Modding Help Custom Commands in 1.0

Alright, I hope this is the right forum for this. For some time I have tried to wrap my head around the custom commands, looked everywhere for a hint on how they could work but only found pre-1.0 stuff like this thread. But none of that works for 1.0 or later, so what exactly changed?

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate thread or if this has already been asked/answered before, but right now I'm very confident (because I have swept over every inch of the forum and reddit about this topic) that there is no explanation to this on the forums yet

 

I got help from @Apple Juice and didn't want to leave this thread unsolved in case someone else needs help with this.

The new format for making commands is

Code:

function command(commandName, clientId, args)
  # Do things here
  return "This is what is returned privately to the player"
end

commandName is the command executed by the client. For example, when typing /test, the commandName would be the string test.
clientId is the.. clientId, duh.
args is a table of arguments that are supplied by the client. For example, /test "123" 1 2 3 "5" would output the table {"123,"1","2","3","5"}

Getting the scripts into the game is the same as it was before with using the patch method to apply it to the universe_server.config

Code:

[
  {
  "op": "add",
  "path": "/commandProcessorScripts/-",
  "value": "/serverCommands.lua"
  }
]

This gives some interesting new flexibility in my opinion

 

This doesn't work for me. I also don't really understand this format...
A function name AND a command name, separated...

Anyways, it only says that the command doesn't exist. Tried on a local server and singleplayer,
and a few commands

 

I'm pretty sure you misunderstood the format.
The function must be command(...) and not test(...) or customCommand(...).

For example, what I use looks like this:

Code:

function command(commandName, clientId, args)
    if commands[commandName] ~= nil then
        user = universe.clientNick(clientId)
        return commands[commandName](clientId, user, args)
    else
        return "The command ^blue;"..commandName.."^reset; does not exist"
    end
end

This allows me easily to introduce additional commands like this:

Code:

commands = {}
function commands.d20(clientId, user, args)
    local result = math.random(20)
    universe.adminBroadcast("^red;"..user.."^reset; rolled a ^red;1d20^reset; and got ^red;"..result.."^reset;")
    return "You rolled a ^red;"..result.."^reset;"
end

 

Now I got it, seems like I forgot to make the functions return a value... hehe