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!

Does not work at all!

Take II

Forgotten referrence

Take I

And I see I also forgot about Merya's "Smoke Bomb".... Well, I can also put that one in

Once this works, I can try the "void" effect, but that will be slightly harder to do

Put into the ability itself

It seems a bit strange to use the SpellAni for this, but trust me, this was the easiest way to go, as it would be best to make the animation and the effect itself blend in perfectly.

Blow Away!

Okay, another go, then....

NIL issue

#95 Will be closed on the next push

Case error

Let's see if this all works...

This will just put more emphasis on things....

ChaChing will also sound during buying and selling....

ChaChing not reloaded on every cash pickup on the field

Tested the sealed bosses in Fruskbrando and Frandarmon's Basement

Typo in ability "Lightning" (n after the t was missing).

#233 -- Nothing important, but better to take care of it, and should only require to change ONE line of code

I've issued this as #232 to make sure I'll verify this on later tests.... Like I said nothing I can do now.... But future tests will have to help me

Sugarland is present in the SwapKill config script

For some reason the boss in Sugarland didn't appear... Save game analysis also show me why.... For some reason the "Swap Kill" must have failed here... Nothing I can do about that right now.... Unfortuantely...

All I can do is check during the New Game+ check or the easy mode/hard mode check if the boss will appear then.....

Should fix a crash in Sugar World in the process

I've dummied it! Just to make sure

What secret room? Was this some code lost on a spot where it shouldn't belong?

Repo updated

Repo updated

#96

#230

Dominance issue fixed in Xenor

Take III

Fixed that, of course!

That was NOT the way to formt hat boolean expression

I see.... The blue protection!

Take II

Right, that did not go the way I wanted it.... But let's do it differently!

Take I

Well I need to test this now, don't I?

I've linked this to the "Looking for Trouble" ability

I've make it possible for Eric to enforce an encounter when he's looking for trouble... That is if encounters are available in that room.

Eric will not longer walk when you press the "Looking For Trouble" button

DA FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!

Now that I'm on it, I'll test another sealed boss!

That works!

Take II

Incorrect class referremce

Time to test "Follow me"!

Project set up True Abyss

My trip to the dentist today (my scooter is broken) on foot sapped me of my energy (the weather is killing me), so I needed a break....

"Follow Me"

Frost Strike

For now I'll have to test if the game itself works the way it should, other than this....

Recompiling

One can never be sure... It's all experimental.... So overtime I will find out....

And I also made a small update to TQMG about this....

Hmmmm.... Maybe I've found the solution.... This is interesting....

I do have an idea that will at least make things take more time before another "Out of Memory" crash is due... It's clear the C# Garbage Collector is not operating the way it should... That or some hidden references untraceable to me appear to linger somewhere.

Clearly the music is still a critical point and not properly unloaded when it should.... Since I got no other means to force C# to do it (I thought C#'s memory manager was more robust than this, but I clearly over-estimated it, after having worked with BlitzMax... To bad that compiler went down the drain).... I do have a few ideas.... This will not completely eradicate the issue, but at least give me more airspace to breathe....

And I may have tackled the "Wrong Target" bug that occurs if multiple moves are stacked to be learned