Think I've run into a new problem ...

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Working on the Campaign 4 scripts, and I've run into an issue that has me climbing the walls.

I've got new build events for the Scavenger VTOL Factories. The crash error is:

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error   |03:56:21: [scr_error:5703] script parse error:
'Event ToWorld declared without being defined' at Main.slo:3616
Token: 330, Text: 'ScavsBuildChoppersA1'

I don't have any events (glitched or otherwise) called ToWorld. And yes, I've looked. HARD.

Is there a limit to how many lines can be in a Campaign script? What I'm starting to think is happening is that the script interpreter is getting overloaded and mashing the code up.

The code that it's complaining about is:

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// New Scavenger VTOL Events (yay!)
ScavsBuildChoppersA1(inactive)
{
	if (ScavVTOLFacA1 == NULLOBJECT)
	{
		setEventTrigger(ScavsBuildChoppersA1, inactive);
	}
	else
	{
		buildDroid(Chopper1, ScavVTOLFacA1, ScavBasePlayer, 1);
		pause(120);
		buildDroid(Chopper2, ScavVTOLFacA1, ScavBasePlayer, 1);
		pause(120);
		buildDroid(HeavyChopper, ScavVTOLFacA1, ScavBasePlayer, 1);
	}
}

That's why I'm concerned as to the cause. Any help would be sincerely appreciated. I should also note that the error didn't occur until I assigned build events. When I loaded the map up beforehand, it worked fine.

[aubergine]

ToWorld is likely a C++ function that converts from tile to world coordinates?

[Per]

All I know is that there are hard-coded limits of 300 functions/events and 300000 instructions, but I'm not sure if that is for each context, each call, or each... something else.

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Well yes, I'm using the ToWorld function that Milo made .. but I'm not using it in the event or anything attached to the event at all.

It's gotta be one of my typos.

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Looks like it's the hard limit of 300 events. I comment out the six ScavVTOLBuild events (and their declarations at the front) and the code runs without issue.

I'm gonna have to split M1 and M4 up after all, from the looks of things. I still have to assign attack events for the Scav Choppers, and it was going to be something different and creative.

[Rman Virgil]

Looks like it's the hard limit of 300 events. I comment out the six ScavVTOLBuild events (and their declarations at the front) and the code runs without issue.

I'm gonna have to split M1 and M4 up after all, from the looks of things. I still have to assign attack events for the Scav Choppers, and it was going to be something different and creative.

Wonder what the downside to lifting the hard limit on events would be ?
.

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

Looks like it's the hard limit of 300 events. I comment out the six ScavVTOLBuild events (and their declarations at the front) and the code runs without issue.

I'm gonna have to split M1 and M4 up after all, from the looks of things. I still have to assign attack events for the Scav Choppers, and it was going to be something different and creative.

Wonder what the downside to lifting the hard limit on events would be ?
.

Decreased performance.

It's okay. I can import what I need into the scripts and do some major retooling at the same time. I've already found a lot of things I can be doing better as it is -- starting with getting more organized.

[Goth Zagog-Thou]

... and I see the problem now.

Leave it to me to have something SO simple wrong that causes so much grief.

*sigh* gotta love dyslexia / reading dysfunction.

[aubergine]

At least you don't have short-term memory loss, combined with long-term memory loss ... and medium-term memory loss. I have to document everything I learn about the scripting environment just to remember what I'm doing heh.