Spring RTS Engine

while converting one of my cob scripts to lua I ran into an issue. Where i would normally use get/set of some constants, I am wondering how I would do this with LUA. What are the LUA equivalents of GET/SET for some of the more essential cob constants such as:


PIECE_XZ 7
PIECE_Y 8
GROUND_HEIGHT 16
ARMORED 20
VETERAN_LEVEL 32
MAX_SPEED 75
CLOAKED 76
HEADING 82
CURRENT_FUEL 93

edit: found some examples

would you use all of them like this:


local cloaked = COB.CLOAKED

Spring.UnitScript.SetUnitValue( cloaked, 0 )

You shouldn't use any GET/SET functions in Lua.
Lua has its own API which is more powerful than the COB one.

The wiki will help you to find the functions you need:
http://springrts.com/wiki/Lua_Scripting

Lua doesn't have SetHeading without the use of MoveCtrl, for a start.

Spring.SetUnitRotation
( number unitID, number rotx, number roty, number rotz ) -> nil

?

I don't think that is the same thing as heading.

And yes I've read the wiki's, it just seems like not all of those translate to lua unit control.

They are there and they even have equal function names, use ctrl+f it's a pretty nice function of your browser.

And sure SetUnitRotation contains the same functionally as HEADING in COB, you just need to use the more common euler system.

Why have GetUnitHeading and not SetUnitHeading, or why have it only as part of MoveCtrl?

The functions for getting piece position/direction are also dubious at best. (direction is based on angle of v1 - v0 instead of actual rotation around origin, unless you use Spring.UnitScript.GetPiece* functions).

well if
is incorrect why is CA using it? I am just saying there is a lack of proper examples.