Hello,

Having an odd problem that's cropping up alot...

I'm in the process of doing tutorials to learn 3DGS from the utter basics so I can eventually roll that knowledge/experience over into my own project..

But I'm hitting a bit of a brick wall along the way. It seems that tutorials I'm trying that come with sample levels that are used.. either in the steps, or as reference, refuse to run. I usually end up with a message about a script or scripts not being found, etc. I'm not sure why this is happening.

Has anyone else experienced this.. and.. how did you get it to work? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your time/help...

Mike

What tutorial(s) are causing these error messages? Also, what version and edition do you have?

Well, can't remember each one, but one example is the House/Interior tutorial series created by Dan Silverman. Steps in that series won't compile for the above-mentioned reasons.

As for version, I have 6.40.5 Extra (though I could have sworn I've upgraded to Commercial Edition at some point.. hmmm... need to find that info)..

I think it might have to do with the paths setup; how 3DGS manages assets. Perhaps the paths aren't matching up to what the Authors' used in their creation?

As you guessed its probably an issue with the pathes.
Just check the .wdl file which is linked to the level (WED -> Map Properties) and look for the path setup.
If there no pathes set, make sure you have all scripts in the same folder as the level.

I'm having a problem too. I looked at the bomb tutorial, Code:

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//BOMB

action timer
{
     my.skin = 2;
     my._DAMAGE = 200; // set different damage values for different timers
     my.enable_click = on;
     my.event = start_timer;
} 

function start_timer()
{
     wait (1);
     second_counter = 10; // explodes after 10 seconds
     while (my != null)
     {
          second_counter -= 1;
          my.skin = 2;
          
          waitt (14);
          my.skin = 1;
          waitt (2);
          if (second_counter < 1)
          {
               range = my._DAMAGE * 2;
               damage = my._DAMAGE;
               temp.pan = 360;
               temp.tilt = 180;
               temp.z = range;
               indicator = _EXPLODE; // not a friendly scan
               scan_entity (my.x, temp);
               morph (explo_sprite, me);
               my.oriented = on;
               my.pan = 0;
               while (my.frame < 7)
               {
                    my.frame += 3 * time;
                    wait (1);
               }
               actor_explode(); // remove the explosion sprite
          }
     }
} 

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saved it in template_6/codes, added the script to my level, attached the timer action to something, and errors such as
parameter _DAMAGE not found
parameter secondtimer not found and etc
please help? hopefully a step-by-step guide would be useful