environment variable

[treba]

hey everyone!

i want to ask if it's possible to set a Lua environment variable in scenarios that indicates that the scenario is played in mg or gae. this would make it much easier to make scenarios work on both engines.

[MuwuM]

I assume that would not be so easy, because you would need different xml types, a work-arround would be to set a variable to 1 in the <globals> tag of megaglest and ask in startup, wether it's set, or not.

[Omega]

I assume that would not be so easy, because you would need different xml types, a work-arround would be to set a variable to 1 in the <globals> tag of megaglest and ask in startup, wether it's set, or not.

That wouldn't work well, though, as it would only stop MG-only scenarios from playing on GAE, but not the other way around. Not sure what you mean by "you would need different xml types".

[MuwuM]

I assume that would not be so easy, because you would need different xml types, a work-arround would be to set a variable to 1 in the <globals> tag of megaglest and ask in startup, wether it's set, or not.

That wouldn't work well, though, as it would only stop MG-only scenarios from playing on GAE, but not the other way around. Not sure what you mean by "you would need different xml types".

in Globals:

Code: [Select]

megaglest = 1
in startup:

Code: [Select]

megaglest = megaglest or  0

if megaglest == 1 then
     -- do something for MG
else
     -- do something for GAE
end


[Omega]

I assume that would not be so easy, because you would need different xml types, a work-arround would be to set a variable to 1 in the <globals> tag of megaglest and ask in startup, wether it's set, or not.

That wouldn't work well, though, as it would only stop MG-only scenarios from playing on GAE, but not the other way around. Not sure what you mean by "you would need different xml types".

in Globals:

Code: [Select]

megaglest = 1
in startup:

Code: [Select]

megaglest = megaglest or  0

if megaglest == 1 then
     -- do something for MG
else
     -- do something for GAE
end


Ah, I see.