Take III

WTF was I doing?

Take II

Var typo

And let's pray it works pretty quickly...

Take I

Set up the new ability announcement text

I do realize I forgot something, so I do need to take care of that!

I've set up a system that SHOULD teach new abilities if the requirments are met... I doubt this will go right in one go, and I expect tons of cockroaches, but we'll have to see

check the food in my kitchen

Meta table for quick finding skills for characters

preparations for learning new moves

Let's make sure all my repositories are up-to-date... and get myself a well-deserved break, as my work today may not look much, but it was more complex than it looked!

However I need to take a break now, so I'll keep that for later, likely tonight.... Since this is an important part of the game, I want to do this right... It's not likely I need tons of code for that, but the code I need to write is not really easy to formulate right... That is not a NIL issue... That is just the difficulties of coding in general!

Just as in the original game, the plan is to make nothing happen on the moment you get the required levels to learn a new ability but to replace the attack move on the moment you get the required level (or other requirements for that matter). The way I set things up now, does not really allow that approach, but I did find a way to cheat my way through....

Take V

Wrong static function name?

Take IV

extra #use

Let's check!

The no appearing messages should be fixed now, though

The sound does work, though!

No crashes but the lv up message does not appear

Take II

Forgotten declaration

Take I

New moves will NOT yet be unlocked, this comes later!

I can at least test if leveling up works in general

I've linked the achievements to the max levels... however if this fully works the way it should is very extremely hard to test, especially given the current situation.

Done!

and that covers the characters I currently have... Of course, now I must link them all to Game Jolt

I ain't afraid of no quake (reference to how Duke Nukem mocked the game Quake... prior to the release of Quake, btw)

This world of water (reference to the same named 1980 song by New Musik)

Fångad av en Stormvind (Reference to the winning Eurovision Song Contest entry by Carola from Sweden)

We don't need no water let the motherf**r burn! (Reference to Fire-Water-Burn by the Bloodhound Gang).

Priori Incantatum (reference to the same named phenomenon in the Harry Potter franchize)

Black Valvet (reference to the same named popsong)

The cold never bothered me anyway (no need to explain that one).

The only brew for the brave and true comes from the green dragon (reference to Lord of the Rings, were Merry and Pippin sing this song while dancing on the table in a pub).

Vandaag is rood! (reference to a Dutch pop song by Marco Borsato)

The Sword of Justice (reference to the sword carried by Lady Justice)

Mysterious as the Dark Side of the Moon (reference to: "I'll make a man out of you" from Disney's Mulan)

Skill level up SHOULD work now, but the time's not yet right to test that, but I'm almost there!

Now that Rebecca has a full skill exp bar on her sword skills I can also easily test skill level up, so here goes

Heal in combat was VER Y VERY slow

mini-fix

All's good now!

Take V

sprintf error

Take IV

Tag failure

Take III

That has been fixed of course

Forgot to link the ability list to the combat situation

I wonder why

The ability list is shown blank

Take II

Missing comma.... doh!

Let's check it out - Take I

I made the link from the combat menu to the abilities screen, and except for the fact that AP are neither checked no subtracted yet, this should mean that abilities should work now

And the 'RemoveAP' field will also do nothing ... yet!

I've set up a link between the ability selector and the combat routine... Howeve the combat routine will NOT yet ask for the ability selector so nothing will happen if you select an ability

Take III

I hope I can fix it THIS way

Take II

Ah, a code typo in the declaration line

Fix ignored!

Class issue

Let's see if that has the effect I'm hoping for!

I've tried to link the item usage to this... This should fix a rather complicated to explain bug

I've set up a LM_Action system (LM = Left Mouse... An action to be taken from the status window when the left mouse mouse button has been pressed)

No parse errors, so i hope this works out!

The first level up will still cause some pain, but after that things should automatically fix up, and new characters should not suffer at all!

#93 ... Well at least I hope so....

Take IV

SIIIGH!

Take III

Macro issue in #pure

Take II

Syntax error

This should not take that much, but a little test is in order... Especially since the ability selector in battle will be based on this.

