Current RP Script

[Deddalt]

Alright, well, I have been working on making an RP server with a few friends of mine, and currently, I think it has gone quite well. I have started creating the script and have had a lot of help from those of you here on the MTA forums. I have a problem where I can't test-run my MTA script, so I don't know if anything is wrong with my script. I figure I'll tackle that problem first.

My script is located at: c:/program files/MTA San Andreas/server/mods/deathmatch/resources/rrp/

My folder contains: Revolution.lua, client/client.lua, meta.xml, and other small scripts to help out.

My meta.xml contains:

    "Maverick" type="server" name="rrp" description="rrp" /> 
    

When I run the MTA server, I type "gamemode rrp", which is the name of the folder that all of this is contained in. Immediately when I start the MTA server it tells me "Could not parse 'settings.xml' file . Starting with an empty settings registry." I attempt "gamemode rrp", and it returns " 'rrp' is not a valid gamemode."

Now that I have that problem out of the way, I'd like to ask if anyone can tell me if there are errors in this script, to the best of my knowledge (which is minimal), I can't find anything wrong with this script, other than some unfinished commands, which I already know about and plan on fixing.

My current script is located at : http://www.pastebin.com/f8ad3762

I'd be grateful if you could alert me to any errors in this script, also if you could help me with my gamemode issue. Also, I heard that setAccountData only sets the data for that session, if that is correct, I have to start over with this script. Is this true?

[Ace_Gambit]

Also, I heard that setAccountData only sets the data for that session, if that is correct, I have to start over with this script. Is this true?

Yes, this is true for DP2. The account data is erased when the server shuts down. It is supposedly solved in DP3 so my advice is to keep the script because it should work in the next release.

[Deddalt]

Thank god, I was going to cry if I had to rewrite the script. Also, is it possible for the player to modify their account info? I have some understanding that the account data is saved on THEIR computer, which could mean that they can edit it. If that's true, I need to find a way to write their account data to my server.

[Ace_Gambit]

Account data is stored server side. Clients can not access the files that contain account data.

[Mr.Hankey]

The first error you get can be safely ignored and the second one is because you used type="server" in your info tag in the meta.xml but it should be type="gamemode" if you want to start the resource using "gamemode rrp". The attribute "type" in the info tag specifies the type of the whole resource (which is important for other resources like mapmanager/votemanager and so on) so it can be either a "gamemode" a "map" or anything else when it's just used as a utility script.

[Deddalt]

Thanks for the help, MrHankey.

Could you tell me if there are any errors with the following things in conjunction with one another? I'm unsure of whether or not it will work.

http://pastebin.com/f4aff4e08

http://pastebin.com/fdc648fd

That's about all I have at the moment, but please tell me if it has errors. Thank you.

[Mr.Hankey]

Woah thats a lot of code

Errors:

You forgot "then" really really really often.

You forgot to use "elseif" instead of "if" at some parts where it was needed.

You wrote "or or" two times.

(Syntax:)

if blah == poo then --Note that using brackets like " if (blah == poo) then" is optional 
--do this 
elseif blah ~= poo then 
--do that 
else 
--do nothing 
end 

If you use "elseif" or "else" after you made an if check there is no second "end" needed just one to close the first "if" line.

Anyway i corrected all syntax mistakes and i commented non-working parts/lines out. You will see them so you can fix it yourself.

http://deddalt.pastebin.com/m4e5ce68b

The second script seemed to be ok but i renamed all "next" to "nextt" because next is a global function or whatever that is used by lua.

http://deddalt.pastebin.com/m5c1ae81

[haybail]

i assume u would but did u have a look through debugscript? it helps with those errors especially client side ones.

http://development.mtasa.com/index.php?title=Debugging

edit: oh you didnt run it already, my mistake.

[Michael_Sund]

Would you mind if i used your script? it seems to be very good! i'm not really good at LUA i'm better at SA-MP's PAWN but that's too easy

[Deddalt]

You can use it, sure, but it doesn't work.

[Gamesnert]

Would you mind if i used your script? it seems to be very good! i'm not really good at LUA i'm better at SA-MP's PAWN but that's too easy

The worse you are, the more I recommend you to script. Makes you buildup experience.

[Michael_Sund]

LOL it didn't work nothing happened when i started it yeah i can't script anything the only thing i actually made working weas TP's

[Michael_Sund]

You can use it, sure, but it doesn't work.

LOL i didn't see that