Networking Support for LUA?

[JetBrains]

So i was discussing UltraEngine with a friend and while adding multiplayer support with C++ would be trivial. How would you go about doing that if say you only bought the basic edition that only has LUA support?

[Josh]

I wanted to hold off on this before making a final decision, but here is what I have found:

• The basic Enet networking in Leadwerks is no longer needed for the Lua debugger, and it's pretty much useless for modern networking, so it did not get included in Ultra. You could use it to make a relay server, but anyone capable of building and running that could easily just use Enet without my help.
• Although Valve has an open-source P2P networking system that looks very interesting, it has some pretty complicated additional requirements that I think are out of reach for most developers, and not something I want to invest in heavily when a working version is already built into Steam.
• I plan to add support for the Steamworks P2P networking system and lobby system into the engine proper, in the standard and pro versions, where it can be accessed with both C++ and Lua. The project will use delayed DLL loading so the Steamworks DLL does not have to be included in projects that do not need it. 

[Josh]

In fact I just uploaded the first version of the Steam integration code for C++. It doesn't support networking yet but that's where this will get added.

[Josh]

Support for Steam lobbies and peer-to-peer networking is available for C++ in the dev channel. Lua support will follow.

[JetBrains]

Wow that was quick nice work!