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

Fixed?

nil?

Real life stuff

I'm now gonna test the Madhouse... None of the currently open issues have good testing possibilities at the present time, so all I can do is move on until I reach a good point!

A start has been made with the Neil project. I may (also to break things up for me a little) work on that some more as time goes...

Added tag NEIL

Take II

Syntax error

Now I do, of course, have to test if everything is really working.... or not....

Gauge refill too quick in infinite encounter dungeons

When targeting somebody for whom the spell/item/action/ability was NOT intended the name will be displayed in red

#154 -- Although a little test to see if that fix fully does what it has to is in order!

When immune identify said absorb.... Now immune is really immune and absorb is really absorb

Failed element scan in identify

Max HP set to that of last enemy analyzed before when using identify on bosses in stead of ????

Although I can test if "Identify" will keep the HP secret on bosses

The next test would be Yasathar's Temple.... As this is more a scenario hub than a true dungeon, even though it does contain a boss enemy, I think testing new features here, is not a good idea.

#85

Another test (sigh!)

Name doesn't show

Well, are we there yet!?

"Extremely Weak" always

Time to debug this out!

Again!

Different approach

Non-existent error

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

Identify

As I feared.... I cannot really test Dernor's will well, but it will have to do for now!

Take II

Code order error

Although I can start to test!

My food is being prepared now

#209

Shortened buzz sound

NO idea if this is gonna work

And been linked

So the Trophy has been created

Game Jolt appears to be fixed

The power of the mind

I've linked Dernor's will to the main combat routines

The Game Jolt servers are still messed up, and due to that I cannot put in the achievement for Dernor's will power, as my builder requires this to be linked immediately to Game Jolt, but without the Game Jolt Trophy no Trophy ID, and thus not possible...

I've Scripted Dernor's Willpower.... However, it has not yet been linked to the main combat program

This is not something I can do anything about, and I hope this won't spook up with my work

POssibility of inifinite loop on Irravonia's elemental ward first time

Alpha Update

Running

Well that settles it for now!

Random Treasures in the Naked Rocks Caves

Irraovnia will never ward the same element twice in a row

fuck you!

Croc

Take VII

And perhaps Fox and Scully can find out how that comma got there

Fixed the crash in the process

Removed that mysterious comma

I guess it's magic

Mysteriously a comma pops up in my code that was never allowed to be there, and which I never put there....

Take VI

Syntax Error

Take V

And fixed another crash in the process

I had to rerun the Anyway generator

Take VI

Syntax Error

Take V

Whatever

Take IV

Whatever

Take III

Bad function setup

Take II

A past leftover

Take I

No idea if this works, but we gotta see, I suppose

And that should link it all

Guard entering from combat menu

For enemies this is not really that hard... Just add it to the AI settings.... For the playable characters this is gonna require me to cover a few things!

Guard