🌐Global Functions

Below is a list of all global functions. By “global”, we mean these functions do not require a preceding namespace - so you can call them directly, unlike other functions.

print

Function

Prints text to game's console. Automatically inserts a space between parameters.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
...	...	Values to print in the console.

Example

print('Hello world!', 123); -- prints out "Hello world! 123" to the console

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error

Function

Prints an error text to game's console, and shuts down the script. Try to avoid using this function - use it only if an error happens which you can't recover from.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
text	string	Read print for documentation.

Example

error('Can't recover from this one! Error: ' .. tostring(123));

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unpack

Function

Unpacks a table of elements.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
tbl	table	Any table

Example

local message = { 'Hello', 'World' }
print(unpack(message)) -- 'Hello world'

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Delay

Function

Delays a callback by a certain amount of time, in seconds.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
delay	number	Delay, in seconds
callback	function	Callback

Example

Delay(0.5, function()
    print('Print after 0.5 seconds')
end)

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__shutdown

Function

Special function, it's called whenever the script unloads. Isn't called in case of errors.

Arguments

None.

Example

function __shutdown()
    print('Script was unloaded successfully.')
end