Great! I've killed what was beautiful code, and dirty code straight from hell (ruining all rules of programming even my own) seems to work... TERRIBLE!

It's getting stranger....

Let's try a few things.... Whatever is happening here... It should not be possible....

Now let's see if I get this straight... Class CL_SASKIA is nil, while doing a request from CL_SASKIA is actually running.... WTF is going on here?

I've linked the SASKIA cycler to the Update callback in the field... Now things can get to work... (I hope).

Coolvetica 20 has been linked to the BoxText routine as standard font

A little reorderning of code... Would be very important to do before the BoxText routine kicks in!

All crashes accounted for!

Flow error

I think I fixed the damn scope error

#8

#8

jpbubble/NIL-isn-t-Lua#42

local local?

And that should take care of all parse error crap

Parse error :(

I think I fixed this.... (I hope)....

Aha... hahaha... I think I got it :P

A strange error, of which I cannot fully tell if this is another bug or still the same one refusing to be fixed.

And another parse error killed

This SHOULD fix it

Yup, and NOW I found it... Now I've added an extra parameter in the classes tracker, so it can see that it's a group.... This does not yet fix the issue, but I wanna see if this is being registered!

And hopefully I can study this now at last!

I fixed that now

Ah... dupe vars are the reason behind the nonsensical data

How can I fix this, if Lua refuses me to create data that makes sense?

Nil?

let's set this out more properly as this is getting more and more vague

So let's try it again!

A few issues in setting this study material up

Some more study

That did not shine a light

Let's see what I can do to make sure I can rule groups out here... :-/

Aha... Now I see... The parser didn't understand the difference between a group and a class, and as the "." wasn't used, it threw an error... That should be fixable, though...

And now it's just playing dumb on me

Forgotten commas

Some function misdefinitions

Well THAT is fixed now

That syntax would NEVER work, Jeroen! Neither in NIL nor in Lua

I refuse to call this fixed, but at least this should prevent trouble (for now).

I see private classes are still bugged (was to be expected, but still)

VAGUE error

A test

But for now I'm too tired... I cannot think clearly anymore, so it's better if I call it!

I've set a link to the BoxText library and the game. This has not yet been tested, and it must be very fragile as a result. I will have to set this out properly later

New Anyway.nil file generated

And a link established to the 'scenario' library, which will only be used in the BoxText routine (at least for now, as a few sub-events may also use this)

Skeleton for BoxText

I've converted the scenario library into NIL format and I've made it extensible for future engines

Spicing my chicken for my dinner tonight

I'm taking a break now

Running

(Of course since I don't have to set up any scenario any more, except for testing for typos, things are a bit easier on me).

Of course I wasted an entire day on such an imbecile thing, but at least it works now... Next step will be the BoxText script, which will also be one hell of a job....

GOTCHA!!!! Idiots

So here's that test!

This should now be fixed, but I need to make another test to be 100% sure

Leave it the guys at MicroSCHOFT (not a typo, just look up the Dutch word "schoft") to make simple actions into a mess!

I did deliberately place Brendor out of the prison walls to see if he'd appear, and he does.... So what is clear is that the objects are (for some reason) drawn in the wrong order... This would imply dominance maps being ignored, somehow

HARSH TEST!

The textures ARE being loaded... The debug round did confirm that one!

Hopefully this debug line can provide me some answers, as I'm really getting clueless now...

The crasher is NOT activated, meaning the textures in question ARE LOADED. But what goes wrong then?

In order to make sure I've made sure the game will crash out. I've done this by using delegates to make sure the EDITOR will not crash on things like these.

My guess is something goes wrong with loading picture bundles

Indeed, the objects are loaded... Question is why they do not appear... :-/

I guess I've to eat more fish... If it wasn't so revolting and expensive!

I KNEW that whatever it was, it had to be stupid!

NIL VALUE!!! Not possible unless faulty script has been produced by the underlying API (which should in turn also not be possible, but let's check)

If this game ever gets finished it'd be a disaster, eh?

Code Typo

again....

F.U.

Why does Lua have loadstring and load... Makes NIL communication harder, ya know

And a command for the console to see the results... Now I wanna know what I get to see... :-/

Linked to the script VMs

Easy to write anyway :P

I've added a Kthura Object counter

Parameters wrongly received

almost there...

AGAIN!

ANOTHER Code typo

Anyway, it's been fixed, so let's try that again, shall we?

Typos in code are lethal, you know!

It seems fixed, but now I gotta deal with a TYPO!

This should take care of it!

And this one is for ME!

Let's try { ... } catch this one, shall we?

Now that CLEARLY didn't work out the way it should

Testing ....

Well let's compile and find out

Hopefully the console is now able to handle it all

API Success bit now links into the Bubble console core.... It's there where the stuff has to be fully worked out, you know!

I've added the console command "HamAndJamAndSpamALot", as a reference to Monty Python indeed, but most of all to test if the console command interface works.. That is once it's fully written, but that will be the next step.

