Confusion about adding new lines of code.

[neoski]

I'm very new to programming and have only taken a few crash courses in various languages, so I appreciate any patience. I'm an artist and animator originally so I had a great and easy time figuring out the VS model creator and creating a model for a dinosaur with animations to boot. But now I'm ready to implement it into the game. I copy pasted the suggested template off the wiki and replaced the appropriate file paths with my new mod folder, which is living inside of vintage story data, and every time I try to add a new line of code (following all the same formatting as other people's mods OR the suggested template itself, I've tried both) I get the same outcome which is I can no longer place my dinosaur. (no such entity loaded)

The line of code in question was to size up the raptor model using "size" (that as well as trying to add a line of code to the idle animation to make it the default state of the model instead of T-posing) always result in *no such entity loaded.* Also, removing those lines of code and reverting the JSON to its original state before attempting to add those lines also resulted in *no such entity loaded.* I'm dying to know what I'm missing, as trivial or ridiculously obvious as it is.

Here's evidence of my file paths and domain as well as the code that I copied directly from the wiki (attached below). I removed the sound effect lines and those never had any impact. The code screenshot at the top is of the code how I'd tried to write it and how I'd seen others use it in their mods.

Thanks for reading, any help is appreciated!

Have a nice one,

Neo

issue code.json

Edited November 9, 2024 by neoski

[neoski]

It looks like any time I try to add new lines of code it breaks the entity and I can no longer place it.

these sound paths aren't working either. I originally tried with just "creature/dromeosaur/bark_02" as in without the domain, and that didn't work, I saw in another mod a distinct reference to the domain at the beginning of the path, as I copied in the above screenshot. That didn't work either. I feel like I'm missing something so painfully obvious or simple at this point. Did something change and the wiki is not the right place to look for info anymore, or has that info not been updated?

[neoski]

Nevermind, I was missing commas! Also had to change the sound files from mp3 to ogg and then learned to change them to mono through audacity under tracks/mix.