As a "reward" though the points you need to gain a level will also increase... haha!

More skill exp for using abilities

Hyper weakened you in stead of strengthening you

Recompiling NALA

It pains me, but it's clear I had no other choice. For the time being I've set the savegame feature not to pack at all.

Savegames that are still packed will still be readable, since they are simply JCR files, JCR6 will auto-detect any packing. and unpack accordingl. The lzma unpacker is not the problem... the packer is.... Like I said before lzma is notorious for being very RAM unfriendly when packing, but not when unpacking....

Well, so it seems it *WAS* the lzma compression routine after all that causes me to suffer.... The debug report VisualStudio gave out couldn't be more clear on that matter.... Now meddling with the existing lzma module seems like a bad idea to me, so I'm afraid the best I can do is... accept that I'll have to use non-compression for savegames...

This should take of those "Auto" crashes

A crash totally unrelated to the memory issues ruins everything.... AGAIN!

Take II

This fix did require me to restart the game, also destroying what I set up so far on things... Oh well....

Blockmap issue

It would leave me with two options... either I force the garbage collector to activate after every damn entry saved (I don't like that, but hey, if that is what it takes).... or I strip the lzma compression from the savegames (that would by the way also fasten the savegames)....

I'm wondering if the fact that the save game routine uses the lzma compression method to pack all data that lives in the savegame file is what causes it to collapse.... lzma is notorious for it's huge use of memory usage during packing (and needing almost none during unpacking)...

Let's sync this in visual studio and see what will happen if I play on there, as this is really getting on my nerves, and if this doesn't get fixed, the project will be a failure and after all this work... I don't wanna risk that....

It's still a complete mystery why "Out of Memory" exceptions are thrown after making multiple savegames, though....

No audio

Take IX

recompile to make sure

? Nala version conflict ?

Take VIII

At least all parse errors have been accounted for.... Which counts for something!

Inferno had only 1 flame.... Now that's 20 till 50

Take VII

And this is one of the reasons why I began the Neil project... In order to get rid of issues like THOSE!

Case error!

Let's go... again.... Take VI

Declaration error

Take V

.....

Take V

Return error

Take IV

Code Typo

Take III

Forgotten "end"

Take II

Syntax error

Take I

(whish me luck)

Well, during the test of the Dark Storage I will see if the Inferno spells gets animated the way it should....

Linked to the actions causing an inferno

Inferno

Take V

Not sure, but here goes...

Take IV

Not sure about the projectile stuff though

No money no message system works

Take III

I hope this debug line can shine a light on matters

Fix ignored!

Take II

If nothing is dropped, even no money, don't chaching and don't prompt it either!

I hope I fixed that!

Well first time this stuff was used, so let's be kind here.... But the calculation of the way the projectile should go is..... ES ACHE I TEA!

So here goes.... Take I, and let's see where this takes me :)

Good!

Okay, a quick snack first....

And that should link it all together #111

Adepted ability #111

I'M NOT THERE YET!!!

Done

Of course, now to script it all together.... Which should be easy, but let's see how stuff pops out, eh?

"Pew" sound for #111

Since "Out of Memory" errors still seem to occur, I've set NALA to force the Garbage Collector to react immediately when Audio objects are released. Most smaller audio objects are pre-loaded and never unloaded anyway, but the music is the different story, and the music appears the big evil here....

Don't come whining to me talking about bad code (amateur), as I am more concerned about Out of Memory errors than a bit of a lag due to pre-mature garbage collection.

Apparently I overesitmated the C# garbage collection system, as it only appears to take the number of allocations and releases in mind to activate the garbage collector, but not the ammount of data... So that's why I took this measure

Laser Projectile Art - for #111

#205

Tested floor 1-6 science facility

The full backup is still running, which was to be expected....

Quick Backup completed

All kids disappear accordingly

I'll have to test this, but my system lags, so I hope I can get it done!

The boys were more complicated, but I think I got them!

The girls should be taken care off

Working on #153

At this moment the system lags like crazy, but that's only natural when running 2 backups in once

It appears some harsher measures are required to deal with the non-disappearing kids

Well, let's test shall we?

Achievement "C'est la vie" linked to the proper event

But I've also done a "Total Redo" backup... The latter is bound to take more than one day, but will at least be fully up-to-date!

First in quick backup setting

And with the notice that the backup was outdated, let's immediately make a new one!

The Identify text was lost... So I had to recover that... that is, rewrite it from scratch

And I also see the scenario database inmy backup was outdated.... URGH!

A bug damaged the scenario database

Linked the two together

Trophy

C'est la vie!

IT WORKS!!!!

So let's do it!

I've tried to cover #88 , but I really cannot tell if it works, so I gotta test that

BlockMap issue in the south section of Rayal Palace, and Scharum's chamber

I've been bothered by #88 for a LOOOOONG time now, so I wanna take care of that today

Issued #213

I cannot recollect what happened in anyway... Of course, this can also be a general hardware communication failure in the underlying OS... I hope it was that, as then it's not an error on my side, but we'll have to see....

.NET error during saving.... Not a clue what the fuck happened there.... But I guess I gotta find out....

I think I found the "evil"....

NOW this is getting mysterious.....

Some hardcore debug as things are only getting stranger here!

