MapText misreferrence

Take III

Issue fixed

Aha! Now I understand!

Take II

Let's put in some extra debug code to get more information

I don't understand what the computer is babbling about now....

Take I

(And wish me luck)

Start Script

The Start Scenario look okay with me

Autofixes

It's 6 o' clock and time for the news.... I'll be back soon!

I see that I will have to cheat again on the maptext, as I see the same trick used before which doesn't work in the new engine was used, and I fear I may be suffering more here, although, there are not that much dungeons chaining with each other like that anymore, so maybe....

Dragon Crack Forest Scenario text

And from this moment on, the game will also mention them on the field

Unless you played the original game, that is! Their function will be quite similar!

You will find out later what these stones are good for!

Once you enter Dragon Crack Forest every 5 kills in easy mode, every 25 kills in casual mode and every 125 kills in hard mode, a magic stone will drop. As I just used modulos to calculate this, some earlier kills can influence this outcome already....

As soon as you enter the Dragon Crack Forest, the Magic Stone collector will be activated.

Unfortunately this bug required me to build the music resource again... Oh well.... Better in C# than in Go

NJCR bug with aliases

First Area of the Dragon Crack Forest has been done

I've configured the music for the 4 dragon caves, at least!

"NEW!" should be removed upon entering a new location!

Very good... Now for entering the DragonCrack Forest!

Take SEVENTEEN!

Merchant will be removed if you revisit the crypt after completing chapter 1

Blockmap issue crypt

Okay, an unwanted leading space was the evil here! (And it would also have caused trouble with the MapText routine, which has been fixed in the same time... GOOD!)

Take SIXTEEN!

The log did tell me a few things I did not like, but perhaps it DOES shine a light on a few things

Just as I thought... saving in the broken dungeon and loading it "fixes" the issue.... However since loading savegames is the LEAST used method to load dungeons (only once per session after all), this is far from desirable... Now to find out WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING!!!

Take FIFTEEN!

, != .

Take FOURTEEN

I do wanna try this, though

NOTHING has been found in the loader that could possibly do this.... Hmmm....

Leaving me one issue less!

Done now

Forgot to link the leave zone to the Zone action activator though

At least I fixed the Mysterious Crypt from starting in the wrong area though

And why it doesn't happen when loading savegames

Well the mysterious crypt shows the same issue, showing that this is a structural issue in the map loader... I really wonder how this can happen, though....

Take THIRTEEN -- Let's see if this answers something

I've linked the mysterious crypt to the worldmap.... It should however only work if you completed chapter 1... During Brendor's prologue it should therefore ignore you attempt

At least I can check off Doubline in #107

Astonishing.... When saving in Doubline and going back to prison, Blenchy is still there... At least that means that it has nothing to do with having been in the prison before in that go, or the prison being loaded before or not... But why is the swap script ignored???

Take TWELVE!

I've linked Doubline to the worldmap, as I needed to do that to test something I wanna find out out!

Let's take a look under the hood of things, shall we...

Something REALLY goes wrong when chaining from the world map to the dungeon... Is this an issue within going back to dungeons you've been in before, or is this an error with the worldmap... Hard to tell!

Take ELEVEN!

Blenchy reappears in Zoraman even after defeating her... Odd, since that didn't happen when I loaded the savegame, only when I came back from the world map.... I wonder how THAT could happen....

That was an easy fix

Zoraman prison linked to the wrong room

Take TEN!

Let's take a look if it all works as intended, eh?

And that should link the worldmap to all the maps it contains, and when I add new locations (which will happen soo, doncha worry) they'll be automatically linked as well.

Well that has been scripted

And now what will happen, when the player CLICKS a location, eh?

So far, so good!

Take NINE!

Syntax error

Take EIGHT!

I'll be counting on in my tests

Hover detection

Next step is the hover detection! Very important as that is what allows the player to actually pick a location... Without this, you can click what you want, but you won't get the computer to understand what it has to do....

And the "new" button also appears were it should

Perfect! Now it does what it has to do!

Take SEVEN!

Fix ignored, or did I not rebuild properly?

That has been fixed!

Did the checklist not have an icon here on this devlog? Oh, my?

Take SIX!

Case error

Take FIVE!

Wrong object

Take FOUR!

Well, I mean, what works that works, right... At least I hope so!

Brute force then????

Fix ignored

Take THREE!

Case error

Take TWO!

No return value allowed in a "newindex", idiot (since quickmeta declares them as "void" functions).

Time to put everything to the test.... Wish me luck

Take ONE!

