Please note that when everything works the way it should NOTHING will change at all for the human eye... for now... The time I can see if this works will however arrive soon if I can work properly

And I've set the party to begin with Wendicka (in uniform), Crystal (in uniform) and Briggs.

And that links it all together

Glue code

I've added a function to the API to allow to configure the max size of a party

And next I begin to feel the first signs that I am exhausting myself, which was to be expected... I'm a workaholic, and working on this made me forget the pains that the lockdown (no don't blame a virus for human stupidity) brings... This means that I will have to slow down, and maybe even suspend all work to both Dyrt and Star Story soon... Which I hate, as I just got into my rythm, but I must also be fair to myself.... Getting myself killed in a heart attack won't do either project much good either, will it?

First I'm gonna take a shower

May daily duties for Dyrt done

Wrong devlog.... I guess that as long as Dyrt is not yet closed I'll make this mistake much of times... Sorry

Animated Brendor's attacking pose!

I need a break now.... I'll have to see if I'll be back soon....

Bellisimo!

Take IV

Reference error?

Take III

And I saw another one, so I fixed that one as well!

Syntax error in linker

And take II

Fixed it!

Ah, I see why

Somehow the linking to the map link didn't work I suppose

Well.... le moment suprème, I guess

Of coruse, I realized I had to dummy a forced error first

At least I can test now if the chainthrough itself works.... If it does all I'll get is a black blank screen....

This is always hard stuff, as things can easily go wrong here that could haunt me for the rest of the game's production, so I'll have to dig through several settings prior to making my first save game (before that moment I'm bound to have to restart the game all the time anyway (once I can save a game, everything gets "sealed")

I've done some setups to make sure the chain to the field flow module is possible. Of course, the field and the combat flow modules are (as always) the two most complex things (the combat module in particular).

A basis callback set up

In order not to make things too hard I set up a load for the Field (and will later also do that for combat) as those two flows will be bundles, and I don't want to tax myself too much to dig into my engine to directly put in these features. C++ is hard enough the way things are now. I know this is the easy way out, but I need to be realistic.

Although I realize a little erreur here

And I've set up a basis for Map Script

Basis set up for the Field Flow

But first a little break

From here I can work to the intro scenario

Fix convirmed

Test nummero tre

Hopefully this fixed the issue

Transferred GR-Sites textures

Now I got most of the textures, but one appears missing

Take nummero DUE

But I see why that is, though...

I forgot to reconfigure the texture directory

But none of the used textures were found

Layering was succesful

Level itself loads

Test numero Uno

All I can do now is test if things work accordingly

But as far as I can tell Kthura has been changed (thanks to Monogame) too much to keep this script... I think a rewrite of the script (and also using NIL then) may still be a good idea.

Quick analysis of the script do not really tell me much what I need to do, though....

Covers a bit of things.... Now the script file was in Lua, and I'll probably keep it that way. Neil it not yet integrated in the Kthura editor, and NIL was also non-existent when the original script was written. If it's clear I need to change too much, I can always decide to redo stuff in NIL anyway

Project configuration has been rewritten for Kthura

It appears my headaches are now definitely gone, but I can never be sure... at least I can try to resume my work

Real life stuff.... Yeah, you know, that also has to be done!

Now I DID make a wizard to easily set up Kthura scripts, but overall the easiest way to create a new Kthura project is by cannibalizing an existing project... Of course, the creator always does things differently, knowing the system a bit better than others do

I am still in bad shape so don't expect TOO much from me

Now this may sound odd, but I do need a new Kthura script.
It's not just that I can blindly copy all maps to the new game, as I really don't remember all taggings and stuff inside, plus I need the regular editor to see if I properly converted the layer-less maps into layered versions. The editor cannot work without a properly set up script so I got some work to do here

Done

However as I didn't get to that yesterday, I first wanna get a few things done on Dyrt now

Still are still a big against me on the medical part, but I'll try to do what I can

And Continueing this is for another time, as I'm exhausted and my headache is trying to come back

Adapted the intro scene for the work with layers, which is since Kthura moved to C# mantadory and the C# and the C++ versions of Kthura cannot support any maps without them

Since all pre-work is done I'll now consider this project officially started

Although Dyrt is far from over, and when this project has most of all become a matter of adding game content then Dyrt must take priority over a few things....

Okay everything appears to be in order now

Write-Only error

Lua code typo

I hope stuff works this way

Why did Visual Studio automatically added a .cpp file in stead of the header?

Include error

That should link it all together... I hope

Linkup code for script

Although for that the C# version also needs to be updated (my RPGChar program is gonna need it)

This may also mean that the old scripting values in RPGStat may be deprecated as soon as Dyrt is finished

I've added a "Script" field to the C++ version of the RPG database

API for setting Stat Script

Sumscript for stats should work now

And that brings us to my next task.... EAT! Mesa hungry, and in my current condition, eating is very extremely important!

I feel better than I did, but it's still far from fantastic!

Due to much of time being wasted under my medical condition I cannot do anything on Dyrt today... I hope I can at least get a few things done tomorrow!

Well, that sets stuff up for now... I do need to make simple stat scripting possible now. In my C++ engine I will follow the same line though as the C# variant did.... It's simply the easiest way to go...

Okay, one fix... Briggs was not recognized as a guest character

Well, does it work now?

Wrong level = error

And I think this should fix the random crashes at the start

That should do it!

