Lua Coroutines Tutorial

[Rick]

Will do.

[Josh]

This is the format for tutorials.

Tutorials_Editor_Lights.xml

I created the following special tags you can use in the XML:

[h2]
[h3]
[h4]
[/h2]
[/h3]
[/h4]
[script]
[/script]

Note that the <> brackets must be typed out as &#60; and &#62; or it will mess up the XML format.

[Core]

Oh, this is cool. I've toyed in my mind the idea of creating interface where text prints to screen like in Nostromo from Alien movies. This is way above my current level with lua though, but it looks like Ricks example above can be used to do exactly that!

[Thirsty Panther]

Is it possible to use coroutines to pause a game?

Aggror mentions it here

[Rick]

That comment was about waiting inside a script for a period of time. Pausing the entire game is different functionality. If you need to pause the game, not call any script functions, then you'd probably do that with not calling the world update inside main.lua which should make it so nonen of the scripts in your scene call thier update functions which should essentially pause the entire game.

Coroutines are more for sequence of events being coded sequentially vs managing the state and branching off based of the state.

[Thirsty Panther]

Thanks Rick.