Take XXII

Did I void that one?

WTF?

And Take XXI

Recompiling

Oh wait... There's a more elegant way to do this

Well, it's a bit of a drastic fix, but I've set the killer routine to destroy the entire tagmap

But I think I see where the "evil" may lie... Since there's a tagmap that is likely not properly reset.... And that tagmap resorts to old data ignoring the new, and that explains how the keyword "true" was seen as "false"... the keyword was simply never read at all.

This powerplay debug did get the result that the enemy oversoul creation script DOES send through the correct data

Powerplay debug -- Why does the impossible happen... This this test confirms the impossible I'll have no other choice, but to leave Oversoul be, or to cancel this project altogether....

Impossibility confirmed

Take XX

Just one more.... To make 100% sure Lua is playing games on me somehow

The logs confirm the impossibility

before I can start Take XIX

Of course I must re-do the foe compilation now

What the system is claiming is that the KEYWORD "true" suddenly contains the value "false".... Nothing can cause that to happen, since programming languages do not allow changing keywords

I've now set my FOE compiler to force things out, as this is really getting beyond any possibility now!

Jason! Leave my game alone, will ya!

Of course... It's Friday the 13th now, so that doesn't foretell anything good....

Take XVIII

Yeah, running the script again

I wanna know what value is sent in, as I don't trust this anymore.... So I've adapted the NIL gluer

Not that I can be expected to expect anything from this... at all!

Take XVII

Not that I expect anything from it, but I made sure the original character is removed from the memory before loading the oversoul version

According to the error screen that parameter is indeed "false".... I wonder how that is possible (it's not)

So I can move on to Take XVI

Running my NALA compilation script

I've set NALA to confirm that the "createifneeded" boolean is indeed set to true (ruling out any possibility of this error to happen, or else the same issue would have applied to the non-oversoul enemies and even to the playable characters, so that is the odd part here).

Take XV

Syntax error (in the debug line... I guess I'm getting tired)

Take XIV

Well first of all the double-oversoul is bugged... that cannot cause this error (then again... nothing can), but it will at least prevent enemies from not going oversoul when they had to

That didn't shine a line... As a matter of fact, this has only become more idiotic

Take XIII

Of course I had to compile NALA again for this

I've altered the underlying API a bit as the error seems to be generated from there... Reason is beyond me, but perhaps this shines a light

Well what does THIS tell us?

Let's first capture that error screen, it might well answer a few questions.... At least, I hope so....

Another issue is why it claims the HP record does not exist, because... it does.... And there is not a single reason possible why it shouldn't.... So that requires another investigation

Suddenly without any fix or anything, it works.... of course you can't fix what ain't broken, but I wonder why it didn't work before.... :-/

Take XII

NOTHING can go right in one go, can it?

Take XI

More stuff that I *DO* need now

I've removed a debug feature that dumped a lot of data I currently do not need in the logs... That only makes using the logs a disaster

Take X

I guess this little trick should fix this issue

Aha, a capvalue so it would always produce an (incorrectly) false boolean outcome

Take IX

Let's find out why

I can confirm the counters for Oversoul work, but when oversoul had to be delivered... Nothing happens the the regular AI will work as always

Take VIII

Fixed that

Lack of "self"

Take VII -- In which both this and the oversoul will have to be tested!

Eric can even increase the max HP of himself, Irravonia and Rebecca... Do not underestimate it

Skill up table -- Eric

Skill up table -- Irravonia

Skill up table -- Shanda (nothing will ever happen when she levels up, so technically that only happens for show)

In order not to off-balance my play from the play the actual players will get I need to set a few things in order now when it comes to leveling up

As far as I can test things now

Take VI

I can confirm the kills for oversoul are counted, but that says little about oversoul itself

Sped up Irravonia's attacking spells as they were WAAAAAY to slow!

Well done it anyway, thus the fix

It seems I forgot to transfer the picture for Irravonia in "dead" state

Take V

Also made oversoul kills reset if an enemy in oversoul state is killed

Automated Oversoul status, as all it needs to do is to turn the enemy a bit purple and make sure "Oversoul" appears as a status change!

