Class System for "entities"

RonanZero · Post by **RonanZero** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:03 am

My entities are just a table in another table (entst), I want entities to have a "base class" which would have methods like ent:Create() etc. then I could create subclasses, and I could set an entity's "class" in their basic table which would inherit all functions and variables from the class and it's superclasses. I tried to do this with tables and failed.

bobbyjones · Post by **bobbyjones** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 12:13 am

You know google can usually help with general questions like this. I'm sure googling "how to do classes and inheritance in lua" would return useful results

CaptainMaelstrom · Post by **CaptainMaelstrom** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 2:03 am

Yeah, check out middleclass, 30log, or any of the other oop libraries floating around. Or if you want to make one yourself, check out the PiL:

http://www.lua.org/pil/

It has a whole chapter on OOP in lua:

http://www.lua.org/pil/16.html

I~=Spam · Post by **I~=Spam** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 4:01 am

To do this you would need to use metatables.

In particular this explains set by set how to do it.

Don't worry it is not as hard as it might seem at its face.
http://lua-users.org/wiki/ObjectOrientationTutorial

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