Stepmania/OpenITG lua dump

So I was kind of pointed this way for this particular subject. If needed, I'll move it but, here we go. This is the place to show off your lua files/talk about them.

Speaking of show-off...

This is a file that I've been working on for a future pack release. The stepchart seen is actually warpdr!ve's so I'm taking no credit for that. What I AM taking credit for is the god-awful lua that's going on. The file actually just got done a day ago. Lol I'm not very good at lua.

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Not hijacking the thread, but I thought it'd be cool if some people were given some lua files to download and experience the fun in them...mostly just me trying to know what is out there that I can't find because I don't know the name of those packs that have been catered to them.

I know warpdr!ve has a couple of lua files at his disposal. I'm still working on mine at the moment. Oddly enough, lua's like learning how to ride a bike... Once you learn it, you don't forget it :U

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I was thinking more along the lines of things like Windeu's or Taro's works...but I'll check that out, I guess.

Only like one other person I've seen has lua talent like WinDEU and Taro and that's Puurokulho on Youtube.

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Everyone forgets about Jayce

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Oh crap I did forget. :V How did I forget about him?

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Who is Jayce?

how can he be forgotten about his remixed Yoshi's Island stage song by Koji Kondo?

I was gonna say, the Gay4Gimmix series is a staple in Lua scripting.

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Jayce created the DivinElegy website, created the GrooveNights theme with help from Taro and WinDEU(I think), and is a lua creator. He did the Gay4Gimmix packs.

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Eh...

Any other stuff to look out for?

I see this thread is off to a dumpy start.

Here, have some random tease of UKSRT3 possibly



There will be lua

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Who is the character in the banner? Looks like a cross between Mr.TARO and Kakashi from Naruto.

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....hate to ask but, what IS lua? Is it basically just modded-to-all-hell simfiles? Or is it something completely different?

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lua on its own is a programming language.

Rudimentary lua has been around since SM3.9 for conditional background/foreground changes, see some of my simfiles (e.g. Bamboo on Bamboo).

Lua was greatly expanded upon in openITG to allow for all sorts of arcane magic like this:



and this



(this modded simfile doesn't have a .crs file with it - all the mods are done with lua, see the description)

Finally, in SM5, xml-lua was ditched entirely, replaced with an entirely lua theming/object placement system, so the lua no longer needs to be hacked into simfiles via ITG's "%function"

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Lua is a programming language that was duct taped into place in 3.95/ITG to replace the aging .ini style of user-level coding that 3.9 relied upon. It's much more interwoven an mature in StepMania 5.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)

^What he said.

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You know...it would have made sense to quote that whole thing if it was at the bottom of a page and no one would read it, but seeing as how it's still on the first page...it makes little to no logical reason to do that.