Coding Error on Banter File

[Kendris]

I'm getting the following error when trying to compile my banter file:

 

[ValenNPC\BKEValen.d] LEXER ERROR at line 25 column 5-11

Near Text: (

invalid character [(]

 

[ValenNPC\BKEValen.d] ERROR at line 25 column 5-11

Near Text: (

Parsing.Parse_error

ERROR: parsing [ValenNPC\BKEValen.d]: Parsing.Parse_error

ERROR: compiling [ValenNPC\BKEValen.d]!

Stopping installation because of error.

 

The block of code & the line in question is this:

 

CHAIN

IF ~InParty("Anomen")

See("Anomen")

!StateCheck("Anomen",STATE_SLEEPING)

!StateCheck("KEValen",STATE_SLEEPING)

CombatCounter(0)

!See([ENEMY])

Global("KEValenAnomen1","LOCALS",0)~ THEN BKEVALEN KEValenAnomen1

 

An identical coding block for Aerie before this one apparently ran without incident. I tried copying & pasting ("Aerie"), then changing the name to Anomen, without any effect.

 

Any ideas? Generally, the DEBUG file has let me figure out what my parsing & syntax errors are, but I'm currently stumped.

[Domi]

You might want to take a look at the banter right above it, and see if it is EXIT ing properly, of it was PC banter, that it has 2 END s etc. WeiDU reports where it stumbles, but the stiumbling reason can be above or below the problem.

 

Edit: Or, Invalid character! Try replacing the ( and " in ConText or any other Text Editor, instead of Word. Word has... tendencies.

[Kulyok]

In such case, it's better to post chunks of code from above, too, because the problem might be there.

[Kendris]

Thanks for the tips. I'm using Crimson Editor for my text editing...I quickly decided that counting lines by hand was something that I didn't want to do.

 

Doing some troubleshooting now; I'll let you know how it works out!

[Kendris]

Got it. Left out a tilde on the final dialogue line of the previous block.

 

*dives back in to triple check the code*

[Domi]

Hey, glad it worked. No need to blush, most of us had those weird moments of wonder over parsing errors.

[cmorgan]

Snag my highlighters from the wiki or PM me - crimson rock at finding this stuff when you turn on the WeiDUString syntax, and half your page goes dark - it really helped me!

[Kendris]

Snag my highlighters from the wiki or PM me - crimson rock at finding this stuff when you turn on the WeiDUString syntax, and half your page goes dark - it really helped me!

 

Thanks! That looks like it's going to be VERY helpful!

 

The file compiled & loaded; is there any way to check to see if unscripted banter is working correctly besides loading a game & waiting for one to fire? Am I correct in thinking that banters without weights are given lower priority than weighted banters, or am I completely missing the concept?

[Kulyok]

The file compiled & loaded; is there any way to check to see if unscripted banter is working correctly besides loading a game & waiting for one to fire?

 

There are scripted banters, and non-scripted ones. Scripted banter is a banter that has .baf code and .d code. To see it in the game, you must meet all conditions written in .baf code. Non-scripted banter(in B file, usually) is a banter that has .d code only. To trigger it, you have to activate the console and keep pressing ctrl-i.

 

Am I correct in thinking that banters without weights are given lower priority than weighted banters, or am I completely missing the concept?

 

Depends. If you are using your own character, weights aren't needed at all: you just place banters in whichever order you need, so the top priority ones are on top.

 

If you are using another character(who already has thirty banters, and you want *your*, thirty-first, banter, to be of value), then, yes, WEIGHT #-1 is your friend - then it will trigger first. It is recommended to script banters with WEIGHT #-1 - so they do not hinder banters added by other mods. But it is not necessary.

[BigRob]

Hmmm, so even unscripted banters aren't called randomly? They're just called in order from the list? That's going to be a serious pain for something I want to do.

[Kulyok]

Hmmm, so even unscripted banters aren't called randomly? They're just called in order from the list? That's going to be a serious pain for something I want to do.

 

Remember, you can always add a scripted banter on a timer, or even use a random timer - that is, you could easily feign randomness.

 

(Here is probably a good place to say that adding things without replacing any existing banter is a good practice).