Okay maybe Im a little Off... help?

[vanishSHC]

Okay so... Heres my schpele, ive been programming LUA for a little bit now, pretty basic nothing too fancy...

I am having a problem assigning players to a team (based off a command handler)

I have three parts to my script.

1. Obviously the Meta

2. Team.lua On Resource start creates the team

3. Team2.lua - For Purpose of Assigning based off A command

  
Team1LUA Source 
  
function createTeamsOnStart () 
    teamHoods = createTeam ( "Hoods", 0, 255, 0 ) 
    teamMedical = createTeam ( "Medical", 255, 0, 0 ) 
    teamPolice = createTeam ( "Police", 0, 0, 255 ) 
end 
  
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(getThisResource()), createTeamsOnStart  ) 
  
  

^works just how i wanted it to... Now for the erroneous script...

Heres Team 2

  
Team2 LUA Source: 
  
function assignteamP 
 setPlayerTeam (thePlayer, Police) 
  if teamPolice = getPlayerTeam ( source )          -- get the player's team 
    outputChatBox ( getPlayerName ( source ).."has joined the Police Force" ) 
    else 
        outputChatBox ( getPlayerName ( source ) .. " Was not successfully assigned to Police Force" ) 
 end 
  
 addCommandHandler ( "Team P", assignteamP ) 
  
  
  
 function assignteamM 
   setPlayerTeam (thePlayer, Medical) 
  if teamMedical = getPlayerTeam ( source )          -- get the player's team 
    outputChatBox ( getPlayerName ( source ).."has joined the sHc Doctors Coalition" ) 
    else 
        outputChatBox (getPlayerName ( source ) .. " Was not successfully assigned to sHc Doctors Coalition" ) 
         
 end 
 addCommandHandler ( "Team M", assignteamM ) 
  
  
  
  function assignteamH 
 (setPlayerTeam( thePlayer, Hoods) 
 if teamHoods = getPlayerTeam ( source )          -- get the player's team 
    outputChatBox (getPlayerName ( source ).."has joined the Hoodrats Team" ) 
    else 
        outputChatBox (getPlayerName ( source ) .. " Was not successfully assigned to Hoodrats Team" ) 
end 
addCommandHandler ("Team H", assignteamH ) 
  
  
  
  
 function quitteam 
 local theTeam = getPlayerTeam ( source ) 
 if theTeam then 
  setPlayerTeam ( source, nil )    -- remove the player from the current team 
end 
addCommandHandler ( "quitteam", quitteam) 
  
  

My Server is outputting that I have an error in team2lua line2

Teams\team2.lua:2: '('expected near 'setPlayerTeam'

WARNING: Loading Script failed: Teams\Team2.lua:2: '(' expected near 'setPlayerTeam'

start Resource "teams" started

Perhaps i'm a bit daft and went about this the entirely wrong way... but i hope you can see what I am trying to do at least haha.

Now this is just for an understanding on how to assign teams on server startup based off command handlers and shit like that. However, the real goal is to port this into GUI and not really use the commands (NOT what im trying to accomplish now though)... Thats a stretch when it doesnt quite work based off LUA

Obviously I need to revamp my code. haha

Any Takers?

So... theres my issue heh. I would love for it to work.

[dzek (varez)]

Wut? Syntax error?

Install anything better than Notepad - it should show you syntax errors (check Stickies on this forum - you can use Notepad++, 50p's Unofficial Script Editor, whatever).

Also - syntax errors are telling you WHAT and WHERE something is wrong.

  
-- error: 
-- '('expected near 'setPlayerTeam' 
function assignteamM 
   setPlayerTeam (thePlayer, Medical) -- ( is expected before this line, so quick look - oh yea - you forgot the brackets () on function definition line! 
  

was it so hard?

[vanishSHC]

HAHA wow i am blind! thank you dzek I guess it was just confusion seeing as I figured all this code would work (which now it does thanks to you giving me an eye exam). Syntax just threw me off

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