Need Help adding and editing commands in SimTools

[Skipper Warlock]

Just a little background, I've spent the past week attempting to set up my own admin system much like shrubbot in wolfenstein enemy territory. If you have never played ET, the system basicly just allows you to set any player playing to a level defiined in your shrubbot.cfg, if you have the proper admin to do this, and they are allowed to use the commands appropriate for that level. I decided I would try and do this with SimTools because it already has most of the commands I wanted set up anyway. In ET, all you have to do to set a level is say !setlevel <name> <level>. I wanted to be able to set the admin in tell, which didn't seem to be a problem until I actually tried to do it, lol. But basicly, I wanted to be able to send a tell that said !setlevel 1 and it give them a level 1 token, allowing for the commands to just check and see if they have that token. I also wanted to be able to have their admin level show up in the !playerinfo command. I went through every script line by line and changed everything it looked like I needed to for adding a command and for editing what the playerinfo box displayed, and ended up making absolutely no progress because I wouldn't even recognize my command as valid. So if I someone could at least point me in the right direction on how to do this, it would be much appriciated.
note: if I need to elaborate a bit more I can, just let me know

[FunkySwerve]

Did you compile the scripts after saving them? You may need the prc or torlack compiler, as the bioware compiler likes to choke on large numbers of consts. Adding a command is reletively easy, once you understand the structure of the script. There is a master switch that assigns a number to each letter than any command starts with, using FindSubString. Commands starting with that letter fgo in that case, otherwise they will return invald commands. If you have commands that start with a letter not in the case, you need to add a case, and by inserting the letter in the FindSubString and incresing the numbers of the cases in the switch that follow the added case. Here's an example of a switch with some additional starting letters added (from the upcoming version 3.0):

[Skipper Warlock]

Thanks a ton, this is exactly what I needed
just a small question. How would I go about adding things to the !plyerinfo command? I found it in the fky_chat_inc script but apparantly what I did was wrong. here it is. basicly, I'm tryin to get it to look for the item on the PC by the tag and echo that item's name to the player and naming the item to correspond with the admin. Idealy I think I need to have it set to say a number based on the item but I'm a scripting noob and not sure how to do this :/ but if there is a script I am missing or something please let me know. I did change some stuff in the fky_chat_const to correspond with what I have in the combine

[FunkySwerve]

That's not how FindSubString works. Take a look at the lexicon to understand what it's doing, and the example I gave you above. As you have it there, neither that letter nor any of those after it have the right case number. To fix it remove the f and the space before it and place them at the end as case 18. As for non-system related scripting, your best bet is the bioware forums.

Corrected version of the switch:

[Skipper Warlock]

O wow, I feel stupid now :/ Thanks again for your help


Ok, I changed that and it still says invalid command :/ I tried PRC and it didn't change my results

[FunkySwerve]

When you are using the PRC compiler to compile, make sure you save the mod BEFORE as well as after you use the compiler, otherwise it'll compile the old versions. LMK If that was the problem. ALSO make sure you have a break after your case, otherwise the next case will fire as well, and the text will be compared, which will always Invalid Command you becuase the strings in that case don't (and could never) match the correct input from another case.
Funky

[Skipper Warlock]

I made sure I was compiling after a save and I do have a break after tha case, here it is

[Skipper Warlock]

Ok, works now, was a prob with my script. Thanks a ton man

[Skipper Warlock]

wow, I must have the worst luck ever I had the command working, but when I tried to make it only work if they had x item, it quite and I didn't have a backup and now I can't get anything to work at all

double: stupid mistake, all I had to do was build the module. I have the admin system up completely now, with many commands I'm quite pleased with Thanks for all your help