Should be fixed now

This is gonna be quite job to investigate, as I wonder how this can happen WITHOUT crashing the game before....

Definition error

Take IV

Syntax error

Take II

Group name missspelled!

And the computer can prepare for take I in the meantime

So I'll be firing up my kitchen

I also didn't have dinner, yet! So what will it be?

Oversoul -- However nothing has been tested, and this promises to be a "bumpy ride"

#97

GHOST BUSTERS!

"Who your gonna call?"

Prepare to go oversoul!

Respositioning for 4 players

TAKE Whatever I refuse to make an extra count this time!

Wrongly placed ")"

Take II

Generator error

I've linked the arena and the monsters to the dungeon.... I must note though that I'm now also about to the the "Oversoul" system on the move!

Ghost art

Shanda's Dungeon

Orc

And generated the negative form of it

Orc art

"The age of the orc is over. The time of men has come!" (Pun to the quote from Lord of the Rings, but only the two races swapped, for obvious reasons).

WORKS!

Although flying itself does not yet work, I can at least check the tutorial

Flying

Although I'll never know 100% sure if this is fixed... I'll only know when this crash happens again because it wasn't....

I (hopefully) fixed an issue causing crashes because of empty field references

#96

Let's see how that looks in game and if it works the way I indended it

Area 002 Shanda's dungeon

Take II

Code Typo

A little test is in order, but I don't expect much trouble

I made a tutorial icon which will appear in tutorial scenario, featuring Scyndi as a teacher pointing on a chalkboard

Guest characters

One-Time-Dungeons

Corrections

Diagonals

Texture transfer

See ya later!

Done

All looks good now

Take XII (should be the final take)

Block for putting guest characters in the lead

Take XI

This is a lazy solution as fixing it would invalidate my savegame

Error in equip item, Shanda

Alias for Queen Shanda to prevent savegame issues

ALMOST there!

Take X

I've changed that back

For some strange reason a layer naming was undone by Kthura

Take IX

SASKIA reference call error

Take VIII

I've set up some empty mapscripts for Shanda's dungeon

For some reason the .NET error in user code does not appear again.... I guess I'll never know why this happened... figures...

So let's sync and investigate?

.NET error in user code..... Something that is always impossible to track down....

VII

Data of Shanda properly set up

Not appearing picture of Shanda

All this does is serve as Queen Shanda's equipment, which cannot be changed.... She's only a guest character, after all!

Royal Ring

Royal Dress

Royal Sceptre

Take VI

SASKIA syntax error

Take V

Illegal music referrence

Take IV

Illegal map referrrence

Take III

Illegal function call

Take Take II

IDIOT!

Let's see -- Take I

A little start has been made with Shanda's dungeon, but that is only so I can test if stuff works

Shanda combat sprite worked out

Adaptions made to make it all correct in the new game

Shanda's scenario

And made some adaptions for the new game.....

Transferred the map to the Kthura engine

Everything is the way it should be

Take II (Can you believe that?)

Syntax error

Empty scenario page removed

But error or no error, I can test if I get the error I wanted to get

Of course, since the map itself does not yet exist, the link will cause an error... for now

Which links the game to the dungeon

And set up a saskia processing script

I've set up the fisherman who will take you to Shanda

Take V

Max money protection (you cannot buy what you cannot afford)

Works

Take IV

Link error

I solved it

Take III

Let's see what this line gives me

Buying does not, and that was supposed to be the easy part.... :-/

Hoverhelp works

And this we DO need a Take II (Sigh!)

Resource file corrupt

And Take I and let's hope the ONLY take!

Linked that all together

Buying function

Help generation

Hover detection

Some more work to get the shops done... at least the buying part... All I need to do is to make sure the hover detection works, the help text works, and the actual buying... The latter is the easiest part, but only possible when the former has been done.

Added the numbers showing how many you already got in stock yourself

And run the backup in the the background

Time to prepare dinner....

Well, one more test, but no trouble should be expected....

Added to shop hoer's stock

Phoenix

FINALLY!!!!!

Take XI

Bad math

Take X

Fixing that stupid action!

Done that now, anyway