New at modding and coding, what have I done wrong?

[devilishMendicant]

Hello hello, I apologize for taking up your time, but I have never done anything of this sort before and I've run into a problem.

 

When I try to run my character mod, the following error occurs:

 

[string ".../mods/Sin-Genjitsu, the Shadow/modmain.lua"]:33: '=' expected near '-'

 

And the whole thing crashes. 

 

My hypothesis is that there's a problem with the name having a dash in it. (e.g. STRINGS.CHARACTER_TITLES.sin-genjitsu)

 

If there's more information that I need to provide or a specific place that's going wrong (besides line 33, does :33: refer to line 33?), I'd be happy to copy-paste anything relevant in order to get to a solution. 

 

Thank you again for your time and assistance.

[ImDaMisterL]

It's probably the "-" yes.

 

The prefab for your character shouldn't have that symbol, only do that when naming the character itself.

STRINGS.NAMES.singengitsu = "Sin-Gengitsu"

Example, name your prefab "singengitsu" and in that line of code you'll name your character what you want it to be in-game, inside the quotations.

 

Then you can procede to make your character's title

STRINGS.CHARACTER_TITLES.singengitsu = "Blah blah blah."

Or... do what @PeterA,  told you to do, yeah, that sounds like a... a better idea.

Edited July 21, 2015 by ImDaMisterL

[PeterA]

Yup, the issue is most likely on line 33 or just above it. Post your modmain.lua file and we can help you out.

[devilishMendicant]

Ah, thank you for the response! 

 

Here's my modmain.lua file. modmain.lua

 

I'm going to go through and change the instances of sin-genjitsu to singenjitsu, as I was looking through other topics and noticed that the name of WX-78 was not hyphenated in the code either. 

[bizziboi]

It's indeed the dash in

 

'STRINGS.CHARACTER_TITLES.sin-genjitsu ='

 

You can't have a dash in the variable name as Lua will think you're trying to subtract.

Maybe use an underscore, or, if you really feel you *must* use a dash you could do:

 

'STRINGS.CHARACTER_TITLES["sin-genjitsu"] ='

 

 

[ImDaMisterL]

["sin-genjitsu"]

 

Nice to know this! Thanks!