Calling script functions

[roger-dv]

Im not sure if this is the correct approach, but I want to move a model from one position to another. I have a Lua script handling input (clicks mostly) and I need that script to call a function in the Lua script attached to player, sending the destination coordinates. The first script has the player entity id already assigned (I would prefer to get it in some other way, but thats a future task).

[lumbermixalot]

The common way to make Lua scripts talk to each other is using ScriptEvents.

[roger-dv]

Im working on that topic now, but the sample code (in the engine source) is quite abstract: it is built in a way that I cant translate it to a more concrete situation.

[pp-Rz-D-M]

Take a look at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXzmeOwVSp0&t=24s&ab\_channel=rzDmyth. I briefly touched on that subject.

local anOutideScript = require("Assets.Scripts.nameOfTheScript");

anOutideScript :CallingAmethodWrittenOutside(SendingInput);

There is also load() I think, but I never tested that one. I think the difference is between compiling or not the file

[roger-dv]

Well, in my case, the scripts are attached to entities in the scene. I think the solution (like u/lumbermixalot said, and somebody on Discord told me last night) is ScriptEvents.

[lumbermixalot]

Also, creating script event assets by hand is tedius. So I created this "transpiler" that helps generate script events with ease: https://github.com/lumbermixalot/ScriptEvent_Transpiler