ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I made the following simplistic load hook:



If I don't comment out the "require Player" line, the mod crashes between character selection and loading the first level. It gets to 100% and then just doesn't start the game. I have otherwise tested the mod and I can get the keybind to toggle a local boolean, but I'd like to have access to the Player class so I can activate a sort of "autoexplore"-like function.

The Player:ai_active boolean and the Player:player_ai_start() functions are things I added in a superload. Is that confusing the load order and trying to parse functions that don't exist yet? How can I work around that?

I can post the superload/mod/class/Player.lua too if that's relevant.

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If you look in the te4_log.txt file in the same directory as your executable, you should see a detailed crash reason at the end. If none shows up/the log is incomplete, try loading ToME with the --flush-stdout argument.

Probably an error in your superload.

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I found this error:



I then tried to add a require for Actor, which added this error (without resolving the above one):



Any idea what's going wrong?

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At a guess, your require Player line in load.lua is causing Player to initialise too early.
Try moving it into the function where you need it.

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Thanks! I was trying to treat "require" like "include" from C, never would have thought of putting it in a function. Now it's actually running and giving me errors when I try to run the function (function is nil), which I assume is because I didn't define it right.

It tells me that the player_ai_start function is nil, so I need to figure out how to define/call it properly. I tried calling it with Player:player_ai_start() and Player.player_ai_start() to no avail. I tried defining the function as function _M:player_ai_start() and function player_ai_start() without effect.

Disclaimer: I've never used Lua before, so help with the basic syntax may be required.

EDIT: I now know that the colon is for function declaration and it adds a self argument, so I should really be calling things with dot. This hasn't solved my problem, but it has made me less dumb.

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You can also view the source code.

It was an even stupider error. I forgot to add to my init.lua file.

Issue is now resolved.

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You can also view the source code.