Obfuscating your Lua from cheaters

[Sophia]

If you've created some custom Lua scripts for your dungeon and want to hide it from prying eyes, you'll need to make use of the Lua compiler.

Download luac, and put it in your DSB directory:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/luabin ... p/download
(In this example, we'll assume it's in C:\dsb)

You'll need to use the command line (cmd.exe). First, cd to your dungeon:

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cd \dsb\my_dungeon

Then, invoke luac on your startup file: (the ..\ is needed if you haven't added luac to your path)

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..\luac -s -o startup.lxx startup.lua

To obfuscate your custom objects, do:

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..\luac -s -o objects.lxx objects.lua

You won't typically need to do this for dungeon.lua, as your dungeon will already be compiled into DSB's own internal format in dungeon.dsb. However, if your dungeon.lua is weird (for example, it actually randomly generates a dungeon) and would normally have to be distributed in source form, you will want to obfuscate it like this instead.

Include only the .lxx, not the .lua files, when you distribute the dungeon, and your custom code is safe from cheaters.

Note: If you're using a lua_manifest, you won't have to change anything. DSB will automatically try to convert the last two letters of the filename to "xx" and load a compiled Lua script if it cannot find a normal Lua script.