Lua question

[esajesa]

Hi,

is it possible (and if so how) in NR lua to directly use variables without going through the old NetRemote.GetVariable([variable]) function, eg:

if ZP.PlayState == "Play" then.....

instead of

if (NetRemote.GetVariable("ZP.PlayState") == "Play") then....


Cheers,
Jens

[Promixis]

Jens,

I am not sure Ben has done this?

If not, it would be easy to modify the metatable of _G to automatically lookup variables that already did not exist in the global name space of lua.

Ben thoughts?

[danward79]

I think this is in Ben's plan for the future.

[esajesa]

Yeah, I hope this will be implemented, makes for much less code as well as it should run quicker due to less function calls..

[Ben S]

This is on the list for a future version, but not sure (definitely not the next release(s), but soon after, perhaps).

[Promixis]

This is on the list for a future version, but not sure (definitely not the next release(s), but soon after, perhaps).

Ben, why not implement this as i mentioned above?

[Ben S]

A user can do that (the metatable of _G), but I'd like to make the integration tighter, or take a deeper look to see how this would impact performance, etc. given that NetRemote only knows about strings, not about other things (like tables, etc) before rolling this into "NetRemote proper".