diff --git a/BlockLua.dll b/BlockLua.dll
index 6d9a7bf..58d6e45 100644
Binary files a/BlockLua.dll and b/BlockLua.dll differ
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index b06faf4..1e5e5c2 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Lua scripting for Blockland
 `bl.varName` - Read a TorqueScript global variable  
 `bl['varName']` - Read a TorqueScript global variable (i.e. with special characters in the name, or from an array)  
 `bl.set('varName', value)` - Write a TorqueScript global variable  
+`bl['namespaceName::funcName'](args)` - Call a namespaced TorqueScript function
 
 ### Accessing Torque Objects from Lua
 `bl.objectName` - Access a Torque object by name  
diff --git a/src/util/libbl-support.cs b/src/util/libbl-support.cs
index f2be6e6..c4032d0 100644
--- a/src/util/libbl-support.cs
+++ b/src/util/libbl-support.cs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 // Private - Utilities used by libbl from the Lua side
 
-package _bllua_smartEval {
+package smartEval {
 	// Allow prepending ' to console commands to eval in lua instead of TS
 	// Also wraps TS lines with echo(...); if they don't end in ; or }
 	function ConsoleEntry::eval() {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ package _bllua_smartEval {
 		}
 	}
 };
-activatePackage(_bllua_smartEval);
+activatePackage(smartEval);
 
 package _bllua_objectDeletionHook {
 	// Hook object deletion to clean up its lua data
diff --git a/src/util/libbl.lua b/src/util/libbl.lua
index 34c6357..efd5889 100644
--- a/src/util/libbl.lua
+++ b/src/util/libbl.lua
@@ -303,7 +303,10 @@ local tsObjectMeta = {
 			for inh in objectInheritedMetas(rawget(t,'_tsClassName')) do
 				if inh[name] then return inh[name] end
 			end
-			if tsIsFunctionNs(rawget(t,'_tsNamespace'), name) then
+			if
+				tsIsFunctionNs(rawget(t,'_tsNamespace'), name) or
+				tsIsFunctionNs(rawget(t,'_tsName'), name)
+			then
 				return function(t, ...)
 					local args = {...}
 					local argsS = arglistToTs(args)
@@ -921,10 +924,12 @@ end
 -- bl.new and bl.datablock
 local function createTsObj(keyword, class, name, inherit, props)
 	local propsT = {}
-	for k,v in pairs(props) do
-		if not isValidFuncName(k) then
-			error('bl.new/bl.datablock: invalid property name \''..k..'\'') end
-		table.insert(propsT, k..'="'..valToTs(v)..'";')
+	if props then
+		for k,v in pairs(props) do
+			if not isValidFuncName(k) then
+				error('bl.new/bl.datablock: invalid property name \''..k..'\'') end
+			table.insert(propsT, k..'="'..valToTs(v)..'";')
+		end
 	end
 	
 	local objS = _bllua_ts.eval(