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I think I ran into a bug in Window's batch scripting. I cannot set variables that are in an expanded if statement. Here is an isolated part of my script: @echo off set success=1 set Version=12345 set Target=Client set Type=456 set dir= set zip= if "%Version%"=="" set success=0 if "%Type%"=="" set success=0 if 1==1 set test=42 if %success%==1 ( set test2=57005 if "%Target%"=="Client" ( set dir=ModName v%Version% set zip=ModName v%Version% %Type%.zip echo Version: %Version% echo Type: %Type% echo. echo Target: %Target% echo dir: %dir% echo zip: %zip% echo. echo test: %test% echo test2: %test2% ) ) else ( echo Not successful. ) This is the output from a brand new instance of cmd: C:\Users\RandomClown\Desktop>test.bat Version: 12345 Type: 456 Target: Client dir: zip: test: 42 test2: What you should notice is that the single line if statement correctly sets stuff. The multiline if will perform anything that is NOT a set. I dont think I missed anything. Also, the multiline if statement is correctly executing the right lines, as the else ( echo Not successful. ) lines did not execute. Why did the lines not execute?

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