Learn Lua Basics in 15 to 60 Minutes

[tyremendi]

As you know Lua is used as the scripting language for extending functionality of the game, allowing us to do such things as creating mods.

 

I thought it would be helpful to share some resources as a starting point.

 
Here is a nice one-page tutorial that goes over very basics of the language:

    http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/
French and Russian translations also available.

 

There is also a one-hour video tutorial covering the basics:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eNl1rA1Ns

 

Transcript of the video with topics:

    https://tylerneylon.github.io/video-scripts/

 

Lua is an easy, powerful, flexible, fast and enjoyable language with many uses, including scripting video games and game engines. So if you learn and improve, you might find further uses besides modding DST.

 
I hope it helps.