Quick LUA question

Quick question on what's possible in the 1.1 LUA's

 

I see that in the export.lua you can input game commands- keystrokes basically. What I want to know is can you modify any game game parameters in these lua's (view, server, etc)

 

ex.

-- in the server.lua this is the regular config

-- vAngleRearMin = -8.0

 

-- could I make a conditional loop that assigns a variable to vAngleRearMin like this

vAngVar = LastvAngVar + 1

vAngleRearMin = vAngVar

 

-- so that I could have a continually increasing vAngleRearMin until I stopped the loop

 

A more detailed question would be what can be changed in export.lua and what can be changed in the other lua's. Can the other lua's access dat files and then uses the dat values to change variables like vAngleRearMin. Also will the server.lua parameter vAngleRearMin change in game? Or can ingame changes only be affected thru 'commands' ie, keypresses.

 

Thx for your time,

You can change everything in Lua files on your own risk. PLease try and see your results. Note that Lua error messages may be found in the Temp/Error.log file. Please, read excellent Programming in Lua book by Roberto Ierusalemschy (http://www.lua.org/pil/) for Lua details.

As a rule Lua files are read and executed once at the mission start. But some Lua functions may be called by the program during mission execution. Read comments and examples in Lua files, please.

Ok a more specific question, how often is the view/server.lua accessed. As well as how often the view Functions are accessed. I think these are more Lomac questions than LUA questions.

There are no common frequency. They are called on demand. But some functions may be called at every frame.