Hi all,

I'm playing with A7 for the first time, and I've looked through a lot of the example scripts and played around a bit, but when I tried to write one of my own, I get the following error on the splash screen:

Compiling Main.wdl [Esc] to abort...
<BMAP* NoAlpha_tga=^flat.tga";>
main.wdl 6:3 (): Syntax Error - flat.tga invalid character.

Script Error
Engine Shutdown

Now, before I get pasted with the "You screwed up the code." responses, here is the entire script generating this error:

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <acknex.h>
#include <default.c>
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Resource Definitions
BMAP* NoAlpha_tga ="flat.tga";
//BMAP * AlphaImage = "flat alpha.tga";
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

function Config()
{
// set the mouse mode to 2
mouse_mode = 2;
}


function main()
{
var number;
//string TestString;
Config();
}

It does nothing. Why? I haven't gotten that far yet. I don't understand how the "flat.tga" translates to ^flat.tga"?!

Any help is greatly appreciated.

The strange little ^ symbol occers a lot in compiler errors, and doesnt appear
to mean much as far as I can see. Usually it replaces an opening ", I think
it may be a mangled system font at fault.

As for your error, all you code looks OK, so I would say the TGA file is at
fault. TGA files must be either 24bit or 32bit(with alpha) TGA files.
All other bitcounts are not accepted by 3DGS.

Thanks for the response. I just checked the TGA and it is a 32-bit per pixel TGA. That would be why I am so confused. If it has any relevance, the image is not compressed.

Hmm, odd.
OK try this.

1> Rename your tga to something else for safekeeping.
2> Copy some other tga from somewhere in the Gamestudio folder,
say the Gstudio\templates\images folder.
2a> Save it to the same folder as your .C script lives in.
3> Change your code to match its name, and try it out.
4> If it works, rename the tga to the same as your old ("flat.tga"),
and change your code too. Try it out.

What happens?
Also, what program is creating your tga file? Shareware is sometime a bit funky.
Post the TGA if you can. I never could, Im forum-challenged.

i think the targa bitmap is for ent_sky only...the targa contains 24 bit...use .bmp or .pcx....








From: Philippine Game Developers.

No joy.

I used the arrow.tga from the gstudio folder, same error. I also tried changing it over to a bmp (32-bit) and got the same result.

Maybe because you're using a warez version?

I just bought the commercial version (7.06.1) and this still happens.

I also tried deleting and recreating the script. On launch I get the error in the splash and now I get an actual msg box captioned "Error E355" saying "startup failure".

Ok, but then I comment out the offending line of code, run it, uncomment the line and now it freaking works?!?!?!?!?!

Does the SED have a Clean & Rebuild like VS.net?

heh heh...just kidding. Still broken.

Code is:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include <acknex.h>
#include <default.c>
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Resource Definitions
BMAP* NoAlpha ="flat.bmp";
//BMAP * AlphaImage = "flat alpha.tga";
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

PANEL* TestPanel =
{
pos_x = 0;
pos_y = 0;
layer = 1;
bmap = NoAlpha;
flags = OVERLAY | VISIBLE;
}

function Config()
{
// set the mouse mode to 2
mouse_mode = 2;
video_mode = 7; // Set Res to 800x600
screen_color.blue = 150; // make background blue
}




function main()
{
var number;

Config();
}

and the errors are:
test.wdl 13 - Parameter unknown pos_y bad keyword in {}
test.wdl 12 - Parameter unknown pos_x bad keyword in {}
test.wdl 11 - Parameter unknown PANEL * bad keyword in {}

have you tried updating?
the latest gamestudio is 7.664 i believe not 7.06.1

So i take it you are still using a warez version