i write up my script which is this


(script startup cutscene
(player_enable_input 0)
(camera_control 1)
(camera_set cam1 0)
(sleep 30)
(camera_set cam2 0)
(sleep 30)
(camera_set cam3 0)
(sleep 30)
(camera_set cam4 0)
(sleep 10)
(camera_set cam 0)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj1)
(hud_set_objective_text obj1)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj2)
(hud_set_objective_text obj2)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj3)
(hud_set_objective_text obj3)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj4)
(hud_set_objective_text obj4)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj5)
(hud_set_objective_text obj5)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj6)
(hud_set_objective_text obj6)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
(sleep 15)
(camera_control 0)
(player_enable_input 1)
(sleep 15)
(show_hud_help_text true)
(hud_set_help_text obj7)
(hud_set_objective_text obj7)
(sleep 150)
(show_hud_help_text false)
)



when i try to compile scripts in sapien it crashes and i go look at debug.txt and i get this



07.06.12 11:41:50 reference function: _write_to_error_file
07.06.12 11:41:50 reference address: 401b13
07.06.12 11:41:50 Couldn't read map file './sapienbeta.map'
07.06.12 11:41:50 CreateDevice succeeded with refresh rate = 0
07.06.12 11:41:51 Sound card doesn't meet minimum hardware requirements. Disabling hardware option.
07.06.12 11:41:51 Increasing sound decompression buffer size to 1048576 bytes
07.06.12 11:41:52 recompiling scripts after scenarios were merged.
07.06.12 11:41:52 this left parenthesis is unmatched.: (script startup cutscene

07.06.12 11:41:52 local player 0, weapon (0x0), deleted unexpectedly
07.06.12 11:42:14 EAX: 0x00000000
07.06.12 11:42:14 EBX: 0xE3730001
07.06.12 11:42:14 ECX: 0x00000000
07.06.12 11:42:14 EDX: 0x00000000
07.06.12 11:42:14 EDI: 0x0018EEB8
07.06.12 11:42:14 ESI: 0x00000000
07.06.12 11:42:14 EBP: 0x0018ED90
07.06.12 11:42:14 ESP: 0x0018ED80
07.06.12 11:42:14 EIP: 0x77390BD2, 83 C4 04 C2 ?????
07.06.12 11:42:14 EXCEPTION halt in \halopc\haloce\source\hs\hs_compile.c,#306: tell matt that somebody failed to correctly report a parsing error.




wtf? Does anyone know the solution to this problem?

Some of the objects or hud messages you referenced may be non-existent, or some functions may be being used incorrectly; that's what "this parenthesis is unmatched" means. However, this seems like the symptoms of a larger problem. Go to a previous version of the map you are working on, or retrace your steps to see what action could have triggered this. You might have deleted something else like a flag or something important unrelated to the script.