I'm trying to add snow to my mp map, and when I compile my map and go to run it, I get an error saying that there is bad syntax. the bad syntax supposedly is : "for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)" . What is wrong here?

for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)

pretty sure the part highlighted is the problem. I just picked that up somewhere.

@94sniper


@lithium123

please post your script here so we can see what could be causing the problem...

what's directly above that line in your script?

typically the array/for loop is written like this:

players = getentarray("player", "classname");
for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)
{

make sure the semicolon is behind the getentarray line and (don't know for sure that this will cause the problem) that the brace '{' is behind the for-loop.

edited on Oct. 13, 2007 02:23 am by macklebee

you just reposted what he wrote for his FOR loop ( not shouting, just trying to differentiate between the two fors).

Lithium have you defined what players is, or did you just throw the for loop into your script?

Also could you post your entire code for me to view and the error where it says the line it would be on or near. In coding sometimes it says one line, but it could be a line above or below that is causing the error, especially with semi-colons.


In a for loop:

i = 0 declares a variable

i < players.size tells how long it will loop around,i.e. so long as i is less than players.size

i++ increments by 1 each time it loops to the start. i=0 at beginning . . . after first run through i = 1.

Rasta's script from the tutorial:

//Script by rasta, please credit if used 
main() 
{ 
level thread rasta_cod2_rain(); 
} 

rasta_cod2_rain() 

{ 
zufall = RandomInt(100); 

while(1) { 


players = getentarray("player", "classname"); 

if(players.size > 0) 
{ 

max_nodes = 20; 
max_nodes_per_player = max_nodes/players.size; 


for(ii=0;ii

for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++) 
{ 

player = players[i]; 

if(isAlive(player)) { 

x= 350-randomfloat(700); 
y= 350-randomfloat(700); 

pos = player.origin +(x,y,200) ; 
trace = bulletTrace(pos,pos +(0,0,-250), true, undefined); 

if(trace["fraction"] != 1) playfx(level.rasta_cod2_rain,trace["position"]); 
wait 0.05; 

} 
} 
} 
} 

wait 0.05; 
} 
}

max_nodes = 20;
max_nodes_per_player = max_nodes/players.size;


for(ii=0;ii <----- This is the Error, it is not a complete for loop

for(i = 0; i < players.size; i++)
{



im not really sure what the loop is suppose to look like.
It could be

for(ii=0; ii < max_nodes_per_player;ii++)

not sure if this is what was meant there.

well, I tried "for(ii=0; ii < max_nodes_per_player;ii++)", but that didn't work.

try pming rasta about this, or i do believe there was an updated version posted somewhere on the forums, maybe in a topic someone else created. Its basically the rain script, just using snow.

Hi guys. Sorry too keep you waiting. I'm pretty sure foyleman updated the tut for me with all the added bug fixes in the tutorial. This is caused by not copying the script correctly or copying it from a source which doesn't use the [c ode] boxes. Give me a min and ill take a look.

Edit. Ok guys check out this tutorial. http://www.modsonline.com/Tutorials-read-338.html
Everything should be working in there as i asked a buddy to run the script as its written (as im not currently on a computer with cod) and it appears to work fine.

edited on Oct. 17, 2007 02:32 pm by Rasta

sweet, problem fixed. thanks