Hey guys, ran into a problem I have never seen before. I decided to finally make a mp map. Now I am trying to add a thing where the person can go over to a mortar launcher xmodel, press Use, and fire a mortar shell and have it land randomly, do some damage. This will only work 4 times, because there are only 4 shell models on the ground .

Now, I was loading it and the map loads fine, so I run over to the launcher, press Use, and I get a script compile error that says
pointing to the line that says

Here is my .gsc file, the only one I have for the map:

main()
{
	maps\mp\_load::main();
	setCullFog(0, 3000, 0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0);
	ambientPlay("ambient_mp_pavlov");
	
	game["allies"] = "russian";
	game["axis"] = "german";
	
	game["russian_soldiertype"] = "conscript";
	game["russian_soldiervariation"] = "winter";
	game["german_soldiertype"] = "waffen";
	game["german_soldiervariation"] = "winter";
	
	game["attackers"] = "allies";
	game["defenders"] = "axis";
	
	thread precache();
	thread cover();
	thread fires();
	
	level.tshells = 4;
	thread mortars();
}

precache()
{	
	level._effect["fire1"] = loadfx("fx/fire/tank_burn.efx");
	level._effect["mortar_explosion"][0] = 

loadfx("fx/impacts/snow_mortar.efx");
	level._effect["mortar_explosion"][1] = 

loadfx("fx/impacts/snowhit_small.efx");
}

cover()
{
	trigger = getent("cover_trigger","targetname");
	cover = getent("cover","targetname");
	trigger waittill("trigger");
	
	cover movex(136, 2, .5, .5);
	wait(10);
	cover movex(-136, 2, .5, .5);
	
	thread cover();
}

fires()
{
	maps\mp\_fx::loopfx("fire1", (2648,-365,8), 0.2);
}

mortars()
{
	shell1 = getent("shell1","targetname");
	shell2 = getent("shell2","targetname");
	shell3 = getent("shell3","targetname");
	shell4 = getent("shell4","targetname");
	trigger = getent("mortar_trigger","targetname");
	trigger waittill("trigger");
	
	thread mortar_ammo(shell1, shell2, shell3, shell4);
	
	if(level.tshells == 0)
	{
		return;
	}
	while(1)
	{
		if(level.tshells > 0)
		{
			thread mortar_fire();
		}
	}
}

mortar_ammo(shell1, shell2, shell3, shell4)
{
	if(isdefined(shell1))
	{
		shell1 delete();
		level.tshells--;
		return;
	}
	if(!isdefined(shell1))
	{
		if(isdefined(shell2))
		{
			shell2 delete();
			level.tshells--;
			return;
		}
	}
	if(!isdefined(shell1))
	{
		if(!isdefined(shell2))
		{
			if(isdefined(shell3))
			{
				shell3 delete();
				level.tshells--;
				return;
			}
		}
	}
	if(!isdefined(shell1))
	{
		if(!isdefined(shell2))
		{
			if(!isdefined(shell3))
			{
				if(isdefined(shell4))
				{
					shell4 delete();
					level.tshells--;
					return;
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

mortar_fire()
{
	sound = getent("mortar_sound","targetname");
	mortars = getentarray("mortars","targetname");
	
	sound playsound("mortar_launch");
	wait(2);
	mortars[rand] playsound("mortar_incoming");
	mort_org = mortars[rand] getorigin();
	wait(1);
	
	playfx (level._effect["mortar_explosion"][randomint(2)], mort_org);
	mortars[rand] playsound("mortar_explosion");
	radiusDamage(mortar[rand].origin + (0,0,12), 500, 250, 5);
}

I have no idea what the error could mean, so if anyone knows that would be awsome, I'm dying to see if this will actually work. By the way, this is a custom script I made from scratch and I'm trying to see if I can get it to work, so theres no way that I could have copied and pasted wrong from somewhere because its original, unless I just forgot to add something to it.

-Rogue

edited on Mar. 24, 2006 06:45 pm by rogue722

Generally this error means that you have an infinite loop or infinite recursion.

The problem *might* be here:

	while(1)
	{
		if(level.tshells > 0)
		{
			thread mortar_fire();
		}
	}

the mortar_fire function doesn't change level.tshells, so if level.tshells is greater than zero, the loop will go on forever and you'll keep creating mortar_fire threads, each of which makes a few variables, so eventually (very quickly in real life) you run out.