Ok so I'm trying out Linked turrets follow the tut and I get a fatal error, can some one help me fix it?

The BF2 Log
Munge Log
My Lua
Linked Frigate Lua
Mission Req
Thanks

Message Severity: 5
.\Source\GameState.cpp(1283)
Could not open MISSION\BODg_Diet Dr. Pepper.lvl

5!?!?!?!? :cantina:

Something you changed in the BODg_cmn.lua near the line it states (maybe forgot comma or "or })

I don't think that would cause all these crashes though.

Actually it does, because there was the error in the BODg_cmn.lua it basically stopped processing things properly and therefore didn't write the mission.lvl and the BODg_Diet Dr. Pepper.lvl files correctly (left them as unfinished files poor little bits of it's true self as it were) fix the error in the cmn.lua and the other errors go away.

My rule of thumb (and cause it happens to me often) as soon as I get one of those errors in the munge log I don't even try to run the game I know it will crash, I go and look at what I just changed while it was still fresh in my brain.

Anyway hope it's only a comma

Ok thanks FragMe! it's no longer a Fatel Error just a normal crash

But there's barely anything it the munge log
My Lua
So why is it crashing?

THanks

The very last line in your error log. It is trying to do a doFile but can find the doFile to do anything with (sorry couldn't resist) That is why is it returning the nil.
You could try commenting all the turret stuff you put in just put -- in front of the lines. Also I have not done any linkturret or frigate things but I do remember helping someone else with the problem too. But I can't remember at this moment maybe I'll search and see if I can find it and post the link.

ok thanks

Do you have a LinkedFrigate lua (a complete one) in your scripts folder? From what I saw above, you have LinkedTurrets specified in the req, and a lua for it, but no lua for LinkedFrigate. (So, it seems to me that it's calling for LinkedFrigate and crashing because there's nothing there to read.) Why not call for LinkedTurrets in the cmn lua instead, remove the DoFile call for LinkedFrigate from the cmn lua, and delete the reference to LinkedFrigate in the mission req? That should clear up the problem. It looks to me like you were trying something different and didn't go all the way through with it.

Oooooops, I meant to say linked frigate lua when I said linked turrets

Ok, disregard the above, then. So, does the LinkedFrigate script's actual filename match what you have in the mission req and cmn lua? By that, I mean you should have a LinkedFrigate.lua (not LinkedFrigate.lua.txt) somewhere in the scripts folder. I hate being insulting, but I have to be sure it's not one of those mistakes.

Yes, It's lua but when I open it I get this, and I don't get it with other Luas

I don't use MS Word, at least, not anymore, so that's a new one on me. I don't see what would make it do that. I'd say go with the one that simply says Windows.

I looked around the web to see what I was dealing with as far as understanding text encoding. It's a lot of reading about code, binary, octets, and it hurts my brain. The differences between most of those probably won't even be noticeable to you, but I'd say stick with my above suggestion or ASCII, to be safe, for now.

FragMe! wrote:The very last line in your error log. It is trying to do a doFile but can't find the doFile to do anything with (sorry couldn't resist) That is why is it returning the nil.

Close... Its not returning anything, it can't find what to call. The error is 'attempt to call a nil value'. Global is just the scope where its looking for ScriptCB_Dofile. The compiler can't find ScriptCB_Dofile because it doesn't exist (things that are undefined are nil). However, there is a similar function named ScriptCB_DoFile. Maybe you forgot to hold the shift key?

MS Word is for documents. When writing/reading code, use a text editor (notepad, wordpad) or a code editor (LuaEdit, etc...), not a document editor.

Thanks Zetard, I forgot to cap the F.

But now it says it's the Linked Frigate Lua it self.

Linked Frigate Lua


Bf2 log
Munge Log It says OnObjectKill is a nil value.

How can I stop the crashing once and for all?

Thanks

Missing ( by self.frigate)
should probably remove the space that is infront of the obj things near the top of what I posted.

Just like before, OnObjectKillName() doesn't exist in your context. Maybe you meant OnObjectKillName( ?

If you get an error while munging, you shouldn't even try to run the map.

The easiest way to not get errors is to not mod.

Ok, I'll try it.

and I usually never have big problems like this. I've released 3 maps and one side with no problems at all.

PS: I didn't make the Lua, it's Xwingguy's

EDIT: Diet Dr. Pepper

I got this
My Linked Frigate Lua
God, this is really ticking me off. I followed Xwing Guy's tut exactly and looked at a fully functional lua with Linked Frigate and still no Luck

Remove the extra ( you added before self.frigate. The ) at the end of self.frigate should match the starting one at OnObjectKillName(

You need a closing ) for every (.

If you get another error, put a comma on the end of the end on the line right before --init stuff

Things can be frustrating but hang in there.
Okay now I am home and have the good editor lets go back an error
Line 35 as indicated is:
function() the error is stating it needs a name. I have not looked at xwingsguys tut so am not totally familiar with it and whether or not there is supposed to be a name. Lin e36 BTW is DestroyFrigate(self.TurretList). Now as I mentioned the was a missing bracket as well which could have caused the first error is there is not supposed to be a name in the ().

Moving on to the error after the "fix"
Line 40 is the last end, which means it is looking for a closing bracket ) before line 40. Which actually comparing the two luas the missing bracket is up on line 34 which is currently:

OnObjectKillName(

so it is missing it's closing bracket.

BTW a good free editor to use for LUAs (Teancum mentioned it once) is a program called SciTE. Can be found here http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTEDownload.html download the fulldownload under the windows heading. THe good thing about the program is it is can display many programing languages, LUA being one of them, but it will show you line numbers and more importantly coding errors like missing brackets (by clicking on one bracket it shows you where it's pair is or turns red if it is missing one same with ") I find it useful anyway.