I've added a function which shows only stuff within a zone, or only stuff outside of it.... This is delecate, I tell ya

For the next session I fear I need to add a few more nasty things to the Kthura handler

Let's go!

So We can start testing this....

And it looks good to me

But we're there now

This is always a slow process when using a map converted from TeddyBear (this map is rather big for a TeddyBear map that's only a hub), but now it took even longer.... :-/

In TeddyBear it didn't matter, but in Kthura you can save loads of memory on the Blockmap by staying as close to the origin as possible. In order to make that easier I created a special feature to help you on this, and I used this....

AT LAST!

This very devlog is also slower as a result

Kthura is taking forever to load..... Maybe because the back-up tool is acting up here

All that is there now is a savespot... None of the NPCs are there yet, and areas do also not yet hide and show respectively

I've linked the SASKIA script through to the point that you are in Rayal Palace.

Which I also need to bug fix on a few important things

In the mean time my backup utility is running

For some reason the scenario transfer feature has disappeared.... I guess I need to recheck that source code someday.... Anyway, for the short term, the text has been transferred manually, and that was in this case the shortest way to go

Unfortunately this requires me to rebuild the Music Resource and that is time-consuming :(

A little bit of an error in the Music Resource

I need to note that Rayal Palace will get me quite some work... This is also where Scharum resides who can teach you some interesting moves, providing you can defeat him in combat.

Up to the transfer to Rayal Palace stuff works

Take IV

Definition error

Take III

Welcome

Rayal Palace

Scenario arrival Aeria

No SASKIA

Take II

Scope error in mapscript

A test is possible, although the game WILL crash!

I've written the link script to end up on the beach in Aeria

And "Chamber of Jewels" by Eric Matyas will play here

I've created a special worldmap to travel between Cat-Island, Aeria and Delisto

And with that I'm gonna repack the music resource

Lastly Castle will be used for Rayal Palace

"Music/Original/Frozen Star.wav" will be used for Rayal Palace by night

"Divertimento K131" will just like in the original game, be used for rayal city

Area Beach confirned to the ocean waves (as far as you can speak of "music" here, but the music routine was used for this, so....)

Beach of Area has been developed

This also concludes chapter 3..... I got a bit of a nasty time table today, but I hope I can make a start to chapter 4 soon.... As it has loads of scenario at first, this will be a rather nasty and complex happening with most of all, loads of SASKIA sequences

Abyss concluded.... As I said the "True Abyss" is a later concern

PINK! It's my new obesssion! PINK! It's not even a question!

That will do

III

Less HP for boss... This would simply take TOO long

I hate Murphy's law!

Take II

Hopefully this helps

For some reason the game freezes

Take I (and only take I hope)

Although no trouble can be expected, a test is still in order! Let's go!

Boss Defeated not properly noted, to it would appear again, and a again, and again

Boss

Boss

SuperPink

Art SuperPink

Alpha

vUpdate

The boss itself will be done later!

Yes! It happens like that!

That seems to be happening

Take IX

I've set "The True Abyss" to unlock in the manu menu if the Abyss has been completed

Of course, now to find out if stuff actually works

At least I see the data I wanted to see stored at the respective spot

Take VIII

Illegal API call

Take VII

Of course, it could be something else, but let's see

Like ALWAYS it's likely the .NET error was not an issue in the .NET part of the code.... I forgot a return command in the NIL code

Take VI

MOAR debug crap to sort out

Yup the bug is in the unlocker, but that was to be expected

Take V

Debugging impossible, but let's at least put on some markers which hopefully tell me more

.NET error

Take IV

Forgotten link

Take III

Build Failure

Take II

Definition errors

And That's what I'm gonna test first right now!

Important note!

The boss fight is skipped for now, as I do first want to test if the True Abyss is actually being unlocked or not

Basis Boss Script

Beyond Infinity

I will NOT start with the True Abyss right away.... That is really something for later!

The True Abyss

up module

A Lua Script (written as a string in the core of BUBBLE) has been adapted to be able to contact this crap

I've done a few adaptions to the core of bubble for configuration purposes...

