Not bad... I may even follow this one:

Fixed that, of course!

I forgot about the combat pose.... Only cosmetic, yet vital

I've just copied the projectile template from Dyrt... Although I'm quite sure more adaption is needed here

Well, I got everything ready to get to the next step.... Which would be either SpellAni or the actual effect... Now SpellAni might be cosmetic only, I am thinking to do that first anyway, this in order to make sure I won't forget about this and make sure this works correctly... I already got my ideas on how to do this (which will be slightly different from the way I did this in Dyrt).

And right on time too as the TV show I wanna see is about to begin.

Perfect

Take XII

And now a bit lower to prevent "head slicing", and we should be cool

Take XI

More tuning

Portrait

Take X

I need to sort this out

and I need a bit of color tweaking too

The Icon's too high

For starters the hero's portrait does not appear at all

Closing in but not everything's right yet

Take IX

What?

Take VIII

Fixed now!

And I missed one

Take VII

and antoher

And another

Another

Take VI

Illegal class call

Take V

This time then?

Fix ignored

Take IV

dirty code straight from the bog of eternal stench

Take III

I think I fixed it?

"nil" index?

Take II

Module bug

Take I

And dupe conflict protechtion

And also some "cancel" protection

Link established

Now one visual effect takes place... The showing of the used ability, however that doesn't happen yet as I haven't yet linked the code to each other... Which will happen now

All parse errors accounted for

Take II

Identifier issues (One typo and one wrong call in general)

Take I

Dinner time

This too is now only testable in no-parse errors, as this is still under the hood code, but now the time has come the visual part can be coded... providing this works, that is....

Skeleton for execution now completely ready

I will not longer stack that up the way the original game did, as the result was awful... Lack of time is the only reason why I never removed that.

The name of the move plus it's icon, plus the portrait of the one who executes it should now be visible as long as the move takes place

PLANNED: #59

Take III

Syntax error

Take II

Identifier issues

Take I

I can however check if no parsing errors and such take place, so that will be what I'll do soon...

I've set up the basis for move execution. It must be noted that none of this has been tested yet, nad it's not even possible to do this properly. Everything I got now is "under-the-hood" code, so nothing visual will happen

Like I said, I am not going into the execution stage.... Now this is the most complicated part of the engine, as it will contain multiple sub-stages. This to make sure the normal "flow" of Apollo runs the way it should and gets not in a kind of break-up when not needed....

While I'm preparing for the execution phase in the combat section, I'll have the system create one final alpha version for Game Jolt... This to make sure my alpha testers can get the current version of the game without having to go to itch.io

This is actually already a "beta/stable" release, but hey, this way we can avoid bug reports of stuff that's already fixed, eh?

Take VIII

Ah, I think I found the bugger!

Not a cancel? What is it then?

Take VII

Perhaps this line can show me more light on this mystery?

After entering move a time bar reset? That's not right!

Take VI

Missing link?

Take V

Another bug in Neil I really need to fix

Take IV

Void

Take III

Syntax error

Take II

Class misreference

Take I

Nullifying the 'NextAct' member of a fighter will now automatically cancel them... that is if past COM, if not past COM nothing will happen

Running from COM to ACT *should* now work

Constructor set up... I forgot about that... :-/

Cannot be tested on short term

"Hurt" routine

The reason why I didn't do this before was simply because I wasn't sure if the required routine was already present or not.... It was, so boom, here goes!

But first I'll go to the local hospital, as a request from my doctor came in to make an x-ray of my shoulder... be right back

The next step will be to actually "move to COM"

It appears to be working, folks!

Take IV

Illegal class usage

Take II

A few faulty identifiers

Take I

But at least I can start to test this part out!

Now the action will not take place... As a matter of fact, the hero in question will "freeze" 1 position after COM.... What comes next will be taken care of later

I've set the stuff that should happen once the targets have been selected and been confirmed

That appears to work, I suppose

Take III

Code typo

Take II

That was not good!

Quick Test

Canceling selecting target should now be possible by both hitting the red "X", as by pretting the right mouse button

This is for later, but I think it should definitely be done #57

Take IV

Alignment issue fix

Almost there

Take Take III

QuickMeta issue

Take II

QuickMeta Definition wrong!

Take I

For now the "?" is the only thing I can test, but it's something!

This has now been scripted

Yes, bosses you can take on again will be affected by this in the Casual Mode, and that is intentional

The same rules will apply as always. In the easy mode, the bar always shows... In the casual mode, the bar only appears if you've beaten the same enemy before (level won't matter), and in the hard mode the bar will never show.

Next stop the HP bar.... (if applicable)

Take XVIII

Fixed that, at least, but does that also fix the issue as a whole?

Oh, I think I see it... A syntax error Neil didn't detect?

Take XVII

hmmmm

WTF?

Take XVI

Different approach

Take XV

I do need to see why the level color is wrong, though

AT LAST!

Take XIV

Perhaps this would do it?

But why?

Just as I suspected.... Clearing isn't done, at all

Take XIII

Let's see

Nope.....

Take XII

I think I fixed the non-unselect issue

Take XI

I will later sort out why there's no unselect, plus I also need to see what happens when there are multiple targets, as it may not be so bad after all

First the spacing, that's the easy part

Although I must also see why stuff is not being unselected as that should also happen

In essentials this works, however, I do need to space things out a little for readability reasons

Take X

token error

Take IX

Illegal class member

A part of the problem I guess

Take VIII

I need to see if this works, but here goes nothing

Take VII

Lemme sort this out some more

Outcome here true, yet returned value is read as false?

Take VI

%s is for strings... not %d

Take V

Hopefully this will shine a light WHY this happens

Another line

Apparently the hovering is to blame

Take IV

This debug line will have to explain a few things.

Why?

NOTHING happens at all

Take III

Bad Class Usage

Take II

Needless line

DAFUUUUCK?

Take I

Will it work?

I've seen more trivial things go wrong after all

"Icon" (if applicable otherwise lettertag), level, and name

No visual effects yet!

All crashes accounted for

Take IX

Fixed future issues

Take VIII

Copy error

Take VII

Missing properties

Take VI

Illegal Class Index

Take V

Fixing a call causing errors based on outdated data in the process

A class export was required

Take IV

Class fault

Take III

Issue?

Take II

Hmpf

Take I

well it should.... I cannot check it as all code is for now "under the hood" code...

Targets selection works

Target hovering detection

Done

In order to keep the experience the same, I'll follow suit here, although I am thinking to add an "indiscriminate" feature in order to make it possible... Rather a safety pre-caution to save myself work later in the case I still need it