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I'm considering using Lua for mod support in a game being written in Unity. There are several available options for communication between C# and Lua, and some appear to not work on many/all Mono platforms. I was wondering before I start installing this (And all the other options I'm trying out) if anyone else has tried it in Unity themselves, and on which platforms.

Hi,

after two years of testing, I had to say, that Eluant works very, very stable. Good job and thank you for sharing it with the community 👍

Now I have the problem, that strings in Lua and strings in C# are different and so there could be problems while converting them from Lua to C#. It would be helpfull, if we could retrive strings as byte arrays.

I encountered the problem, that strings, which are a byte array in Lua could not transfered to C#, saved, loaded again and transfered to Lua. The transfer to Lua doesn't work. The string is created in Lua:

kk = { 252, 255 }  -- 0xFC, 0xFF
k = ""
for i = 1, 2 do
  local x = ""
  x = string.char(kk[i])
  k = k .. x
end

This is a valid string in Lua, which I want to transfer to C# (to save/load it later). But if I now try to bring this string back to Lua, I get problems. The string isn't the same in Lua as before. Perhaps it has something to do with the problem in this thread: http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2006-March/017493.html.

So it would be nice to get/set a string in Lua by a byte array (ToArray, FromArray) instead of a string, so that no conversions take place.

Best regards,
Dirk

Is it possible to handle .NET events in Lua script?

I'm considering using Lua as a modding tool for a game I'm developing. However I don't want to allow mods access to the hard drive, network, etc....

Basically I want to allow everything in Lua, save things that worry me such as file/network access. Access control would be even better, where mods could request network access from the user on installation/configuration, but not required.

Additionally I want to only allow Lua access to C# functions that I manually add.