Lua

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Statistician

Medal

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Kthura

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More files processing

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I guess I gotta set up the project anew (luckily I don't have to change the source files for that)

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Nuumber if the failed test... Now for the next take

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Well, Microsoft wouldn't be Microsoft if things didn't get entirely fucked up.

Even worse, shutting down Windows so I can restart it (hoping to be clean) has been announced to take forever.

VS killed the project... Why doesn't this come as a surprise?

The most (if not only) vital part.

For some reason the entire solution was loaded except for the runtimer

I guess it takes more time after not having used VS for a long time

Added tag VISUALSTUDIO

Starting up Visual Studio.

I'll fire up the VM to start Windows now. It's not that likely anymore I will have to make much alterations for Windows anymore

Right-o

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Let's see how things are with the bad zlib packing

https://github.com/jpbubble/Bubble_MonoGame

Another impossibility pops up. Crashing on assets of Shanda's Castle in the True Abyss. How do I know this cannot be possible? Because the game would have crashed during the normal versions of the game as well if there was any truth in this.

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TA 40 -> 50

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TA 30 -> 40

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The heath prevented me from testing

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TA 20 -> 30

I'll save those two tags for later.

Added tag APPIMAGE

Added tag RELEASE

Well same story

Scyndi Libs Also outdated, but now up-to-date

Repo backlogged, but up-to-date

Against all the odds... Oh well.

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Okay, the core was fixed, but now another fuckup pops up. Hopefully I fixed it!

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I HOPE I fixed a cockroach, but I can never be sure! #336

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Now for the real thing 10 -> 20

That was to make sure I got my TA settings right.

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But first my eggs

Time to do another round in the True Abyss. It's Round # 4, and I need to note that I will cheat this time. It's about technical stuff and no longer about the game's balance (which is already off with this many Abyss points, anyway).

I've copied in some art. No big deal, but hey, what I do now won't get against me later!

Thankfully testing is most of my work now, as the weather is really against me. (It's too hot!)

The test of the easy mode is over. I will start the hard mode later.

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Indeed! The new data confirms it. Well, let's go run-time

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Time to resume theaction, I guess.

In the mean time the new release build is ready.

https://github.com/jpbubble/AdvancedLibraries

Ah, a notification about dependencies on NIL. Of course, NIL is henceforce deprecated. The entire bubble project is bound to get moved to my graveyard soon, but how nice of the morons of MicroSchoft.

On a side note I must note that the fix on the blopplasma during the final fight didn't work the way it should. Since this is only cosmetic, I'll leave it be.

I did a bit of a check on the onld data while the release builder was in preparation for the new. It confirms the 404 error to be a lie.

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This is rebuilding the release build. After that I'll will need to perform some analytic tests.

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Well, I hope this copy and paste right from the system data "fixes" this non-existent error. If not we got a problem so severe that the project is instant over (after all I cannot fix non-existent bugs).

404! But you know the file it claims not to exist DOES exist. All checks I did confirm that.

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Automated from objects and the chain zone being the last object bug.

That's impossible as that would cause the debug version not to be operative and yet it was....

Who you're gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!!

Oh well...

What the actual freaking fuck!

Why doesn't the chain to the final room not work anymore?

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No SpellAni on Aziëlla's "Boltimate". That has been fixed now.

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STeal item typo in data for the Übermummy

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I really hope this solves some issues on the forest floor, but I fear for the worst here.

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let's just resume at Cat Island for Digitopia and the sealed boss

Well, I may add some debug fuck about that later, but I expect very little of that.

No idea why the forest arena keeps changing the floor color, though. Nothing in the script allows it, and yet it just fucking happens.

I hope I took care of the Permanence bug, though.

And when that's all taken care off, it'll be time to descent into Dyrt..

Wehn that's all taken care off, the next stop will be Digitopia

Well, I need to take care of the sealed boss in Fruskbrando, meke Merya win from Scharum, to take care of the sealed boss in Frundarmon's basement.

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Let's resume testing!

I cannot test this right away, I hope some future tests will show me the green grass here. It almost seems that Kirana's level number being shown in purple was the source of evil here. But that could not be possible as the level numbers of her "comrades" where all white and drawn later.... Oh well.

I have no idea why the grass turned purple in Spar Arena while Kirana was in the party. Without her the grass appears to be green again. I hope I've forced this back in its actual color.

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Final Chapter - Easy mode

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Duty called

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I had a break

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Minor thing

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I wanted to rest, but I'm getting bored. Oh well, let's do another take then.

