You're going to have to be more specific. Where are you putting the castspell opcode?

I put it after Local00 I think. But I wasn't aware it mattered. I put in FirebatCastSpell and I fill out a list, but nothing happens.

Can you copy-paste your Firebat iscript?

well I removed the castspell because it wouldn't compile... And to be honest that's least on my list of concerns about the mod. I'm more worried about adding/replacing units and stuff as well as the problematic warp rift.

Is there anyone who knows how to apply silvery color to protoss units, and who can fix the rift problem?

What's the rift problem again?

just that I open a warp rift with a probe, and it crashes the game. Is it because I got the new warp rift graphics?

Try renaming the custom graphics in the MPQ and see if that makes it not crash - my personal convention is to add "dontuse" to the file extension of files I want to temporarily disable. (So, if I had a custom Zealot GRP and I wanted to temporarily disable it, I'd rename it to "unit\protoss\zealot.grpdontuse".)

Also, about your Firebat iscript: When you say "castspell", do you mean the opcode "castspell", or the animation name "FirebatCastSpell"? If the latter, then you just need to update the header, presumably.

EDIT: I remembered that there are two images used in the warping animation and looked them up. Entry 210, Warp Texture, uses unit\protoss\texture.grp, while entry 211, Warp Anchor, uses unit\protoss\pblglow.grp. It appears that unit\protoss\pblglow.grp is used for the entire warp animation, and unit\protoss\texture.grp is overlayed at the end. If you got these two backwards, it would cause issues; an easy way to tell is that unit\protoss\texture.grp is a rectangle with no unused space in it, in any frame, while unit\protoss\pblglow.grp is a spinning energy ball thing that gets bigger and stuff in the final frames. This probably isn't your issue, but checking it would be a good idea.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Dec 25 2011, 5:07 pm by Biophysicist.

I'm pretty sure that I got the names for it right. It has a reddish texture grp and a reddish pblglow grp. It looks really nice looking at it in RetroGRP but it totally fucks up when I try to warp in a structure.
The Animation name FirebatCastSpell. I put it in and it keeps saying that it doesnt link to anything or whatever.
When I can get around to it, I'll try out your "dontuse" strategy. Thanks for helping, Biophys.

In that case, you need to update your header. Look for "CastSpell [NONE]" and replace "[NONE]" with "FirebatCastSpell". Animation names are actually totally arbitrary and naming this way is pure convention (and afaik the names aren't even saved into iscript.bin - I think it actually uses offsets of some sort under the metaphorical hood); this is why the header is important.

I actually did use the header. It said it didn't have one.

Okay, first, can you please stop assuming we automatically know what you're talking about? (I know that sounds snarky; it's not meant to be, but I can't think of a better way to say it. But please, do try to be more explicit about what you mean.)

Now, I'll assume you mean that, in the header, there is no line that says "FirebatCastSpell [NONE]". If this is the case, then you're probably using IceCC, and, iirc, IceCC doesn't always put in all the names in the header. I think you just put it in manually. Or use PyICE. If this doens't work, PM me your iscript.bin file and I'll take a look. (The whole file, not a copy-paste of the Firebat script.)

Ok, I will try to send it and I will attempt a new firebat script. The bin I have for the iscript doesn't feature the attempted firebat spell opcode because as you might know, IceCC doesn't allow compiling with what it sees as an erroneous opcode.

try copiing something like a high templar iscript (there are types, which allow certain sections). the warp problem can be solved with using chaos launcher wmode plugin and ollydebug to find out whats up. But certain in images.dat, there are palettes, and besides default (no special paletts) other pallets might cause crash with certain colors in grp, frames.

matefkr, thank you. It's been months and my comp just got fixed. I had given up hope on the mod altogether. Where can I find those devices?