Recovered the damage that caused

A messed up xtra backup

Now I have a busy day tomorrow overall, but at least I can try to see if I can already work out the "Jeracko Spin" spellani.....

I've now scripted out everything prior to the return to prison.... This won't be that easy, as I have to remove Shanda from the party, and also from the memory as she'll leave the group permanently, and I need to set up Brendor as a new character....

As far as I can test, stuff look sto be in order and the boss itself appears properly balanced... The question is if one of the Orcs goes oversoul or not, haha!

Let's see....

I've changed the position of enemies a bit... Hopefully for thebetter

That was because I never had to deal with an "All Targets" move before, and this was an actual error there.... Well that's fixed

Now this is a very strange error.... And how come it never happened before?

Should be taken care of now

Forgot to NEG

Folder naming error!

Well, then NOW everything should be in order.... I hope....

Wrong boss error

Let's see

Should be fixed now!

Arena reference issue

A few syntax errors

I've configured the boss fight setup...

Although the fight with Jeracko will not yet fully work, I can already test a few things out, and that is what I'll do....

I really must check a few things out....

I've decided to still put in confusion and to set Jeracko Spin to that....

Repositories updated

I see that suddenly Irravonia's flame element *is* counted as weakness for Goblins... I only must be sure about fatal elements, before I close that issue

That's good

Take IX (which SHOULD be the final one, in this particular case).

I also fixed a gap over which Irravonia should be able to fly, but that didn't work out the way it should

I've slowed this down a bit

It's only too fast!

In basic the things work

Take VIII

Getting closer.... Do I have the cigar now?

Case error

Take VII

Wrongly set up for each expression

Take VI

Once again the sound effect plays despite all impossibilities... I really don't get it, but let's hope no harm comes from that....

Syntax error

Take V

Well the error itself has been fixed... But stilll..... I hope that the fact that the sound effect created by this script that can't compile doesn't foreshadow anything bad!

The stupid part is.... this is a NIL translation error, BUT the very script that cannot be translated did produce the sound effect I needed to hear.... That should NOT have been possible, so I wonder what exactly happened there.....

Take IV

I see.... The foes and the heroes both had their own go,eh?

Or so I thought... But the log in the source check do show me funny things

It does by the way provide me some answers about an unrelated bug, I think ( #94 ), but that will require a closer look

What the log tells me is astounding.... It claims the entire operation never took place at all

Take III should now tell memore... I hope

Some logging commands added

Of course, now to find out why!

Everything is being ignored....

Take II

Lack of "self"

Take I

Will it work?

I've tried to link this all together....

And now to break open the action classes, or else this stuff will not work at all.... Its entire existence will even be ignored

A few last touches for the audio in this spell

A few internal linkthroughs in that wand were needed

Flame Wand

The Flame spellani has been linked to the Fire spell and the Brimstone item

Brimstone

Older floating pictures of Irravonia will remain bugged... Trying to fix those is more trouble than it's worth... sorry!

I was required to reset the floating images of both Scyndi and Irravonia, as a result... I do not like that, but I guess that how it goes when providers show their "evil" side....

It does... Good!

I see my host for the floating Irravonia picture is failing... Well, it was an unreliable host anyway, so let's move it....

Does the new host work?

This has not yet been linked to the combat routine, so nothing will happen ... yet!

I've set up a script to be run when Irravonia or Eric cast a regular Flame spell

As a result NALA had to be recompiled

TQMG Syntax error

And that takes care of that!

And deleted the corrupted file

Placed the Dutch backup file on the spot where the builder should pick it up

Yes! I found a file without any issues in my backup.... I love my backups

Of course, this is what wise people make backups for, so let's see if I can recover a good scenario file from the backup

The corruption is mostly due to Windows updating automatically without my permission and not granting me the right to turn that off, and if the scenario editor was trying to save the Dutch data precisely at that moment, then well, this will happen....

Thank goodness the English scenario is still there

The Dutch scenario file got corrupted.... I do not know if I can recover it, but it will be really needed or I got one hell of an issue

Flame animation for flame spell

Since I cannot focus anymore I guess I need to put my mind on other things....

Basis set up for Silence and Fear status changes

I've added the fields that can block abilities when silenced or in fear

The thing is that Jeracko Spin is now there... Since I did forget to take proper pre-cautions on confusion, it will now cause Exhaustion and Fear in stead, however both statusses do nothing yet (will very likely even cause an error), and SpellAni is now also becoming an essential thing....

Data for Jeracko put in

Jeracko boss art

Shanda's attacking animation is satisfactory

I do need to test this, so here goes....

I've animated Shanda attacking

All "pre-boss" stuff appears to be in order now

Well almost there (and then the boss fight still has to come... Oh my)!

