What can this cause?

[Aquaterion]

There are certain things that most people put in their code, that if you don't put it, it still works, so I'm not sure why you would.

For example:

doing Prefab("common/inventory/ITEM", fn, assets, prefabs) instead of Prefab("ITEM", fn, assets, prefabs)

adding a list of prefabs your prefab uses at the top and calling it at the end in the same line above ^^^^.

Adding .XML and .TEX files of a prefab in the prefab's file, I once forgot to put them and it still worked fine.

 

So what I'm wondering is what not following these methods can cause, as the first 2 I don't do and everything seems to work fine.

[Muche]

Prefab class is doing some cleaning on the name, which makes those two names equivalent:

self.name = string.sub(name, string.find(name, "[^/]*$"))

 

I think If you included those assets in the modmain they would have got loaded and won't cause an error.

[Aquaterion]

so what about this?
 

local prefabs =
{
    "ash",
}

return Prefab("name", fn, assets, PREFABS)

I've done mine without doing a prefabs list and still works fine

[Mobbstar]

1 hour ago, Aquaterion said:

I've done mine without doing a prefabs list and still works fine

The prefabs list is used for child entities (as far as I am aware). e.g. torchfire

As such, it is not needed in most cases.

Edited April 10, 2016 by Mobbstar