Lumberyard, Lua, Corona Projects Update
We have been working on serveral major projects at Burtons Media Group. We thought we would take a moment and provide an update on individual status of the projects: Amazon Lumberyard Game Development Fundamentals: Space Explorer The textbook is mostly complete with the exception of the final chapter where we cover visual scripting. We are […]
Learning Lua Scripting- Part 5 – Math and Math Library
In this Learning Lua Scripting tutorial we will examine how to use the Lua Math Library. Lua has the basic math operations that you would expect to find in a modern scripting language. ^ – exponential * – multiplication / – division % – modulus or modulo + – addition – – subtraction or unary […]
Learning Lua Scripting- Part 4: Working with Strings
In this tutorial, part 4 of our series on learning Lua scripting, we will look at some of the tools available for working with Strings in Lua. Tutorial: Concatenation in an important concept in all programming languages. In Lua, concatenation is accomplished by using two periods in a series or .. [codebox 1] There are […]
Learning Lua Scripting – Part 3: Variables
Part 3 of our tutorial series on the Lua scripting language. In this tutorial we explore the variable system in Lua. Lua uses an untyped variable declaration system. That means that you do not need to decide on what type a variable is, just declare it with the keyword local. Lua variables can store nil, […]