One Day, We May Yet Learn To Forgive dev thread

[Hedera]

Do you have an "after battle" script trigger? You could check the tag 104 in the after battle script, and if it is on, then you fix the layers

I do. This is the after battle script.

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plotscript, light already cast, dummy map layer, begin	# autorun script for indoor maps
	

	if (check tag (104))				# has light been cast?
	then	(					#
		change tileset (19, dummy map layer)	# then recast it as needed
		)
	
	end

...wait, after battle scripts don't have arguments, so the variable dummy map layer isn't defined.

edit: OMG IT WORKS AGAIN THANK YOU THANK YOU TH

[Bob the Hamster]

Yay, glad it works! If the dummy layer variable still gives you trouble, let me know and I am sure we can find a solution

[Hedera]

I changed it to a switch (current map)

[Hedera]

The player is given the option of how many levels bosses give out. Yes this is a debugging tool that's also a feature. Yes this boss doesn't give a level on Minimum.

[Hedera]

second boss completed, there's a lot going on in this gif so allow me to go point by point:

* Sven, the Guardian, is a red mage type character who's also very fast but also fragile. He uses wind and electric magic (not shown here), plus the spell Vampire which drains enemy Health equal to his own lost Health.
* Sven's special ability, Focus, makes him wait a turn, then attacks for 2.5x damage. It can miss, and can do critical hits.
* Rufus, the diplomat, uses techniques instead of magic. Tech increases each turn, and is shown by the cyan-colored bar behind his listed health. His techniques are a mixture of status effects and attacks, including attacks that only work on biological enemies or mechanical enemies. (Rufus himself is mechanical, although nothing resulting from that appears in the gif)
* Rufus' special ability, Medical, revives dead bio allies with 1 Health and then resets everyone's status. This means that stat boosts as well as stat drops are undone by this.
* Rufus and Marcus both use guns instead of other weapons. Guns do a fixed amount of damage and ignore defense.
* Marcus throws bombs that do a lot of damage. They actually have a base damage of 60, which is divided by the number of targets. What this means is that if party members die, bombs become much more powerful against the survivors. (Not shown: due to how multipliers work in the damage math, the Reinforce status (defense up) does jack against bombs... although if you're using Medical, it goes away in any case)
* Marcus uses techniques of his own, and demonstrates the Erase status which reduces someone's tech to 0.
* Not shown: Marcus is vulnerable to status effects, in particular Sleep and Erase. Use your techniques!
* Finally, dead heroes gain experience so don't worry if you have casualties at the end of a fight.

[Hedera]

I'm not going to have an actual game finished by the end of this month, so it'll probably be pared down to just the battles for playtesting purposes.

[Hedera]

this took me two and a half weeks to get working

[Hedera]

it looks roughly like it's supposed to but it doesn't actually translate flipped tags to starting levels and party composition yet

[Hedera]

EDIT: it works now after changing part of the lost battle script to

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	if (check tag (270))			# in the battle test thingy
	then	(
		if (check tag (324))		# surrendered
		then	(
			show text box (161)
			)
		else	(
			show text box (136)
			)
		wait for text box
		show text box (160)
		wait for text box
		reset game
		)

why does this work when show text box (n), where n connects to n + 1 which then runs the reset game script, didn't? because


currently dealing with a bug where a game over script's called but not followed through on, trying to figure out why it's happening, and how to make it quit

here are two scripts, the first is called by a textbox from an npc, the second is a game over script; tag 270 is flipped on when in the battle test mode

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plotscript, boss fight queen, begin


	wait for mm close
	enemy random stats (16, 19, 13)
	enemy random stats (25, 27, 22)
	boss stats (33, 35, 30)
	enemy exp to next levels (35)
	from enc group (10, 10, 41)
	wipe all tags (107, 108)
	
	if (check tag (270))			# battle testin'
	then	(
		show text box (80)		# death textbox
		)
	
	end
	
	plotscript, lost battle, begin


	# This handles game overs. Prepare to expand it greatly.
	
	
	stop song
	show backdrop (0)
	show value (42069)
	trace value (42069)
	if (check tag (270))			# in the battle test thingy
	then	(
		if (check tag (324))		# surrendered
		then	(
			show text box (161)
			)
		else	(
			show text box (136)
			)
		)
		
	end

what's supposed to happen: the battle's fought, you die (or surrender), a textbox appears, it connects to another textbox, which then calls a script that resets the game

what's actually happening: the battle's fought, you die (or surrender), the textbox that appears when you win supplants that that tells you game over

the lost battle script's being called, because of the show value (42069), but instead of showing the textbox where you get a game over, instead it shows the one where the boss dies instead of you

before you ask, yes I tried it in the latest nightly (sept. 3, 2022), no nothing changes

in conclusion,

[Hedera]

odwmyltf version 0.00, testing battles through the prologue

http://www.slimesalad.com/forum/viewtop ... 9b5f525840

[Hedera]

One week after it was released into the wild, it's come to my attention that the pre-pre alpha version I uploaded has the "content warning: people slime" screen appear the first time you play it. I'd thought I'd dummied that out, and as such, I ended up promising people sliming, when there aren't any. I take full responsibility for this unfortunate oversight.

[Hedera]

posting this gif of me discovering what holding ctrl + shift + up does in the map editor, because it looks cool and now I'm wondering if something like this can be done in-game as an effect

[Bob the Hamster]

You could script something similar I think. You would get slice handles to the map layers, and then offset each layer by a different amount using "move slice by"

[Hedera]

title screen and attract mode

[Hedera]

have a couple gifs taken from the intro, in all their unfinished graphical glory