Lightning Storm Code Problems

[JulianSull]

scn aaaZWLightningStormScript


short timer

float fQuestDelayTime

short percento


begin GameMode


message "What?" ;<-----Doesn't activate even once.


set fQuestDelayTime to 1

set timer to timer + GetSecondsPassed


if (timer > 3)

	set percento to 1 + (0.16 * GetRandomPercent)

	if (percento == 1)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt0

	else if (percento == 2)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt2

	else if (percento == 3)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt3

	else if (percento == 4)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt4

	else if (percento == 5)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt5

	else if (percento == 6)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt6

	else if (percento == 7)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt7

	else if (percento == 8)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt8

	else if (percento == 9)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt9

	else if (percento == 10)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt10

	else if (percento == 11)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt11

	else if (percento == 12)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt12

	else if (percento == 13)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt13

	else if (percento == 14)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt14

	else if (percento == 15)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt15

	else if (percento == 16)

		aaaBoltArea.MoveToMarker bolt16

	endif


	set timer to 0

	aaaBoltStart.Cast aaaLightningBolt aaaBoltArea


endif


end

The message call at the beginning doesn't even activate. What is going on here? This is suppose to shoot lightning bolts down from the sky every three seconds at a random location constantly. This is a quest script. No errors are generated when saving the script nor in game. Nothing is generated really. At all.

[WillieSea]

Your quest is probably not running.

I created a similar script for my entry in the Obuliette chanllenge. But I did not use a quest to control its functioning.

[JulianSull]

Well I tried a few things and here's what happened:

1) I tried putting this quest script into another quest script of mine that I knew was working but when it was finally in, that quest script stopped working as well. When I finally took my script out of that script, it began working again.

The only thing I can think of is maybe there is a limit to how many else if cases you can have in a script before it says "I'm not doin' that".

EDIT: The above line is true and annoying.

Edited September 14, 2010 by JulianSull

[WillieSea]

Well, your script is foobar, now that I look at it closer.

You have 17 IF statements and only 1 ENDIF statement.

Take the space out from between the 'Else If' statements and make it just 'Elseif'.

There is no limit on the number of ELSEIF you can have, but there IS a limit on the number of nested IF's you can have, which you have gone over.

[JulianSull]

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You would think the compiler would idk...tell you that? Thanks for the help.

[WillieSea]

Well, its a scripting language, not a full programming language.

Its really not syntactically wrong, since the 'endiIF's are assumed when it hits the 'end' block. Nested if are not reported as an error when they are too deep. It compiles, it just won't run.