Interesting Magic Number

Yesterday I've bought Emergency 2012, the new game of the Emergency series. Because the freeplay mode has some annoying events (like pickpocketing) which happens very often, I wanted to change the frequency like in Em4. But the most xml files were compressed or encrypted. The magic number of this files seems interesting:

	00	01	02	03
00	D3	C0	37	13

If you read this as a little endian integer you will get: 0x1337C0D3
Someone wants to speak some leetspeak :)

btw: this shop has some cool language options ;)

Greetz
BlueC0re

Lua C-API

Yesterday I've restarted to develop a rts-game from the scratch. I've decided to use LUA as script engine. Because I want use C++ as programming language, I wrote a binder class to bind C++-Classes with Lua-Metatables. The first thing I needed to learn was that you can't call all functions of the C-API directly. Some of them must be called during a lua-call. If they be called directly you will often get an error like "PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (no calling environment)" and your application will crash immediately. It tooks a long time until I noticed that I can't call

lua_replace(L, LUA_ENVIRONINDEX);

directly so I must use

lua_setfenv(L, -1);

if I want to set the current table as environment table. You will get the same error message if you try to load single libs (luaopen_..) directly. You must use luaL_openlibs or open it during a lua call.

Greetz,
BlueC0re