ManiaScript ​

With the template engine, we can separate ManiaScript and template markup in their own files.

For organizational and consistency purposes, we recommend to keep all ManiaScript files within a Templates/Scripts/ directory in your module project.

Example ​

Let's take a simple example of a ManiaScript file that just prints something to the console. Our module's name is MyModule.

We begin creating a file in Templates/Scripts called PrintConsole.ms. Note the file exentions .ms.

In this file we create a main function that prints something to the console:

main() {
    log("Hello there!");
}

We can now import this script into our template:

<template>
    <script resource="MyModule.Scripts.PrintConsole" main="true" />
</template>

Displaying this manialink in-game will log Hello there! to the script console.

One thing to note here is that we specify main="true" because this ManiaScript file contains the main function. If you want to include ManiaScript code that has functions, variables or structs to be used, but doesn't have a main function, you can omit this attribute.