Hey guys, quick question, and its an error thats probably easy to solve, but I cant find it in the searches so...

I made a sp map and I have an intro screen, some objectives, all that stuff. But when I try to use localized strings that I made, they dont work. I have tried all the tuts on this and made a pk3, but that makes it so that not 1 string works, even on the main menu. What happens if instead of showing what the string should say, it just says "COLDITZ_PLACE" "COLDITZ_DATE" etc. etc.

Heres my .gsc file:

#using_animtree("generic_human");
main()
{
setcvar("introscreen","1");
maps\_load::main();
maps\_panzerIV::main();

level._effect["triggeredexplosion"] = loadfx ("fx/explosions/explosion1_nolight.efx");

precacheshader("black");
precacheString(&"COLDITZ1_PLACE");
precacheString(&"COLDITZ1_DATE");
precacheString(&"COLDITZ1_TIME");
thread intro_screen();
thread obj1();

level.ambient_track ["daytime sounds"] = "ambient_daytime_sounds";
thread maps\_utility::set_ambient("daytime sounds");

level.player takeallweapons();
level.player giveweapon("BAR");
level.player giveweapon("m1carbine");
level.player giveweapon("colt");
level.player giveweapon("fraggrenade");
level.player switchToWeapon("BAR");
}

obj1()
{
wait(4);
iprintlnbold ("Clear the house of Germans");

objective_add(1, "active",&"COLDITZ_OBJ1", getent("obj1complete", "targetname").origin);
objective_current(1);
enemies = getent("obj1complete", "targetname");
enemies waittill("trigger");
enemies delete();
objective_state(1, "done");

thread obj2();
}

obj2()
{
wait(2);
iprintlnbold ("Secure the bridge and Disable Communications");

objective_add(2, "active",&"COLDITZ_OBJ2", getent("obj2complete", "targetname").origin);
objective_current(2);
bridge = getent("obj2complete", "targetname");
bridge waittill("trigger");
bridge delete();

objective_state(2, "done");

objective_add(3, "active",&"COLDITZ_OBJ3", getent("german_radio", "targetname").origin);
objective_current(3);
rad = getent("radio_damage", "targetname");
loc = getent("german_radio", "targetname");
org = loc getorigin();
rad waittill("trigger");
playfx (level._effect ["triggeredexplosion"], org);
rad delete();
loc delete();

objective_state(3, "done");
}

obj4()
{
wait(2);
iprintlnbold ("Eliminate the officer");

objective_add(4, "active",&"COLDITZ1_OBJ4", getent("officer", "targetname").origin);
objective_current(4);
officerdead = getent("officerdead", "targetname");
officerdead waittill("trigger");
officerdead delete();
objective_state(4, "done");

thread obj5();
}

obj5()
{
wait(2);
iprintlnbold ("Escape with Sgt. O'Malley");

objective_add(5, "active",&"COLDITZ1_OBJ4", getent("jeep", "targetname").origin);
objective_current(5);
carride = getent("car", "targetname");
carride waittill("trigger");
carride delete();
objective_state(5, "done");
}

intro_screen()
{
maps\_introscreen::introscreen(&"COLDITZ1_PLACE", &"COLDITZ1_DATE", &"COLDITZ1_TIME");

level waittill ("finished intro screen");
wait 0.25;
level notify ("finished intro screen");
}

And this is my .str file:

VERSION "1"
CONFIG "F:\projects\mk\source_data\string_resources\StringEd.cfg"
ALTNOTES ""

REFERENCE PLACE
LANG_ENGLISH "Journey to Colditz Castle"

REFERENCE DATE
LANG_ENGLISH "September 12, 1943"

REFERENCE TIME
LANG_ENGLISH "1500 Hours"

REFERENCE OBJ1
LANG_ENGLISH "Clear the house of enemies"

REFERENCE OBJ2
LANG_ENGLISH "Secure the bridge"

REFERENCE OBJ3
LANG_ENGLISH "Disable communications"

REFERENCE OBJ4
LANG_ENGLISH "Eliminate the officer"

REFERENCE OBJ5
LANG_ENGLISH "Escape with Sgt. O'Malley

ENDMARKER

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

-Rogue

edited on Jan. 28, 2006 11:59 am by rogue722

Is this a typing error? (Missing ” )

Well, i tried editing it and added in that missing quote, but I still get the same problem. Thanks for pointing it out to me.

-Rogue

Do you have a drive "F"? And is your source data their?

Personally I'd delete this line. Put 2 // in front of it.

Also, you don't need , and you don't need a seperate thread for the introscreen (but you can if you like). You can move up before the threads and nest it just under the precached strings.

e.g.

precacheString(&"DUNKIRK1_PLACE");
precacheString(&"DUNKIRK1_DATE");
precacheString(&"DUNKIRK1_TIME");
maps\_introscreen::introscreen(&"DUNKIRK1_PLACE", &"DUNKIRK1_DATE", &"DUNKIRK1_TIME");

But a better way of doing it is to create your own _loadout.gsc and put that info and the campaign and weapons info in there, and then call it all through your own _load.gsc

Yorkshire-Rifles writes...

it has that line in the stock str files too.

edited on Jan. 28, 2006 05:02 pm by The_Caretaker

Well, I tried all of the things that Yorkshire suggested, and none of it worked. And does anyone know why, when I put all the files correctly into a pk3 then run the game, no strings show up at all, like why menu shows "MENU_...." instead of New Game?

I haven't yet got to this stage of the tutorials yet, so I'm not sure of the exact syntax, but I suspect the problem is your use of " when you use the string variable.

eg

precacheString(&"COLDITZ1_PLACE");

should be

precacheString(&COLDITZ1_PLACE);

COLDITZ1_PLACE is a string variable - if you enclose it in " then you are in reality making the string "COLDITZ1_PLACE" rather than calling the string variable COLDITZ1_PLACE

so you should probably do...

precacheString(&COLDITZ1_PLACE);

The & in front of it tells the script engine that this is a memory address reference (ie a variable) but the use of " will override that, so instead it gives you the string "COLDITZ1_PLACE" and not the value contained in &COLDITZ1_PLACE.

Hope this helps

Sam Peterson

Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried all different combinations of the use of "" and & from your suggestion, but nothing seems to work. The wierd thing is, I have an earlier SP map where I did the same thing, and it works fine. I don't get it

You did save it as a .STR file with the same name as yourmap.gsc,
and place it in your folder called english
inside the localizedstrings folder
which is in the uo folder.

Might sound basic but we've all done it. I even misplaced my whole Localizedstrings folder recently. Only realised when I went to check up on this thread. For some bizarre reason it was hiding in my uo/maps folder instead of just the uo folder.

Ya, I tried putting it all into a pk3 countless number of times, and it not only doesn't work, it messes up the rest of the strings for the game. I can't figure this out, and it annoys me that I have another SP map, and it works fine for that one.

Well, I'm gonna call it a night, I'll see if i can dream up some ideas to try and fix this.