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Thanks any help would be appreciated - honestly when it comes to LUA i am 100% clueless. I only learned through random experimentation which resulted in a item which spawns meteor showers [ extremely fun ] and a nicely timed - time bomb.

So anywhere you feel is appropriate is good - I will fill in the blanks as I slowly learn Lua

 

I have no idea ya - i rewrote your file and worked fine. All your code was right - you can compare it with the code i switched it with.
I also fixed another error where your price [ not related to first error ] was in quotes. Not sure why you did that, from an older tutorial maybe?

Can you give me some details.

1. Are you using Windows?
2. Are you using notepad++
3. Are you using Linux? or some sort of Linux application?
4. Are you using a Non-standard english keyboard? Like German or something?

Because I am kind of curious with the code being right, the only thing to blame is something else - not what you did.

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In other news - next book update should come either today or tommorow

 

Ya I was just about to post it - your quotes were the problem. You were using ANSI encoding -> make sure you set notepad++ to UTF-8 without BOM
Normally that is default, dunno why it was on ANSI for you.

To find out why its perfectly genertic item - craft your item - keep it in your hand and exit
then open starbound.log it will give you a really detailed error message

something like

Code:

Error: Could not load /objects/generic/japlantern12375/japlantern12375.png:default asset, attempting to use default.
AssetException: No such frame default in frames spec /objects/generic/japlantern12375/japlantern12375.frames

Or something like where it gives you a number [43] -> this means 43rd line, 3rd space. So open up the file its giving the error in notepad++ - you can see the line numbers on the left side and fix it.
perfectly generic item is usually due to refernce errors. For example mistaken capitilzaition. Keep all file names in lowercase and make sure the itemfilename and frame file name and picture have all the same file names.

 

What you want to look for is image position in object file . if you want it centred use [0,0]

 

Version 0.7 has been uploaded
New Features include
Quests / Codex / Ore Generation / Json and Run Time Errors
New Code sample design --> Tell me how you guys like it

Also
Various syntax fixes.

 

@Ashen

This was a doubt by ashen.
Right now there doesn't seem to be any way to "assign" quests. to anything.
The system seems to be linear - though there might be some sort of LUA method which some one will find later on which can "start" a quest line.

As for your bounty hunter project. This can still be done, through a more linear fashion though it does take some more creative approach.
You will need to create a new item, say Rogue Ears.
The quest might be to collect 10 rogue ears. then you need to set up the treasure pool to drop it. Hence you can create a basic linear set through
this methodology.

But if you want a fully fleshed out system. You may want to postpone your idea till the quest system is fully developed.

 

But that means you are no longer 80% perfect!

 

Sorry that was a typo - I was missing the opening bracket
The closing bracket was there if you noticed closely.

Code:

{
"__merge" : [
    [ "overwrite", "input" ]
    ],
    "input" :  [
        { "item" : "money", "count" : 1 }
  ]
}

 

@xboy777
Sorry had to correct my correction. Please take note
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Also please take notice - The book is not using UTF-8 Font for code samples.
Do not directly copy and paste the code. Or you will get errors.
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This will be fixed in the next release version 0.8
If you find any more bugs feel free to tell me. Unless its corrected it will be a problem for everyone.