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

that

A NIL issue comes up now.... Not seen as the Blue Screen of Death was not initialized yet...

Let's see

As my music file was modified in the meantime, RoboCopy can take its sweet time now, though

And I've added a few debug lines which must shine a light on this

Well I guess another debug synchronization is in order then

I wonder....

And see what will happen

Script

Let's recompile

I wonder ....

But I don't think THAT was a surprise

Anyway, the pain must lie in the TQMG library for C#

And the outcome in general confirms what I suspected.... The hotspotting is bogus..... Now I do have a feeling I know why this is, but I can't be certain

Color issue on icons

okaaaaaaaaay! PLEEEEAAAASE!

Lack of self

This may also tell me a bit about the situation with the foe position....

I've put in the Hero's gauge icon

I'll leave the foe pointer be for now.... That comes later

The foe pointer did not

The gauge and the pointers do appear to point almost well.... The player pointer reached my satisfaction

All I can do is hope this will work out better next time

for some reason the music got TOTALLY messed up

And let's go for another run in the game again.... (It begins to annoy me, as this is getting boring, but yeah, I *knew* this was the woe of a new game project, so I shouldn't whine....

Or is the the wonder of the vibration feature.... Oh crap!

And why did my cell phone jump to the floor all by itself? Since when can cellphone do that?

Case error

WHAT THE HECK!!!!

Added tag IRONY

I guess I need to add an "irony" tag or something

Let's test that

I hope I voided that

Internal error in NIL

And let's go .... again!

Fixed the issue that came from it

I gotta raise it properly I suppose

I guess NIL didn't like my laziness

Does it work now???

I know this solution may slow things down, but I'm lazy now

Crash prevention for the future

well who would've thought it figures.... something simple as this could go wrong....

And another one (I should have counted them)

That explains

Case error....

Oh no???

Another test is in order, of course!

Referrence to GALE (which wasn't used here) removed

Syntax Error

And another emergency ride to the restroom, I'm afraid (I hate it when that happens on a moment like this! Well, I hate it anyway, but ESPECIALLY on a moment like this!)

This will also allow me to see if the XDraw method works properly, but it should as Kthura heavily relies on the same code as on which the underlying API was written

That is the "arrows", or whatever you call these things as they are a bit oddly shaped.... The icons used for identification and such are not yet drawn

The pointers should appear at their respective positions....

I've set up the position calculator of the gauge pointers

Linked pointers into the time gauge code (not used yet, though)....

Yeah, that was the work of haste, and haste makes waste... or so they say....

Foe pointer loaded twice... hero pointer not loaded at all

As far as I can judge right now, everything appears to be in order now....

Well.... Let's see what'll happen now!

Nou ja.... poep gebeurt, zullen we maar zeggen!

Then let's run my compilation script AGAIN!

Well, I guess recompilation is in order then.... if you want it so badly.....

I though I DID recompile NALA.... But NALA itself appears to have a different opinion.... Oh odd

HMMMMMM!

And I must go to the restroom.... emergency.... :(

I first need to make a quick test to see if XDraw does its job PROPERLY

And I've studied my old code... The code itself is not usable, however, the mathemetical formulas used in it are, so that SHOULD be fairly easy.... (But what should and what is, are two different things, actually).

I've set a few things up to get this show on the road

time for some coffee

Had my breakfast

My baguette's ready, so time to eat!

Well I'll be.... I see the YouTube videos I posted before, which were wrongly linked now show the correct linkups.... So the guys at Google did fix this....

Wait until its ready!

My baguette is in the oven now

So, Jeroen, what are you still doing here! Get your ass moving into the kitchen, you lazy dork!

Yes, English folks, for a Dutch that is already a very extended breakfast.... Loads of people even skip it completely, you know!

And eat

And then I can put on cheese and ham on that

Put in my baguette in my oven so I can have breakfast soon....

neither alpha nor beta are useful now, although alpha might be mentioned a few times already, but at least their config is in order now ;)

Will have to do

Dummy

Test new icon and config

Icon added :P

#2

Sleeping is important too, you know.... When I sleep I can save up energy for a new coding session :-P

Well that's it.... for now... If you don't mind... Aside from developing games, I also PLAY games, so I'm gonna waste some of my time on Septerra Core :)

That tag will not be used for the time being, but I guess I had to make it exist, eh?

