Lua Procedural API Example

[Josh]

Autocomplete / code suggestions would work with the functions shown here. What do you think?

--Get the displays
local displays = GetDisplays()

-- Create a window
local window = CreateWindow("Leadwerks", 0, 0, 1280, 720, displays[1], WINDOW_CENTER | WINDOW_TITLEBAR)

-- Create a world
local world = CreateWorld()

-- Create a framebuffer
local framebuffer = CreateFramebuffer(window)

-- Create a camera
local camera = CreateCamera(world)
SetCameraClearColor(camera, 0.125)
SetEntityPosition(camera, 0, 0, -4)

-- Create a light
local light = CreateBoxLight(world)
SetEntityRotation(light, 45, 35, 0)
SetLightRange(light, -10, 10)
SetEntityColor(light, 2)

-- Create a model
local model = CreateBox(world)
SetEntityColor(model, 0, 0, 1)

-- Main loop
while not WindowClosed(window) and not KeyDown(window, KEY_ESCAPE) do
    TurnEntity(model, 0, 1, 0)
    UpdateWorld(world)
    RenderWorld(world, framebuffer)
end

 

[Dreikblack]

I'm not quite understand what is this exactly. Half of there function does not exists.

[Josh]

Just now, Dreikblack said:

I'm not quite understand what is this exactly. Half of there function does not exists.

What if they did exist?

[Dreikblack]

Why? I thought i you don't like having few ways to do same thing. Anyway what exactly this topic about?

[Josh]

With the procedural API, people can start typing SetEntity... and see all the options appear in autocomplete. With the OO API, people have to have the methods they can use memorized. Autocomplete will never work with Lua OO methods because Lua is dynamically typed.

[WazMeister]

Reads pretty cool to me, quite enjoy the commands used here

 

[Josh]

Well, the comments are the same in every example in the docs.

[Josh]

The example above will now work with the current build on the Steam beta branch.

[Josh]

I decided not to go down this route, and added support for a Lua LSP instead, for autocompletion.