I've set up checklist #107 for that!

for the Chapter 1 maps this will never work (except for the prison), but I will have to take care of that later, since except for the mysterious crypt and Doubline, none of them are accessible yet

I've set an autolink to the four continents planned in the game now.... If a zone is marked for that worldmap, it will always go there....

I've set the map zones ready

Now let's link the exit of the prison to the world map

New locations will be marked as such

I will use that to indicate which world map locations just appeared.... (I guess that was obvious).

"New!"

I've set up the basis for the World Map Screen

See ya later, folks! ;)

Up to date

Up to date!

Ah, it's done.... Let's commit my stuff further then....

Oh wait, it's just the auto-repack.... Always have to happen when I'm about to call it, but I guess it will have to be done, right?

Git is acting up on me... Or so it seems

the preparations are done, but there is still a lot to be done.... It's gotta wait though, but I got a good workout spot for now, right?

I've set all the music for all the continents the player will pass through.... Saves me some worries later!

Expanded the link code

Oh wait I already had some link code at the ready... Oh my!

Anyway regerated

And an empty link script

Starting up World Map stuff

I've set up a quick script to access the worldmap database... Saves me a lot of trouble later

Dragon Crack Forest

Mysterious Crypt

Doubline

Zoraman Prison

Added tag WORLDMAP

Basis World Map Database has been set up!

Before I can work on that I first need to set up the database

with all that crap out of the way, I can get to the matters at hand... The world map...

No more need to work with that slow Go application then... GO you can Go away!

It appears that NJCR can handle it just fine!.... Good!

jcr6/NJCR#12

Well, good test also... Go and C# running the same script... C# began later and has more files done than Go by now... That proves that C# is the faster option now...

And let's test it.... I've set things to work in a different file anyway

While I was at it, I also added alias support!

Add NIL support to NJCR

I got NJCR working on scripts... Limited support

And while that is running I'm working on NJCR

With the old method I am now doing the alias for the world map music

All bugs accounted for... Well, in this part, that is....

Take IV

I also think I fixed the security bug in the GJ secret dungeon checker

Code order not well!

Ah, so that's why

I wonder why removing Blenchy crashed the game

And altered data, as I forgot the NEGGER did not account for this stunt I pulled.... Dang!

NEG

Hahahaha, how could I forget about that, eh?

Take III

I still have my doubts about the values generated by the GJ checker.... Some values I see simply cannot be right!

Take II

Issue has been fixed

Ah, that explains

Take I

And So I can FINALLY get to test the boss fight between the party and Blenchy

Well, by now the new music resource has been rebuilt

I already suspected it, but now it's confirmed... The C# JCR packager is not a little bit faster, but it did in 5 minutes what the Go packager took more than an hour... It will therefore be really fruitful if I get the NJCR scripter to work a.s.a.p. So as soon as Blenchy has been properly taken care of, and the first chapter be done, I think it'll save me tons of time in the future to get that done first....

So let's put my potato crockets into the oven (you ever heard of those?)

I fixed it, but I cannot yet check if the fix is done as the JCR6 music rebuild is still running

I did see a bug in how the score for opening GJ exclusive dungeons are opened...

Well it's time for the news anyway, and after that for dinner, so maybe I can go for that first while the computer is rebuilding

As repacking the music resource is a time consuming operation

I've set up the boss music for Blenchy and I really hate myself for not doing that before

Which is now also linked to Irravonia

Splash

SPOILER!!!! It's Blenchy!

The Dark Servant

As I still need to configure the boss, and the entire setting around her

The pre-boss SASKIA script has been set up, but I'm not there yet

The Dark Servants

Scenario looks ok

Pre-Boss and Post-Boss Scenario

Be back soon!

That works

They should be hidden, but I gotta test if this is actually the case

Heroes placed in the confrontation with the Dark Servant

I need a break now... I'll be back later get the stuff done regarding the boss in the prison

I've issued this as #106

Scyndi's whip won't show

Crossing works, but

Take XI

Syntax error

Take X

Correction didn't work due to issues within the Bubble API for Kthura

At least the no-scan issue appears to be solved... I must make sure all modulos with 32 in Scyndi bars are 0 (same goes for Irravonia bars, though)....

Take IX

Let's see....

Take VIII

I think I found the issue.... And interesting this can be also

Take VII

More debug is still needed, though

Elementary, my dear Watson....
It is at least proven the ScyndiHook_ prefix has been seen

Take VI

Debug Illegal function call

Take V

MOAR debug lines

Take VI

I do need to try this though

stuff is still very very vague

Take V

Why?

Nothing happens... at all

Take IV

Ah, wrong function type

Take III

Well I saved... Let's see if that fixes stuff

Is the fact that I forgot to save before building the issue?

WTF?

Take II