Yup.... as I expected....

AGAIN!

...

Illegal function call

Not much, but hey, it'll do ;)

Will play whenever any kind of combat starts.... Boss or random encounter

Combat Start Jingle

Hmmm.... No boss and no travel emblems in the Underworld either... Must be the same issue as I had in Sugarland

No more crashes from Lethe.... I think

Backchain to Charon's room was inoperative

Please?

Lethe must and WILL crash! No matter how I deliver the code....

the "Drink with me from the river Lethe" keeps popping crashes... I hope that's fixed now

Ice Blast was not a frost attack.... Of course it should be... Let it go!

Foe reference error in Death Caves

A tiny change to "Void"

Let's close this chapter

Een paardenmiddel dan!

This is getting stranger by the minute

The boolean definition is correct, however for some reason the Lua interpreter things it's entitled to a different opinion about the outcome... Odd...

It appears to be working now... I gues

Let's try THIS!

That made matters worse....

I think I fixed that... but I'm not sure... Let's see

Discriminate does not work for multi-target moves (especially for Void and Smoke Bomb this is of vital importance).

And why things didn't work, we'll never know....

Okay.... I've used the avoid Microsoft sillyness procedure also on the grabber now, which now miraculously works....

Be back later!

I've EARNED that!

Time for a break

Not fully the way I wanted things to be, but this will have to do I'm afraid

Take 23

And Thus I fixed tat

Void had no effect because the enemies were seen as bosses.... Looking at the code, it would have removed bosses... That was of course not supposed to happen

Take 22

(or at least I hope so).

That should fix all the issues

So I recoded a large part of that from scratch

I think I got everything worked out well now when it comes to the colors... At least the playground results are good

Take 21

Forgot to recompile NALA

Scaling issue

Take 20

center point not set

TQMG color calculation (I think)

What I saw is bogus though

But mesa NOT happy!

No crashes.....

Case error

Well I guess things work now.... Or at least... it looks that way, so let's not complain any further

And this "fix" (which it isn't) was confirmed to work before... It uses THE SAME CODE my original method uses, BUT, this time no strange error message without any meaning, which confirms that Microsoft was fucking all along.....

In Dutch we call what XNA was doing ZEIKEN!

Take 18

Let's try a different approach

Added tag SIGH

Some Microsoft is very desperate to NOT make the void spell work, I have to resort to a very pathetic alternative.... FUCK YOU MICROSOFT! MAKE A DECENT FRAMEWORK NEXT TIME, ASSHOLES!!!!

Microsoft is now really getting under my skin....

Take 17

Okay.... This was a stupid move of my own design.... But at least that's been sorted out now....

Take 16

Everything is fuck....

And as such I've added another fucker in order to get more information!

The log is vague, my dear Watson....

If you've elimited all the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth....

From that perspective my face screen must be the "evil" here.... All else cannot be it, given the data on the log....

Take 15

forgotten )

Take 14

more markers

The compilation of the script itself goes well

Take 13

(Should not give anything... but I need to try anything things no proper error message is given).

Let's see if I can pin point this with more accurate markers

And now they're just WANTING trouble!

Take 12

Alternate code, with big thanks to Microsoft coorporation, but at least the crashing should stop now (at least I hope so).

Added tag RUINATION

Done

adapted

Experiment for an alternative

I've had it..... Apparently Microsoft does not want to put in decent functionality in their game engines for such a simple feature.... Then I also cannot be expected to do what has to be done, so I'll have to improvise

Take 11

added some junk code

My patience is slowly getting to an end

.NET error in user code

Such a wonderful error message...

VERY informative

Take 10!

Doet hij het nu wel?

Let's force it to

VisualStudio Refused to compile

Take 9

And if this doesn't work I got a few other things on my mind, but let's hope THIS will get things working....

And the VOID-Script has been adapted....

Must be recompiled, of course

That links all crap I normally wouldn't need together

Scripted

Adaptions done

I did have to do some fuck up code as XNA does not allow a few things that should actually work without question on a DECENT game engine (oh, well, what is Microsoft without crashes), but as I cannot fix idiocies in XNA itself, I need to work my way around it to void this issue....

