H1A - Scripting - Stubs - Function Body Now Required.

[ChaOtoko]

As titled. I don't know if this has always been the case, or its specific to H1A or its due to an update to MCC. But I discovered this while experimenting with stubs.

If you try to create a stub without defining it the following error is produced when the script is compiled.

[test_script line 1] i expected (script stub <type> <name> <expression(s)>): (script stub void say_hello)

Looking through the level scripts "base_a10.hsc" has stub scripts with bodies.

...
(script stub void halo_setup (print "Joe's Cool Cinematic"))
...

When compiled single/multiplayer maps are run in MCC their stub scripts will still execute.

So they're overridable static scripts. But can only be overridden once (it can still be in a different script file).

[num0005]

just got around to this @ChaOtoko did you end up checking if this was the case in legacy H1?

[ChaOtoko]

I've been a bit busy myself. Anyway I've managed to install (Halo 1 CE with) legacy HEK, and can confirm that stubs require initial definition. So the workaround for blank stubs would be to just use the print keyword.

MCC HEK

legacy HEK
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