How does HTTP work in game

[ath0rus]

can someone please explain how http in game works. I want to be able to press a button on my stream deck and have it trigger events in game. The bellow Reddit post shows that you can trigger in game events with things like a tablet. I was just wondering how i can do similar but with a stream deck.

Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormworks/comments/iqd4hy/just_a_quick_little_demo_of_what_you_can_do_with/

[Kiritsu]

First of all, he use an application called "Matric".

For the HTTP, I guess it's in the stormwork lua and you send information to a server and listen to them.

[ath0rus]

Originally posted by Kiritsu:

First of all, he use an application called "Matric".

For the HTTP, I guess it's in the stormwork lua and you send information to a server and listen to them.

Thanks for the reply, do you know a guide that can explain how to use Matric. You also mentioned send info to a server and then listen to it, do you know a guide that explains how to do that.

[Kiritsu]

I don't have a guide for that.

All i know is that you need to install the Matric on your device and PC.

For the tutorial, i guess you will have to look on the web for both lua and Matric.

[Schaksie]

The HTTP interface within stormworks is a one way ticket. Stormworks is able to send request and get responses to those requests, but if you want to send data from a server or eg. Matric to Stormworks, you will have to constantly send request from stormworks to your api to get an y data into stormworks. This usually not a great idea. Search for "inversion of control" if you need a detail explanation of what i mean