[aquaria] Updating 3rd-party mods to the lua-changes branch syntax

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:51 +0000, "Andrew Church" <achurch+aquaria at achurch.org> wrote:
> >Is there consolidated documentation anywhere on the changes required on the
> >lua scripts to run with your devel branch?
> 
> All the information you'll need should be in Aquaria/ScriptInterface.cpp,
> but the short version is:
> 
> - Add a line saying "v = getVars()" at the top of _every_ script.
> 
> - Prefix _every_ global variable reference with "v.".  (It's also okay to
>   declare variables local if they're only used within a single block.
>   The important thing is to not use global variables.)
> 
> - Declare _every_ non-interface function as local.  (Interface functions
>   are init(), update(), etc.; see interfaceFunctions[] for a full list.)
> 
> - _Never_ make function calls (math.random(), etc.) at file scope.  Since
>   Lua tables are actually references, this also means you can't declare
>   tables at file scope -- initialize them to nil and assign a table value
>   in init() instead.

Thank you.  I apologise for not replying right back.

I will try to fix some of the mods.  If I am successful, I will send in
the patches.   Aquaria seems to be doing a lot of hand-holding by itself
already if these mods with incorrect case on filenames, and the whole
\ versus / deal in path separators are even able to almost load...

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