SASKIA syntax error

Unwanted infinite loop

And let's see how it looks now

And I sped the process up, as it took too long

I fixed that

fixed negative scaling effect was not allowed here

Things are still not right, but hey, improvement's been made, and that counts for something

Yup, that was the issue

Hopefully this is one of my "brighter" moments!

Wait a minute.... I THINK I know what's going on here

SASKIA keeps talking bullshit.... The "nil" it claims to crash on cannot be 'nil' based on the code I have... I've set a few extra parameters and debug lines to find out why it keeps claiming to have a nil then...

Take ,.... how far are we?

But now SASKIA is talking bullshit

Okay, somehow the fix is no longer ignored

Take X (by now I think as I forgot to count some takes)....

Field link error

The camera was unreliable and this way I can at least fix that

Cam

Case Error

Compiling again

Syntax error in Bubble link script

Take IV

The Bubble API didn't allow int changing, eh?

Take III

Oh damn!

Take II

Now?

????

And wish me luck!

Take I

Before all that I do need an ANYWAY regeneration, so here goes!

Now this is gonna be interesting as the most proper way to do this is SASKIA is by using boolean checks and that part of SASKIA has never been tested before.... So let's hope this goes well

And scripted the sound effect also

The "OnyxBang" graphical effect

Ah, it's just the modify section where the bug lies.... The Kthura engine itself has full support... That's good to know!

I had trouble with scaling before, but appears it DOES work.... Strange!

I'm thinking what the best way would be for the "Bang" effect

Jeracko and Blenchy put on their respective spots

Blenchy's art

A bit of polish

That all looks good to me!

I've DELIBERATELY hidden the player so I can easily start the event that takes place here... Since this even ends the dungeon, and this being a one time dungeon also and therefore causing you to be unable to return for the remainder of the game, nobody will ever see this little cheating of mine in the development....

Yeah, it's cheating, but it saves me a lot of work, and also a lot of cockroaches!

area 009

Again!

Blockmap issue

Quick test

area 008 and 009 will be free of encounters.... 008 is just a savespot room and 009 the boss room

Area 008

Everything is cool now!

And feed my cat, while the computer is rebuilding

And let's go again

of course

I forgot the final fly zone.... What an idiot I am!

Yeah, even stuff without code can get bugged, folks!

And let's keep on testing

Cosmetic error

Forgotten Flyzone

Basis for area 007, but i forgot something very important

Fade effect for floor 007

I cannot prevent the GJ achievement to be listed under my name now, but that doesn't really matter in the way I set off my stuff

I fixed that

Unrelated but the "May I crush your skull please" achievement went off without proper explanation... The requirement cannot be reached in the current state of the game

Let's do that again!

Missing link

Yeah I used Python for that... This is what Python is for... It was never meant as a full scale programming language, what did you guys think?

I see what I did wrong in my Python script, and that was very very stupid

Not only that but the backup got busted as well... I guess lha was not a very reliable tool

Good thing I backed stuff up, as it did go wrong permanently killing my map

Let's see what will happen if I open my map editor now

Saved

In order to make sure no damage is done, I did a little backup for my source folder, as this is potentially dangerous (the worst thing that can happen is that I have to redo Shanda's dungeon entire (only the map, not the code), but it's not something I wish to do when I do not need to)

I've generated the effect to do the finishing touch to that room.....

Set up a part of 006, however I need to use a little script to get the rest done, I'm afraid

#96

Well?

Something HAD to get bugged after all, eh?

Broken exit spot

Well "Test" is a big word, as it just a save spot room

Area 005

A case error... Shouldn't have lead to this, though!

Okay, that was indeed it!

.... ???? Please .... ???

But maybe.....

That told me NOTHING at all

Let's see

The API gives an error that I cannot properly explain... It is a .NET error, that's all I can tell, so I'll have to sync with the Visual Studio apps in order to sort this out (and I hate nothing more than doing that... I created this engine to prevent all that... oh crap!)

And Let's see what this does...

faked the traveler's emblem to get it done in accordance that it has to work in this particular case!

So far.... So good!

And let's do that again

Fixing this issue

Put them in

Starting points forgotten

Test will likely be short, and the travel emblem must now be manually linked to stuff, but that can't be helped

Area 004

Time for a break now.... I'll run the backup in the background

YAAAAAY! It all appears to be working now! (Call the paper)

And Take XII

Recompile

Let's see what happens if.....

Wait a minute... THe logs show something.... Yeah, the move request appears to be done.... I wonder

Take XI

Extra debug line which hopefully provides some answers

As a matter of fact nothing happens at all, only a debug message which at least confirms the request has been registered....

No more crashes at least... That least THAT is something

Take X

Syntax error?

And now into take IX for real (no I didn't count IX double.... Take IX just never took place)

compiling AGAIN

Ah, an adaption error