Lua TFS 1.0 Spamming NPC error

[dominique120]

The error spams all the time in TFS 1.0

[Warning - Monsters::loadMonster] Cant load loot. data/monster/Sorcerers/ice wit
ch.xml

xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<monster name="Ice Witch" nameDescription="an ice witch" race="blood" experience="580" speed="188" manacost="0">
  <health now="540" max="540"/>
  <look type="149" head="0" body="47" legs="105" feet="105" addons="0" corpse="6081"/>
  <targetchange interval="2000" chance="5"/>
  <strategy attack="100" defense="0"/>
  <flags>
    <flag summonable="0"/>
    <flag attackable="1"/>
    <flag hostile="1"/>
    <flag illusionable="0"/>
    <flag convinceable="0"/>
    <flag pushable="0"/>
    <flag canpushitems="1"/>
    <flag staticattack="50"/>
    <flag lightlevel="0"/>
    <flag lightcolor="0"/>
    <flag targetdistance="4"/>
    <flag runonhealth="0"/>
  </flags>
  <attacks>
    <attack name="melee" interval="2000" skill="45" attack="30"/>
    <attack name="outfit" interval="1000" chance="10" range="7" item="7172" duration="8000">
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="blueshimmer"/>
    </attack>
    <attack name="physical" interval="1000" chance="7" length="6" spread="3" min="0" max="-100">
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="iceattack"/>
    </attack>
    <attack name="ice" interval="2000" chance="15" length="4" spread="2" min="-50" max="-110">
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="icearea"/>
    </attack>
    <attack name="ice" interval="1000" chance="9" range="7" target="1" min="-0" max="-110">
      <attribute key="shootEffect" value="snowball"/>
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="iceattack"/>
    </attack>
    <attack name="speed" interval="1000" chance="11" range="7" speedchange="-700" duration="20000">
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="redshimmer"/>
    </attack>
  </attacks>
  <defenses armor="20" defense="25">
    <defense name="healing" interval="1000" chance="25" min="50" max="80">
      <attribute key="areaEffect" value="blueshimmer"/>
    </defense>
  </defenses>
  <elements>
  <element firePercent="50"/>
  <element earthPercent="40"/>
  <element holyPercent="30"/>
  <element energyPercent="-10"/>
  <element deathPercent="-10"/>
  </elements>
  <immunities>
    <immunity ice="1"/>
    <immunity paralyze="1"/>
    <immunity invisible="1"/>
  </immunities>
  <voices interval="2000" chance="5">
    <voice sentence="So you think you are cool?"/>
    <voice sentence="I hope it is not too cold for you! HeHeHe."/>
    <voice sentence="Freeze!"/>
  </voices>
  <loot>
    <item id="2148" countmax="80" chance1="100000" chancemax="0"/> --Gold Coins
    <item id="7449" chance="1222"/> --Crystal Sword
    <item id="7441" chance="5555"/> --Ice Cube
    <item id="7387" chance="1444"/> --Diamond Sceptre
    <item id="1987" chance="100000"> --Bag
      <inside>
        <item id="7896" chance="1900"/> --Glacier Kilt
        <item id="2423" chance="3333"/> --Clerical Mace
        <item id="2796" countmax="3" chance1="9999" chancemax="0"/> --Green Mushrooms
        <item id="2663" chance="1222"/> --Mystic Turban
        <item id="7459" chance="1000"/> --Ear Muffs
      </inside>
    </item>
  </loot>
</monster>

 

[Ninja]

You're using Lua comment tags instead of XML

<! -- Test -->

 

[dominique120]

Yeah I know, they worked fine in 0.4 but for some reason not in 1.0. I have loads of monsters that have comments like that, do you know any quick way to remove invalid comments?

 

[zerghel]

so we need to remove one by one?

 

[gs1994]

Yup, have fun

 

[WibbenZ]

You could "ruin" it, by using Regex, to serach for "-- *" in your monster files (make copies just in case) then let notepad++ or w/e fix it for you.
You could also spend some time to learn Regex, that way learn to handle things like end of line, start of serach in this case "--" will be the start, replace that with "<!-- " and at the end of line add " -->".

So google it, Regex is a great tool for us who deal with ALOT of code