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Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2018 6:33 pm**

Hey,

I'm trying to figure out how Factorio and Angels Refining uses Lua Require but outside of Factorio I can't seem to get the same behaviour.

I opened a Stackoverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/535 ... quire-path

The line is question is the first line in this file:
https://github.com/Arch666Angel/ModsCur ... ctions.lua
Which originally included here: https://github.com/Arch666Angel/ModsCur ... ta.lua#L21

I'm trying to figure out how to configure Lua in my external tool to ensure that the require in override-functions.lua uses the correct path (relative to that file). Instead it's searching for paths relative to data.lua and a bunch of other hardcoded paths I have configured.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2018 7:20 pm**

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/530 ... ies-in-lua

Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:52 pm**

Thanks Dave but I think the problem is deeper than that. Sounds like I'll need to completely override the require function and make it dynamically find files in the current directory. I haven't found a simpler solution which leads me to believe the Factorio devs must have done something similar to support this.

Is there really no documentation about what supports in the Mod lua for require?

Posted: **Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:22 pm**

Here is what I used for my tech tree.

I run it in the factorio root directory in Lua 5.2.

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package.path = package.path .. ';data/core/lualib/?.lua;data/base/?.lua'
defines = {
  ["difficulty_settings"] = {
    ["recipe_difficulty"] = {["normal"]=1},
    ["technology_difficulty"] = {["normal"]=1},
  },
  ["direction"] = {
    ["north"] = 0,
    ["east"] = 2,
    ["south"] = 4,
    ["west"] = 6,
  },
}
require "dataloader"
require "data.base.data"
for k, r in pairs(data.raw.recipe) do ...

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:03 am**

Yeah, the require() function needs to contain the full path from mod root.

I know you can require from the core mod too, such as you used to require("util"), but I don't know how that factors into it.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 5:47 am**

Thanks for code snippet Dave. And Thanks Bob

Actually if you look in Angels refining they use a relative path in prototypes/override-functions.

Anyways I found a custom require that works. I updated my StackOverflow answer if anyone is curious!

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