Castle Paradox

[msw188]

First, the question:

Does anyone remember a question asked by someone a while ago about empty spell menus? I searched the posts here using the search page, but it didn't work too well, and I really couldn't find the post. So I'm afraid I will have to risk re-asking a question: Shouldn't spell lists that are empty NOT appear in game.exe, until the hero learns a spell that goes there? If most people believe that this should be the case, I think we should enter this into the bugzilla bug list as a requested enhancement.
Unless anyone knows a way to accomplish this with the system as it is now, without a plotscripted battle engine.

Next, a few more suggestions for future updates:

1. In the map editor in custom, I think it would be nice to be able to type in an X, Y coordinate and have the cursor placed there (if it exists). This would be nice for big maps.

2. How about having an extra option in the "appearance" menu of the attack editor that allowed you to set the centering position of the attack? This would default to the target, but could be set to other positions, like the middle of the screen, or possible any X,Y pixel on the screen (so perhaps there would be two options, called 'attack graphic X' and 'attack graphic Y', that default to 'target X' and 'target Y' respectively). Is any part of this possible?

3. How about an attack bitset called 'record damage' (like the already existing "record target" bitset)? Then one of the options for "base stat" in the attack editor could be 'recorded damage'. I think that this could help a great deal with certain things, especially used in conjunction with the "show damage but do not inflict" bitset...

4. Consider a 'mute' status affliction which consists of a 'mute register', which works like the "stun register" (it is a measure of how long the effect lasts). Add an attack bitset called 'fails when muted' or something like that so that the creator can choose what attacks are lost when a character is 'muted'.

[Moogle1]

Good suggestions.

I agree with your question, too -- empty spellsets shouldn't show up in GAME.
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[Fernurion]

These are all good ideas. Number 2 would make some spells, such as summoning spells, look much better. I would like to add 'Smooth chaining' to your list of suggestions. As it is, if you want to make a spell with a long animation, you need to chain two spells together. Betwen each part, the graphics for the spell disappear for about half a second, making the whole thing look a bit ugly. Smooth chaining would eliminate that gap. Probably not possible.

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[msw188]

Okay, I just remembered earlier today a further suggestion (I really would have liked to have this command a week ago):

5. A 'Get NPC frame (who)' plotscripting command that returns the frame (0 or 1) of the NPC referred to by the argument.

I was amazed when I found that this command does not exist, and I had to rewrite a bunch of code because I sort of assumed that it would exist. Moral: Don't assume that plotscripting commands exist!

[Charbile]

There was a command that I assumed to exist too, but found out it didn't--during the last 48 hour contest of all days. I had thought the 'item menu' command would bring up the item menu and allow the player to select an item, to then return the number of the item they selected. It would have made things a lot easier!

[Soule X]

That would be cool.

[msw188]

Now that we have Rusalka, or whatever it's called, I think there are some more suggestions in order:

6. Plotscripting commands to change global text strings, item names, etc., even if they would not be saved in the .sav file. In particular, I'm thinking of ways to have multiple currencies while still being able to use OHR shops and OHR battles.

7. In custom, the ability to copy and paste graphics throughout different graphics editors (for example, paste a medium enemy graphic into an attack graphic slot). The graphic could be pasted starting with the top corners matching up (or even better, the top corner of the copied graphic could be pasted onto the position of the cursor in the target graphic). If the copied graphic is too big, it simply gets cut off.

8. I can't remember if I ever posted this one before, but I think it would be very nice to have attacks trigger bitsets, if that were possible.

[FyreWulff]

An option to hide undrop-able items while playing a game would be great

[Mike Caron]

[NeoTA]

Re copy/pasting from different sizes:
AFAIK this just needs an additional 'linepitch' variable, and a routine which takes into account that variable when pasting. The only reason I can see for it not working would be if the pasting was done via assembly routines.

[Mike Caron]

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[NeoTA]

Then we need a wrapper which hacks around it. Probably in a similar kind of way to my idea for calculating correct custom menu colors (see the bugreport for new master palette).