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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoProject…Zombie? Do you mean Zomboid? If so, Zomboid isn’t … the physics aren’t done in Lua. The base of the game is written in C++, and then certain parts of that are exposed to modders via an API that works with Lua. https://expertbeacon.com/is-project-zomboid-java/ The physics engine is written in C++. Because Lua is waaay too slow, and even compiled Java is about 4x as slow as C++.
Project…Zombie?
Do you mean Zomboid?
If so, Zomboid isn’t … the physics aren’t done in Lua.
The base of the game is written in C++, and then certain parts of that are exposed to modders via an API that works with Lua.
https://expertbeacon.com/is-project-zomboid-java/
The physics engine is written in C++.
Because Lua is waaay too slow, and even compiled Java is about 4x as slow as C++.