LuaUI Error Message: Failed to load LuaUI/main.lua

[Kaot]

I tried to use Lua Scripts by downloading them and extracting them into the Folder ~/.spring/LuaUI, as told in the Installation Description.

If i now start the Game, the Landscape appears and in the Console in the upper middle the following Error Message always appears:

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Failed to load LuaUI/main.lua ( LuaUI/main.lua: No such file or Directory )

If i exit the Game the follwing Line is written into the Console:

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Using LUAUI_DIRNAME = LuaUI/

which is also the wrong Path.

I tried to set the Path to the main.lua File, which is located in /usr/share/games/spring/LuaUI (Gentoo EBuild 0.74-r3), via the Environment Variable LUAUI_DIRNAME:

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LUAUI_DIRNAME=/usr/share/games/spring/LuaUI

If i now start the Game with

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LUAUI_DIRNAME=/usr/share/games/spring/LuaUI spring 

i still get the same Error and the same Console Text if i exit the Game:

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Using LUAUI_DIRNAME = LuaUI/

So the Path wasn't applied.

Where do i need to set the Variable?
I also tried to insert the Line into the ~/.springrc File, without Success.

If i do a Symlink from /usr/share/games/spring/LuaUI/main.lua to
~/.spring/LuaUI/main.lua and start the Game the main.lua is found and the next File, utils.lua, is now missing.

Do i really need to copy or symlink all the .lua Files into the private per User LuaUI Directory?

This Way it is difficult to update the ~/.spring/LuaUI Directory if i installed my own Scripts or Scripts from UnknownFiles there and a new spring Build is released.

I hope, there exists a Solution to this Workaround of mine.
Please let me know.

[Kloot]

Are you sure the scripts themselves were placed in LuaUI/Widgets/ (not sure if that matters actually)?

[Tobi]

In 0.74b3, yes.

The LUA routines bypassed the filesystem code in that release, this has been fixed in SVN, so next release it'll be possible to properly separate your own LUA files from the default LUA files.

[Kaot]

Thanks for the very fast Replies Guys!

@Kloot
Yes i kept the same Directory Structure, like in the Zip File i downloaded from UnkownFiles.

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LuaUI/Images/<Images for the Scripts>
LuaUi/Widgets/*.lua

@Tobi
I see, so i need to wait for a new Version
Everytime i play with the SVN Version i get out of sync in each Game
So i guess it's better to stay on 0.74b3.
Or is there a Possibility to make the SVN Version behave like an older Version, so that it is possible to stay in sync with the older Versions out there?

[Tobi]

No, due to the design of the code it's generally impossible to modify anything gameplay related without making it desync from the release builds as a side effect.

Just use 0.74b3 until a new version is released.