Vehicle Selector – Tile Sorting

Sorting functions for vehicle selector tiles by various criteria.

Overview

ui_vehicleSelector_tileSorting provides comparator functions for sorting vehicle tiles by name, value, weight, power, speed, acceleration, and config type. Used by the tiles module to order items within groups.

Extension path: lua/ge/extensions/ui/vehicleSelector/tileSorting.lua

Exports (M)

Internals

Sort Modes

Config Type Order

Factory(1) → Service(2) → Race(3) → Drift(4) → Rally(5)
→ Police(6) → Custom(7) → Powerglow(8) → Other(9)

Tie-Breaking

All sort functions fall back to sortByNameButOtherAlwaysLast on equal values, with "Other..." items always sorted last.

How It Works

1. The tiles module calls sortTiles(tiles, sortMode) after building tiles for a group.
2. getSortFunction looks up the comparator from the sortFunctions table.
3. table.sort is called with the comparator.

Lua Examples

local tileSorting = require('/lua/ge/extensions/ui/vehicleSelector/tileSorting')

-- Sort tiles by value
tileSorting.sortTiles(myTiles, "Value")

-- Get comparator for custom sorting
local cmp = tileSorting.getSortFunction("Power")
table.sort(myList, cmp)

Additional Exports

The following exports are available but not yet documented in detail:

• M.getSortFunction
• M.sortByConfigTypeName
• M.sortByNameButOtherAlwaysLast
• M.sortByValue
• M.sortByYears
• M.sortGroup
• M.sortTiles