3DMLW plugin uses Lua scripting for animating 3D and handling different events.On 12 January 2012, Lua was announced as a winner of the Front Line Award 2011 from the magazine Game Developer in the category Programming Tools.
In 2003, a poll conducted by showed Lua as the most popular scripting language for game programming. In video game development, Lua is widely used as a scripting language by game programmers, perhaps due to its perceived easiness to embed, fast execution, and short learning curve. Main category: Lua (programming_language)-scripted video games