Okay, it does read the stats correctly, but it doesn't take the level in mind, so all characters begin at level 1 having the level 99 stats until they reach 100 and then they'll have the level 199 stats... I gotta fix that quickly

Now I think I know why this randomly happens

Instant exit?

Fixed?

WTF?

Issues

Statistics should now be set in accordance to character's levels

The error that pops up now is simply because the game itself has not yet been set up

Well, let's see what happens next!

Code typo in link-up script

although other bugs pop up now

YAY!

I hope

and since i used a macro for this all affected stuff should be fixed now

I think I fixed that

Indeed it doesn't, but why doesn't it accept the "safe" flag?

I've forced it in, but since it was never meant to be set to false anyway, this may not cause any difference

I see that the "safe" flag is being ignored

I cannot find out anything that justifies this crash, but I can at least see if the Panic shows us something

I've linked the panic routine to the RPG database, but is that enough?

Why?

Just a crash down an no message

And stuff goes wrong on the very first data definition, I see...

I think

Let's see

Apparently one of my C++ functions didn't make it into the API, or I made a little naming error

The question is of course how much more of these will pop up!

Well that's been taken care of now!

Link issue, eh?

C string format expression error

Let's see what happens next then

Well, it's there now!

WHAT? Did Neil not have the EACH function built in, yet?

I THINK I tackled that

Now THIS is odd.... And would appear like some chain up script is not properly run

Missing "End"

But the SubParty module (which is called later as a state on its own) appears to have a few issues

All start up issues that affect ALL scripts accounted for... or so it seems

Another issue

The most annoying errors are mostly the trivial ones... They are also the ones that happen most

Declaration typo

All I can test now is if no error message pop up... Other than that I'll be in the dark until the statistics screen are operational

I've setup the basic configuration for the basic stats....

AS FAR AS I CAN CHECK everything appears to be in working order

I hate the keyword "then"

Missing "end"

A few more syntax errors

Missing comma

for the time being all I can test is if no compilation errors pop up in this process... Of C++ everything looks fine, but for Lua I'm not too sure.

And due to the very complex chain of metatables I did so in pure Lua this time.... And I hope it works, as this was one hell of a job!

The entire linkup code should be written now...

A terrible headeache struck me last night forcing me to quit my activities early as I was too ill to go on!

Also added the possibility for direct Lua core scripts... The way the RPG database works and the premature state Neil is in, makes this the better run... At least for now.

At least the game starts up, and that counts for something.... For now....

Well I think everything is completely voided now....

I have for now just dummied the respective headers as I don't need them for now... If I do in the future, things may be different though

For some reason the linker cannot find something that just exists

But one of the few TV shows that I follow is about to start soon, and I also need a bit of a break.... I'll try to set up a basic, but I'm not gonna do the real complex stuff yet!

Ths is not yet gonna do much good though, as the engine may have the files that contain the RPG database and it's saver, but no code linking things up to the scripting engine, so that API will have yet have to be written.

Apollo compiles

Return issue in my code

The linkup stuff is very very delicate and also the hardest thing to set correctly in order, so I hope I can do this right in one go!

All RPG data except the link data can now be saved

I've expaned JCR6 in C++ with the possibility to write files "on the fly"... The RPG database will really need this or saving stuff will not be possible

I hope you don't mind that I need a break now!

All in all, I'll be busy for awhile, and I don't expect this to work today!

And then the worst part.... The scripting API

Status And then of course, I need to make sure the saver works

None of this crap can yet be tested

Links established through loading

That covers most

Load Data

Load Lists

Load Points

Identifier conflict

Char Stat load

Char Name

Unfortunately, I do need to put it in, or things WILL go haywire!

Added a few things in Stat Data I forgot about (likely since it was since its inception hardly used ever after).

Now I've decided to put the code to save and load the party in a different source file, this to allow more freedom in file formats than just JCR6

I forgot the party array, that one has also been added

Although I still must handle saving and loading, but that is a later concern

That should cover the hardcore part, for most part

Some more work has been done, but I'm not nearly close to putting it to use

And I think I tackled the lack of garbage collector issue

Basis has been set up for the character database

Now I realized that my RPG Character Sheet library has not yet been converted to C++, and this can also be a rather tricky one too, due to the lack of a garbage collector which is what the system heavily relies on... Especially due to the internal stat link-through functionality, and for ExHuRU, Rolf and the secret character who are linked to each other, this will be essential to work, so I cannot really cheat my way out here. Another option would be (but this will be hard, and also cause incompatibility with my character viewer for savegames) try to port it to pure Neil code... I am not yet sure what is the best way to go

That works

Take III

Breakfast

Link to final stage before the game actually begins

Almost there, but I forgot something REALLY important

Take II

A few conversion errors

Take I

Not there yet though, first testing this out!

When this works, I can go for the first parts of the field and BoxText script meaning we get into the actual scenario of the game, and that will mean I can then fire the official starting shot....

Always an important moment in the game.

Language selector

Difficulty settings

And also do some work on Dyrt first... That game HAS to be finished first, you know, and there's still a lot to do there.

Before I move on to my next challenge I'll first take a big break

Well?

I hope

The "Ignore" button is true to it's name... The system ignores it!

Again!

Syntax error

Let's see

GJIgnore on new game

that works

Does it work now, then?

Syntax error

Gotta check

Activated "Back" button

That works

Take V or VI or whatever