.NET error?

It's not yet "elementairy", but I think I'm closing in, my dear Watson!

I've added some more debug crap to make sure about that....

This is gonna be a rough one.... I do see instances I don't want, and I'm sure the C# garbage collector refuses to release the music because of that....

I need to test this all out!

More debug....

I can indeed confirm that instances are not being released.... I do not know why

I've tried to set a few things up here.... This is pretty complicated stuff

For some reason the released music data lingers

Moar testing

BlockMap issue

I don't know why moves on 1 foe target the caster when learning... This should not happen, but for some odd reason it does... The source code does not deem this possible, though....

Fixed it!

Why this is shown... Not a clue, but let's find out!

Let's verify that!

THIS should fix the music stack error

A few extra debug lines might enlighten me on that course

Pushing and popping music doesn't work

Aziëlla is a bit bugged now, and the time has come to find out why....

Let's test Frundarmon's mansion....

#158 - Although I cannot yet test this!

What the logs show me now looks hopeful

Take V

All cool?

Take IV

Nil indexed error

Take III

And also something as trivial as a code typo

Take II

Of course I had to encounter something as trivial as a case error along the way

I need to pull all this to the test of course

Made a quick new music handler from scratch (well I only used the old code to make sure all functions are covered or the game could crash needlessly)... This one is by far less advanced, but should at least make sure that audio buffers are released (if not then they are hard-cover overwritten by C# itself, and at the mercy of the C# garbage collector, which is a lot safer than the one in Lua, I tell ya).

It appears I was correct... Not a single release call is being made, and that is.... BOTHERSOME at best...

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

Recompiling

AUDIOMEM debug command added

I've added an extra command which should help me on debugging

I've set up more text, as this is getting suspicious..... Hopefully this will enlighten me more....

The logs do make painfully clear that not a single people of audio is released when it should be done....

Debug bug (yeah, debugging *IS* harder than coding!)

Take III

And once again I must recompile NALA (sigh)

lack of self

And onto take II

Recompiling

NALA link up script error

I'll have to run a quick test to see what happens under the hood (I love my logs)

But first, I need to eat something... Due to my illness I could not eat so well, so I'm starving now!

If worst comes to worst I can write a simpler approach for the music routine... I do not prefer this, but hey, it's always better than tons of "Out of Memory" errors....

It should be noted that NIL relies on Lua when it comes to garbage collecting, and Lua's garbage collector is bugged on a few points, requiring a Lua coder to be extra alert on a few things, and when using a kind of shell language like NIL this can be more of an issue... Especially when the instances that have to be removed have to trigger the garbage collector in C#... Now the C# garbage collector does appear to work perfectly (as far as I can tell so far), but since Lua doesn't send the unlink command (which it should) because the records in question are not being unlinked, we got a problem... Of course, what I deem possible is because the data handled by Lua itself is pretty little and Lua may think the time is not right to release, as Lua cannot know how much data it has resposibility for.... I guess that's the flaw of using scripting languages with underlying APIs.....

I need to recompile NALA now

I've added some extra lines to the Audio manager which (hopefully) tell me a bit more....

This requires me to regenerate the "Anyway" lists

Set up an alternate print lib... This one will therefore catch system messages set up by the audio manager inside

Devlog update

DAMN! This is cool!

I did some study for things I'll need to know later when I shape Neil

I began with another headache... It LOOKS like it's under control now... But know knows....

Let's see

Let's see....

Let's see....

I do not know if this fixes stuff... Time will have to tell...

The logs now clearly indicate that once loaded the music is NEVER unloaded, and so it keeps stacking up until an out of memory is inevitable.... I wonder why....

Take V

I did make a small update to the NALA internal scripts for that, so I need to rcompile that...

Now I can directly see this was in the music routine... Which is a memory eater... I had the feeling the muisc buffers were not properly released after usage... This could explain a lot... I've set up a destructor that should forcefully clean up stuff, and I made sure the debug logs will send confirmation when this actually happens

Out of memory thrown....

Take IV

Bug in Merya's item conserve

Take III

Code typo

Take II

SFX ended up in the wrong folder

During the test of the Purple Forest I'll have to find out if this all works

Linked to the respective abilities

Spark

Convereted to WAVE

Sound for Spark

Art for Spark

A few more things done about Neil

I did a few updates to Neil, but my head is killing at this moment, so there was not much I could do :(

I'm far from good, I must say.... I've had a rough night... I hope I can still get a few things done today, though.

I feel terrible.... So I must leave it at that... unfortunately

More AP gain from "Focus" for Rebecca... This to compensate that the move would otherwise be useless compared to Guard

Rebecca party not properly set up

Again!

Fixing another issue

And I linked Rebecca's part

I hope I fixed a cosmetic issue in the castle by night

I forgot to link Rebecca's part directly to the choose group routine

I did however first do some work on Neil

Lots of real life stuff on my way

What's that? Updating the system without my consent?

Take III

Did I get rid of this fucking issue?

Take II

I hope I voided this

Crash after fight with Boss Salamander

Blockmap issue with a hookspot for Scyndi in Botanica

#129 Dernor DOES charm all flowers.... I cannot yet check if all moves are working accordingly, yet

#219

I see that some people do not know how to moderate a website