Now that I know I can log that, but it's a bug inside NIL itself... I can void it by just making sure there's something at the start of a line, no matter what it is...

White lines and "#pure" do not mix properly it seems

Take IV

Voided now?

Things will only get odder!

Take III

Impossible error and even copying the code into pure Lua confirms the impossibility.... And yet it happens... Why?

Take II

Forgotten declaration

I

At this moment it's not yet able to determine which is mastered from the start or not... I just need to test if something happens at all!

I've set the abilities to show "????" when not yet mastered and the name and AP cost if mastered....

needed skill experience lowered

One of the first things I wanna put focus on now is spells and abilities. This is not one of the easiest things to deal with, but I've done it before so I know I can do it again!

This achievement is a reference to the game Munchkin where there is a rather infamous card with the same name.

Kill the hireling

Time to test this, but I do not expect that much trouble, as this is pretty much routine work

Purple Slime

That appears to be working

A little test is in order!

And linked that to the map

Please, don't go!

#1

Eye of the Tiger works....

Git conflict in this very devlog

I've activated the achievement "Eye of the Tiger" (which is a reference to the song by Survivor, and not that song with "and you're gonna hear me roar" whoever that artist is, as I really don't know her name).

FINALLY!

Take L

Let's pray it is

AAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Take K

URH

Take J

PLEASE?

SIGH!

Take I

.....

Take H

And hopefully I can avoid this Windows bug this way

Swap Killer added

So Windows DOES have an issue here!

A bug that wasn't there before now pops up for the heck of it... But I think I already know what it is... It can only be a swap file not being properly deleted

Take G (is everything ok now.... pleeeease?)

Forgot to spawn after the entire script

Take F

)..

But Take E will tell me if that's true

I think I fixed the boxtext quote bug

Take D

I hope I fixed going to the wrong layer

?????

Take C

Missing ":OnLoad" label in SASKIA script

Take B

Forgotten "use" command

Scenario linkthrough test - Take A

I've scripted the music collection script to alias all music needed in chapter 1, and I've planned to run that script once I'm going to bed... This can save me a lot of wasted time later!

Well I guess that means I'll be taking another break

The script should be completely done now, however I cannot yet test this as the music collection script is still running... This is always a time consuming operation anyway

I've made sure this place always starts with Eric, Irravonia and Rebecca in the party... In that order also

I've set the script to remove the barrier hiding the secret dungeon if you are in fact playing the New Game +

Written the SASKIA mapscript for starting up the Xenor Bushes North

And I linked that to the map file

"Collected" is being used during the Xenor Bushes North

Drinking some coffee and playing a little game on my own... And hopefully brb!

Runing

And I really need a break now, as I'm really getting tired.... I do hope I can still do some work tonight

Finishing touches to area 001

People Human Male and Female

And in the New Game+ this room will provide the entrance to the New Game+ only secret dungeon

This is only a sub-area for scenario, area 002 will be the actual dungeon and just be a one-room mini dungeon also...

Area 001 created for Xenor Bushes North

That appears to be better.... Or not?

Take X

And I removed "Impassible" from the boss... This will prevent further conflicts

In Visual Studio most stuff works now

Take IX

I did something that could fix this, but the shit's not over yet, as I may need to adept the Kthura map as well

I think I confirmed the source of all evil

Take VIII

Now for the actual bug I was looking for

FINALLY

So let's use some FORCE!

It still resfuses to work

And neither does the powershell cp command for some reason

RoboCopy doesn't like the Negative file for some reason

Take VII will take place from Visual Studio, and hopefully this will answer a few questions

Though I do have hunch what causes it.... :-/

Let's sync with VisualStudio as this error keeps going more and more into the impossible.

Still no good?

And Take VI can (hopefully) now tell me more!

Requires me to rebuild NALA... Should not be needed, but I must pinpoint this issue

Detailed Error constructor

The nonsense behind the error is confirmed by the debugger, so now I wonder what it is then...

Take V

Take IV

RIIIIIIIGHT!

