Could use some help with == vs. eq

Andrew80k · #1 08-28-2008, 10:58 PM

Have you tried running this from the command line? Try this:

perl quests/eastkarana/player.pl

And see what it outputs. There seems to be some unbalanced ' in one of your lines that might be causing you some issues.

Neiv · #2 08-28-2008, 11:04 PM

Yes, the perl cmd works fine. And I think I finally got the "eq" operator working properly (the aggro function now works with it). Any suggestions on why my zone might be white?

**joligario** · #3 08-28-2008, 11:20 PM

White text?

Neiv · #4 08-28-2008, 11:21 PM

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try $timer instead of timername?

That's exactly what I did, and it fixed that part of the problem (Lexicon needs to be updated in this regard, unless timername is used solely for a numeric--as opposed to a text--timer designation).

**joligario** · #5 08-28-2008, 11:30 PM

I don't know if it needs to be fixed. I think eq only works with strings. $timer is an id and the best bet is to use ==. $timername may still be a valid string.

Neiv · #6 08-29-2008, 01:35 AM

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White text?

White, featureless ground; white, featureless npcs; white featureless trees; white, featureless everything.

Neiv · #7 08-29-2008, 02:24 AM

I figured it out. It appears to be a problem with the entries in the eastkarana_chr.txt file. I can add additional character models to it, and it works fine until I modify a quest in the zone. Then it seems to become corrupted and it turns everything white. I deleted all but the first entry and now the zone is back to normal (except of course for the NPCs that bear the character model IDs that I deleted--which are all the interesting ones). I guess this will be a question for the Windows Server forum.