Adding a research item

[TheSilentOne]

Ive recently been playing around with the hiigaran research file, trying to get it to accept a new item. Unfortunately, any additions cause the game to crash. I could understand that if it was just up against the limit for items(and there are a lot...), but I tried removing another one, and it still crashed. I then went on to trying to add the new tech in by replacing another tech with the exact same number of lines. Still, the game crashed.

This leads me to believe that there is some file, somewhere, that tells the game where to find specific items.

Unfortunately, I can't find it.

Anyone have an idea as to where to look?

[Thought]

Try adding -luatrace to the command line parameters, and checking Hw2.log after it crashes.

[Sandalpocalypse]

Post the changes you've made.

Most likely you lost a { or } somewhere and it's not closing properly.

[TheSilentOne]

Unfortunately, it's not saying anything new....

LUA 'data:scripts\Building and Research\Hiigaran\research.lua' -- parameter: `}' expected (to close `{' at line 1627);
last token read: `UpgradeType' at line 1636 in string ""
Error: loading research file (data:scripts\Building and Research\Hiigaran\research.lua) -- FATAL EXIT -- researchmanager/70:! --stack trace-- 0x00489A19: GSLobbySessionDesc::operator= () 0x00574F7A: getLibraryID () 0x00575E20: getLibraryID () 0x005953F5: getLibraryID () 0x00596A4C: getLibraryID () 0x004948BF: GSLobbySessionDesc::operator= () 0x0049034A: GSLobbySessionDesc::operator= () 0x0049090B: GSLobbySessionDesc::operator= ()


I don't know what the rest means, but the first part seems to indicate that the file was expecting the next part of the file to start where the section I added started...

[Agent Jones]

Definately looks like you're missing a closed bracket .. go check those out..

[TheSilentOne]

Well, I got it to work somehow. I guess I'm entering something in wrong, because it worked when I edited one of the entries already there. When I tried to add the old entry back in manually, it crashed again. Then I took it from the original file, and it worked. Wierd.

I checked the brackets, they were there.... It must have been a formatting error somewhere.

Hmmm-a comma was missing. I could have sworn I put that there....
Oh well.

Yep, taking it back out caused an identical error.