needs help about spawn_character and kill_character

**Mirandia** · September 07, 2009, 04:20 AM

I made a short scripting about kill a labeled diplomat (Grima123),and add a new diplomat to give france.

but it didn't work.

monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart FactionType milan
and DiplomaticStanceFromFaction france = AtWar
and I_CharacterExists Grima123
spawn_character france Grima, diplomat, age 42, portrait Grima, x 164, y 189
console_command kill_character Grima123
terminate_monitor
end_monitor

**SigniferOne** · September 07, 2009, 05:18 PM

Can you show the entry for Grima123?

**Mirandia** · September 07, 2009, 06:16 PM

did you mean this at descr_strat.txt?

character Grima, diplomat, male, age 42, label Grima123, portrait Grima, x 184, y 153
traits NaturalDiplomatSkill 1 , GoodDiplomat 1

**SigniferOne** · September 07, 2009, 06:24 PM

Ok so where exactly does the script not work?

**Mirandia** · September 08, 2009, 01:05 AM

not this scripting only.
all scriptings weren't work.

**Mirandia** · September 08, 2009, 03:39 AM

logs here

17:35:44.939 [game.script] [error] Script parsing error at line 7086, column 53 in mods/Third_Age/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt
Unrecognised character data string (portrait)
17:35:44.939 [game.script] [error] Script parsing error at line 7090, column 1 in mods/Third_Age/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt
Couldn't create a script from file mods/Third_Age/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign/campaign_script.txt

**SigniferOne** · September 08, 2009, 10:45 AM

In order to do modding properly you need to get to a state where all things do work. You need to create a script that does work. Then add your new portion, and see if it works there.

**Mirandia** · September 09, 2009, 12:07 AM

i think i was wrong here.

spawn_character france Grima, diplomat, age 42, portrait Grima, x 164, y 189

and i change it like this

spawn_character france Grima, diplomat, age 42, x 164, y 189, portrait Grima

amazing,it worked

**SigniferOne** · September 09, 2009, 10:08 AM

Oh, great.

Yeah, try to follow CA's usage on these things. Usually their commands expect input in a certain order, and if it's out of order then sometimes things break.

Also, try to put labels at the end of the line, which again follows strict CA usage.