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Where should I start designing? in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 20:31 Profile Homepage #37
And TM is leading the BoA migration. He released the first and fourth scenarios for BoA.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
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Scope of states and variables? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 20:07 Profile Homepage #2
As a much shorter but essentially identical answer:
1. a. Correct. This can be done.
b. Correct, again. This cannot be done.
c. No.
Yes, with states and SDFs, you can muck around with this a great deal. START_STATEs are useful for this sort of thing, for instance.

2. a. Yes. That is, unless you feel like calling the scenario script to use one of its states and have access to its variables, which you can do at any time.
b. The buffer stays as the buffer in memory. It is global. In your example, you would end up with "Churl is confused" in the text buffer.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 20:08: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Scope of states and variables? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 20:07 Profile Homepage #2
As a much shorter but essentially identical answer:
1. a. Correct. This can be done.
b. Correct, again. This cannot be done.
c. No.
Yes, with states and SDFs, you can muck around with this a great deal. START_STATEs are useful for this sort of thing, for instance.

2. a. Yes. That is, unless you feel like calling the scenario script to use one of its states and have access to its variables, which you can do at any time.
b. The buffer stays as the buffer in memory. It is global. In your example, you would end up with "Churl is confused" in the text buffer.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 20:08: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Downloading from the Louvre in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 19:47 Profile Homepage #1
You need them to be in your custom graphics file, first of all, which should be a .cmg file. If your scenario's .bas file is called asdfjkl.bas, then your custom graphics file should be called asdfjkl.cmg. Then you need to paste the graphic into the file and have it be...

Oh, for god's sake, just read the docs. Chapter 2.3. You need to define your objects' graphics in a custom objects script.

EDIT: Use ResEdit to make the cmg file. If your custom graphic is creature number 150 and its resource ID is 524, then your custom objects script should contain a bit of code that looks like this.

begindefinecreature 150;
clear;
cr_name = "Lizard Rider";
cr_level = 50;
cr_which_sheet = 524;
cr_ap_bonus = 8;
cr_species = 5;
cr_default_attitude = 3;


[ Monday, August 16, 2004 19:55: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Downloading from the Louvre in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 19:47 Profile Homepage #1
You need them to be in your custom graphics file, first of all, which should be a .cmg file. If your scenario's .bas file is called asdfjkl.bas, then your custom graphics file should be called asdfjkl.cmg. Then you need to paste the graphic into the file and have it be...

Oh, for god's sake, just read the docs. Chapter 2.3. You need to define your objects' graphics in a custom objects script.

EDIT: Use ResEdit to make the cmg file. If your custom graphic is creature number 150 and its resource ID is 524, then your custom objects script should contain a bit of code that looks like this.

begindefinecreature 150;
clear;
cr_name = "Lizard Rider";
cr_level = 50;
cr_which_sheet = 524;
cr_ap_bonus = 8;
cr_species = 5;
cr_default_attitude = 3;


[ Monday, August 16, 2004 19:55: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 15:10 Profile Homepage #30
While I am flattered by this case of mistaken identity, my member number is not 4, which was definitely the member number of the one who posted that article.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Suggestion for scenario design contest. in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 15:10 Profile Homepage #30
While I am flattered by this case of mistaken identity, my member number is not 4, which was definitely the member number of the one who posted that article.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
ASR: Where's the sewer key? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
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Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 14:25 Profile Homepage #2
I opened the game with the editor (the other thing that I'm surprised that you didn't do) and checked the memory cells. Only one door is locked at 18.

The key for that door is behind a secret passage. Keep going north and east until you get to the farthest northeastern room you can go, one with a Guardian Roach in it. In the east wall, there is a secret passage. Then head south and east until you get to a room with two doors, the northern one with a sign that says "Emergency Healing." There should be a key on the dead body right in front of that door.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 14:30: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Sorry but Board Purge due to disk overage. in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 13:08 Profile Homepage #22
As an aside, there are some fora missing (as in, no longer in existence). General is 1, and Tech Support is 2, and so on. I assume 4 is the Mod Board, since I can't access it. But boards 8, 9, 11, and 12 are missing. 12 used to be Misc, I think. Does that mean that 8, 9, and 11 were A1, A2, and A3 respectively? I s'pose that would make chronological sense, as 10 is Geneforge.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 13:09: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 12:59 Profile Homepage #8
You must be far better at reading over your code than I am. I rely on the BoA compiler a great deal. And the line numbers are meaningful once you know how to use them, although it can take some practice.

All I know is that my debugging time cut in half or even less once I started using BBEdit Lite.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 12:59 Profile Homepage #8
You must be far better at reading over your code than I am. I rely on the BoA compiler a great deal. And the line numbers are meaningful once you know how to use them, although it can take some practice.

All I know is that my debugging time cut in half or even less once I started using BBEdit Lite.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 12:55 Profile Homepage #6
Can you get it to count line numbers? I never figured out how.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 12:55 Profile Homepage #6
Can you get it to count line numbers? I never figured out how.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Where should I start designing? in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 12:46 Profile Homepage #29
Drakey had a post about this somewhere (probably deleted by now). I think he said that Malkeera went up in 1997 and died in 2000. Then the Ikonboard went up in March '01. Then the UBB in September '01. Lyceum was something like '98-present. But don't quote me on that, because I don't really know.

