BA Chicken Defense V2.56 (BA7.81)

[Jazcash]

how about you put some work in Beherith?

Lol you're a moron.

[very_bad_soldier]

@smoth:
Teaching people how to act in forums while calling them assholes and stuff in every second post is a bit funny, no?

[dcore221]

how to fix this?

[f=0000000] Failed to load: unit_spawner_defense.lua ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_spawner_defense.lua"]:271: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value))

[smoth]

Ok, here is the first part. how to find errors

[f=0000000] Failed to load: unit_spawner_defense.lua ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_spawner_defense.lua"]:271: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value))

The code file
The line in question


Get this and use it to open the lua file.

now you will see numbers on the left, you will go to line 271 and paste it here. I can then show you what is what.

[Super Mario]

Ok, here is the first part. how to find errors

[f=0000000] Failed to load: unit_spawner_defense.lua ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_spawner_defense.lua"]:271: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value))

The code file
The line in question


Get this and use it to open the lua file.

now you will see numbers on the left, you will go to line 271 and paste it here. I can then show you what is what.

Pro tip: it's a lot easier to fix the problem for yourself than to have some else to fix issue for themselves.

[dcore221]

Thanks

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270| for unitName in pairs(chickenTypes) do
271|   chickenDefTypes[UnitDefNames[unitName].id] = unitName
272|   unitCounts[string.sub(unitName,1,-2)] = {count = 0, lastCount = 0}
273| end

[smoth]

Pro tip: it's a lot easier to fix the problem for yourself than to have some else to fix issue for themselves.

I don't have any issues, gundam's spawner ai works, you mad?

Thanks

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270| for unitName in pairs(chickenTypes) do
271|   chickenDefTypes[UnitDefNames[unitName].id] = unitName
272|   unitCounts[string.sub(unitName,1,-2)] = {count = 0, lastCount = 0}
273| end

I would bet that you are missing some or all of the chicken unit defs.

So put this above line 271.
Spring.Echo("unit names with resulting id")
Spring.Echo(unitName,UnitDefNames[unitName].id)

This will print the ckicken names and nil when they cannot be found into infolog

Paste me the relevant lines from your infolog

[dcore221]

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[f=0000000] chicken_dodo2, 185
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] Failed to load: unit_spawner_defense.lua  ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_spawner_defense.lua"]:272: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value))

[smoth]

*edit*

Better yet:

Spring.Echo(unitName,UnitDefNames[unitName].id)
Change to

Spring.Echo(unitName)
Spring.Echo(UnitDefNames[unitName].id)

And give me that result :)

[dcore221]

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[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chicken_dodo2
[f=0000000] 185
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickena2

[smoth]

And it errors after that?

[dcore221]

full infolog: http://pastebin.com/zsZeN2pz

was you expecting the missing units to be from ba?

could it be that chickens is linked a weapon or explosion that has been changed?
sorry im a total noob at this sort of thing :]

i have tried removing dodo2 and chickena2 to no avail
does the 185 indicate the number of units that are having problems?

[smoth]

The number is the unit id dodo is ok because he has one

You are erroring because chickena2 doesn't have one yes

This means chickena2 is possibly broken

Easy test

Start the game
/cheat
/give chickena2

If the unit exists it will spawn, I reckon it won't though.

[dcore221]

yup

[f=0002281] /give chickena2
[f=0002281] Couldnt find wreckage info chickena2
[f=0002281] chickena2 is not a valid unitname

same for chickena1

[smoth]

So now we are somewhere.
Things to check:
Weapon name
Unit movedef
Unit model
It is a pretty long list

So for now:
Look in the file and replace any chicken a1 or a2 with the dodo name and see if that runs. First let's get it running then you can recruit help in tracking the erroneous chickens down :)

[dcore221]

ok the bad units...
chickena1
chickena2
chickenp1
chickenr1
chickenr2
chickenr3

the mod now starts and the chicken panel shows but no chickens spawn just a commander

and a new error

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[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenh3
[f=0000000] 191
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickens1
[f=0000000] 194
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenh4
[f=0000000] 192
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenc1
[f=0000000] 186
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenf1
[f=0000000] 188
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenh1
[f=0000000] 189
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chicken_dodo1
[f=0000000] 184
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenh2
[f=0000000] 190
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickenw1
[f=0000000] 196
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chickens2
[f=0000000] 195
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chicken1
[f=0000000] 182
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chicken2
[f=0000000] 183
[f=0000000] unit names with resulting id
[f=0000000] chicken_dodo2
[f=0000000] 185
[f=0000000] Failed to load: unit_spawner_defense.lua  ([string "LuaRules/Gadgets/unit_spawner_defense.lua"]:340: attempt to index field 'juno_pulse' (a nil value))

line 340:

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local JUNO = WeaponDefNames["juno_pulse"].id

[smoth]

Look in /weapons/ see if you can track the file down.

Things are picking up at work so I have to leave and let you fiddle with this

[dcore221]

ok thanks for the help :]

[smoth]

Don't forget to post when you get stuck so others can try and help you

[dcore221]

juno_pulse error fixed - i copied juno_pulse from ba720.sdz>weapons>weapons.tdf and created JUNO_PULSE.tdf

the game now starts with no errors but after it counts down the chicken commander (who is normally hidden) explodes then the "You lost the game" message appears, the game continues to spawn chickens

also my team spawns 2 commanders

any ideas?