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#1 Old 10th Apr 2020 at 4:54 AM
Default Overriding an objLua in the ObjectScripts.package ?
I'd like to redo/override one of the objLua objects found in the ObjectScripts package but there doesn't seem to be much information about doing that sort of thing in TS2 that I have been able to find.

1) Can it be done? If so, do I code my own Lua program and then what? I don't want to touch/change the original ObjectScripts.package file even if I could. Plus I haven't yet figured out how to make a Lua program into a package file, assuming that a package file could somehow override that one objLua in the ObjectScripts.package.

2) Is there a way to see exactly what the Maxis Lua script does? When viewing it in SimPE, the resource I want to override (Attraction) doesn't show its code. It shows Constants, Functions and Instructions, but not in a familiar way. If it is possible to override the Lua script, I want to ensure that I handle everything the original script does so I'd really need to see the actual code.

3) I've found a de-assembled "lst" file of the Attraction script but haven't found a viewer for that file which makes sense yet. (Any suggestions?) In another thread here, it was determined that the Attraction objLua resource could not be de-compiled, only de-assembled.

4) Is modding one (or more) of the BHAVs which call the Lua script where I need to be focusing instead? Letting the Lua script return its value(s) and then writing a whole lot of BHAV code to change values as I want them?

Has anyone actually over-ridden anything in the ObjectScripts.package before? Or is doing that just wishful thinking on my part?

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#2 Old 10th Apr 2020 at 9:48 AM
In the BHAV tutorials by AdidasSG6 there is a chapter about Lua here
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#3 Old 10th Apr 2020 at 1:57 PM
Thank you. I've been through that already. Unfortunately much of that is creating, compiling and assigning a new Lua script to an object and what I need to do is look at an existing already compiled script (where I haven't been able to find Maxis' Lua source code) and which isn't assigned to an object and over-ride it.

Plus AdidasSG6 admitted he didn't know how to run external objLua files without placing them in the ObjectScripts.package file which is why I asked here. Creating a mod which requires users to replace their ObjectScripts.package file is not a good option in my opinion since that package's contents and location changes based upon what EPs the user has installed.

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