And let's set the party bar on mute

The arena

Okay, removing the Arena does indeed not make a difference... This confirms what I suspected that XNA's own (dreaded) layer system could not be the cause of all this

Take XXX

Oh... false start....

Take XXIX

Let's temporarily mute some code, and see what happens (shouldn't change anything, but at this point I'll try ANYTHING!).

Nothing spectecular happened... Wasn't to be expected (when there's nothing wrong, there's nothing to be fixed, but yet, the system DOES refuse to do what it has to do).

Take XXVIII

I can NEVER do quick stuff right in once!

Take XXVII

Running compilation script

Small adaption to NALA

However I don't see that on screen, so something MUST still be wrong...

All data produced is in order

Take XXVI

Hmmmm

Take XXV

DIRTY DEBUG STRAIGHT FROM HELL!

Screen is big enough, so that ain't the issue

Take XXIV

Still no clue

Take XXIII

MOAR investigation

Take XXII

Let's try THIS!

Still no good?

Take XXI

I need to try this out, then

The error thrown STRONGLY suggests that the Y coordinate happens to be "nil"... That should not be possible, but if it is somehow, it would explain a few things.

Take XX

So an extra line should (hopefully) get me an answer

Data The data I see now do not show any odd things... At least nothing that should enable this to happen

However an extra take is needed due to this crash... Take XIX

Debugger

And the debugger crashes this crap as well!

Still the fighters do no appear

Take XVIII

Illegal function call

PAY ATTENTION, JEROEN!

We're still in the same test flow so Take XVII

A lack of self

I think I voided the cockroach, and my presumption was correct also...

GO take XVI

Let's see if this gets me some answers

Table is empty... Not a chance in hell that should be possible but it is....

TODAY is not Friday the 13th.... TOMORROW is....

Take XV

AAAARGH! A parse error!

Take XIV

And extra debug line must tell me WHY the impossible becomes possible

Take XIII

(I hope)

And an extra debug line *may* be able to do just that...

As a matter of fact, it moans about nil values.... There is not a single way in which that should be possible, so this is something that must be sorted out

The error show that this is going to be very very complex!

I'm getting tired, you know!

Take XII

Constructor not properly set up!

Take XI

Typo?

And during take X I can see if this works and what data is about to be produced, as I'm curious now....

I can now view some data about my heroes (and later also about the foes)

New Anyway for combat

"Zorg" means "Care" in Dutch, and since it begins with a "Z" it's most likely to be imported last, which is vital!

Set up my "Zorg Centrum" for the combat routine

Now this is really going to be a VERY SERIOUS issue

Take IX

Stack overflow

Take VIII

"fix"

Take VII

Let's see if this works ... :-/

Still no good!

Take VI

Xtra lib import

Take V

Acceptance link

Take IV

Visual effect should be thre now.... :-/

No visisble results either

No crahses yet, but

Take III

Be back later

Maybe this is even better

Take II

Local Mistreatment

Take I

Of course, nobody in his right mind would expect this to work in one go, so ....

Auto-Measurement "JumpIn".... This will make the heroes "jump" into battle... At least, they should... :)

Draw

AutoLoad Hero pictures

(Except for the two "guest" characters, as they have some different setups)

Project file adapted in order to make all IDLE combat stances identical to the IDLE walk stance in the field.... This may change for some characers, but for now this will do

All heroes are by default in "houding" (stance) "IDLE"

Foes come later, and NO VISUAL EFFECT YET!

Automated X,Y calculators for the heroes

Everything LOOKS the way it should...

Take III

Lack of "self"

Take II

I also think why the countdown bug in this devlog happens (and it struck again, but this time only Aziella is "seriously hit"). Her appearing twice is not part of this bug... That was just the result of some deliberate configuration I did that led to this coincidence....

Well it was affected, you know!

Rebuilding NALA

NIL function conflict

(Nothing visible will be there, just looking if stuff I got so far works)

And Take I in testing what I got so far!

Some final linkup code I couldn't do before

And now I must attend to some real-life stuff... see you!

Some skeleton code written for compiling heroes

So let's run my little script!

must be recompiled of course

Extendable classes work

The basic concept of extending classes appears to be working now.... But now comes the challenge.... abstracts

And now before I can truly get into business I think I need to make sure extended classes are now possible in NIL (which me luck)

And I've written a generator for the default coordinates in battle

I've been doing some calculations for the correct spots for the heroes to appear on

And time to call it!

cool!

Take VI

Lack of "self"

Take V

Invalid group definition

This should make a better chain

Crap... Not the way I wanted it to be... No matter, I can take care of that ;)

I need to see how I loaded the menu theme though...

Almost there, but one things I need to sort out

Take IV

Instance == nil issue?

Deprecated .NEW() from Audio glue code

Take III

Let's see

But I think I know why

Clicks ignored

Take II

I think I fixed that

And it goes wrong already!

Take I

But I got to test this first so

And from there everything should work like it did before!

Linked "Continue" button to the main menu

Not entirely satisfying, but due to the way the numberics are in the music timing, this will have to do.... Unfortunately!

Take V

Forgotten #

Take IV

Time fine tuning

Crash

Take III

A few time fixes, but more is needed I believe

More info must tell me why it still happens

THAT error should not be possible

Take I

Worked out the show altogether

Ok

Take F

That didn't work

That's still part of take E

Oh yeah, a color calc issue

Take E

Laziness to void an issue

Take D

Rect issue (I think)

Take C

Illegal call

Take B

Code Typo

Take A

#63 -- Appearance Continue Button -- But does it work?

#59

Mouse Coloring Issue

Whiner!

Mouse pointer in all stages except loading

Tune to loader

GOOD! (at last)

Color issue

Almost there!

And the setup was bad anyway

Voided that

.NET error, eh?

Does THIS fix that?

It's beyond me why the "Loading" banner refuses to appear

False start intro music!

Loading times will be longer, but otherwise this won't work.... I guess

Let's do this differently

Take TWO!

Forgotten )

So I can properly test stuff now... Take ONE!

And the JCR6 aliasing re-build process has been done

Finished my dish, and it was delicious

Doing my mince

...

Next to the mushrooms

Carrots done

But as it's getting late I can cut some carrots for my dinner in the meantime

Must re-pack unfortunately... That's gonna take awhile

Linked it to the event

Epicity by Widzy configured to be used in the intro screen

Okay, I needed to fix the bar not being updated!

Let's go