I am trying to creat a player for my game. I have several problems. The one I am trying to fix has to do with tracing.

I want the players to only spawn at certain areas (not in the trench or on top of the hill). To do this, I created several invisible and passable blocks and applied the earthtile texture to them. I do a trace, and it doesn't work. The game gets stuck in an endless loop.

When I use breakpoint, it tells me that it never finds this: if(str_stri(tex_name,"earthtile") != FALSE). Any help would be greatly appriciated. I have the same problem when I try to spawn ammo, because it uses similar coding.

function create_player()
{
var position_found = FALSE;

while (position_found == FALSE)
{
// get random start vector around center of level
vecFrom.x = -3900 + random(7800);
vecFrom.y = -4000 + random(8000);
vecFrom.z = 200;

vec_set(vecTo,VecFrom);
vecTo.z = -200;

trace_mode = USE_BOX + SCAN_TEXTURE;
TRACE(vecFrom,vecTo);

// check for floor texture, if floor create entity
if(str_stri(tex_name,"earthtile") != FALSE)
{

vec_set(temp_loc,vecTo);
temp_loc.z = target.z + 35;

// create player's entity depending on profession
if (profession_ID == PROF_BAD_USA)
{
player = ent_create(str_BAD_USA,temp_loc,move_USA);
}

if (profession_ID == PROF_BAD_UK)
{
player = ent_create(str_BAD_UK,temp_loc,move_UK);
}

if (profession_ID == PROF_BAD_CHINA)
{
player = ent_create(str_BAD_China,temp_loc,move_China);
}
position_found = TRUE; // found floor to create player on
}
wait(1);
}
}

wrong form my friend... I didn't really look at your code 2 thoroughly but let me give you some quick tips that might solve your problem... you might wanna make the engine wait until the player is created.. at the start of you create player function add something like while(player == null){wait(1);}

Also make sure that this part of the script is the problem.. take it out and see if you have another problem with out it (comment this out with /*).. i know it might sound dumb but you wouldnt believe how many times a different part of my mountains of code is the actual problem but i get an error inside a different function.. lol btw...like i started to say post this in http://www.coniserver.net/ubbthreads/postlist.php/Cat/0/Board/UBB15
aka scripting section for the best results