


end

[slicer4ever]

I apologize for asking something nooby in advance. >_<


Alright, so i'm working on an rts, however, i have no idea how to make the cursor move.
I've been looking through some peoples code, and have not been able to find a way to get this done

This is what i have so far. (-.-), also, how would i go about making the cursor go faster the farther you push along the analog pad?

if pge.controls.analogx() < -50 then

end

if pge.controls.analogx() > 50 then

end

if pge.controls.analogy() < -50 then


end
if pge.controls.analogy() > 50 then


end

it's simply variable adding and subtracting, if u want to go left, subtract the mouse's x value