Castle Paradox

ShakeyAir · Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 93

About the longer item names, couldn't that wait until the new font stuff is done? Won't the menus more-or-less need to be redesigned to account for variable width font anyway? I would like long item names as much as the next guy, but I think its a fairly easy thing to update after the fact. (Like, if you work on your game now with ChnMail or whatever, and then once the feature is in its trivial to change it to Chain Mail.)

I have a couple of unfinished battle engines, because I am against using the OHR's default one until I can tell what's going on. Status icons could do this, better caption control could do this. Preferably both. The problem is that we've devised so many battle engine tricks as a community that someone unfamiliar with the OHR's battle engine just doesn't get what's going on.

So. I either would want arrays, and more about attacks (not to mention TEXTBOXES!!!) exposed to plotscripting so that custom battle engines are simple to program. OR (like I said earlier) to forget about some of the exciting stuff (new font stuff, multitasking, etc etc) and just pound away on the battle engine until its up to par with the rest of the OHRRPGCE.

But what I think would be more effective than all these "I want this feature and this feature and that feature" would be if the devs made posts about certain things to get community opinions of how they want them to work. Like the plan for improved animations still has a lot left in the air, and if the community could talk about how they would prefer it to work user-side, the devs can dive into that feature when they're ready, knowing that they are doing it the right way for all the users.

Chronoas · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 37

Just remembered another idea in the same line as the naming of tilesets. Either a way to name palettes so I can remember what sprite(s) I used it for, or some sort of menu to see what sprites are associated with a particular palette, so I can see which sprites I'm going to need to check or make edits on if I decide to change something in a palette.

TMC · Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 4:12 am Post subject:

Chronoas · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 37

Just wanted to point out that, with my testing of the 'experience to out-of-party members', when a member who is not in the party levels up after a battle, it will show either a blank name or the name of a monster in the battle instead of their own name. It will still correctly show the names when they gain skills from said level up, however.

TMC · Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:11 am Post subject:

Opps. Thanks, fixed. I guess that was something I meant to test, but I lost patience.
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Chronoas · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 37

Was pondering the item-name thing last night, and since you wanted feedback, I figured I'd give my 2 cents. I'm thinking that switching to 2 columns would be the most visually appealing solution to lengthening the item names. Since the item screen has a scroll bar, it wouldn't really affect the amount of items you can hold, and that would give at LEAST 4 more characters to the item names, allowing up to 12 (actually space for about 14, if I count correctly), in line with attack names and (I think) monster names length.

Unless, of course, the issue is affected by variable font stuff as ShakeyAir stated. Not really familiar with what he refers to, so I don't know.

TMC · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 7:52 pm Post subject:

The variable font width is a planned (largely already implemented!) feature to let you set the size of each individual character in your font(s). By making letters like i and l thinner than the others, this has the side effect of letting you fit more text on a line. Even so, three columns doesn't give much space, so I guess the option of two columns is a good idea. Width width font is going to mean that we won't be able to set length-in-characters limits to impose length-in-pixels limits, so either way, item names are probably going to be trimmed (maybe with ellipses...) if they're too long (length-in-pixels).
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Chronoas · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 37

Just a quick (and extremely hopeful) question. I noticed that the new nightly has 'View Experience Chart' and 'Stat Growth Options'. Is this signs of a customizable experience formula coming soon?

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 8:50 am Post subject:

Chronoas · Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 37

So, I've been pondering an idea of how to do Counter Attacking lately, and I'm not sure what has all been discussed on the matter to this point, but I figured I'd offer my two cents on a way to implement it.

What I was thinking was giving heroes a counter attack list, so to speak. The attack(s) stored in the list is the attack(s) that would be used as a counter attack. You would then be able to have, on the hero editor, the ability to customize if a particular hero has a counter attack(s) by default, or simply have the list empty. Additionally, it would be preferable to be able to set percentage chances to actually respond with a counter attack, on a "by attack" basis and, along with the attack IDs to choose from, a "Default Attack" option which makes the hero just counter with their default attack option.

In addition, add a new Counter menu (like the Transmogrification one) for the Attack Editor that allow one to make attacks that can set or remove attacks (and their percentage chances) from the target's counter list. Along with this, the ability in the Item Editor to make equip items that add an attack (and %) to the equipped hero's list.

This would allow for making things like "Rage" attacks which set an attack-boosting move to the hero's counter list, so they get stronger with every hit; it would allow for things as casting "Reflect" on yourself and countering with a move that does damage equal to what you just recieved; it would allow for items such as the Rage Band from Chrono Trigger that gave you 80% chance to counter with your default attack when hit; and so on. Mind you, this could all be moot point when battlescript eventually comes out, I don't know. Just a thought on my part.

I have more features suggestions *groans from audience* but it's 6am and I haven't slept a wink, and my other ideas are noted in my game design notebook, so I'll leave them for later.