I did decide to make the shopkeeper only sell items, and to include a jewel crafting salesman no sooner but floor 65 or even 90. This voids the need for a boxtext selector which I never included here, and will also save me headaches in the future

Alexander

Running

I'm tired... And I need a break.... The last stone master and the merchant are for tomorrow

I linked it all together

So far the most complicated Stone Master

Johnny

Mystic Powder

Script adapted

Rosetta (Abyss version... differs from her regular game counterpart)

Lena

Savegames will note the floor number when in the True Abyss

Treasures not placed after floor 10

Take VII

Placed it back

Oddly a macro disappeared from my code

Take VI

Treasure hide error

#244

Take V

Layer conflict

Take IV

Code typo in Abyss compiler

Take III

Map reference error

Calculation error

Take II

No chainthrough

I gotta put it all to the test now, baby!

I've deliberately not set the script to remove them, due to the fact you can get there again after a wipe and maybe then the treasure CAN be reached, and still taken... For resets it doesn't matter as the game clears all swap data then anyway also unremoving taken treasures

Hiding treasure out of range

None of the city objects here are tagged yet.... This is a later concern, for when I actually get there

Floor 15

Chain to next set of floors

That all works... well so far, it does...

First boss 1, 2 or 3 Big Tigers (depending on your chosen difficulty setting).

Boss script set up....

Achievement will be awarded after defeating the bosses

I got the error I expected (as the boss initiation script has not yet been written)

Boss start up event

Linked

Linking

Trophy counterparts

Boss #030

Boss #020

Boss #010

Blockmap issue on floor 10

The Abyss score bonus on skill experience has been doubled in the Casual mode and tripled in the easy mode... No bonuses in the hard mode.... Sorry!

I've decided to make the treasure drop greater.... I could find none in my last test run...

Let's see.... let's see... let's see....

Treasure spots are technically fixed... So some treasures may lie on spots you cannot get to... This is not a bug... This is just something I'll take care of in a later stage

And I've made the generator able to put them in

I've configured the level generator to ignore random treasures

Syntax error

Let's roll another test!

Fixed Map Floor 10

I do need to sort out how to put in Random Treasures in an adequate manner, but that's a later concern

In the True Abyss you'll now get 1 extra AP per 5 points Abyss Score in the easy mode and per 25 points in the casual mode...> The hard mode does NOT have such bonuses

Magic stones will drop in the True Abyss *if* you have Abyss score V in the easy mode... X in the casual mode and XV in the hard mode

At least a few treasures will be there on the fixed floors

The Scorpion has in the easy and casual mode been removed from the original spot and be moved to later in the abyss

More trivial crap

Syntax Error

Let's put it to da test!

Yellow Orb

next shot then, I guess...

Orc will not appear in the first 10 levels anymore

I voided that issue

Whatever

THAT should fix it!

That was NOT the fix for the crash on the Random Encounters... It only makes sure enemies that came too early will stop doing that

Enemy configuration error by builder

And let's first see if that works

Plasma Dominance FUCKED up

But BEFORE I get onto that I saw another issue, which is more important to get done first!

Didn't work, quite on the point I expected

From here I'll need to work out if the random encounters work... (may probably not be the case due to some different workout requirements here).

Works

Disabeled personal actions in the True Abyss

I can at least say that non-True Abyss stuff does still appear in the achievement list, so that's something to sort out later

I need to remember now to use the Abyss builder as it does hold some significance now, eh?

Closing in

Well let's see

Conchita Welcome

Alias config

Scenario

Next issue will be to get Conchita to talk

Take IX

MapScript

As far as I can judge all appears in order in the start up... But I can only check the if I can check the field menu... Unfortunately, the mapscript causes a crash now

Take VIII

Yeah, because I used her name to access the database (for her character info), that lead to a crash!

Rebecca's name misspelled

Take VII

Yeah, I know

Forgot Skill number

Take VI

...

....

Take V

Forgotten levels in character creation

SUKKEL!

Take IV

Adressing New game plus start from main menu not working (this would cause the game to start as a normal game, when it had to be a True Abyss game).

Take III

Identifier misunderstanding

And I wonder who many it will be

And now Take II

Well I had take I

Syntax error

Code typo

From here, the first test for "The True Abyss" can begin.... Are you ready?

I've archieved the first grand test savegames.... I can still recover them if I still need them....

Music script for the True Abyss

Before I start this up (as a crash is now guaranteed) I must sort out the music right....

I will not yet activate Conchita's welcoming story.... That is the least important party... Plus the map has been set up that way, that I can easily make "her" kick off as soon as you star there....

All should be fine now.... I think.... It will still be some issues I think....

In the main menu you can now opt to start a True Abyss game.... Please note, doing so will likely make the game crash... for now...

Well, that should do it!

in the project I've set these to enable all floors to use the same script.... Saves me a lot of work....

And a basic MapScript

I've just aliased this script for all floor groups.... Most of the scripts are the same anyway.

Set up the basis script.... All it does not is starting the fader, but perhaps a more elegant fader may be done here, and more script will come later when I start to script out the towns

NOT THERE YET!

Random Encounter configurator

Random Treasure configurator

Setting the basis for the random generated floors (It needs a few standard objects and the rest is generated afterward)

I've set up the Abyss base generator to copy stuff from my model... And that appears to be working, yay!

Now we get into the harder part as I now must start generating some basic Kthura files.... Kthura normally doesn't like that....

Nope, not gonna tell you :-P

Normally ALL enemies that can be encountered in a non-boss encounter can be encountered in the True Abyss, with the notable exception for some enemies only encountered in the secret Game Jolt Only dungeons. This is because some of them play too important a role there, and one dungeon is even that secret that showing those enemies here would spoil that secret until you've seen it....

It should be noted that more enemies specifically for this place will very likely be created, but my generator will automatically keep those in mind, so nothing to worry about....

And I've generated the first enemy list

Enemy list generator

Unfortunately my Kthura Launcher tool doesn't like this way of working, but who cares.... I can easily script my way around that.

I've made a model in Kthura.
This model will not be used by the game itself, and should not even be included by the Bubble Builder. My generator is going to use this model to generate the actual fixed Kthura levels, plus their required meta data files

I've checked the code... I can verify that the level cap is fixed to level M (1000)

In order to set my mind to other things now, I decided to set my mind to the True Abyss first...

Time for a little break now! Before I start testing the easy mode, the hard mode, the New Game + and the develop The True Abyss

And GRAND TEST I has hereby been completed!

Brendor ability check

Quake Strike

Of course this require me to regenerate the neg.... Oh well

Well the big advantage of a remake is that loads of stuff is availale from the old, but it does remain kinda ... odd

For some mysterious reason the Orc Rogue picture disappeared

Important notice! This is all the planning board.... Some things can still be changed due to development issues and setbacks on the way

First setup: The True Abyss

Anyway issue fixed

Working with " is always nasty business in code generators

Yup the code looks cool to me now....

I've adapted the Foe compiler

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

#122

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)