AI Development Problems....AI not seen

[Codewolf]

Hi guys, i have been playing OpenTTD for quite a while now and have decided to have a go at creating my own AI, i have followed the Wiki introduction to creating AI's and spent a good hour or so browsing this subforum to fix my problem, the problem being i just cant seem to get OpenTTD to recognise my AI (which currently consists of the 2 wiki example files), when using the command 'list_ai' it produces a blank list, even after trying to force it to reload wth 'rescan_ai'

the current locations of my *.nut files are as follows:

%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\OpenTTD\ai\MyNewAI

as well as

%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\OpenTTD\content_download\ai\MyNewAI

so any ideas if i'm being blind and making a silly mistake, or if they are in the right location.
ps.i have placed them in the 2 seperate directories just to see if they load, no other reason
pps. its a Windows machine.

[Lord Aro]

i had that problem with my ai as well except that i had made mine into a .tar and for some reason ottd wouldn't read it
i untared it (is that the right word?) and then ottd would read it again

[Zuu]

%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\OpenTTD\ai\MyNewAI

This should be enough. Better just have your files at one location so that you can be sure that OpenTTD sees the last edits.

It could be that the AI do not get past the compile/recognition stage that makes it appear in openttd --help and the other AI lists. You could run OpenTTD with debug level set to 5 for 'ai' and read what it says about your AI when it tries to compile it.

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openttd -d ai=5

[Codewolf]

ahh perfect...cheers zuu, i mis-typed a function name

[MinchinWeb]

This has been great in getting my own basic AI into OpenTTD. However, how do you decrypt the error statements? Do they give you the line numbers of the code that is failing? I get output in the console window like (with four lines of the same thing...):

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Error C:\Users\Wm\Documents\OpenTTD\ai\WmDOT\info.nut:15/3: expression expecteddbg: [misc] [squirrel] Failed to compile 'C:\Users\Wm\Documents\OpenTTD\ai\WmDOT\info.nut'

[Kogut]

info.nut:15/3
file: info nut
line number 15, column 3