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[Isaac]

Well Isaac's post is just completely wrong, actually. The error has nothing to do with a concatenation that you're performing.

It is a funny thing that as I read it (the first time), I understood it to mean that the error happened [immediately] upon the death of the warden; clearly I missed the last bit about saving the game at the crystal.

Yes... variables in script functions not set to local cause errors upon attempting to save the game.
Note: @TheLastOrder... Not all variables in the scripts are required to be local; some cannot be. To get a good understanding of it, AH has a dedicated page about this:
http://www.grimrock.net/modding/save-ga ... variables/

[minmay]

Yes... variables in script functions not set to local cause errors upon attempting to save the game.

If a variable isn't set to local, then it isn't in a function, period. Even if you declare it inside a function, it becomes a field of the ScriptComponent, not a variable that belongs to the function block.

[Isaac]

Yes... variables in script functions not set to local cause errors upon attempting to save the game.

If a variable isn't set to local, then it isn't in a function, period. Even if you declare it inside a function, it becomes a field of the ScriptComponent, not a variable that belongs to the function block.

True or False: Adding the local keyword indiscriminately to script variables can create upvalues.
(If the variable is outside of a function, but used inside of one.)

It won't even preview in the editor; though it will export to dat, and crash the game when loaded.

I mentioned it on the odd chance that TheLastOrder meant to add "local" to ~everything.

[TheLastOrder]

So I think I have understood where´s the problem:

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Bertolucci.monster:addConnector("onDie", "tomebertolucci", "tomebertolucci")

I added, through script, a connector on a monster that respawns and, once he has died, he activates another script.... where I spawn an OBJECT that doesn´t exist...
Is this object the one causing this trouble, if I understood correctly

This is that script I´m talking about:

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function tomebertolucci()
     b = party.party
     spawn("tome_water",b.level,b.x,b.y,b.facing,b.elevation)
end

So probably this is the solution....

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function tomebertolucci()
     b = party.party
     local item = spawn("tome_water",b.level,b.x,b.y,b.facing,b.elevation)
end

Thank you again guys!

[Batty]

So probably this is the solution....

ummm...no, the problem is

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b = party.party

so, for reasons previously illustrated you could do:

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local b = party.party

but I would just do:

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function tomebertolucci()
     spawn("tome_water", party.level, party.x, party.y, party.facing, party.elevation, nil)
end

[TheLastOrder]

Batty, you´re absolutely right

The variable in the script that the game can´t storage when saving is b.

Thank you very much!

[THOM]

I forgot how to call all entities of an item in a script. I mean all torches in the game: torch_1, torch_2, torch_3 ...
What was it like? "torch_i" is wrong.. ??

What I want to do is destroying all of them...

[THOM]

Well to help myself, I found this:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=7951&start=140#p83415

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local obj;
for i=1,10 do
    obj = findEntity("teleporter_" .. i)
    -- do stuff to obj
end

But I can not figure out what "do stuff with obj" means. How to use it.

obj:destroy() doesn't work

[GoldenShadowGS]

Well to help myself, I found this:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=7951&start=140#p83415

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local obj;
for i=1,10 do
    obj = findEntity("teleporter_" .. i)
    -- do stuff to obj
end

But I can not figure out what "do stuff with obj" means. How to use it.

obj:destroy() doesn't work

Paste your code so we can debug it.

[THOM]

Paste your code so we can debug it.

Well then. The situation is a bit tangled.

I have an alcove where you have to put an air-essence on to unlock a key. For certain reasons it is possible, that players choose another alcove to put the essence on - but then the essence is locked in that alcove and the player can't get it back (I have put a forcefield over this alcove but you can put items through it if it's on a wall (!) - not if it's alone in the room! But you can't take items back when they are in the forcefield.)

To avoid a dead end I thought it could be a good idea to avoid putting the air essence into the alcove. I have tried to script something: when you put the essence trough the forcefield in the wrong alcove, the essence will be destroyed and recreated in the mouse. But therefore every time another unique item id is created, I cannot destroy the essence in my way. I need a trick to destroy all essenceses regardless which id-number they have.

This is, what I have tried:

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function surfaceContains(surface, item)
   for _,i in surface:contents() do
      	if i.go.name == item then return true 
		end
   end
end


function keepEssence()
	if	surfaceContains(castle_alcove_key.surface, "essence_air")
		then
			timer_setMouseEssence.timer:enable() -- timer just delays recreation
			--print("timer")
	end	
end


function setMouse() -- called by timer
	for i, ent in castle_alcove_key.surface:contents() do
          		local obj;
				for x=1,100 do
    				obj = findEntity("
					essence_air_"..x..":destroy() --this line seems to be wrong! with 'essence_air_1' it works - but just once...
				end
 				--print("destroy")
       		end
	setMouseItem(spawn("essence_air",nil,nil,nil,nil,nil).item)
	--print("create")
end