I did want to save this for later, but this console is something I need to get some answers about why the actors do no appear in the prison cell

Preparations for debug console usage

I added the ".hasmember" secret property to classes... This will make it easier on me to track a few things, and most notably to get the console commands scriptable

Some direct data scans show me the Kthura map is indeed in order... but why do the heroes then not appear?

Nothing I can find in the Kthura data indicates this possibility... :-/

But why do the characters not appear then?

And that is the case

I move the prison bench a bit to see if the game reacts to that, as the actors are in the map... I checked it!

The latter has been answered, and fixed

I also wonder why the debug screen does not pop up when asked for.

For starters the actors do not appear and they should've

Well the map appears, but I'm not happy, meow....

Communication error between .NET and Lua

AT LAST!!!

PLLLLLLEEEEEEAAAASE!!!!

Man... It just DOESN'T want to work, eh?

MORE WHITE SPACE CRAP!

ALMOST.... THERE....

Well another test

I refuse to call this a fix, but to ensure this doesn't happen again, I've made sure the Kthura API will trim all map requests..... Starting or ending file names with whitespaces is bad practise anyway, and this is also not the whitespace programming language.

Just as I thought.... JCR6 has trouble finding the resource, and once again unwanted whitespaces are the cause... I wonder why this happens all the time, but it's annoying the crap outta me!

Maybe JCR6 itself is to blame, or that JCR6 cannot perform some faulty stuff... In any case, let's sort that one out, eh?

But no difference (Not that it was to be expected)!

I love my debug logs!

I've set some extra reference to the JCR reference, to make sure the texture JCR is not NULL... It has to be the same JCR as where the map themselves are stored now, anyway...

A null... But I already was that far... Let's take this on even further... :-/

Let's see how a try {} catch scope will work out....

A .NET error.... Oh man, of all the trouble we could get into....

NOW it should work

I forgot to link the header file to the actual script... Now I MUST hurt myself REALLY REALLY BAD!

A different DIRTY approach

Let's see what happens now... :-/

Yeah I'm getting tired of that... You too?

That issue should now be fixed for real

Ah, so that's why!

But that didn't fix that bug... Now we got a REAL issue!

No void, but another type for non-value returning functions!

Oh boohoohoo! Pay attention, Jeroen!

And let's see what happens next....

Forgotten "RETURN" instruction in the Kthura link script....

LUL!

And the Kthura Map should appear on screen now even...

These callbacks are now there

Forced security error line

This WILL lead to an error though as the Field flow does not yet have all needed callbacks.... details :P

The chain to the Field flow has been established, and not only that, I also made sure the NewGame flow will be flushed from the memory

All errors accounted for!

Oh yeah, almost forgot I closed jpbubble/nil-isnt-lua#36

Wait a minute....?

For some reason the "new" request is seen as a "delegate" creation... Not possible to happen, but it happens... :-/

Case error

I guess I don't have my day today... Must be my brain is still hurt by the heath.

I had to link to link the API to the Lua state before calling the glue code

"!" error

All the link code to get Kthura on the run should now be inplace (I hope)

Well that should be fixed now!

The global-identifier-in-class bug's been fixed, though.

JEROEN! NOGMAALS JE BENT EEN RUND EN EEN STOM VARKEN!

For forgetting to put the NIL script in the Bubble initiation code

Let's see....

Fixed for real now... I hope!

JEROEN! JE BENT EEN RUND EN EEN STOM VARKEN!!!

Fix ignored, eh?

That should fix jpbubble/NIL-isn-t-Lua#36, but I need to test stuff first before I close that issue

And class members should now be able to have the same name as Lua globals

Some odd issue with faulty "link" identifiers in classes within NIL

AHA! Wrong EOLN setting

For some reason SASKIA is now spooking up NIL... File corruption?

Link comma error

I need to run more tests to see where I was in this process

I had to take a long break....

More Kthura link up code taken care of

NIL wiki updated

Link in NIL

Well, and that is indeed the way it goes....

I've added the command which should load the Kthura map into the memory into the New Game script, however all I can do to test is run the script and see if no errors pop up.

API Linked into Bubble in the NALA engine

Remember Kthura is the map system which will be used, so without Kthura the dungeons and cities cannot be loaded, so this is pretty important.

Kthura Map Creation and Loading functions

Calling it a day

License in source files

#6

I do need to see if this works the way it's intended, though

#6

In the meantime the backup too is running

Well I finally reached the current "end" blockade without more errors... Cool!

Perhaps I SHOULD consider a #if directive.... :-P

New setup to get rid of function conflicts

All parse errors in SASKIA accounted for

Did my Devlogger just crash?

And placed a ) where it was missing and one should be placed

And another (doh!)

Removed a ) that was not supposed to be there!

#end doesn't exist in NIL... #endpure does

Another SASKIA parse error down the drain!

missing "end" for function closure

Well not really a fix, but at least not more crashes on that, but I really need to fix starting with . and : in NIL.

#6

#7

Delegates not taken as type for class members

Another wrong variable

Wrong variable name

MOAR fixes to SASKIA

A lazy fix is still a fix