Some lua startscript questions

[Bogey Jammer]

Hi all

I'm new in the Spring community and started to make my own scripts to help my relative poor skill in RTS playing.

I've already created a template "mission" for training and testing purpose, with a startscript. But I have some questions to finalize my project:

1. How to assign a color to each team when the mission starts? Currently, team 0 is blue and team 1 is red; I would like to change that.
2. Is it possible to add text commands for use in game? I found this in a lua example file:

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   function MissionTest:__init() super('LUA ordertroops')
       self.state = 0
   
       self.commands = {}
       self.commands[".help"] = self.Help
   end
   
   function MissionTest:Help(param)
           print("Request troops to attack you by saying for example '.send 5 arm_stumpy' or '.send 4 core_instigators'")
   end
   

   But it doesn't seem to work, I suspect this method is obsolete..
3. Spring crashes when I include the code to insert an AI showed in the wiki tutorial (I point the correct AI dll btw). Is this method still valid? or am I just doing wrong?

That's all for now, I'll probably ask more questions later. Scripting is exciting

[Bogey Jammer]

I answer the question 3 myself, I just discovered that a function instanciation with () at the end of the function's name always executes the function's code... what a noob mistake I made
So the AI was loaded at mission startup, I can now activate it when I want during the game, but it Spring crashes or AI does nothing depending of the AI engine... I need to more investigate.

[Satirik]

the startscript should be removed soon so use LuaRules to make your missions

LuaRules inside a Mutator file