More fish collision problems

#1 Hi. I'm just trialling TGB myself and having my own difficulties so forgive me if my comments seem a little clueless or unhelpful.

As far as i can tell, you're right about the section of the player movement script that shows an error being fine. In my (limited) experience though, the fact that it's showing an error there means that there is more than likely a missing or dulplicate '{' or '}' somewhere above that line that shows the error. I myself have always had problems spotting missing braces, but try posting the rest of your fish movement code here and i'll (and others) can have a look over it.

Hopefully we can get this sorted. I'm on the same tutorial having my own problems and it's frustrating and disheartening to be stuck so early on isn't it?

#2 It's critical that you not ignore parse errors, because the fact that it "appears to work fine" is very misleading, and here's why:

When Torque is loading a script file, it has two choices to pick from:

a .cs file, which is the actual TorqueScript (human readable) code file.

a .cs.dso file, which is a byte code compiled version of the .cs file, and is generated when a file is successfully compiled.

Now, if Torque fails to compile a .cs file,. instead of just giving up, it will look for a .dso file from a previous compilation attempt--and if it finds one, it uses it.

This can be confusing, because by definition it's old code--and therefore what you think is working is not what you just wrote.

#3 Ok, heres the whole code. I can't find an uneven bracket anywhere, of course I'm horrible at finding things.

function PlayerFish::onLevelLoaded(%this, %scenegraph)
{
$FishPlayer = %this;


moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "w", "fishPlayerUp();", "fishPlayerUpStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "s", "fishPlayerDown();", "fishPlayerDownStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "a", "fishPlayerLeft();", "fishPlayerLeftStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "d", "fishPlayerRight();", "fishPlayerRightStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "space", "fishPlayerBoost();", "fishPlayerBoostStop();");
}

function fishPlayerBoost()
{
%flipX = $FishPlayer.getFlipX();
if(!%flipX)
{
%hSpeed = $FishPlayer.hSpeed * 3;
}
else
{
%hSpeed = -$FishPlayer.hSpeed * 3;
}
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX(%hSpeed);
}

function fishPlayerBoostStop()
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX(0);
}

function PlayerFish::updateMovement(%this)
{
if(%this.moveLeft)
{
$FishPlayer.setFlipX(true);
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( -$FishPlayer.hSpeed );
}
if(%this.moveRight)
{
$FishPlayer.setFlipX(false);
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityX( $FishPlayer.hSpeed );
}
if(%this.moveUp)
{
$setLinearVelocityY( -$FishPlayer.vSpeed );
}
if(%this.moveDown)
{
$setLinearVelocityY( $FishPlayer.vSpeed );
}
if(!%this.moveLeft && !%this.moveRight)
{
$setLinearVelocityX(0);
}
if(!%this.moveUp && !%this.moveDown)
{
$setLinearVelocityY(0);
}
}

function fishPlayerUp()
{
$FishPlayer.moveUp = true;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerDown()
{
$FishPlayer.moveDown = true;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerRight()
{
$FishPlayer.moveRight = true;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerLeft()
{
$FishPlayer.moveLeft = true;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerUpStop()
{
$FishPlayer.moveUp = false;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerDownStop()
{
$FishPlayer.moveDown = false;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerRightStop()
{
$FishPlayer.moveRight = false;
$FishPlayer.updateMovement();
}

function fishPlayerLeftStop()
{
$FishPlayer.moveLeft = false;
$FishPlayer.udpateMovement();
}

#4 Looking at my code from the tutorial it should be

if(%this.moveUp)
{
%this.setLinearVelocityY(-$FishPlayer.vSpeed);
}

I'd imagine that it could also be applied like this as well

if(%this.moveUp)
{
$FishPlayer.setLinearVelocityY(-$FishPlayer.vSpeed);
}