Castle Paradox

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

Perhaps it would be helpful to have a (mostly) stable version of the engine to compare the current one to? That way it would be easier to track down where these bugs are coming from and see if there's been any drastic changes in the code. At any rate, the last stable release was the 6-10-07 Allegro-SDL version, which pretty much never crashed, even when playing sound effects and midi. None of these new bugs I've reported are reproducible in the old version, leading me to believe it's a change someone implimented in the sound code. Regardless, here's the best version that worked.

http://www.castleparadox.com/fenart/ohrrpgce-wip-alleg-sdl%206-10-07.zip

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

I have just created an archive of the nightlies. Starting today, all old nightlies will be kept at http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/nightly-archive/ (yay for gigantic hard-drives!)

Now bug-testers will be able to pin-point the day upon which a new bug appeared.

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

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:50 am Post subject:

Well I found another bug in the latest nightly. For some reason, custom assumes that the default directory is "c:\documents and setting\.....". This leads to the problem of not being able to to create a new game because it assumes that the files needed to create new rpg are in the said folder.

The default directory should be the directory where custom resides.
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TwinHamster · Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:34 am Post subject:

Yeah, I thought my work computer wasn't functioning correctly or something.

To create a new game, you would need to click and drag ohrrpgce.mas into custom.exe.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:

Ysoft_Entertainment · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:46 am Post subject:

yep, its solved. Now it starts in the right folder.
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Raekuul · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:09 am Post subject:

James, were you just trying to run the ohr from a cd?
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject:

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject:

Okay! I have been neglecting the Bug-Of-The-Week... but the bugs have not been neglected. TMC fixed some important ones yesterday.

I declare the Bug-Of-The-Week this week to be: '' . bug_title('255') . ''

Yep, that's right. It is entirely possible that everything blocking Ubersetzung's release is fixed already, but we need lots of testing this week to verify that.

Please download the latest nightly builds, and check to see if you can reproduce the remaining bugs.

Moogle1 · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject:

I discovered a fatal crashy bug when viewing a layered map today. I was going to report it but I decided to download the nightly. It's fixed in the nightly! Good job to the bugsquashers.

233: I've never experienced this.
314: Same, but I don't think I was using native before today.
315: I previewed many WAVs in CUSTOM today. No crash. Happy

374: I've never been in a position to experience this bug.
409: I'm not sure I've ever been in a position to experience this bug, either.

I was going to suggest that the mouse-related crash I reported was probably a blocker as well, but I'm unable to reproduce it. There is still non-fatal wackiness, but I might be able to ferret that out by redoing the script. (To be sure, though, it's a bug in GAME.)
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Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

Suggestions regarding future codename releases:

Ubersetzung is going to be released soon, no matter what.
Voxhumana, the release after that should concentrate as much as possible on sound effects, implimentation, and stability. After all, "Vox" means voice, doesn't it? Also, it's been somewhat of a tradition to release one version very shortly after another to clear up any serious and as yet unresolved bugs. I'm hinging my bets on ubersetzung having serious issues with wav and mp3 support on a wide range of computers.
The "W" one was already taken for Wolfwood.
Xocolatl, of course is the Aztec word for Chocolate. This edition could focus almost exclusively on adding many new "flavors" to the engine, fully implimenting layers, new NPC motion types, perhaps even battlescripting, and anything else. Really go wild here.
Yggdrasil - namely, because I'd like this to be the version that gets distributed with Vikings of Midgard. I'd be done long before then of course, but the name is also rather iconic. The Yggdrasil is a great tree of creation that links many worlds - just as the OHRRPGCE links many different games into one powerful creative engine. This version should fix whatever unresolved bugs Xocolatl has.
Zeitgeist - "Spirit of the Times". I have no idea what this version should expand upon. Also, the word just sounds deliciously spiffy.

Battleblaze · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject:

This is pleasing.

Fen I thought Vikings was set to go with "the next stable version" please please PLEASE let it go with Ubersetzung. I'm tired og nooboie games with bad grpahics. Vikings will at least be a great starting point (have you guys played HAPPYLAND wtf?)

Anyway.

I've had troule follwoing this, so could james or any of the programmers clue me on on the people specifically who helped solve the bugs so I can give them points for National OHR Month?

So far the only real bug I see found (that wasn't already fixed) was by Ysoft. Is this right?
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Moogle1 · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:00 pm Post subject:

Actually, the next releases write themselves in the sense that the feature requests are all on Bugzilla. The developers often seem more interested in their own pet projects than in implementing the features requested on the list Razz

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TMC · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:49 pm Post subject: