I need help.

[ridinginstyle00]

Ok so first off working on my first mod so Imma noob at this but it keeps giving me an error with

"Error in assignID, recipe with the name "mt-solar" does not exist"

I making a solar panel that makes 60000000kw of energy. I'm pretty sure that everything else is set up right. I even checked for case sensitive differences and the technology.lua won't accept the item name of mt-solar in my item.lua file.

Any advice?

[DaveMcW]

You need to require all 4 files in data.lua.

[ridinginstyle00]

__MatterTransferer__/data.lua:2:
__MatterTransferer__/prototypes/recipe.lua:1: unexpected symbol near char(239)


this is the error i get. do you know of any programs what will count of each individual char so i know which one it is in the future?

[ridinginstyle00]

require("prototypes.technology")
require("prototypes.recipe")
require("prototypes.item")
require("prototypes.entity")


this correct?

[ridinginstyle00]

yeah i get that second error i posted if i include all the files in the data.lua on the root of my mod folder

[DaveMcW]

char(239) error means you have the wrong file format. It should be saved as latin1 or ANSI.

[ridinginstyle00]

created a plain .txt file and renamed it to recipe.lua and now it shows this:



__MatterTransferer__/data.lua:4:
__MatterTransferer__/prototypes/entity.lua:25: unexpected symbol near <eof>


i also tried pasting it into a .txt and saved it as a .lua and it gave the old error of what you said was a wrong format. by renaming it when i made the file i got this

[ridinginstyle00]

and creating the file then saving it as lua with the ansi format gave the old error

[DaveMcW]

So fix your entity.lua.

[ridinginstyle00]

now my game crashes telling me where the log is. No mod error...the game gets stuck at "Loading Mods 2%" and crashes after about 10 seconds.

[ridinginstyle00]

Factorio Current Log

[DaveMcW]

Try removing a few zero's from your power production.

[ridinginstyle00]

it wont even take 6kw which is less than the vanilla panel

if i cant do six how will i ever do 6 billion!?

[ridinginstyle00]

What i have now after changes....just crashes even changed the amount of resource packs from 1k to 100 didnt do anything

[DaveMcW]

I can't understand the crash logs... maybe you'll have better luck asking the developers in bug reports forum.

[ridinginstyle00]

k thx for tryin!

[Koub]

Hi,

You wrote :

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require("prototypes.technology")
require("prototypes.recipe")
require("prototypes.item")
require("prototypes.entity")

In another mod I'm watching it's written :

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require("prototypes.entities")
require("prototypes.items")
require("prototypes.recipes")
require("prototypes.technology")

I think the plurals are important (entities/recipes/items)

[ridinginstyle00]

my file names were singular. i changed the data.lua to plural and the files to plural and still made no difference. crashes after 10-20 seconds. it wouldnt take plural in the data.lua if the file names werent plural as well.

Anyother suggestions?

[ridinginstyle00]

copied that quote you put and renamed the files to match and it still consists of the game crashing at 2% after 10-20 seconds.

really stumped...didnt think a 6 billion kw producing solar panel would produce so many issues trying to make it

lol

;D

[orzelek]

There are few errors - crashing one is lack of this in item entity:

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    subgroup = "energy",
    order = "d[solar-panel]-b[solar-panel]", 

I'd post this as a bug report - it shouldn't crash. More descriptive message should be shown.

Other one is that some paths point to additional solar-panel subdirectory for picture while image is directly in graphics.
Locale file needs name fixed (should be locale.cfg) and then most of the keys in it don't match item/tech names.
You can give solar panel power production of 6GW and it should work.