Broken GS File

AfterBurnett

I thought it would never happen to me... but it did.

I had two attributes, one a boolen named PlayerDead and one, an integer named Life. I have no idea why I did it as I should have just been using the Life integer to control whether or not the ship is dead. Anyway, I went through and removed all instances of PlayerDead and set everything up to look for Life instead. When I ran the game... black screen of death... actors not spawning, dying, yada yada.

Luckily, I back up a lot so I haven't lost anything.

My question is this. I really want to optimise the code... is GS going to do this every time I go through and remove stuff? Really annoying as leaving it in there is just plain messy...

chosenonestudios

make sure theres no missing attribute or anything... Your games not broken.. It just cant run with missing attributes

AfterBurnett

Hmm, I'm fairly certain I got em all. Thanks though, I'll have another look through

firemaplegames

Yes, the black screen is caused by a syntax error.

Sometimes an extra/missing parenthesis, but usually a 'dangling' Attribute...

Look at all of your Rules for 'self' and 'game' with no Attribute attached.

Check the 'otherwise' sections as well.

AfterBurnett

Found em all... some were hiding as I'd edited the actors attributes within the viewer, not the prototypes. All sorted