Torque backups ( help me )

#1 It has to be something else because I've done this exact thing and did not have a problem. Try running cleandso instead of just deleting the game.cs.dso to see if it forces the engine to compile the cs files.

#2 I did cleandso and now it deleted all the dsos, i launch my torquedemo.exe and it still doesn't load my mission. I went back to my game folder and it seemed to load about 4 dsos but nothing else. HMM may this be possible because it says i have 1 script error in game.cs?

#3 Nope fixed the errors those are not it, can the reason be that i have 1 time saved my games directory and reinstalled an whole new fresh torque and put my game file back in there. Is that the case? that my game directory shouldve sticked with my old non fresh copy of torque?

#4 What was the script error in game.cs?

I have no idea why it wouldn't be parsing your .cs files. Are you exec'ing them?

#5 Yep all that ive checked. Every single thing is the way it should be. But it just wont work. Does this have anything at all to do with the torquedemo.exe having wierd engine changes or something?

#6 It shouldn't. There shouldn't be anything different between the "demo" and a compiled version of the engine.

#7 Well ill try look around. Tell me if youve got more tips or ideas on what is wrong.


EDIT: well it seems that starter.fps and starter.racing work fine. The problem is my game only :S

#8 Ok, well now i have figured out nothing else is wrong except, that game.cs has some script errors maybe which is causing the mission not to launch and ofcourse all the other files that compile when mission is loading to not compile if you could look through my whole game.cs code maybe? You probably wouldn't have time to though.

#9 I wish I had more time. Perhaps if you posted some of the error points, we could help.

#10 Saska - i recommend starting over, with a 100% fresh install of the codebase into a brand-new directory, and then re-implementing your changes one at a time, checking that things haven't broken at each step.

also, if you want to Do It Right (tm), install a source-control app like Tortoise Subversion and use it often. this will let you easily roll back to previously working versions when something goes wrong, and is an essential tool for any serious development.

#11 Just to give a bit of insight:

If you have script errors in a TorqueScript file, that file will not compile, and therefore changes you have made within that file simply will not be applied. The short answer is, if you have errors in a script file, you have to fix them :)

Now, if you have a previously existing .cs.dso file for your file with the script errors (for example, if your file containing errors is game.cs, and a game.cs.dso file exists), that means that Torque will "fall back" to the last successful compile of that file--the .dso. Since this file (if it exists) does not contain the changes you made, it will operate just like it did when you first compiled it.

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What was the script error in game.cs?

I have no idea why it wouldn't be parsing your .cs files. Are you exec'ing them?

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Yep all that ive checked. Every single thing is the way it should be. But it just wont work.

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Ok, well now i have figured out nothing else is wrong except, that game.cs has some script errors maybe which is causing the mission not to launch and ofcourse all the other files that compile when mission is loading

See above. If you still have errors in your game.cs, then your exec's aren't working (things are not in fact the way they should be).

#12 Well the script error in game.cs is VERY VERY ODD because its from the code that came with the engine that has the error on it for somereason :


function pickSpawnPoint()
{
%groupName = "MissionGroup/PlayerDropPoints";
%group = nameToID(%groupName);

if (%group != -1) {
%count = %group.getCount();
if (%count != 0) {
%index = getRandom(%count-1);
%spawn = %group.getObject(%index);
return %spawn.getTransform();
}
else
error("No spawn points found in " @ %groupName);
}
else
error("Missing spawn points group " @ %groupName);

// Could be no spawn points, in which case we'll stick the
// player at the center of the world.
return "0 0 300 1 0 0 0";
}

#13 I don't have time to pick apart and solve the errors directly related to this thread, but I can throw out one very big helpful suggestion: SOURCE CONTROL. Learn it, use it, love it and thank it later for preventing this kind of train wreck. Good luck.

#14 What's the error?