In easy mode the AP will minimally have a certain amound of AP based on the skill levels, anything below will be moved up... In casual mode it will always be that amount of points and in hard mode, it will be max

AP Reset

Random Treasures in Xenor Bushses North

Skill points not awarded

Another test

Broken enemy item drop

You'll have to forgive me that I'm suffering from a terrible headache

Lemme first check if Irravonia will indeed gain skill exp for using her missile wand now

Shop Hoer

Added tag STORE

And now a small test is in order

I always hate that about towns

And wrote their respective scenarios

Tagged the "useless" NPCs

Appears to be working

A quick test is in order

The Shop Hoer character will respond to you, however you will not yet have access to her stock, since I didn't work out merchants yet

Shop Hoer

Also note that the NPCs tagged will now crash the game as the scripts they refer to are not yet written

I've placed the NPCs for Doubline -- At this moment only the vendors and the guy giving access to Shanda's castle have been tagged.... The others are therefore not clickable and will be ignored

"Shop Hoer"

#9

Will be starting in 3-2-1

There are no NPCs in Doubline yet... They will soon be placed though, but not yet!

Another test

Blue savespot completely bogus

Let's see!

Not brilliant but it keeps one specific needless error from coming back over and over

Okay, does it work now?

DOH!

And another test

Another Conflict

GRRRR!

No neg

Let's try that again!

No anyway

JCR file corrupted, let's try that again

Trash

Does it work, or does it not?

This is the only time this will happen, because Doubline is the only city you'll visit in chapter 1 and this is done because you cannot enter the worldmap in chapter 1, but in all other chapters you can

Linked Bushes to Doubline

And that was a lot of work I tell ya

Doubline

See ya later

My primary concern will now be to get Doubline properly transferred into this game. It will look the same as in the original however NPCs may be placed a little bit different.

I'll get into abilities in combat later, as it's not important right now

More break time....

Take XXIX

Non-Attack spells were marked as such in the auto-help, but stating the attack had 0% power

Take XVIII

NIL issue

Taek XXVII

A few metatable things I had to know more about.... But that ain't gonna work, so I'll have to find my workabout, but that's not really that much of an issue

Take XXVI

Periods were commas were required

Take XXV

Moves attached to Rebecca

Penta Power Strike

Quatro Power Strike

Triple Power Strike

Double Power Strike

Take XXIV

Added that to Rebecca's start abilities

Quick Strike

Fixed it!

Looked at the wrong spot

a keyword without any additions or removal suddenly "unexpected"?

Take XXIII

Expanded IAA help with automated attacking information

THAT should do it!

Take XXII

Let's see what I can do to fix all this shit I created

I REALLY messed all this up

Take XXI

Things are still not fully right, but I think I'm making progress...

Take XX

Let's see

Things Are going pretty odd

Take XIX

I should have known

No idea if that works, so here goes nothing... Count on where we left... Take XVIII

Set help generator for abilities

updated

Updated

Hover detection

But first I need a break.... See you when I'm all rested up... (and I needed that rest an hour before, but that F_____G cockroaches kept me from that)

Now I need to make sure the hover help for abilities works. That is telling what a move does if mastered, and what you need to do to master it when you haven't yet mastered it

Everything looks fine (for now)

Take XVII

AP cost not properly positioned

Still not good, but at least no more crashes...

Take XVI

was that the last of 'em?

SIIIIGH!

Auto-housekeeping slows me down... sigh

Take XV

....

Take XIV

More fixes

Take XIII

Fixes

Take XII

Abilities mastered from the start will now be shown

Take XI

Case Error

Take X

Typo

Take IX

I've made sure that as soon as a certain secret tag for a character is given, it gets the spells from a character you already have. The reason for this cannot be explained without giving away lethal spoilers.

Missing state

Take VIII

Oh look another one... Basically two expressions were swapped.... DOH!

Take VII

I fixed that

Malformed boolean expression, doh!

Take VI

I've added some extra debug data to figure this out

It seems that certain values are not reset properly... Hmmmm

Take V