Take III

A tag overview will have to provide some answers

still no good

Take II

I hope this voids it (as you cannot fix what ain't broken)

WalkTo Target not willing to operate

And this justifies a test even though the map the SASKIA script links to doesn't yet exist

I've set up tons of scripting to set it alright....

Some old stuff I need now

Adaption for post boss scenario

The transfer appears to be succesful

End exam scenario

I've set up a script to speed this all up

And that fixes the issue in the process

So I recompiled this

Ah, not a bug, but an outdated .exe file....

And I really must fix that bug in the tag counter

New ability scenario

For the short term my focus will be in getting the post-boss script done, which also includes another part in jail... Prologue #3 will still be with Eric, Irravonia and Rebecca and here we'll actually see the first mission in which a part of which the story is going will be shown. This will therefore be quite some work.... During my workout here, I also plan to take care of the abilities, and then the combat engine is done at last... well, for most part, as there are still a few more things to do....

Started

Updated

Updated

And now everything appears to be the way it should be, as I now get the error for the missing post-boss script, which is indeed good, since that script has yet to be written

Take VII

Syntax error

Take VI

Illegal function call

Take V

I hope I fixed them, but I had a few file conflicts, so I need to test this

as the game crashes upon a few nasty things that should not happen, so I'm afraid I need it

I've added the Jack the Ripper mode, which kills off any enemy at one blow... This is for debugging purposes and killing the same boss over and over is gonna eat too much time.

And I have a pizza in my oven, so I may soon have to take a break in order to eat it

And now moving on to test IV

That was done after take III which I forgot to announce

And added that to the item drops of the boss

Potion

So I lowered the HP of the boss

Well some balancing is in order

Added tag BOOST

Added tag NERF

Take II

Victory for NIL! This was the reason I invented it

Misspelled variable

Take I

And not to move things on, and therefore the test count also goes on

Healing

Potion

Item removal has been added

That worked quicker than I expected

Take II

Lack of "self"

Take I

Items are NOT yet subtracted in the inventory list, but that will happen soon... that's actually the easiest part to implement

Okay, I can try to test things out, but this is NOT gonna be easy, and I do expect many cockroaches....

I've also set up a linkback to the combat routine once the item has been selected

Made sure clicking characters won't take any effect at all when in combat

That brings me far from what it should be, but a bit closer than where I was....

The item selector will pass the data through to the action creator....

And I set that into some linkage code

A small study on a few important things

It works....

Take III

Got it!

That error cannot be possible, so why does it still appear?

Take II

Some syntax errors

the link appears to work, but I made a few parse errors to the state being linked to

And let's see if the little stuff I have works already

I did make up a kind of link to the item menu from the combat engine...
This does not yet cover everything, but I can at least make a little work-out here

I've configured the menus for items and abilities, but THAT was actually the EASY part.....

With the wipe in order, I can now try to see if items are going to work.... This is more complicated than it appears, so it will take me some time.... I already planned ahead, so at least some work is already done before the combat engine was even started on...

It works

Take II

An I see why that happened

It seems the spawning did not happen the way it should

Take I

Well, the only way to test all this is by simply going into combat and to lose on purpose....

But now it is

A wipe-out script... This has not yet been linked to the combat routine

Coord spawn features

I've build a routine that will wipe all SASKIA sessions terminating them all in the process... The scripts however will not be removed from the memory... Only the sessions

And now I'm really gonna call it as I'm getting sleepy

The scripts should force a reset now, but later tests will have to work this all out!

Good!

Let's try out if I'm right or not

I think I fixed that

So let's try that again

I do not know (or even WANT to know) why the last "HUH" only shows a blue square

Well?

Case error?

Am I right?

And I think I know why

NOTHING happens, at all!

Let's see

And a few fixes in that

Okay, I've made a start to make sure respawn is set

Well that should do it... see ya

Updated

Updated

Is running

But for now I'm gonna call it

This would be a good moment to implement wipe-out and item usage in combat