Scoring issue in Getting Started Tutorial

#1 Make sure you have a blank line after your code. try just shutting down and restarting. i had this issue and putting in a blank space made it go away. i remember back in the day that C code was real picky about having a blank line at the end, but don't remember why.

#2 Jonathon - Thanks for the thought, but that didn't work for me.

#3 I did that tutorial about a month ago (or whenever 1.4 was released), and it worked for me. Just walk yourself through the steps again and see what you might have missed...

#4 Make sure your logo shapes are in a simgroup. I think this is where I ran into the problem because I skipped the section on placing interiors and they talk about setting up the group there. The count funtion is looking inside the simgroup "logos" to see how many objects are there. Your error SEEMS to indicate it can't find that group/object.
This was the only area where I ran into trouble and it's because I skipped that one page (that'll teach me :)

#5 James - Yes, I did think about the simgroup. I even created another simgroup, called it "torquelogos" , moved all the logo objects into it and changed the scripts accordingly. I still got the same errors. Thanks for the thought, though.
Norv

#6 Post you source of logoitem.cs around line 21.

Maybe someone is able to spot the error. It's not the right object calling the function...

#7 Also look earlier in your logs for something along the lines of "unable to instantiate XXX, not a member of YYYData class!". That would indicate that your datablock dependencies aren't in order, so the object's definition itself isn't loading.

#8 Stephen - I did not see any reference to "unable to instantiate..." in the Console log. I even ran FIND on "instantiate" with no findings.

Here's the code I added to existing script "logoitem.cs":
ADDED FUNCTION
function TorqueLogoItem::onCollision(%this,%obj,%col)
{
if(%col.getClassName()$="Player")
{
%client=%col.client;
%client.score++;
commandToClient(%client,'SetScoreCounter',%client.score);

%obj.delete();
%logoCount=%logos.getCount();
echo(%logoCount);
if(%logoCount>0)
return;
//otherwise display Victory Screen
commandToClient(%client,'ShowVictory',%client.score);

}
}
Here's the script I created from scratch "clientGame.cs" :
NEW SCRIPT
//GameOne Client.cs

function clientCmdSetScoreCounter(%score)
{
ScoreCounter.setText("Score:"SPC %score);

}

function clientCmdShowVictory(%score)
{
MessageBoxYesNo("You Win!",
"Would you like to restart the Game?",
"loadMyMission();"
"quit();");

}

Thanks for your help!
Norv

#9 Step through it and see if %client.score is actually incrementing. That will narrow things down. Also, is your simgroup (or whatever it's called) called logos? If not, make it that. Is your added function BELOW or WITHIN the brackets for the datablock? It should be after, not inside (the oncollision one that is). Is your control that holds the score in the GUI called ScoreCounter? If not, make it that.

#10 In TorqueLogoItem::onCollision() there is a local variable %logos that is never initialized but is trying to be accessed. If its supposed to be a global variable defined somewhere else then you need to use the $ symbol instead of the % sybmol.

#11 Having just looked at the tutorial it looks as though the suspect line is supposed to be:

%logoCount = logos.getCount();

Where it is referencing the logos object using it's name.

#12 Owen - removing the "%" in front of logos.getCount() did fix that issue. It now will count down to "0" as I collide with the logos. However, the clientCmdSetCounter() and clientCmdShowVictory() functions are still "unknown" I'm wondering if the instruction to load "cllientGame.cs" in the main.cs script in the GameOne/client folder is the problem. The following is the //client script listing with my new line added:
// Client scripts
exec("./client/optionsDlg.cs");
exec("./client/missionDownload.cs");
exec("./client/serverConnection.cs");
exec("./client/loadingGui.cs");
exec("./client/playGui.cs");
exec("./client/clientGame.cs");  Added this line

If so, I'm not seeing the problem.

Thanks for your help, Owen.
Norv