DarkText inclusion

Take I

Only one way to find out!

No idea if this will work and I frankly expect DOZENS of nasty cockroaches

This in combination with their name

For enemies the enemy letter of a selected target will appear, for a playable character their icon as also used on the time gauge

I should note that for multi-targets I've just set up a basic table... Sometimes you mustn't make things more complex than needed

I've set up the detection if a target is selected or not

(Or at least I hope so)

Now I need to do things a bit differently than normal, but hey, it'll work out,trust me ;)

And now I wonder who knows what "Opgeruimd staat netjes" means :P

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Updated

Tons of needless whitelines

An issue in my MKL_Updater

Updated

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Oh, lately I've been a bit absorbed by the game Septerra Core.... However as I'm about to start the final dungeon, I guess that will soon no longer be a valid excuse

Well this was the EASY part.... The hard part has yet to come....

All errors so far accounted for

Take III

Illegal class access

Take II

Case Error

Take I

The moment suprème!

Action code activated

Skeleton code, remember. ;)

This is under the hood as these links are for now ignored, plus the target selector stage is empty at this moment....

I've linked the target selector to the attack menu item

At least that doesn't seem to happen.... Good!

Let's go! Take I

All I can test now is whether or not any parse errors pop up

Made sure ANYWAY is loaded before the link takes place

Item loader linked to it!

Skeleton code set up for target selector (which does not yet work)

Irravonia's twig has been adapted for this!

This may appear obvious, but it's not quite.... You gotta keep in mind that Irravonia will (once she's an adult) carry wands which can hold special spells for attacks, and the ultimate weapons will also have some different effects.

Added a field which deterimes which kind of attack is done by a weapon when "attack" is chosen from the combat menu

And that story also goes on!

vUpdate

All cool!

Take IX

A different function SHOULD do it....

almost there

I don't need YOU to tell me that I was at least consistent >:(

Take VIII

Of course I fixed that

I hate myself

Take VII

Is that all?

Take VI

Misnaming

Take V

Incorrect line endings

Take IV

And fixed a parse error in the process, I hope

Regenerated the Anyway scripts

Take III

Now it has been save

Forgot to save before testing.... DOH!

Fix ignored!

Take II

Parse error

Take I

Clicking the items won't do ANYTHING at the present time!

With this I can test if the cursor will light up when properly hovering, PLUS I can see if it's green when allowed and red when not allowed....

Cursor

Linked to the loader

hotspots (I hope I did that well)

Split-up

I did recycle the cursor.... I know I'm gonna need it.... Unfortunately!

This is only under-da-hood... So no visual effect yet!

Data added to the class database

No data yet!

Set up a menu class....

I feel a bit sick.... I hope it's nothing serious

BETTER!

Take IV

This should fix the coord issue

Take III

Case error

So NOW I can do take II

Some real-life stuff

Another chapter

Lack of self

Let's see....

Picture shows

I made the gauge updater link to the correct character tag (Simple enough, but critically important).

Another chapter

Cool!

Take III

Code typo

Take II

And I think I found out why the menu didn't appear

Interestest in how my Dijkstra pathfinder works... Here you see my own test source ;)

Come, my dear Watson! We gotta find out why!

That's cool, but despite everything the menu does not appear

Right, let's get to take I, at last!

I just have a life too, you know, so sometimes I can do pretty little....

It's however not yet tested

Set in in the game

The combat routine will now load this

Linked to the loader

The combat menu picture

Runing

FINALLY!

Take VIII

Bug in audio loader

Take VII

Well, back to business

Which I'll now do

I must recompile NALA because of that

Which I fixed, of course

Forgotten return command in Audio obtainer

Take VI

Play signal command

Almost there

Take V

Static vars are not the way they should be,are they?

Take IV

DON'T WHINE! YOU FUCKING FUCKSHIT INTERPRETER!

Take III

Case issue

Take II

Non-Static which had to be static

Take I

Link to player input (which will just feeze combat for now)

Start of turn signal

I guess I really must build in some more protection from "non-ASCII" characters in this devlog tool

I must not forget I'm also working on a novel and another chapter has been added.

Added tag PHANTASAR

Time for another break!

I won't take too many tries, yet... I'll fix if I need to!

I need to test this, but with the combat engine active already this may be hard....

Ran my NALA compile script

ANd I wonder what I was thinking, actually.

I've set up a way to make Audio live cross state (which was not possible with the current getup)

Pickup item

Added tag AUDIO

This will allow me to get things on the move in combat, cool!

Hard to judge, but as far as I can tell, it appears to be working

Take IV

Code Typo

Take III

#accept to void the lack of forward definitions

Take II

Forgotten "end"

And NOW we can move into Take I

I forgot to link the gauge update to the IDLE stage

Oh wait... I'm too quick!

At least I can test a littlebit

Skeleton code for updating the guage... The icons should move, but as there's no enemy AI yet, and also no player input nothing will happen once the pointers reach COM... yet!

VII SHOULD be the final test... but we'll see.... :-/

A tiny bit more fine tuning

Almost there!

Take VI

To void an internal bug I don't feel like fixing right now

More fine tuning

I'll consider this Take V, as this is still the same workout ;)

Worked out the coordinates

But there's still A LOT of work to do, that much is also clear!

All parse errors accounted for

And onto Take IV

Take III

Another act of idiocy

Take II (I did Take I in silence, as I didn't expect stuff like this).

that of course

Forgot an important replacement

I've set the foe letters on the time gauge, although some fine tuning might be in order....

This would've been hard to test otherwise, and have given me even more nightmares if these bugs were discovered after the game's release, so this is all the way better!

And some issues that could come up should be fixed that way...

Prototyping

As before these letters will be used in both the time bar as when selecting enemies to attack (or do otherwise anything with)

Foe letter generator

Time for a BREAK!

WONDERFUL!

But a test is in order to make sure!

Everything should NOW be fixed

I mised up two different example codes.... Silly me

And I guess the devlog was a bit backlogged... Sorry folks... I did keep it up, but I took some time to push it I suppose.... :-/

Oh well...

The pointer, however is not

Irravonia's head is now on the CORRECT position

And let's see

Resync

I think I fixed the mispositioning for the icon in relation to the pointer

Well Rome wasn't built in one day either, so I guess some more patience is required now

Not to mention that Irravonia's face's position is even worse off

As a result, though this fix DOES put the enemy pointers on the right spot not, but now the player spot is messed up

As I suspected the HotSpot system was being ignored

Let's try THIS!

The code that does show all NIL internal crap of NALA... I simply don't need it anymore, or at least not right now, and it only messes up my other debugging data!

I need a break, but this is too important, oh crap!

I need to rebuild, and to resync....

also note what I was looking for, though

Invalid cyclic call