Can an Admin please make this post sticky?
I think it's an important reminder.



Posters, please specify in your scripting related questions the type of map you are referring to.

Single or Multi player

In scripting the difference in the two game types is massive
and many commands are not usable for both game types.

This will stop a lot of confusion and frustration for people good enough to reply to your questions.

Thank You
Happy Mapping

Made sticky. Also please add any other common question you see often in the forums here.

How to put code in these forums the right way.

You have to be very careful when posting code into forums, most forums have control codes for things like italic text, bold text, etc etc
One of the control codes that causes many problems with script code is the italics code [ i ]
Note the spaces either side of the "i" in the braces make it undetectable to the forum.

A lot of script code is written without spaces to save space,
For example you will often see this type of line in many scripts.

players[ i ] thread do_something();

If I do it again without spaces I will change some of the code to italic letters and the [ i ] will vanish like so.

players thread do_something();


Another character used in script code a lot is the less than character <
Unfortunately in a lot of forums this character will cause problems if it has no spaces either side of it.

Now lets use a piece of actual script code as an example inside a "code quote" box. This is how the script code should look!

number_of_specs = 0;
for (i=0 ; i<players.size ; i++) {
	player = players[i]
		if (player.pers["team"] == "spectator")
			number_of_specs ++;
		else
			number_of_specs --;
}

Notice we have used BOTH "[ i ]" & " < " the common characters that cause most of the problems.
If I just paste the above text in here not using the "code quote" box see what happens.

number_of_specs = 0;
for (i=0 ; i player = players
if (player.pers["team"] == "spectator")
number_of_specs ++;
else
number_of_specs --;
}


The script code above is useless and will create an infinite number of posts by frustrated people asking what's wrong with their script.

So.... Please ALWAYS use the code quote option to post script code in forums.
You can't miss it, it's the button right under the ITALIC button!
Just select all your code in the edit window and click on the CODE button.

Hope this explains clearly what's happening.
Regards Grassy



edited on Nov. 26, 2006 01:32 am by WHC_Grassy