Need Help With Starting Lua

[Pants Magee]

Alright. As you can tell by the title I'm not being so successful. I looked at the [URL]http://www.guilddnr.net/dunescape/temp.txt[/URL] guide which looked pretty straight forward and such, but I have been having some problems. Here it is:

It tells me to open up "Notepad" and to write out:

Msg("Hello World!")

I do this. And I save my file to the: STEAM>STEAMAPPS>"MYUSERNAME">GARRYSMOD>GARRYSMOD>LUA folder.

When I open up Garrys Mod and type:

"lua_openscript helloworld.lua"

it says:

Couldn't include file 'helloworld.lua' (File not found)

Please help!

[Crazy Quebec]

Are you sure you have saved the file as a .lua? Make sure your operating system allows you to see the file extensions.

Also I recommend you get both Notepad ++ and luapad to help you test code.

[Pants Magee]

Okay I think this is where I might be going wrong.

I look at my " " " Garrysmod>Lua> and I see two things at the bottom"

One is a LUA file and the other is a text document.

My "Hello World!" is the text document... is it supposed to be like that?

[Aptann]

As Crazy Quebec said, you need to save it as a .lua file. You've managed to save it as a .txt file because viewing extensions isn't turned on.
Here's how you enable viewing file extensions:
[url=http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1269/vista_show_unhide_file_extensions/]If you're using Vista[/url]

[url=http://malektips.com/windows-7-view-file-extensions.html]Or this if you're using Windows 7[/url]

[url=http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Hidden-File-Extensions-in-Windows-XP]Or if you'd by any chance be using Windows XP[/url]

[Pants Magee]

[QUOTE=TechedRonan;22139461]As Crazy Quebec said, you need to save it as a .lua file. You've managed to save it as a .txt file because viewing extensions isn't turned on.
Here's how you enable viewing file extensions:
[URL="http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1269/vista_show_unhide_file_extensions/"]If you're using Vista[/URL]

[URL="http://malektips.com/windows-7-view-file-extensions.html"]Or this if you're using Windows 7[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Hidden-File-Extensions-in-Windows-XP"]Or if you'd by any chance be using Windows XP[/URL][/QUOTE]

Okay great! Thanks!

[Pants Magee]

Okay so the file is now turned into a lua file. But when I try and:

[B]lua_openscript helloworld.lua[/B]

It says this:

[B]Running script helloworld.lua...
helloworld.lua:1: unexpected symbol near '['[/B]

When I wrote the script in notepad this is exactly what I put.

[B][*lua][/B]
[B]Msg("Hello World!")[/B]
[B][*/lua][/B]

Just without the "[B]*[/B]" before the [B]"Lua".[/B]

[B]

[/B]

[MakeR]

You shouldn't wrap the code in Lua tags. Remove the [noparse][lua][/lua][/noparse].

[Lily]

Your not supposed to have lua tags around your lua code in that way...

[editline]09:16PM[/editline]

:ninja:

[Kogitsune]

You don't put the [noparse][lua][/lua][/noparse] tags inside the script.

:ninja::ninja:

[Pants Magee]

So do I just type:

[B]Msg("Hello World!")[/B] ?

[Lily]

Yes

[MakeR]

[QUOTE=Pants Magee;22149322]So do I just type:

[B]Msg("Hello World!")[/B] ?[/QUOTE]

Yes.

[editline]08:22PM[/editline]

:ninja: retaliation.

[Pants Magee]

Alright thanks guys. : )

And it works!! Thanks alot guys.

[HeavyMtl123]

If you're wanting to create Lua files easily, try downloading Notepad++ and downloading the Gmod Lua Lexer plugin from the built-in Plugin Manager

[Pants Magee]

[QUOTE=HeavyMtl123;22149383]If you're wanting to create Lua files easily, try downloading Notepad++ and downloading the Gmod Lua Lexer plugin from the built-in Plugin Manager[/QUOTE]

When I head to the google website for the downloads of the Gmod Plugins, there are four

downloads. Which one do I download?

[HeavyMtl123]

Hang on, I will give you the link to both.

Notepad++ : [url]http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/[/url]
Plugin : [url]http://npp-gmod-lua.googlecode.com/files/NppGmodLuaPlugin-v1.4.zip[/url]

[editline]08:50PM[/editline]

That should help.

Also, if you ever need to check something, check the wiki first to see how it works, before asking on here.

[|King Flawless|]

[QUOTE=HeavyMtl123;22149772]
Also, if you ever need to check something, check the wiki first to see how it works, before asking on here.[/QUOTE]

If only you did this

[HeavyMtl123]

[QUOTE=|King Flawless|;22150415]If only you did this[/QUOTE]

Why are you telling that to me? You have plenty of questions on here that are answered by the wiki.

[Pants Magee]

[QUOTE=HeavyMtl123;22158637]Why are you telling that to me? You have plenty of questions on here that are answered by the wiki.[/QUOTE]

He's talking about me :P