Silent Lua

silEnT servers support Lua 5.1.4 scripts. Starting from version 0.5.1 the Lua interpreter is inbuilt into the server side mod. Before the vesion 0.5.1, the Lua was installed as an external module. A separate build of the silEnT mod is supplied within the download to admins who still want to use separate Lua library. silEnT's Lua API is aiming to be fully compatible to ETPro's Lua API. The origin of the silEnT Lua API is the Lua module in ETPub version 0.9.1.

Cvars

lua_modules

Description:

List of files to be loaded by the Lua API engine. Can be separated by space, comma or semicolon. The paths are relative to the mod's directory, and can optionally be placed inside pk3 archieves. We are aiming for compatibility with ETPro's Lua Mod API found at http://wolfwiki.anime.net/index.php/Lua_Mod_API.

Type: string

Default: ""

lua_allowedModules

Description:

List of sha1 signatures for the lua modules to be loaded by the Lua API engine. Can be separated by space, comma or semicolon. Only lua modules with the matching sha1 signature listed in this cvar will be allowed to load by the Lua API engine (ACL).

Type: string

Default: ""

Commands

lua_status

Shows information about the scripts currently loaded by the Lua API server engine. This command works also from the client so that players can check what modules are currently loaded by the server.

Library Calls

Modules

RegisterModname

Description:

Registers a descriptive name for this Lua mod.

Syntax:

et.RegisterModname( modname )

• modname is a string

Support:

Function is ETPro compatible.

FindSelf

Description:

Returns a number indicating the VM slot the current mod is loaded into.

Syntax:

vmnumber = et.FindSelf()

Support:

Function is ETPro compatible.

FindMod

Description

Returns the name and the SHA-1 signature of the mod loaded in the VM slot. Returns (nil, nil) if the VM slot is not valid.

Syntax:

modname, signature = et.FindMod( vmnumber )

Support:

Function is ETPro compatible.

IPCSend

Description

Inter Process Communication. This function enables communication between different loaded Lua modules.

Syntax:

success = et.IPCSend( vmnumber, message )

• vmnumber is the number of the loaded module message is sent

• message is a string

• return value success is always 1

Support:

Function is not completely ETPro compatible. The return value in ETPub and in silEnT does not have a meaning. ETPro returns 1 for success and 0 for failure.

References

• Document was constructed using information at http://wolfwiki.anime.net/index.php/ETPro:Lua_Mod_API as well as reading the mod source.

• Official Lua http://www.lua.org/