[SOLVED]Require all files in a folder

[kikito]

Do you need any help, or are you just reporting your findings ? If you get stuck, give me the exact folder structure and I will try to give you the code that you need.

[kargon]

Hi kikito!

Well, my gamedir is benGame and i have an /entities off that. Do you need the entire path? c:\games\benGame\entities.

Thanks for the help!

[kikito]

The steps would be:

1. Put `require.lua` inside the benGame directory
2. Write this wherever you need the files (for example, in main.lua)

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require 'require'

local entities = require.tree('entities')

The returned entities table should be a table with 1 entry per file and subfolder inside the `benGame/entities` folder. For example, if you have `benGame/entities/player.lua`, there should be a entities.player entry on that table, containing whatever player.lua returns.

[kargon]

Thanks kikito!

[Fang86]

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Hey kikito, I know this is a very old thread, but, I'm having troubles with requiring. My directory is: BeaverBallRevenge/entities/beaver.lua and BeaverBallRevenge/entities/redneck.lua

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local entities = require.tree("entities")
entities.beaver
entities.redneck

It gives me the following error: Compilation error on line 8:
...Aidan\Desktop\Programming\Lua\BeaverBallRevenge\main.lua:8: '=' expected near 'entities'
(entities.redneck is line 8)

[kikito]

The problem is that "entities.beaver" (or "entities.redneck"), by itself, is not a valid Lua instruction.

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local entities = require.tree("entities")
entities.beaver   -- <=== Remove these two lines
entities.redneck  -- <=== They are the ones provoking an error

You can't put the name of an entity in a line in Lua all by itself. That has no meaning in Lua. You must do something with your entities. For example, drawing them. Or creating instances of them. Something.