2 posts
Posted 02 April 2013 - 08:08 PM
So I discovered turtles a few days ago on tekkit, and I've been loving using the basic tunnel and excavate commands.
However, I wanted to write code of my own, so I looked into google and came across this forum. However, upon attempting to learn lua, I ran into a few issues that I haven't been able to resolve regardless of using the search function or scouring tutorials over the web:
NOTE: I'm playing on a multiplayer server with Computercraft 1.33 (via tekkit)
1) People often mention using a computer to wirelessly control the turtle, but I have yet to see a single explanation of how to connect to the turtle from the computer
2) Upon writing code on the turtle, if I pick up the turtle and move it, all my code is deleted. Is there a way to actually keep the code and not have to write it over and over again per use?
3) I see a lot of codes in the rom folder under /computercraft/ and after removing and picking up the turtle they are always still there. However, all the codes in the folder are just "File" files (as opposed to "Text Document" or such) is there a specific writer I need to use to export as just "File"s
4) Adding to the last quesiton, is there any way to write code outside of the computer/turtle GUI and then implement it on my turtles without having to do the whole 'pastebin get …' stuff?
5) My turtle has only 9 spots, as opposed to the 16 EVERYONE else has in videos. Is this because I'm running 1.33 and not 1.4+?
6) Is there ANY tutorials on basics of writing and using lua that isn't just "This is an if statement, this is a variable. Good luck."? Something like "If you save your program and later use it again this happens. Programs are saved here, but you can access them later…" etc. I haven't seen a single tutorial that actually goes into handling turtles that doesn't look like a Computers 101 class =/
However, I wanted to write code of my own, so I looked into google and came across this forum. However, upon attempting to learn lua, I ran into a few issues that I haven't been able to resolve regardless of using the search function or scouring tutorials over the web:
NOTE: I'm playing on a multiplayer server with Computercraft 1.33 (via tekkit)
1) People often mention using a computer to wirelessly control the turtle, but I have yet to see a single explanation of how to connect to the turtle from the computer
2) Upon writing code on the turtle, if I pick up the turtle and move it, all my code is deleted. Is there a way to actually keep the code and not have to write it over and over again per use?
3) I see a lot of codes in the rom folder under /computercraft/ and after removing and picking up the turtle they are always still there. However, all the codes in the folder are just "File" files (as opposed to "Text Document" or such) is there a specific writer I need to use to export as just "File"s
4) Adding to the last quesiton, is there any way to write code outside of the computer/turtle GUI and then implement it on my turtles without having to do the whole 'pastebin get …' stuff?
5) My turtle has only 9 spots, as opposed to the 16 EVERYONE else has in videos. Is this because I'm running 1.33 and not 1.4+?
6) Is there ANY tutorials on basics of writing and using lua that isn't just "This is an if statement, this is a variable. Good luck."? Something like "If you save your program and later use it again this happens. Programs are saved here, but you can access them later…" etc. I haven't seen a single tutorial that actually goes into handling turtles that doesn't look like a Computers 101 class =/
