Preload failed

[Mysteroo]

I'm attempting to make my own skeleton playertype with the little bit of scripting knowledge I have.
(because I know that nobody else will want it) I finally worked out all the syntax errors, but now it says preload failed for skelebody.dts   and I'm not sure why. I'm sure that I entered in the right location for it, and made no spelling errors. Anybody know why this is happening?

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[Red_Guy]

post the whole message from your console.log (and include 10-15 lines before and after)
mabye somebody will have an idea.

[Mysteroo]

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Loading Add-on: Player_skeleton
Executing Add-Ons/Player_skeleton/server.cs
Executing Add-Ons/Player_skeleton/Player_skeleton.cs
Add-Ons/Player_skeleton/Player_skeleton.cs (0): preload failed for Skelebody.dts: That's what it says in the console when I start a server

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{
shapeFile = "./shapes/SkeleBody.dts";
emap = false;
doColorShift = True;
colorshiftcolor = "1 1 1 1";
mountPoint = 2;
offset = "0 .02 -1.18";
eyeOffset = "-1 -1 -1";
};That's where it first says skelebody.dts in the script

For the most part, I was seeing what was in ffc and some other playertype add ons and basing it off that. So I really have no idea why it wouldn't be loading the dts file.

[Chrono]

Is it there and is it in a folder called shapes?

[Mysteroo]

Yep, lol

[Red_Guy]

so the file is  Blockland\Add-ons\Player_skeleton\shapes\SkeleBody.dts ?

If not, fix the script, or move the .dts file

Also - for testing, you should be working out of a folder and not a zip file.

[Mysteroo]

so the file is  Blockland\Add-ons\Player_skeleton\shapes\SkeleBody.dts ?

If not, fix the script, or move the .dts file

Also - for testing, you should be working out of a folder and not a zip file.

yes, and yes. I would show the whole .cs file but I know there's going to be pointless flamers, and I'm not up to dealing with that atm

[Red_Guy]

well based on what you posted, it looks like something is wrong with your .dts file.
did you make it yourself? or did you get it from somewhere else?

[Mysteroo]

I took it straight from ffc. didn't edit anything about it :/

[Iban]

Put this in after the datablock.

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echo("SkeleBody Check:" SPC isFile(DatablockName.shapeFile));
Will echo 1 if the file exists, 0 if the file does not exist. If it does not exist, I suggest using a more explicit filepath.
(Add-Ons/Player_Skeleton/shapes/SkeleBody.dts)

If it does exist, then the dts is invalid.

[Mysteroo]

Thx, I'll try that in a bit

[Mysteroo]

SkeleBody check: 0

:/ I don't think the dts is invalid though, since it works fine with ffc. And I put the dts in a folder called shapes, anybody want to take a look at the script? The only thing I'm sure about with it is that there isn't any Syntax errors. I Copy / pasted most of it since I really don't know too much about scripting, I'm still learning.

[Iban]

as i said, be more explicit.

[Mysteroo]

hmm, I tried making the file location simpler- by placing it in Player_skeleton rather than in shapes. Then I tried making it longer and placed it in shapes/skelebody/dotdts/skelebody.dts. :/  Can I pm you the .cs Iban? I probably did something wrong since I just pasted in what I thought looked important lol

[Iban]

Make the file path exact.

"Add-Ons/Player_Skeleton/shapes/skelebody.dts"