I am about to start work on a grid-based inventory for a gamemode I'm creating. I am fairly new to Lua but am learning quickly thanks to the Wiki. I want to have some sort of template system, where containers of similar size all draw their shape from this template, but all have their own contents.
I planned on naming each individual square using coordinates, where X is a letter and Y is a number, so container spaces would be represented like A1, B4 and so on in the code. Items would have many different shapes and sizes and players must manage their space wisely, like a puzzle.
Any ideas on how to do this? My way would be the long, hard, and inefficient way. Has it already been done?
Couldn't we just keep all of that server side? I mean, the storing of inventory contents. Since every container is an actual object that can be placed in the world at any time.
What do we actually mean when we say client- or server-side when it comes to this? Like I said, I'm new. I don't fully understand even what I'm talking about. I bet you'd laugh (if you are so inclined) if you saw the code I have written so far (for other things, haven't started containers yet).
If you are new to lua my advice would be not to start with an inventory, as what you are trying to do would take quite a bit of lua knowledge to complete.
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