And Rosycat, I couldn't agree more. As further proof:

Streila Spies: 1.67 -- bad
Unbalanced Accounts: 2.1 -- bad
Inn of Blades: 5.5 -- starting to show some promise
Echoes: 6.17 -- still showing promise, but eh
Echoes: Assault: 8.02 -- finally, on his fifth scenario (if we omit grich and ToM Utility) he actually produces something fairly solid

TM is a message of hope to newbies everywhere. Someday you, too, can create grand wonderful adventures, even if you struggle at first.

EDITS: For, like, stuf.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 12:53: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Pied Piper Project 2 - The Boards Strike Back in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 11:52 Profile Homepage #146
Wow. Yeah, Aran, that looks about as good as anyone could hope for. Just goes to show that doing this through a program is thousands (if not millions) of times better than doing this manually.
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Where should I start designing? in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 10:53 Profile Homepage #25
In fact, one of TM's first posts is archived in the Lyceum's archive of the Solberg controversy. I found another early TM post at one point (it was HILARIOUS) but I can't seem to track it down now.

TM was a mod repeatedly, most notably on Misc, I think.

When the hell did TGM show up? If I had to guess, I'd say 2002, but I honestly can't tell. He has had too many accounts.

And Djur, pretty much everyone you mentioned is someone that I would put in the first category, as people who have been around forever. That's why I don't just think of people as "old" and "new."

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 10:56: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Pied Piper Project 2 - The Boards Strike Back in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 10:11 Profile Homepage #142
I read old topics because I want to get a feel for where the community has been and how it has evolved over time. Some people have been around for a significant amount of time and talk about the past, and I like to know what they're talking about. If someone mentions Lone Flame, I want to be able to go back and read LF's posts myself and see what he said and did. Same thing if someone mentions Scorpius. Shaper Master. The reason for Zephyr's Canning. And so on.

I read old threads at the Lyceum going back to 2001, and I lament that such records do not exist here. I even wish that the Lyceum's records went back farther, so I could see what Al was like back in his heyday of '99-'00.

Some of these boards are pretty useless for that sort of thing. Nethergate, for instance, tells very little. I basically read the whole thing as I was archiving it, and I learned next to nothing about community history or personality. But General is fabulous for that sort of thing, and so is BoE. RW (the old GC), provides some of that, too, in its own way.

And that's why I would want all of this stuf to be archived.
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 09:34 Profile Homepage #4
Don't use TextEdit, though. You'll be bashing your head against the wall trying to debug it. Use BBEdit Lite.

Look at VoDT for examples of what the scripts should be titled. For example, each town has a different one, and it's standard to put the town number and part of the town name as part of the town script's title.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Code? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 09:34 Profile Homepage #4
Don't use TextEdit, though. You'll be bashing your head against the wall trying to debug it. Use BBEdit Lite.

Look at VoDT for examples of what the scripts should be titled. For example, each town has a different one, and it's standard to put the town number and part of the town name as part of the town script's title.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Emerald Mountain is Released! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 09:26 Profile Homepage #34
I played it with a level 15 party (made using my HLPM, of course). I really didn't have too many troubles. I had to use more varied spells than just Bless and Haste, obviously. I found Capture Mind and Simulacrum very useful here. Some of the goblins were immune, but since they always came grouped together with others that weren't, I could always get enough on my side that I did fine.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Where should I start designing? in Blades of Exile
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Monday, August 16 2004 09:14 Profile Homepage #15
I make four categorical distinctions. There are the elders of the community, like Alec and Thuryl, who have been here utterly forever. There are the real oldbies, who showed up no later than 2001, which includes people like Djur, Drakey, and most people that just about everyone thinks of as oldbies. (For some reason, 2001 seems to be the dividing line. If I set it any earlier, TM would be a newbie. :P ) Then there are the people who are new-ish, kinda, but showed up earlier than me. That's people like Rosy and Aran. And then there are people who are newer than me, who are definite newbies. Well, except some of the the 4000-4200 member numbers seem like they're slipping into the third category at this point, no longer real newbies and just sort of new-ish members.

Why I felt the need to explain that, I don't know.

EDIT: Nitpickers. TGM has so many accounts it's impossible to keep track of him. He feels newer than, say, Djur, though.

[ Monday, August 16, 2004 10:40: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Sorry but Board Purge due to disk overage. in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Sunday, August 15 2004 05:23 Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by Spidweb:
Both Blades boards are safe, as is tech support.
As she said directly that BoE was going to be purged, I think "Both Blades boards" refers to both BoA boards.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
I Am Important And Deserve Adulation in General
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Sunday, August 15 2004 05:16 Profile Homepage #8
Yay! I am a Thuryl fan for sure.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BoA Editor Suggestions in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Saturday, August 14 2004 20:32 Profile Homepage #65
Um, there is an import town command. And an import outdoor section command.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BoA Editor Suggestions in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
 written Saturday, August 14 2004 20:32 Profile Homepage #65
Um, there is an import town command. And an import outdoor section command.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.
Smoo: Get ready to face the walls!
Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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