[SOLVED]Trouble running lua files.

[redhood56_]

love.filesystem.load works differently than require, mainly in these three ways:

• The argument it gets is a file path, not a module name. (So "dir/mod.lua" instead of "dir.mod".)
• It doesn't "cache" like require does. With require, if you try to load the same thing twice, it does nothing the second time.
• It returns an executable "chunk" that runs the file, rather than run the file and return what the module returns (which is what require does).

This fixes the first one, I was too lazy to look further:

register["box"] = love.filesystem.load( ents.objpath .. "/box.lua" )

So when I replaced my original line with that one I get "main.lua:3: attempt to index global 'register' (a nil value)

[Robin]

We're getting somewhere. This means you're missing a register = {} above that line. (Either that, or you made a typo somewhere.) In Lua, names point to nil until you bind them to some other value. With the line register = {} you bind the name "register" to a new table value.

[redhood56_]

We're getting somewhere. This means you're missing a register = {} above that line. (Either that, or you made a typo somewhere.) In Lua, names point to nil until you bind them to some other value. With the line register = {} you bind the name "register" to a new table value.

So when I did that I got the error"entities.lua:11: File entitieszepp.lua does not exist"
I could have also made a typo somewhere, so I will look further into that too. Thanks

[Robin]

I guess you're missing a / there before zepp.lua.

[redhood56_]

*facepalm* how did I forget that! But I have another problem, I got a new error which says "entities.lua:15: File entitesbase.lua does not exist" now I added a / to the line

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return love.filesystem.load( ents.objpath .. name .. "/.lua" )()

but that still gets me the same error except with a / before .lua. Thanks

[Robin]

Well, you don't have a file called ".lua", do you?

You probably want

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return love.filesystem.load( ents.objpath .. "/" .. name .. ".lua" )()

[redhood56_]

It is now working! Thanks sooo much!