Wednesday, 30th September 2015, 12:08 by gammafunk
It's used extensively in level layouts and in des files that define vaults. The dlua interpreter used in crawl has functions to call into most aspects of level generation and player, monster, and item manipulation. There's also a clua interpreter that the player can call into through their rc file which has a more restricted set of functions for interacting with the player character, monsters, and items. The lua functions available are defined in the l_*.cc files in source, and you have to read them to see what all are defined and whether they're clua or dlua.
The lua code itself is in source/dat, with the layout code and many supporting libraries in source/dat/dlua and the des files in source/dat/des. Most vaults don't have embedded lua, but there are many that do and you have to read them to see any lua code blocks. Most of the actual layout lua is in dat/dlua/layouts (n.b. there are layouts that are implemented in Crawl as C++ as well, Labyrinths being a notable example).
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