I've been focusing on BZ1 user-generated missions lately, and got Instant Action, Deathmatch MP, and Strategy MP running Lua mission scripts over the weekend. I put together a (very) limited MPI scenario with a Soviet Tank and Recycler on Z Snowed In, which is how I discovered that the AIP is useful but not self-sufficient. BZ1 only supports a ( Read more... )

Now that Battlezone is onboard the Lua 5.1 train, I have more options when it comes to Lua implementations. LuaJIT is a particularly attractive choice based on performance, running several times faster than the stock Lua implementation in interpreted mode and dozens to over a hundred times faster in just-in-time compiled mode. The downside is ( Read more... )

Decoda doesn't work with Lua 5.2 yet, which is what I was using. It worked perfectly when I switched over to Lua 5.1.5. Working development tools will be much more useful to mission scripters than cutting-edge language features so I committed the change.

The Battlezone Lua scripting system now supports Save and Load so mission scripts can preserve state across a game save.

That lua-marshal library didn't work out the way I had hoped so I wrote my own simple functions to serialize and deserialize common Lua values. They support nil, booleans, numbers, strings, and tables but duplicate shared ( Read more... )

Building upon Tug's earlier work, I added Lua mission scripting to Battlezone as an alternative to the standard Instant Action mission. It supports every script function that the original designers had at their disposal, some new ones that I back-ported from Battlezone 2 (set object team, get and set team alliances, get and set health, get and set ( Read more... )