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

Empty "Follow Me" Script... I have to prevent crashes here!

Not much to test in the Black Prison, so that will be a quick go!

#160

FINALLY!

Did I got it now?

Take IV

I wonder

A few extra debug lines

This is getting more and more strange....

Take III

This time???

Take II

This time?

Apparently not!

Testing 1-2-3

I think I fixed #160

Zero Kelvin works now, though...

Blockmap issue

Take IV

increase the speed of the thermometer

Graphic error

Take III

Illegal Function Call!

Take II

Not a group, Jeroen.... A MODULE!

Take I

Zero Kelvin

Termometer for Zero Kelvin

Cosmetic fix.... Jeracko Spin did leave some rotation traces

Will it work THIS time?

Fix ignored!

Take II

Wrong object readout

IDIOT!!!!

So let's go!

Now I cannot yet test this with Eric, but Kirana can help me!

Blizzard spellani linked to blizzard spell

Blizzard

Aziëlla will learn this ability when she reached Befindo Enchants Level 30 in the easy mode, 60 in the Casual Mode and 90 in the Hard Mode.

Purify

So yeah, I can deem this a fix

Better is when the entire switch menu doesn't even appear

Now Kirana can indeed not be switched, however when you still try that in combat the game crashes

I still got a few issues with Dernor's Will... Once I can fully confirm that works #70 can be closed, at last!

#70

#207

Kirana's will works

THe test will have to wait, though....

No aliases in the way, like when Shanda was being scripted

Kirana's Magic Charge (Kirana gains AP at the start of each turn)

Of course, this is gonna take awhile

And as we're on it then, let's put it out right, eh?

Written a quite script to update all crap on Game Jolt -- Since the release of the beta is slowly coming close (no "Land Ho" yet, but the moment for that is coming closer), it was handier that way

All Cool!

The most annoying bugs are often the most trivial ones, and mostly your code is swamped with those....

Almost there

And the burn sound will now sound on the right moment

Sped animation up

Almost there

Extension error!

Missing "end"

Illegal Method Call

file on the wrong spot

Corona

Linked to the spell Corona

Corona

NO! This has nothing to do with a certain virus!

Corona Art

Take II

Maybe this works better?

The code I used was very extremely DIRTY you know...

My next fight against Sheck-Lock will have to show if this all works the way it was intended

Linked to the action module

Characters replaced after being targeted will be purged out of the target chain when the action begin

Oh no, you don't!

Oh no, you don't!

#155

#155 - Take III

Referrence error

#155 - Take II

Forgotten End

#155

#155

After I had some rest I'm gonna look at #155

Well, let's see...

More chance for poison on Onyx members (except Jeracko who'll remain 100% immune).

Order of Onyx

Missing CANCELCOUNTER scenario in Dark Storage, which can cause Rondomo to crash the game

Let's see how things go... For now!

Merya skill crash on item conservation

At least I can continue to work things out outside of VisualStudio now!

I REFUSE to call the crash on savegame issue fixed.... At least I prevented it from happening again... I hope for a more elegant solution in the future...

#214

I gotta see if stuff works properly

Important to note is that this approach does NOT allow me to center or align to the right... Hopefully that's only a small price to pay

I'm doing a little experiment on real-time text... The way I had was very demanding on .NET's memory management, and may even be the reason behind the slowdowns I was experiencing, particularly in combat...

I think this will have to do, and I guess I'm reliant on Igor Pavlov to get this issue fixed... But since Igor Pavlov has like better things to do, I'll have to take it the way it is.... :-/

Still OUT OF MEMORY!

Kirana nerfed.... She killed my entire party in one blow, which I can never allow!

Take IV

Fixed some occurances

The many peaks in VisualStudio's RAM usage graphic made me fear that lzma was STILL being used somewhere, down there.... And using a JCR6 file viewer actually confirmed that

And Take III can start... at last

Data in sync once more

No it still isn't done, yet!

The Backup is simply handling tons of data now, so that's the reason behind the lag

I need to re-run all builders, synchronizers and stuff to make sure everything is in order now!

Everything went lagging, so I cannot fully trust the game Data I Have

I will finish the test of Kirana's section and Rondomo's section, hopefully in one go, through the VisualStudio debug mode, and I'll save as much as possible to make sure the "Out of Memory" error won't occur now...

Data Sync

Updated

Updated

I made a rehaul of the complete IAA folder.... A lot of junk couldbe living there over time, and deleting and regenerating was the only thing I could do to make sure all shit was gone there....

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