The error i get now makes sense.... But is very extremely nasty, and will require some drastic measures to cover well.... :-/

Take 8

Let's do this elseway

An extra debug line must gimme some answers

It's a mystery to me why an error was not thrown on the grabbing itself....

Take 7

Forgotten .png extension

6

Another one

Take 5

Unknown identifier in scrpt

Recompiling

I've set up an extra error catacher in the error catacher in Bubble, as the game quite often quits immediately when the Blue Screen Of Death shows.... Fortunately I could read the error message this time, but still...

Take 4

Case error

Take 3

....

Take 2!

import typo

Ready!

Test 1!

At something

Almost all ready to put it all to da test

Made sure NALA is up to date... I mean NALA's binary code

And the code that should trigger the "no life in the void" achievement has also been linked, thanks to the automated achievement system....

I've linked this to the void ability

And just as with Smoke Bomb and Blow Away, this too makes the effect happen inside the SpellAni.... For obvious reasons....

Void

This is entry number 20000 -- I talk too much

I've been creating a little screen to capture function, but the documentation I am reliant on was vague at best, so no way I can be sure if it works

There is no life in the void

I love public domain space pictures at times like these

This also fixed the annoying bleeps of which I didn't know where they came from.... Good riddance

I also see that the DevLog tool called out to a deprecated class.... This too has been removed and been replaced by the current class.

We got a winner here!

Let's generate this devlog once more to make sure

I've also used string builders in the DevLog tool.... Due to quicker memory management that should speed up the devlog generation

One more test!

It appears to be working, and as the other icons remain there too, I guess all works the way I intended to

Well... here goes!

Although I can adept the database, the site renderer won't respond to that yet, but hey, Rome wasn't built in one day either....

The C# tag does have an icon, but I could never let it show.... Perhaps this will help me to enforce things....

I'm updating the code behind this devlog itself a bit

Now I think I found something... Unfortunately only usable for entire screens, but hey at least it's something

At the moment I am brainstorming a bit about how to bring the "Void" effect best.... The way it was done in the original game requires screen captioning, but it appears that XNA doesn't support that (unless for saving screenshots, but that is not what I need), and if it does it's poorly documented (or the search features are not directing me to the correct pages). I do have a few ideas though to come up with an alternative.....

Running

But that's for another time

Next stop "Void"

"Attack pose" I needed....

That's fine now!

Take XI

Almost there.... Now it's just a matter of fine tuning

Take X

Does THIS do the trick?

getting closer

Take XI

Let's try this dirty trick

I'm adding some extra debug lines to find out more....

For some reason the boolean expression used to check Smoke Bomb gives true even when there's no way it can.... This not only leads to a cosmetic issue, but also to a memory leak, so this is pretty serious....

Take X

Let's wriggle a bit more....

Take IX

I've set a bit of a routine to slow stuff down

At least the routine does what is has to do, but I am not yet fully happy.... The animation is so fast, that you can not see there is an animation at all.... So this is what I need to focus on

Take VIII

The C string formatter is complaining.... Now I cannot be 100% sure, but I think it's because the integer rule is not fully followed.... I have now forced that to happen, and of course, I gotta see what'll happen next

Take VII

Case error

Take VI

Invalid picture reference

Take V

Lack of self in Smoke Bomb Script

Take IV

I've voided that... I hope

Ah, a famous bug within NIL

Take III

Let's resport to dirty code

I dunno what's happening here

Take II

Quick check even confirms that

Nonsensical error

Take I

Right-o.... ready to test!

Merya will in the easy and casual mode have this ability from the start. In the hard mode she can unlock it when her rogue skills are level LXXV (75) or higher.

Smoke Bomb

Not there yet, though!

Smoke Bomb

Well, Merya and Eric have similar moves, but with a different SpellAni, so I gotta work that out too, eh?

Take VIII

That should do it!

So THAT's why!

Take VII

Let's see

Didn't work, but I think I know why

Take VI

Maybe this will sort things out right

Shower

Almost there

Take V

Debug issue

Take IV by now (I forgot to mention the other two, I guess)

Or maybe.....

According to the log there are no targets.... Now THAT is NOT possible.... (If that claim was true, the tornado visual effect could not appear, that's why I am so sure)....

Some extra information has to tell me why nothing happens at all!