Castle Paradox

Soule X · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 131 Location: Indiana

I haven't used the engine for several years probably, and I see there are tons of updated features since then. Just wondering what some of the more notable improvements have been over the last couple years or so, if you can think of some. Or just throw me your favorites.

It would save me the time of filing through the massive update list. Happy

Thanks in advance!

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

I'd say that sound effects have been the biggest change, followed closely by midi/ogg music and various limit increaces on items, spells, and NPCs.

Soule X · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 131 Location: Indiana

Yeah I noticed those changes. That is nice compared to what I have been used to. Thanks for the input!

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Layers as well. Not only can you have tiles overlaying that don't look horrible, but you can have separate tilesets per layer, effectively increasing your the number of tiles you have available.
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msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Yeah, but those are all aesthetic changes. I'd say the biggest functional change to the OHR has been the addition of customizable menus. This has expanded the possibilities of what we can do with custom alone, and minimal plotscripting, by an enormous amount.

Honestly, I would compare it to the raising of the map limit, and place it below only the introduction of plotscripting. The NPC limit lift will be another fairly huge change. I know people are clamoring about the textbox portrait thing, but I could really care less about that. More NPC IDs on a map is huge though.

Oh, I can't remember how old they are, but strings have been introduced as well, and that was a pretty big change. They require more plotscripting skill than variables, but are very helpful for many things.
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Soule X · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 131 Location: Indiana

I agree. Increasing the NPC count would be huge. I remember strings being added, but that was a good one.

Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

Agreed. NPC Limit raising was a big deal to me, but I wasn't much vocal about it except in the thread that announced the raised limit.
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Chenzi · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject:

The most helpful (and on the same level, least helpful, since it destroyed the use for all of the custom shit I made) stuff was all aethetic to me. Primarily portraits and borders.

Wait, wait, I want to change my answer! Layers. Layers are awesome.
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The Drizzle · **Who is the Drizzle?** Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 432

Well, depending how long its been since you've been here, there've been a lot of major innovations to the battle engine. Off the top of my head, there are status effects now, targeting stats other than HP/MP, disabling enemy slots that an attack can target, and a bunch of new bitsets. All of it adds up to a much greater level of customization for battle systems.
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Soule X · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 131 Location: Indiana

Yeah all those were in except the disabling of certain slots which I did notice. That is a very interesting addition. The battle options seem much improved.

msw188 · Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 1041

Oh yes, I had forgotten about some of the battle improvements. It has actually slowed me down quite a bit; I want to rethink how I handle the battles in my game. A key trait that has been added is preferred targets for certain attacks. I still don't know how I'm going to make full use of this...
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

So far I'm using preferred targets to make some weapons better than others, and I'm also using it as an AI balancer so I can get enemies to stop ganging up on weaker characters (this way I can make enemies harder without stupid results), but later on as enemies get new options they'll be using preferred targets more strategically: trying to mute Clerics/Mages, using Magic on Fighters/Adventurers, etc.
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