include() broken.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I’m trying to make a dynamic MapData-style serverside inclusion system. I coded it in another gamemode, where it worked fine. Below is all the code.
[lua]include( game.GetMap() … “.lua” );[/lua]
Tested on three maps, all map lua files in the same directory, with correct spelling (eg, gm_flatgrass.lua). For some reason, I get an error saying that the file cannot be found. However, if I copy and paste the files into the garrysmod/lua folder, they work perfectly. It is serverside, being called in the InitPostEntity hook. The gamemode is new, being coded on a clean GMod install.

Any ideas why/how to get around it? This has never been an issue for me.

#2

Are you sure game.GetMap() doesn’t return the “.bsp” at the end of the filename?

#3

Yes.
Are the map luas in the same folder as the include()ing luas?

#4

It works fine. As Lexic said, are they in the same directory.

#5

What Orange said. Also, who rated me dumb? :V

#6

Some kid with no balls tbh.

#7

Just ignore them, the ratings don’t have any effect anyway.

#8

Regardless, any ideas? This is like my 9th gamemode and this is the first time include() didn’t default to the gamemode directory.

#9

include() and AddCSLuaFile() are always relative to the file they’re called in, which is why we asked you where the files were in relation to the calling script.
…Well?

#10

I actually ran into this problem about an hour ago in my own gamemode. It appears that it includes from “gamemode” just fine when it’s included outside of a function, but within a function it defaults to “lua”, regardless of where the file it’s being included in is located. You also can’t use “…/” to change directories. My only, very hacky solution to this was to enclose the contents of the lua files in a function, include all of them, then execute the function corresponding to the lua file you want to load. It’s a real pain not having any way to set the directory of include() yourself.

#11

Inside Function:
gamemodename/gamemode/filename

Outside function
filename

Problem solved :eng101:

#12

^ Worked gbps. Thanks!

#13

Ah, thanks for clearing this up, much better than that mess of a method I had to use before.