I was reading on another forum that HOI3 will never be fixed because of this:
Is this true? What can we do to fix this?
Is this true? What can we do to fix this?
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The post contains subjective judgments that cannot be verified as "truth" or "lies." The user community is free to discuss the merits and disadvantages of various implementations and pass its own subjective judgment on the way HOI3 was developed, but you will not get anyone say this is "truth."
More importantly, the tone here is pretty inflammatory and runs the risk of being flamed/closed. A better thread title would have been something like, "So was using LUA a good idea?"
More importantly, the tone here is pretty inflammatory and runs the risk of being flamed/closed. A better thread title would have been something like, "So was using LUA a good idea?"
I dont know but anyway who is he who knows so mutch about coding or scripting? Is he a developer? Anyway i like the game even its broken or not, enough with the negative coments, why dont you wright about one of its good points?
Lua however is only one of the many tools available.
All the remaining data, events, decisions, pictures and other stuff is in plain good old txt or fast picture formats.
So even if that post would be true, It's pretty much only AI and really advanced stuff that remain in the hands of Paradox to fix through exe modifications.
So not much change at all to other paradox games not using Lua in other words.
If lua however is not as slow as the post suggests, then it does open a world of possibilities for AI modding. I guess your best bet is talking with the guys actually involved in modding HoI3 AI with LUA scripts.
All the remaining data, events, decisions, pictures and other stuff is in plain good old txt or fast picture formats.
So even if that post would be true, It's pretty much only AI and really advanced stuff that remain in the hands of Paradox to fix through exe modifications.
So not much change at all to other paradox games not using Lua in other words.
If lua however is not as slow as the post suggests, then it does open a world of possibilities for AI modding. I guess your best bet is talking with the guys actually involved in modding HoI3 AI with LUA scripts.
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Complete bollocks from some random idiot on the internet.
"there's no way it can crunch the numbers in a world war II game that has it doing 10,000 provinces of weather, troops, terrain, units"
LUA is not used for any of those.
"there's no way it can crunch the numbers in a world war II game that has it doing 10,000 provinces of weather, troops, terrain, units"
LUA is not used for any of those.
I thought so. I have already some experience with LUA from another game and believe me, LUA was not a feature which consumed the most of the computing processes...
99.9% of stuff on random forums is in fact useless tbh.
Personally I wouldn't believe anything like that unless it came from a Game Programmer.
Personally I wouldn't believe anything like that unless it came from a Game Programmer.
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If what you saying is 100% true then 99.9% of stuff in the internet is useless, because every forum is random for someone. That includes 99.9% of the stuff being said here.
Personally i agree with you. I'm just correcting you
99.9% of everything human made is useless, its just that people don't understand it , or look it from another perspective and can't see the truth.
And usually when this 0.1% shows up and says something, two possibilities arise
1. 99.9% kills 0.1%
2. 99.9% listens to 0.1% (has happened few times in history and most of them lead to possibility 1)
If you truly understand what i'm saying, you'll realize that 99.9% of the stuff i'm saying are useless.
Yet there ALWAYS is a 0.1% everywhere. You just need to find it
If what you saying is 100% true then 99.9% of stuff in the internet is useless, because every forum is random for someone. That includes 99.9% of the stuff being said here.
Personally i agree with you. I'm just correcting you
99.9% of everything human made is useless, its just that people don't understand it , or look it from another perspective and can't see the truth.
And usually when this 0.1% shows up and says something, two possibilities arise
1. 99.9% kills 0.1%
2. 99.9% listens to 0.1% (has happened few times in history and most of them lead to possibility 1)
If you truly understand what i'm saying, you'll realize that 99.9% of the stuff i'm saying are useless.
Yet there ALWAYS is a 0.1% everywhere. You just need to find it
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The vast expand of hoi3 have worried some as...les, so they are trying to hit it with sneaky attacks.
TO ALL
If what you saying is 100% true then 99.9% of stuff in the internet is useless, because every forum is random for someone. That includes 99.9% of the stuff being said here.
Personally i agree with you. I'm just correcting you
99.9% of everything human made is useless, its just that people don't understand it , or look it from another perspective and can't see the truth.
And usually when this 0.1% shows up and says something, two possibilities arise
1. 99.9% kills 0.1%
2. 99.9% listens to 0.1% (has happened few times in history and most of them lead to possibility 1)
If you truly understand what i'm saying, you'll realize that 99.9% of the stuff i'm saying are useless.
Yet there ALWAYS is a 0.1% everywhere. You just need to find it
You must be drunk, mad, crazy or correct.
So, er, what DOES LUA do?
It's a programming language, and used for AI scripts in hoi3.
The strange quote in the opening post - seems rather uninformed. "There are a few tricks I know"? trying to look smart there.
I crave further enlightenment. Is it a special variant of C++? Why has Paradox adopted it in this game? Why are there designated "LUA" files in the gamer folder, apparently replacing the txt files of earlier editions?
Just think of me as an annoying 3-year-old. . . .
I crave further enlightenment. Is it a special variant of C++? Why has Paradox adopted it in this game? Why are there designated "LUA" files in the gamer folder, apparently replacing the txt files of earlier editions?
Just think of me as an annoying 3-year-old. . . .
It is a scripting language. I can't tell you why Paradox decided to use it, ask them. And .lua files are lua script files. Kinda self-explanatory don't you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)
I crave further enlightenment. Is it a special variant of C++? Why has Paradox adopted it in this game? Why are there designated "LUA" files in the gamer folder, apparently replacing the txt files of earlier editions?
Just think of me as an annoying 3-year-old. . . .
As far as I understand it Lua is a language that acts as a kind of bridge between moddable files (such as AI files) and the game engine. The Paradox team embed Lua in their code and create functions to allow access to certain elements of the game that can therefore be examined or set by Lua commands. So things like complex AI decisions do not have to be hard coded and compiled into the exe, they can be created in a Lua script which allows for quick modification and easy, yet extensive modding.
It is also a pretty forgiving language and has lots of nice features that make it an attractive scripting language to use in game.