Knights & Dragons: The Endless Quest

[BeasTie]

I suspected you'd say something like that about the engine, the filesize is what I'm getting at thou anyway, in some stuff I was doing sprites had less than 10 colours, so getting rid of the old global palette made sense.  And it can be significant filesize difference,  Just going off what I saw after it did appear to improve things thou is all I'm saying.  An overall smoothness to gameplay.  Maybe doesn't matter but I thought some devices need all the memory they can get.

Good file optimization is important too I thought anyway.

Isn't PNG what's recommended ?

Sorry I'll go back to my corner 

[utunnels]

Yeah, I get what you mean now. Though I think it is more important to optimize the game itself than the resources.

BTW, it might be not that hard to batch convert the files. But you need to double check the txt files to make sure there's no .gif anymore, except the cut scenes.

[darknior]

Very good mod.
All the praise is cut.

Here are my suggestions:
*The heroes fly too high too far when hit.
*You’d better change to another animation rather than spawn “levelup” text when level up.
*If possible please change the appearance (at least the weapon’s ) when you reach a certain level.

I'm ok with you, if possible, it can be cool to correct that.
The appearance change is a good idea, but many sprite work
Maybe if you don't have time, change only a little the palette ?
We go from steel to Bronze to Silver to gold ... to see our level up :p

The real annoyance is the default AI when there are many enemies on screen. It is too hard to block and counter.

I'm ok with you too ...
I always prefer stronger enemies, than too many enemies :p

[Bloodbane]

I'm ok with you too ...
I always prefer stronger enemies, than too many enemies :p

 I second that. Stronger enemies forces different strategies and makes game more interesting if each enemy and boss require different strategy.
 Many enemies would only force specials and wide attacks .

[erf_beto]

when i am in town i try to walk to the barrels to get more life but i end up going out the door. the collision point for the doors should be right up on them so you need to be standing directly under the archway to leave.

this will be fixed in the next release. i will eliminate the barrels, i've made that when you enter the tavern you refill the hp automatically, so you will need them no more.

I know that will make the game play faster (just go in then go out = heal!), but I think it would be thematically better if you put food items in the counter and tables, instead of potions inside barrels.

Better than getting them from trash cans, at least 

Oh, and maybe give XP for listening to long dialogues

[darknior]

Oh, and maybe give XP for listening to long dialogues

Excellent LOL

[flemw1234]

My question kind of got burried....

Pierwolf thanks for the ifcomplete line, but I tried changing the name "Arthur" inside the file Arthur.txt to "Crusader" saved it and now it fails to load, I figured this wasn't attached in anyway because it wasn't the actual filename that was referrenced, is there something I'm missing?

[MatMan]

when you start a stage, the level is missing, as shown in the image below:

The best solution would be to add a onspawnscript when the character spawns the only thing that you need to change from the given code is to detect what player (p1,p2,p3,p4) is being spawn to place it in the correct location.

The other errors you mention should not happen as they don't happen to me so I might of explained something incorrectly but anyhow Please download the attachment and copy them into the script directory as this is what I use and very importantly DELETE the update.c file. Using the update.c method is very very slow (especially on console) and negates the entire reason of using settextobj function.

The way its in the attached file will only update and stay on screen (indefinitely) when you kill someone. I haven't done anything for the onspawn thing but you can check an example in mixmasters "Data\scripts\scr\gui.c".

Have you tried to replace all the drawstring in update.c with textobjs and see the differences of fps?

The first time I check on Mixmasters using only 1 player, having about 6 letters and numbers causee 5fps slowdown on my dual 3.6 intel, remember that's only with one player add another 3 then that's 20fps on a pc never mid on a console.

I wonder how much speed gain if take out drawstring.

It is big.

*The heroes fly too high too far when hit.

Having the players fly of like that gives it the old school feel.

I always prefer stronger enemies, than too many enemies :p

I disagree, I would of prefered more guys as that creates more strategy and forces you to re-act/think/strategize faster. Still, I think that the balance in the stages the way pierwolf has created is great and shouldn't be changed.

[Pierwolf]

Score#.c is only triggered when your score changes.
That's why your level info doesn't show.
To fix this is easy.
Just call the script in your onspawnscript.

i've done what you say, it corrects the level not showing when you start a level, but the problem that it doesn't update the level up is still there. any clues?

oh, and in the meantime i'm fixing the dialogues as well, now you can skip them pressing the attack button. and no more potions in the taverns too, it will automatically heal when you enter.

Pierwolf thanks for the ifcomplete line, but I tried changing the name "Arthur" inside the file Arthur.txt to "Crusader" saved it and now it fails to load, I figured this wasn't attached in anyway because it wasn't the actual filename that was referrenced, is there something I'm missing?

sorry, forgot to tell you have to change the name in models.txt as well - for example:

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load crusader data/chars/arthur/arthur.txt


[Pierwolf]

when you start a stage, the level is missing, as shown in the image below:

The best solution would be to add a onspawnscript when the character spawns the only thing that you need to change from the given code is to detect what player (p1,p2,p3,p4) is being spawn to place it in the correct location.

The other errors you mention should not happen as they don't happen to me so I might of explained something incorrectly but anyhow Please download the attachment and copy them into the script directory as this is what I use and very importantly DELETE the update.c file. Using the update.c method is very very slow (especially on console) and negates the entire reason of using settextobj function.

The way its in the attached file will only update and stay on screen (indefinitely) when you kill someone. I haven't done anything for the onspawn thing but you can check an example in mixmasters "Data\scripts\scr\gui.c".

i've tried your scripts matman, but nothing changes: it shows correctly when the player spawns, but not when it level up. it will only update the change of level when you hit something.

anyway, thank you!

[flemw1234]

sorry, forgot to tell you have to change the name in models.txt as well - for example:

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load crusader data/chars/arthur/arthur.txt


Sorry just tried changing the header name and the models.txt load name..still didn't work 

[Pierwolf]

sorry, forgot to tell you have to change the name in models.txt as well - for example:

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load crusader data/chars/arthur/arthur.txt


Sorry just tried changing the header name and the models.txt load name..still didn't work 

oh yeah, you have to declare it even in sel01.txt and sel04.txt.

sorry, those are basic things i've done at the beginning and never touched until then. 

[flemw1234]

Thanks...now I suppose I have to edit all the sel files to say the new name in the select screen....what font did you use?

[MatMan]

but not when it level up

O I see what you mean, what you need todo now is to call the same method you used for the onspawn script (the one with the player detect) in your "data\scripts\levelup\lvup.c" inside the method called "void spawnLvup(void ent)" so that it forces a update on the lvl.

[MatMan]

I just downloaded the latest version of openBor and then all those errors that you mentioned started occuring (among others).

I was using v 3672 before and there where no problems.

It seems that the latest openBor has some scripting problems as i've noticed its spawnscript doesn't activate.