Added tag BETA

At this moment no alpha testers are planned and based on my current experiences with alpha testing... It's likely not gonna happen this time

Added tag ALPHA

Secret download updated

Oh, alright!

I guess I must add an icon for bitbucket

Updated

Added tag BITBUCKET

Updated

Running

This will likely be for tomorrow though, as I'm getting tired and I'm getting more and more trouble to focus

Like I said I now must study my old code in order not to reinvent the wheel.... What I need to sort out is how I did the coordinates on the time gauge...

And the debug bar shows the data I wanted to see

All parse errors accounted for

Take IV

Invalid definition

Take III

Function call typo

Take II

Invalid declaration

Take I

For now all I can test is if no crashes occur and if the debug console shows the data I want to see.... Since I'm dealing with random values this is not entirely easy, but overall this should work

As I've no visual effect yet, I did add some debug lines here

I've set up the routine that will determine the start positions on the gauge

I guess I've come to a point that I must NOT re-invent the wheel... So some study of the original game will be required now... But I now realize I did also forgot to set the base positions on the gauge, so that must come first....

Not that you'll see anything (yet)

Hotspot Point Hero

Hotspot Point Foe

This Does of course require me to rebuild NALA

Not much of an issue now (as the builder is still bugged on this point), but later on this can be VITAL

Foldering error

I've linked XDraw into Bubble in order to make sure I can do some stuff that comes with the gauge more properly

Well it doesn't really matter, does it?

Once again YouTube screwed it, as that was ONCE AGAIN NOT the video I linked to... This one is

It APPEARS to be working now.... Damn... that took some sweet time

Take V

(told you so!)

Conflict due to lacking self

Take IV

Voided the NIL issue about negative numbers

(I just KNEW it would take more takes... I already said it, you'd be surprised what can all go wrong in such a process!)

Take III

Accept request done

Take II (GRRR!)

Cleaned that up!

BULLSHIT!

Well, I gotta test if this work... The gauge only appears.... The fighters do NOT yet appear on it.... But you'd be surprised how much can go wrong in this process... Take I and hopefully the only take!

Damn... I feel terrible

I've linked that to the main draw routine

A base for the gauge draw function

I know I did not as much as I should have today, but allow me some rest... I've been working hard enough yesterday and the combat engine is already hard enough the way it is....

WTF... Paint threw me an error, while I did never even start that program up.... Ghosts!

I guess YouTube is a bit bugged today, as that was NOT the video I was linking to... Oh well

So let's run my little scrippie

I guess I did not recompile this

I've the coordinates it has to move to

Yes, this will cause it to be invisible for being out of the screen borders, and was deliberate so I can make it "scroll in"

I've set the Gauge at Y -500

Trouble is that it's impossible to test at the present time if this all works

I've updated the TQMG library for automated hotspot support.... The time gauge can really benefit from this

Extra backup is running now

Nothing odd here.... With the way VS works, pluse how much my VS frameworks are still in development with the complete engines, this was only bound to happen, and then you gotta update everything someday

TQMG repository

And I really need to find time to continue development on NJCR... By the time this project is finished I probably won't be needing it anymore XD

Tricky Units

I know it won't compile, don't even try it! This doesn't have priority right now!

Bubble/MonoGame

Okay That is jpbubble/Bubble_CLI#1 -- My bad!

jpbubble/CLI#1

Bubble Build Respository

Bubble Lib Repository

StripExt (I needed that)

Okay, everything appears to be working

Take II

I was too quick

Idiot!

I need to see now if the game still starts up... if it does... everything is most likely fine!

I've set the intro routine to load the gauge icons as well... It was just easier to do

Let's enjoy a good song also, eh?

And today I hope I can make a start on getting the time gauge to work, which may not be easy, but ya never know... I've done this before, so I hope I still remember how I did it before :P

making myself some baguettes with cheese and ham for breakfast....

So far... Gonna call it... mesa tired