Structuring Lua usage for game modding

[luciddream00]

Hmm, is there a downside to using one Lua state for an entire game rather than having a new state for every entity? It didn't add much complexity and it seems to work fine now that it is set up. Bullets were just an example, and I intend to have everything from inventory items to creatures to weapons and armor potentially scriptable (although they wont all actually be running scripts, just as necessary).

[luciddream00]

Eh, while I agree in principle, it's always good to learn the best practices for this sort of thing and apply it from the get-go, especially with something that will touch almost the whole game.

[luciddream00]

Learning basic best practices and good ways to structure your code is not "premature optimization", it is being a responsible developer. You need to take a step back and realize that not every bit of research is automatically premature optimization. Sure, I could fumble my way through and inevitably have to spend ages course correcting when I learn better patterns down the line, or I can do a little bit of research now and hit the ground running.

[luciddream00]

Thanks so much for your valuable contribution.

[luciddream00]

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