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So I have been using multiple locals sides on this map, but none of the sides are spawning more than one unit at a time.

no idea. have you set variables for the locals??
ATT = 1
DEF = 2
GUARDS = 3
PRISONERS = 4
ACKLAY = 5

or something like that??

To my knowledge you don't have to set the variable for the locals. None of the stock scripts do it. And the sides are working to some degree because they are spawning *one* unit each.

Do you want the acklays to be in the game??
Becasue they actualy are not uncommend. Maybe you should try to move them under your custom locals if you want them to be in place
---[[ Acklays
ReadDataFile("SIDE\\geo.lvl",
"geo_inf_acklay")
SetTeamName(3, "locals")
AddUnitClass(3, "geo_inf_acklay",1)
SetUnitCount(3, 1)
SetTeamAsEnemy(3, ATT)
SetTeamAsEnemy(3, DEF)
SetTeamAsEnemy(ATT, 3)
SetTeamAsEnemy(DEF, 3)
AddAIGoal(3,"Deathmatch",100)
--]]

The acklay *is* already in the game, running around just fine. Comments only affect one line not what is between the comments.

ZoomV wrote:Comments only affect one line not what is between the comments.

False. That's exactly what --[[ and --]] does.




Green is commented out lines.

Why don't you post your full script?

THEWULFMAN wrote:

ZoomV wrote:Comments only affect one line not what is between the comments.

False. That's exactly what --[[ and --]] does.




Green is commented out lines.

i thought block comments look like that:
begin: --[[
end: ]]--
and not
end: --]]

Well I looked and found that they begin with --[[ and end with ]] (so you could put two dashes before but you don't need to). I think it would help to see your full script though

THEWULFMAN wrote:

ZoomV wrote:Comments only affect one line not what is between the comments.

False. That's exactly what --[[ and --]] does.



Green is commented out lines.

Then how on earth is the acklay showing up? I'm literally looking at it in game right now.

razac920 wrote:Why don't you post your full script?

That's easy. Your munged files are not loaded. You'll see that the mod crash after you cleaned the addon folder and remunged it. Maybe there is a conflict between your mod in the virtual addon folder and the actual addon folder.

I'm pretty sure even when you remove the whole locals there will be locals in your map. You need to figure out why your scripts are not munged/copied into your addon folder/not loaded.
Best way to find this out is manuel clean and remunge

Anakin wrote:That's easy. Your munged files are not loaded. You'll see that the mod crash after you cleaned the addon folder and remunged it. Maybe there is a conflict between your mod in the virtual addon folder and the actual addon folder.

I'm pretty sure even when you remove the whole locals there will be locals in your map. You need to figure out why your scripts are not munged/copied into your addon folder/not loaded.
Best way to find this out is manuel clean and remunge

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but I'm interpreting this to mean that the munged files in data_TOR are somehow not overwriting the BattlefrontII/gamedata/addon/TOR?

If so, then that isn't the problem due to how my munge is set up. data_TOR only munges the mission scripts, localization, and the addme script. Additionally data_TOR does not have anything in the world folder and does not copy to the gamedata/addon folder. I manually copy the files from data_TOR/lvl_pc to gamedata/addon.
I munge the Treefall world file in data_ACW which is the same directory I munge loadscreens and ingame.lvl in. Icebound's world lvl (whos mission script seen in this thread, treefall does not have issue with its locals) is munged in data_BVS. I munge my side file in a directory data_BOM, and sound files are done through data_SOUND.

It's also worthy to note that the acklay section (complete with the --[[ and --]]) is the exact same section used in the stock mission file I pulled it from and is the same exact code that was used for both the 1.0 Icebound release and the recent mappack. Of all the locals the acklay side is the only one that is actually spawning the correct number of units.

razac920 wrote:Well I looked and found that they begin with --[[ and end with ]] (so you could put two dashes before but you don't need to). I think it would help to see your full script though

This is probably why the acklays work for me. If ]] denotes the end of a comment block, but in my case its --]] then the "]]" are being commented out since "--" is a single line comment.
That might mean that I have a comment block with no set end, except that wouldn't make sense because then the map should always crash due to half the script being commented out.
edit: wait no that would make sense because the -- would be contained within the comment block, but now we are back to the issue of acklays working fine despite being in a comment block.