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VIT to 200 in stead of 250 in easy mode. A bit of a conflict between two settings here, I suppose.

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I had dinner

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Let's update a little, shall we?

In this alpha test I did play the game all the way up to arriving in Aeria which is the start of the 4th (and second last) chapter.
I was hoping I could throw in a release already, but this alpha test got me too many fatal bugs, crashing the game, although a few fixes can be considered voids,as zlib appears to have a few bugs on its own and 2 crashes were owed to that one, but still I guess I need to prevent the game from crashing because of that. So all in all a bit of a delay, but then again, in my experience these kinds of delays are normal.

And well, I guess that brings us up-to-date.

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I do need a few breaks.

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I've put in a loop termination on player input and action execution. It happened far too often two things came in once, only causing confusion in the process. I really hated that.

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Perhaps not a very big deal, but as it can cause loads of confusion (especially when players are aiming for takeing on Juggernaut (fools)) I did take care of a little BlockMap issue in Gagolton. I placed those barrels there for a reason, after all, but as the current version of Kthura no longer picks up obstacles (for good reasons) I had to do a bit of manual workout.

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During the building it already became clear that I gotta deal with another 404. Unfortunately I'll have to do ANOTHER entire rebuild as a result. (sigh!)

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Somehow one file got lost. Oh well, let's add it again.

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Dang! THAT was so stupid I don't want to mention exactly what happened

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Present now

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I will build a new debug version, and this issue is too small to justify building an entire new release. The debug file should show me whether or not the alias is picked up now.

I think this is due to forgetting to save the project file after modifying it.

Hey, an alias is missing

Rebuild release build

Creating new release

There were none.

All compiler errors accounted for!

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Names of heroes will be announced in combat

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Void succesful... At least the Jalondi HEX dump shows the regular PNG chunks

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Void voided

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The same kind of issue as in Eugorvnia facility pops up in the poison flask game in the Green Dragon Cave. Is zlib really that buggy?

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Dummying the puzzles in the White Dragon Cave also dummied both the dragon itself and the exit. Oopsie!

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I had dinner

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Unfortunately I have to play that last part over and while I was so close to finishing this part of the Eugorvnia Scienve Facility too... Oh well.

Repacked and checked the hex code. What I see now is the usual PNG chunk setup and no errors, so this should be good (I hope)

Desk picture causes zlib issues

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Another break

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Crash on going back to world map Xenor Bushes - North

I don't need another take for that one, as this was a typical under da hood thing that would normally not affect the game at all. It's just prevention that future versions of the building tool could crash on it (and you never know when this data can still pop up in fixing bugs players report).

A data issue in the map containing Eric & Rebecca's home.

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Blockmap Issue Lost Ark

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Break

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Game crash on initial character level Brendor (left decimals which the system won't accept. I've rounded the number so that issue should be fixed that way)

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Final Test - Easy - Shanda

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A break

Now I refuse to call this a fix. NOTHING has been fixed, you know!

As far as Young Irravonia is concerned everything looks fine, but the others may still cause trouble. I wonder why a few bytes with nonsensical data matters so much

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Unfortunately the long building time gets in order (over so little data)

Altered a few more things here

Bon!

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For Young Irravonia's UI icon the data appears to be in order now, but how will this go in an actual runtime?

As building releases always takes longer, this can take awhile.

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I need to see what happens next, but I've put a bit of bullcrap into the .dtqsl files, and let's see what will happen if I package them now.

For some reason, the data gets corrupted when packaging it into a real JCR6 file. Am I really gonna need a kind of verification system?

Odd! Jalondi shows these files to be present

Why does the release version ignore the .dtqsl files?

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Let's get ready to rumble

Meanwhile my release build on which I can start testing the easy mode has been fully created.

Well, that seems to work now... sheesh!

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Copied Azor to the correct dirs for my system in general

AT LAST!

NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE!

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I really don't understand... but a bit more wriggling uselessly

Well?

Well?

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It's getting even funnier, I see.

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As builders can sometimes use outdated .o files, even when the .cpp files have been modified, I deleted the .o files and ran the compile script once more

Even that doesn't work?

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I'm gonna force all this crap

Indeed

Let's try that again, as I do not think stuff goes that easily here.

Now this is odd, as suddenly everything appears to work normally.

As this can take awhile I'll investigate what's wrong with git refusing to wor properly on Azor

Well, generating release version for testing alpha: Easy mode!

So far as far as the true abyss is concerned (for now)