All is fine now.... But now I need to find a good way to get "The True Abyss" unlocked, and that ain't gonna be easy

Take VIII

Curse error

#144

Blast

Take VII

Loading error

Take VI

ANother... GRRR!

Take V

Time for the next take, but the news comes soon.... Oh crap!

Woof.... I'm full!

Before I continue.... first my dinner

Another Arena Syntax Error

Take IV

Dir error

Take III

Arena Syntax Error

Take II

Missing Arena Link in Map

Take I

Project update due to new graphic contributor

The boss is not yet there.... This comes later if all else works the way it should....

Abyss

Enemies for Abyss set

Alien

U.F.O.

Pinky

Art Pinky

Art Alien

Art UFO

All as well for now....

Take XXXIII should confirm this

With that everything should be in order for the next stage of this place.... Random treasures

Exit floor 10 not working

Dominance conflict

All I can do is run a test, and if I can make it to level 10, I must assume all is fine

This is the kind of bug though of which you never know it's fixed, unless the evidence is shown that it's not

I hope this will prevent the no-exit bug

Take XXXII

Extra data

For some reason it appears possible a level is generated without an exit

Take XXXI

Untagged plasmas

Take XXX

Script Error

Take XXIX

I think?????

The long shows MINUS widths and heights..... Kthura can't understand such things (for obvious reasons)

Take XXVIII

Compile error in NALA discovered and fixed

Take XXVII

Script error

Take XXVI

Operation Tiled Zone

Awake now

And I gotta find some sleep as I am dead tired now

Exits can better be replaced with TiledAreas so I can ZA_Enter them

Take XXV

More detail on debug, so hopefully I can see a few things can may be able to go wrong

However the loose platform bug is as horrible as I feared as it can (and did) cause unreachable exits

That takes care of a few dupe issues

Take XXIV

Duped

BREAK!

Take XXIII

False generations will not lead to extra bottom textures

And a little order movement... perhaps that helps

Forcing tagmap rebuild and let's see if that does add the exit, which didn't pop up in the tag list (for some silly reason).

Exit coordinates not right

There are still some issues though... BIG issues

That seemed to be it... indeed

Take XXII

I do not know if that was the main issue, but it's fixed now, anyway (which had to happen anyway)

No ref to the file yet made

Take XXI

Hopefully this makes a bit clearer, or at least as clear as they can be in this bizarre situation

Spawn error chatcher expanded

And now the log doesn't make sense

Take XX

A debug line must gimme a bit of clarity on a few matteres

The error thrown by .NET is useless as it doesn't give me the right pinpoin data... At least I do know it goes wrong in .NET and thus inside the generator itself (but that was given the situation also not otherwise possible)

Take XIX

Compile and

Linked that to the generator internally

That Also links this to game itself in the process

part done

C# part done

Right!!!! The exit texture had to be configurable

Let's see!

The generator itself has been done.... Well sort of as I have NO IDEA AT ALL if it works.....

The harder part is now to arrive.... The actual generation

Cool! Still a lot to do, but now the stage has been set to actually get into the creation of the generator itself (which will already be pretty hard.... I think)

Take XVII

Forgot the texture attachment

Take XVI

I've added the routine that will add the bottom parts of the platforms.... Since the start plate will be added along with the other plates the generator will add, this should be perfectly safe for the start plate and also later the finish plate

Not there yet.... FAR from it!

An NOW stuff works the way it should in this stage of the project

Take XV

Let's see if Alpha is the evil here

Take XIV

NOTHING in the code justifies what I see, so I need an extra debug line to get more clarity

This was however not the issue, as I could only check layer 001 in game (002 came up when checking in Kthura)....

Bad dominance in layer 002

The blockmap output confirms everything to be right, however I do not see the starting platforms... This could be a visibility error (which I doubt, as I explicity set it) or a dominance issue with the background plasma... The latter is not unlikely

If it goes wrong now.... Extra debug code could be required, I think