Cheat Engine

[Aimlessly]

Hi guys, I'm new to this stuff. I wanna know how Lua works on Cheat Engine like do you need to know Lua to start learning the CE Lua version or can you just straight up learn CE Lua. I'm also wondering where I can learn the very, very basics since I'm new. Thanks you all

[LeFiXER]

They're pretty much the same. See celua.txt for commands that you can use. If you haven't started with the CE tutorial already, I would recommend that as a basis.

There are tutorials on the Cheat Engine Wikipedia also.

[ParkourPenguin]

Learn the basics of the Lua scripting language first. CE uses Lua 5.3.

Then learn the stuff CE adds to Lua. Most stuff is documented in celua.txt. The wiki might be more user-friendly.

[Csimbi]

[atom0s]

Lua is an embedded language, meaning the application that embeds and implements it can extend it and add its own objects, calls, etc. to the language. In most cases, there are no actual syntax changes made when something embeds Lua and exposes it to be used. Thus, learning the base language is definitely ideal and worth while.

There is a sticky topic with a handful of useful links/guides/etc. found here:
https://forum.cheatengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=538130

The things CE exposes to Lua can be found in the celua.txt as others linked here:
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/blob/master/Cheat%20Engine/bin/celua.txt

CE's actual implementation/usage of Lua is available in the source found here:
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/tree/master/Cheat%20Engine

(Look for the Lua*.pas files for each file that contains usages of exposing functionality to Lua. CE also uses Lua for other parts such as some interpreter stuff, debugging, etc. which you can find in the various other source files.)