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How to connect multiple services without creating direct dependencies between them?
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I use Roblox Studio for development.
In short, I'm having trouble connecting multiple services. For example, when an event is triggered in Service #1, I need Service #2 to ...
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Universal Bresenham
I've tried to make the Bresenhams's algorithm for parabola and catenary.
Is is possible to make it for the any function y = f (x), just the universal solution?
I've tried to make something naive, not ...
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Load module only if file exists or fallback to {}
local baz = require("foo.bar") or {}
I was hoping something like this would work but then I renamed bar file I got an error.
bar.lua:
local baz = {}
baz.example = true
return baz
main.lua
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FiveM: Player distance inaccurate with DrawMarker Scale
I am trying to create a circular zone in a FiveM GTA V server, but I am having issues with distance calculation between two coordinates. The values I calculate never seem to match the radius used in ...
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How to implement a 'look-behind' camera in Roblox without breaking character movement?
I'm trying to make a mechanic where a player can look behind themselves (like in Outlast) while still being able to move in the forward direction, not the direction the camera is now facing (i.e. ...
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Why does my lua table randomly lose values when iterating?
i'm writing a small utility for a roblox game. it's just server-side lua, not executor stuff. i'm filtering a list of values before using them for spawn logic. i'm trying to remove numbers lower than ...
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Cylinder created through Raycast does not face the meant direction
I've got this string of code in a global script fired from a local script which creates a straight line from the origin of the Raycast to the ending of it, essentialy tracing its trajectory accurately:...
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How does Neovim populate the runtimepath at launch?
I am trying to upgrade from Neovim version 0.10.0 to 0.12.0. However, the runtimepath is still configured for version 0.10.0. When I run lua print(vim.inspect(vim.api.nvim_list_runtime_paths())) the ...
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What is the significance of making a nested function global in Lua?
This is the Lua version of Knuth's "Man/Boy Test". I found that, to reproduce the result shown in the Wikipedia article, I had to declare the nested function "B" "local"....
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overriding conform.nvim via nvim-config-local to stop autoformatting certain files
I have forked kickstart.nvim and cloned it to my machine while also adding nvim-config-local to the require('lazy').setup(...) section of ~/.config/nvim/init.lua. Now I would like to put a .nvim.lua ...
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Luau --!strict: "Unknown type 'DataServiceServer'" when returning typed table
I’m working in Roblox using Luau with --!strict enabled.
This is a ModuleScript intended to return a typed table.
It runs on both client and server.
Here is the minimal code that causes the issue:
--!...
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I would like some advice on ways I can make this code better
I also want to know if it would even work. Im trying to make a function that whenever it runs it selects a cheese from the list and then gives it mutations. It should be able to give as many mutations ...
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xml2lua gives me multiple root nodes
I'm trying to parse an arbitrary numbers of XML documents for a Neovim plugin with xml2lua (I use a specially packed version but I can reproduce this issue with the package from luarocks too). The ...
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Function return value changing when being used on variable assignment
I've been messing with LÖVE2D framework for a project, and while I was designing a scene manager, I came up to this issue which I couldn't find information about, nor I could troubleshoot.
I have a ...
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How to spawn specific enemies and add ammo in quantity with REFramework and Lua Resident evil 4 remake
I'm building a Discord bot that controls RE4 Remake in real time via REFramework Lua scripts justo for fun for my friends and me. I have some things working but I'm stuck on two specific things.
What ...
