API Overview

The pages in this section present a reference for the Lua API exposed by TAMods-Server.

Notes on type signature definition

Lua is dynamically typed, so there are no static checks for the type correctness of scripts. Generally, scripts with type errors will produce a console error message at runtime. Additionally, Lua does not check that functions receive the right number of arguments: extra arguments are ignored, and missing arguments are replaced with nil.

Function signatures in the reference denote the intended types of the function via the following (non-Lua) syntax:

someFunction(arg1: Arg1Type, arg2: Arg2Type): ReturnType

Note that where functions do not return a value, the ReturnType is omitted.

For clarity, the types integer and float are used to distinguish numerical arguments where appropriate, even though Lua's type system only supports a single number type.

Lua does not support 'arrays' or 'tuples' in the traditional sense: most data structures in Lua are Tables. In the reference, List<T> is used to refer to a "list" of items of type T, where the "list" is actually a Table with sequentially numbered one-indexed keys (as Lua indexing normally starts at one).

Tuples in Lua are essentially the same; in the reference they will be denoted like (T1, T2) where T1 is the type of the first element, T2 the second and so on. This corresponds again to a Lua Table with sequentially numbered one-indexed keys.

Core Configuration

Core configuration and information about TAMods-Server.

Core DLL Information

Variable	Type	Default / Example	Modifiable	Description
Core.DLL.Name	string	"TAMods-Server"	No	The name of this DLL
Core.DLL.Version	string	"0.1.0"	No	The SemVer version of the DLL
Core.DLL.TAServerProtocolVersion	string	"0.1.0"	No	The version of the TAServer controller protocol this DLL uses
Core.DLL.TAModsProtocolVersion	string	"0.1.0"	No	The version of the TAMods Client-Server protocol this DLL uses

DLL Operation Mode

Variable	Type	Default / Example	Modifiable	Description
Core.ConnectToTAServer	boolean	true	Yes	Whether to attempt connection to the TAServer launcher
Core.ConnectToClients	boolean	true	Yes	Whether to attempt connection to modded clients via the TAMods protocol
Core.AllowUnmoddedClients	boolean	true	Yes	If Core.ConnectToClients is enabled, whether to allow players without TAMods to join

The Core.ConnectToTAServer option controls whether the integration with the TAServer custom login server system is enabled. This defaults to true, and it is recommended that this be left on unless you are trying to run the game server completely standalone. With this disabled, a number of features will not work (such as player-specifiable loadouts).

The Core.ConnectToClients option determines whether the server will run a TAMods protocol control server that incoming game clients may connect to. This control server allows the server to communicate additional information to clients running clientside TAMods - in particular, game balance modding information.

The Core.AllowUnmoddedClients option allows the server owner to block unmodded players from participating in the game, which may be desirable if you are modifying game balance (which requires the control connection). If this option is true, unmodded clients will still be able to enter the server, but will not be able to join the team. They may still spectate the game.

Game Balance Properties

TAMods-Server gives you the ability not just to run custom servers and modify their settings, but also to modify the properties of objects within the game.

Documentation on the specific modifications available can be found on the pages detailing how to modify Items, Classes and Vehicles.

Importantly, the mechanism for many of these modifications relies on players using a compatible version of clientside TAMods. If you set your server up with extensive game balance modification, a player joining your server without TAMods will likely have a bad experience, as their game client doesn't understand what's going on at all.

While generally these effects on unmodded players will cause issues only for them, there are no hard guarantees that players will not be able to gain some small advantage by having unmodded clients. If you wish to prevent this, the Core.AllowUnmoddedClients flag can be used to prevent players without TAMods from joining teams in your server. They will still be able to spectate games, but cannot join either side.

Logging

TAMods-Server can keep a logfile at C:\Users\<Username>\TAMods-Server.log; this can be useful for debugging issues with configuration.

Configuring the Logger

By default, nothing will be logged; to enable logging you must set the log level using the following function:

Logger.setLevel(level: LogLevel)

The possible log levels, listed below, are ordered such that every level logs messages of that level and above - so e.g. the Warn level will cause messages at the Warn, Error and Fatal levels to be logged.

• Logger.Levels.None - Log nothing
• Logger.Levels.Fatal - Log only fatal errors
• Logger.Levels.Error - Log any error-level message
• Logger.Levels.Warn - Log warning messages in addition to errors
• Logger.Levels.Info - Log informational messages in addition to warnings and errors
• Logger.Levels.Debug - Log everything, including debugging messages (this will display internal TAMods-Server debugging messages)

Writing log messages

Once the logger is configured, you can log from Lua with the following functions, to log messages at each level:

Logger.fatal(message: string)

Logger.error(message: string)

Logger.warn(message: string)

Logger.info(message: string)

Logger.debug(message: string)