Castle Paradox

[Mr B]

Oooh; okay. I wondered why it was like that. You're right; it does make perfect sense.

I was thinking of an export function in CUSTOM.EXE that would export the text into an appropriately formatted *.TXT file. A corresponding function in CUSTOM.EXE would import an appropriately formatted *.TXT file. This would allow third-party utilities (*coughwordpadcough*) to store and edit text. This would make it much more easy for multiple people to work on a project.

How about an "on equipment change()" script? This would be extremely useful for 1) walkabouts and hero graphics that depend on equipment, and 2) attacks in the spell lists that depend on equipment. Using the "each step" script works okay, but the info wouldn't refresh until the character has moved. This would stink if the person changes equipment and the immediately saves.

Also, I wouldn't mind being able to choose a nice neutral colour for the background/invisible colour when I edit NPCs. Having a black background makes it difficult to judge the effect of outlines and such.

Thanks for the consideration.
-B

[TMC]

1. Isn't that exactly the same as using a textbox?

2. That really wouldn't work. You couldn't possibly call the script every tick, tags are perfect for this.

3. Actually, this sounds interesting. It would be pretty neat. (Warning: "pretty neat" probably means "cool if someone else did it")

4. Probably won't happen because, as you say, it comes out to bloat. Bloat is the word right now.


Also, I think someone *may* have been thinking about an extetnal textbox editor or importer/exporter. Actually, I think it was ysoft, and I was trying to argue him into making it awesome.

[Inferior Minion]

SDHawk was writing one, I believe. Called it Say. I don't know what happened to it, but I remember him showing off screenshots in IRC.
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[Mike Caron]

I too was making one, long before I knew how the textbox lump worked. I still have the basic program somewhere, and I *could* release it if I cleaned it up a bit. *snickers*
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[rpgspotKahn]

One thing I would like to request is larger textboxes.

And a cursor in the text editor - Something that can move backwards if you made small mistake on the first word in the sentance and you have to delete all the text to correct the mistake...
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[Mr B]

1.) The ability to execute scripts by their ID numbers.

2.) Scripts that return the system clock info.

That's all I can think of right now (as if I hadn't asked for enough).

Again, thanks for the consideration.

[Soule X]

It would be nice to be able to show an attack animation without having the person being attacked look like he just got hit.

It actually would be a nice feature, because you could link many animations together as one, without having the person being attacked react at every "sub-animation".

You could theoretically create a pretty complex summon using this technique. It also helps control the pacing of the attack animations. One of the major flaws, in my opinion, as far as battles are concerned, is that the attacks move way too fast. If you could seperate the frames into several linked attacks, it would look and feel much more like a console rpg.

I don't know if anyone else has toyed with this technique yet. I haven't really played any games that have implemented it, but like I said, you can already do it; it just doesn't look as good, because the attacked is bouncing around mid-attack.

Seems like a relatively easy thing to do. And I say that having a very limited programming knowledge.

[Fenrir-Lunaris]

[Ysoft_Entertainment]

systemhour,systemminute, and systemsecond have been already implemented by pkmnfrk, don't know why it wasn't released in quarternion, but expect it in rusalka, also its in the special WIP version of ohr.
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[Moogle1]

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[Mr B]

3.) "On elemental deaths" for enemy spawning control. At it is, we have spawning for different "on elemental hit," but I can't control spawning for elemental deaths.

Why would I want that? I can think of a couple of reasons.

a) XP bonus weapons. I would like to have a weapon that has an elemental bitset of "2x XP" (or somesuch). When an enemy dies by an attack with this bitset, it would then spawn an invisible, 0 HP enemy that would give extra XP.

b) Same thing, only for 2x item drops.

I can't imagine having any more request ideas. We'll see...

[TMC]

1) Implemented.

2) Implemented.

3) I feel the battle system is somewhat limited in terms of complex reactions and attacks. You have to pull everything off with spawnings and chains, but several things can't spawn an enemy, and chains can only follow a linear path. I would like to add some other basic battlescripting "tool" or improve the current ones, but don't know how to.

Soule X: Yes, a bitset to not show enemy hits. Also, what would be cool would be a way to not have a delay between each part of a chained attack, for smooth animations. Those two go on my to do list.

[Soule X]

[Ysoft_Entertainment]