You got the problem
--[[ means beginn comment block. Ignor everything untill you find ]] so it doesn't matter if there is a -- somewhere in the block.

About your local problem, try to copy the part from a working script again and place it there. I had an problem with my BF1 map support too:
at the beginning of the script the unknown resolution ingame lvl was loaded, but at the end of the script the right 16:9 resolution textkill lvl. So there was no text and the HUD wasn't shown correctly (old scope, no icons,...). I couldn't find the problem. i checked each single letter. for 4:3 everything was working. Later on i recopied the if else thing from coruscant and all was working. Nothing changed, but now it worked. So give it a try and copy the treefall locals to your iceboud script.

By the way with not copied right i mean that something maybe isn't munged right, too. So try to remove everything from your data_XXX\_LVL_PC\ folder, too.

For the other local sides that aren't spawning more than one unit, did you previously code them to spawn exactly 1 unit? and then raise the limit? Because if so, then Anakin's idea is probably right.

Alternatively, I like to add in local sides AI goals AFTER the objective is set, not before, but I don't know if that makes a difference.

Ok

I manually deleted mission.lvl from gamedata/addon/TOR/data/lvl_pc

I manually deleted everything from bf2_modtools/data_TOR/lvl_pc, and manually cleaned the build_pc folder as well. I ran a clean from the visual munge too. I remunged with the mission script exactly as it is above complete with the --[[ and --]].

All local sides still only spawn a single unit at a time. And yes the acklay is there in the flesh.

razac920 wrote:For the other local sides that aren't spawning more than one unit, did you previously code them to spawn exactly 1 unit? and then raise the limit? Because if so, then Anakin's idea is probably right.

No, other than the acklay none of the local sides where ever set to only spawn a single unit.


EDIT: oohhh I know the comment block isn't commenting out the acklays. If you look its "---[[" the first two dashes initiate a single line comment thus eliminating the remaining "-[["

Remove the entire map from your addon and check, or check the compatibility files location (usually C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\addon )

Also, run with the modtools exe and check the log. maybe there are too many units on the map/memory issues/animation bank issues?

razac920 wrote:Remove the entire map from your addon and check, or check the compatibility files location (usually C:\Users\User_name\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\LucasArts\Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\addon )

Also, run with the modtools exe and check the log. maybe there are too many units on the map/memory issues/animation bank issues?

Nothing for both.

I did run icebound all the way through and observed that I ran into a lot more prisoners than normal, so I'm taking that as evidence that the prisoners are spawning correctly now. However there certainly are not more than one prison guard spawning since I camped the prison guard spawn and only ever got one.

EDIT: In order to test to see if the mission file is being updated every munge I changed the script so that the republic would have a imperial heavy trooper instead of a republic heavy. I munged and yes there was the heavy trooper and there is still only one guard spawning.

I also changed the guards block to match how the wookies are setup on stock kashyyyk
here is the mission script. Changes are in red. Here is the logfile.

Thanks for remembering to use code tags.

You really should start using Notepad++

It makes stuff like this easy to see.

OK now we know why there are acklays For the other problem you should try to swap the order. So first the prisoners than guards and at last the acklays.

@THEWULFMAN: I always like your gifs everytime you post a picture i wait for it to do something.

I had already figured out the acklays

ZoomV wrote:EDIT: oohhh I know the comment block isn't commenting out the acklays. If you look its "---[[" the first two dashes initiate a single line comment thus eliminating the remaining "-[["

Anakin, I'll poke at it tonight if I get the time, I'd rather not change the team numbers because it means I have to crack open BVS and edit all of the CPs.