Entity field : nil problem

[YouGroove]

Hi,

 

i removed a script that worked fine from a character, then after reafecting the script and running it,

it says a field can not be nil.

 

But the field is not nil as i drag and drop camera entity on it. It seems a bug with script field.

 

 

Does someone encountered the same problem ?

I restarted LE3 , and removed entity field dnas drag and drop it again, but still it says it is nil trying ti run the game.

 

Perhaps it's my system saying take a break ? (what im' doing)

[AggrorJorn]

Try replacing nil with double quotes. Script.camera = "" --entity

[YouGroove]

Thanks Aggror, it worked.

Why is not nil replaced by the entity we drag and drop ? It is a bug or a convention ?

[Rick]

Yeah, this shouldn't happen. I never use "" for an entity type. I always use nil. To me I wonder if those entities got screwed up and you had to delete the camera and relink it. I've seen people talk about having to do that before.

[YouGroove]

I tried remove and put script then relink camera entity, but no way, the only soluction was Aggro one, put " ".

[Rick]

No, this is a bug somewhere because in the game I'm working on right now I do the exact same thing and I have

 

Script.camera = nil --entity "Camera"

 

And it works just fine.

[AggrorJorn]

I don't why this is. I used to be able to put nil instead of "". Perhaps this has changed over time.

 

Perhaps it is because you are specifying a name? Just guessing really.

[YouGroove]

I made another test map and i have same problem but worst as using FindChild i have same message.

 

Or my system is going weird or i will need some LE3 re install ?

 

I uploaded the test map :

Put the map in Maps folder and the script in "Scripts/objects/player" and try running it.

EntityBug.zip

[Josh]

When you set that value to "" you are setting it to an empty string, which is not the same thing as nil:

    local n=""

if (n==nil) then

print("N IS NIL!!!")

else

print("N IS NOT NIL!!!")

end

 

The script you posted does not have any entity field.

[YouGroove]

My bad,

I removes all ressources the script was loading , because these ressources (pics, sounds) are not part of LE3 package,

and i had no problem with camera using the two versions :

 

Script.Camera = "" --entity
Script.Camera = nil --entity

 

The error message was not precise and mislead me to think it was that line the problem, but in fact it was ressources not loaded and used in script it seems.

 

The thread can be closed

[Rick]

Yeah, I figured it had to be something else because I use that all the time.

[Josh]

Woot, thanks guys.