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That's a new command in Etheldreme. You're behind the times!

To iterate NPCs with directional preference, just use the "sort children" script command. It doesn't matter that you're changing the order of the slices, because the engine will re-sort them when they're drawn. In the following, I'm assuming you have NPC/Hero layering set to "together...

Currently, there's no such option. It's very much planned. Also fades, and panning, which can be combined for crappy "3D" (actually 2D) audio, and seeking within a sound effect or piece of music. I consider these fairly high priority features. It won't even be all that much work to impleme...

Oh wow, this is a real can of worms. This is going to be a very difficult bug to fix 100% properly! In fact I definitely wouldn't prioritise it. (I mean, we haven't even fixed that MIDI crash bug yet after a decade) Because in your case the NPCs all move in the same direction it is actually feasible...

I'm guessing you run the "suspend obstruction" command somewhere, such as the new game script. That allows NPCs to walk through each other. Alternatively, maybe you use "set npc obstructs"? Note that "check NPC wall" only checks for possible collision with walls, not ot...

I see that Bloodlust has a tiny silent BAM file. I'm guessing you encountered the infamous MIDI looping crash bug, often triggered by very short MIDI tracks (and BAMs autoconverted to MIDI). That's valuable information; I haven't been able to reproduce that crash myself in a while, so I thought it h...

Yes, it's a common problem. One way around it is to use a timer instead of a while loop, that way the script will run every tick but won't suspend other scripts.

If you just search the wiki for "timer" you will find a bunch of example scripts, and How do I add a timer?

(That's weird, it seems I never hit the Submit button! Sorry for the slow response) I was going to say that the list of embed codes shown in the textbox editor is complete, but there is actually one missing (I'll add it now): ${B#} for the name of a button (from the Platform-specific Options menu). ...

HSpeak supports \n in strings

Also, string sprintf is redundant there, you can just directly put the text in string 1:
But to get automatic line breaks you should use a text slice set to Wrap.

The easiest way to find the path to the temporary directory is to look in g_debug.txt.
Also, BAM music will have names like bloodlust.## where ## is a number. They get converted to MIDI tracks with file extension .bmd (actually midi) the first time they're played.

Anchor and align points set where a slice's X,Y coordinates are measured from: where the child will be when its X,Y are set to 0,0. I can't quite tell what you're trying to do. But I guess you want to get the coordinate of the top left of the child slice relative to the top left of the parent slice?...

You can press F1 on the Debug Menu too.

Actually, in Custom I'd like to add a help page with general controls, and link to it from every other F1 help page. (We need links!)

There could be something helpful in your c_debug_archive.txt file, if it hasn't been filled with lots of other stuff (it has a maximum size). But even if that were the case, the other error messages might be interesting! c_debug_archive.txt gets appended to either if Custom crashed last time it ran ...

All available keys in-game are documented in the F8 Debug Menu.

Unfortunately not all keys available in Custom, like F12/Ctrl+F12, are documented in the F9 Global Editor Options menu. I should probably add them.

Cool, I've added a link to these from Script dump (I regret using such an unflattering name for that article!) Creating wrapper scripts which run some command and then wait is extremely common. Probably we should just add include lots commands like that, such as "walk hero wait", "pan...