Spring RTS Engine

I want to convert some of the old cob/bos scripts of simbase to lua due to bugs in them.
But after a while i noticed it doesnt work at all, some dude on #moddev mentioned i need a special gadget for the engine to recognize lua scripts.

Now the strange thing is, in a game a made almost from scratch, the only lua i have is the flowing one: inside "/LuaRules/main.lua" and lua scripts work there.
But in simbase they just dont work, despite this file being there too and i have removed also all possible other lua files that might have caused a conflict but to no effect.

I already asked this on #moddev but i got a in a bit of stress and forgot.
But seriously whats the deal here, shouldnt this be just part of the engine?
Just whats going on?

What's simbase? link code.
"Lua scripts" is too broad, you have LuaUI (widgets), LuaRules (gadgets), and so on.

gajop wrote:What's simbase? link code.

See http://springrts.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=32118 to know whats going on, tough il have to upload all of the /LuaRules/ stuff since i changed things and im not sure if things available in that thread are the same ones as i have right now.
I dont think il manage to squeeze this in today, il see if i can tomorrow.

"Lua scripts" is too broad, you have LuaUI (widgets), LuaRules (gadgets), and so on.

Well i mean stuff in /LuaRules, but since there is LuaRules/gadgets i wasnt sure if i should have called it gadgets, but i mean all Stuff under LuaRules.

I did forgot to mention that there is no infolog error of any kind with this, it just doenst even start.

code_man wrote: Now the strange thing is, in a game a made almost from scratch, the only lua i have is the flowing one:

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VFS.Include("LuaGadgets/gadgets.lua",nil, VFS.BASE)

inside "/LuaRules/main.lua" and lua scripts work there.

You are incorrect.

LUS will not function without the unit_script gadget. <-- full stop

https://github.com/FLOZi/SpringABC/blob ... script.lua

You were right, it really was in my other game.
So i got things working now.

Tough still, why is this even needed?

Because Lua Unit Scripts are an extension of the gadget API.

It could go in LuaRules/ in base content so it was always available, but that runs counter to all other gadget code.

(Should still be done imo but what do I know)