unable to load pool files

[QuickMythril]

when loading any .pool file i get two different errors:

• Loading pool from C:\genetic\BizHawk-2.4\Lua\SNES\neat-mario\pool\temp.pool
• NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:921: 'for' limit must be a number

or (for a file i manually saved):

• Loading pool from C:\genetic\BizHawk-2.4\Lua\SNES\neat-mario\pool\BackupDP1.state.pool
• NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:929: table index is nil

[KayWayJay]

Same problem here.

I'm wondering if the backslash ("") is causing some trouble? Because it should appear as a forward slash.

[BaconBoi95]

Try the version on my fork, I think I managed to fix it (I dunno, I had some similar problems so I made some changes)

[mudkip989]

same issue, but with bacon boi version, we need fix maybe asap

[BaconBoi95]

Hmm, I'm going to look at that when i have some time

[BaconBoi95]

found the problem, just need to solve it. its trying to load from mam91's downloads folder, which of course, isn't on your computer. just gotta tweak the search path

[mudkip989]

i have done that, i realized it was saying
"C:/Users/User/Documents/mario/BizHawk-2.4/Lua\SNES\neat-mario\pool\DP1.state.pool
Loading pool from C:/Users/User/Documents/mario/BizHawk-2.4/Lua\SNES\neat-mario\pool\DP1.state.pool
NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:929: table index is nil
NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:726: attempt to index field 'neurons' (a nil value)"
looks to be a nueron issue? it does this every time. I believe the first line is the saving. the rest is loading the save.

[mudkip989]

note: i dont know lua, but i might be able to find it. looking for the issue rn. For anyone looking for a fix, please be patient. it seems to be checking for a value in an array or table(dont know what it is called here) at a spot where one would not be located, hence "nil" or nonexistent. If i find it, i will post here again with fix.

note2: i dont know what im doing. i dont understand this stuff, tried using text finder, found "neuron" but too many. my brain hurts. i give up.

[mudkip989]

so i came back to this problem, and have narrowed it down. making smol changes and undoing them has brought me here for some reason.

for g=1,numGenomes do
local genome = newGenome()
table.insert(species.genomes, genome)
genome.fitness = file:read("*number")
genome.maxneuron = file:read("*number")
local line = file:read("*line")
while line ~= "done" do

                            genome.mutationRates[line] = file:read("*number")
                            line = file:read("*line")
                    end
                    local numGenes = file:read("*number")
                    for n=1,numGenes do

                            local gene = newGene()
                            local enabled
  						
  						local geneStr = file:read("*line")
  						local geneArr = mysplit(geneStr)
  						gene.into = tonumber(geneArr[1])
  						gene.out = tonumber(geneArr[2])
  						gene.weight = tonumber(geneArr[3])
  						gene.innovation = tonumber(geneArr[4])
  						enabled = tonumber(geneArr[5])


                            if enabled == 0 then
                                    gene.enabled = false
                            else
                                    gene.enabled = true
                            end
                            
  						table.insert(genome.genes, gene)
                    end

the first line is line 921 in the mario-neat.config. Now here is the issue i have now.

NLua.Exceptions.LuaScriptException: [string "main"]:921: 'for' limit must be a number

this only happens when i try to load a saved pool. Is there any way i can fix this?

note:don't know what github is trying to do, so i made it a quote.

[BaconBoi95]

are you able to upload this to a fork so that you I can take a closer look at it

[mudkip989]

copied the folder over into my fork as "neat-mario-from-me".I change the population, but that had no effect on the issue.

[BaconBoi95]

Made it to line 1046
just add ".\\" to the requires
"config" would become ".\\config"

[mudkip989]

didnt seem to fix the problem here. I still think it has to do with the for loop and the variable it is using.

[Tqualizer]

Reverted some of the code back to SethBling's version and I think I've fixed it! It was not loading the correct numbers from the geneStr (lines 938-944) so I replaced it with
gene.into, gene.out, gene.weight, gene.innovation, enabled = file:read("*number", "*number", "*number", "*number", "*number")
Tested it and it now loads the previously trained models as expected.

[mudkip989]

That works. Problem solved.

Reverted some of the code back to SethBling's version and I think I've fixed it! It was not loading the correct numbers from the geneStr (lines 938-944) so I replaced it with
gene.into, gene.out, gene.weight, gene.innovation, enabled = file:read("*number", "*number", "*number", "*number", "*number")
Tested it and it now loads the previously trained models as expected.

[mudkip989]

so, now there is another issue:
NLua.Exceptions.LuaException: unprotected error in call to Lua API (0) at NLua.Lua.PanicCallback(IntPtr luaState) at lua_error(lua_State* ) at NLua.ObjectTranslator.throwError(IntPtr luaState, Object e) at NLua.Lua.SetPendingException(Exception e) at NLua.LuaMethodWrapper.call(IntPtr luaState) at NLua.MetaFunctions.runFunctionDelegate(IntPtr luaState) at lua_resume(lua_State* , Int32 ) at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.EmuLuaLibrary.ResumeScript(LuaFile lf) at BizHawk.Client.EmuHawk.LuaConsole.<>c__DisplayClass57_1.<ResumeScripts>b__1() at BizHawk.Client.Common.LuaSandbox.Sandbox(Action callback, Action exceptionCallback)

lasted 1 week with previous fix. any help?