Profile for Kelandon

Error message

Deprecated function: implode(): Passing glue string after array is deprecated. Swap the parameters in drupal_get_feeds() (line 394 of /var/www/pied-piper.ermarian.net/includes/common.inc).

Recent posts

Pages

AuthorRecent posts
Going Postal in General
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #2
Congrats! Er, and here's hoping the working conditions aren't as bad as people say they are. And that reminds me...

Muahahaha I have gained a part-time job as an SAT prep class teacher!

--------------------
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
We know about Geneforge 3...but what's next? in General
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #89
Um, guys, it's A4. From the newsletter:

quote:
We are also working on another game. Don't want to say much yet. But we will be continuing a story that has waited a long time to be continued.
So either it's Nethergate 2 (let's all pray), or it's Avernum 4.

Er, ah, I don't entirely know what to say.

--------------------
Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!! (The home of BoA's HLPM v1.1!)

Rate my scenarios!
Northern Kingdom 0: Prologue
High Level Party Maker
Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #22
Turns out I was wrong in the earlier post. When it says "which_group," you actually put in the group number. For some reason, I was actually getting a number back from using group 1000, even though I had not set any groups during the course of the game -- which is a VERY strange fact that bears experimenting with -- but the number was not a member of the party. You get the party using group 0.

This was a source of a lot of frustration last night at about 3 am.

EDIT: At least I think this was what was going on. I still don't know. I need to muck with the grouping calls more to figure it out.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 10:22: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #22
Turns out I was wrong in the earlier post. When it says "which_group," you actually put in the group number. For some reason, I was actually getting a number back from using group 1000, even though I had not set any groups during the course of the game -- which is a VERY strange fact that bears experimenting with -- but the number was not a member of the party. You get the party using group 0.

This was a source of a lot of frustration last night at about 3 am.

EDIT: At least I think this was what was going on. I still don't know. I need to muck with the grouping calls more to figure it out.

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 10:22: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #20
EDIT: I am far too disorganized for this sort of thing. I am confusing myself.

Also, I just sent it to the previous two that posted.

EDIT YET AGAIN: Okay, wtf. I will post tomorrow with some sort of fix for this. Ignore the e-mail that I sent you. For some reason, I thought this was a fix, but it's not. I'll figure something out tomorrow.

EDIT YET AGAIN AGAIN: Or I can just brute force it and not use the first_group_member call. It looks like I've solved the problem, but at a little short of 4 am, who knows. I'll check this again in the morning.

It appears that first_group_member(0) will always return 0, even if character 0 is dead or deleted. Have other people tried this, and if so, received the same result?

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 01:46: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #20
EDIT: I am far too disorganized for this sort of thing. I am confusing myself.

Also, I just sent it to the previous two that posted.

EDIT YET AGAIN: Okay, wtf. I will post tomorrow with some sort of fix for this. Ignore the e-mail that I sent you. For some reason, I thought this was a fix, but it's not. I'll figure something out tomorrow.

EDIT YET AGAIN AGAIN: Or I can just brute force it and not use the first_group_member call. It looks like I've solved the problem, but at a little short of 4 am, who knows. I'll check this again in the morning.

It appears that first_group_member(0) will always return 0, even if character 0 is dead or deleted. Have other people tried this, and if so, received the same result?

[ Friday, July 16, 2004 01:46: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Whats your favorite in The Avernum Trilogy
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #6
Okay, apologies for the n00bish question, but this is not THE Solberg, is it? I can't imagine that it would be, but then, stranger things have happened.

--------------------
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
down with the world of avernum in General
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #2
Play BoE. Or, alternatively, Geneforge.

--------------------
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
TESTERS REQUIRED FOR A VERY SIMPLE SCENARIO! in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #82
I can't find a good link to describe it, and others are more qualified. Here's one, kind of:

The Grinch discussion

The Grinch was a BoE scenario that managed to get a fairly high rating on Spiderweb's tables and was one of the major reasons that BoE-ers laugh at SW's BoE scenario ratings. The Grinch may be partially responsible for the creation of CSR, to make up for the ridiculousness over at SW.

EDIT: Forgot to state the obvious. The Grinch was widely regarded as TERRIBLE.

EDIT 2: Oh, and a review of The Grinch that Alec wrote was one of the reasons that Desperance became famous in the early days. I'll give you three guesses at how complimentary that review was, and the first two don't count.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 22:56: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #17
Agh, I am a fool. To refer to group 0, one uses the number 1000 even if the parameter calls itself "which_group" and not "which_char_or_group."

Bug fixed. New version sent to all. Midknight Warrior, you're getting both a .sit and a .zip.

EDIT: Heh, and with regard to Bahssikava (the new title), I will say that the scenario will come out before I start school in late August or else it's not likely to come out at all.

EDIT 2: And in my excitement of fixing that bug, I forgot to remove the print_num call. It will be gone in the released version. Just ignore it for now, because there's no point in sending you a new version just to correct one call.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 22:16: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #17
Agh, I am a fool. To refer to group 0, one uses the number 1000 even if the parameter calls itself "which_group" and not "which_char_or_group."

Bug fixed. New version sent to all. Midknight Warrior, you're getting both a .sit and a .zip.

EDIT: Heh, and with regard to Bahssikava (the new title), I will say that the scenario will come out before I start school in late August or else it's not likely to come out at all.

EDIT 2: And in my excitement of fixing that bug, I forgot to remove the print_num call. It will be gone in the released version. Just ignore it for now, because there's no point in sending you a new version just to correct one call.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 22:16: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
TESTERS REQUIRED FOR A VERY SIMPLE SCENARIO! in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #80
quote:
Originally written by Pig Catapult:
I give the beta version a 3.0(I would have said 4.0, but I have to take a point off for the bugs.)
I think we know how The Grinch got its 3.9, now...

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #13
Sent again. Just as a general note, beta comments are better via e-mail or PMs than as posts. Posting beta comments can cause problems. In this case, it doesn't really matter, so either way is fine, but for future reference, it's somewhat bad form.

I will look into this in a little bit. It is supposed to give that message if you've already crossed the runes.

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #13
Sent again. Just as a general note, beta comments are better via e-mail or PMs than as posts. Posting beta comments can cause problems. In this case, it doesn't really matter, so either way is fine, but for future reference, it's somewhat bad form.

I will look into this in a little bit. It is supposed to give that message if you've already crossed the runes.

--------------------
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
Question: Is there a call to get the PC's name? in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #9
As of Scenario Format Version 2, namely Mac v1.1 or Win v1.0, we have string manipulation. The latest version of the docs includes the added calls and puts a handy little italicized note that they won't work in older versions of BoA.

--------------------
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
Question: Is there a call to get the PC's name? in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #9
As of Scenario Format Version 2, namely Mac v1.1 or Win v1.0, we have string manipulation. The latest version of the docs includes the added calls and puts a handy little italicized note that they won't work in older versions of BoA.

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #10
Done.

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #10
Done.

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #7
Sent to RC and Dr. Doodoom.

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #7
Sent to RC and Dr. Doodoom.

--------------------
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
Wherefore art thou scenarios? in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #5
Check it out, yo!

And although I can't vouch for his specific reaction to this topic, I know that misuse of baroque English bothers Alec, too. I wouldn't've said anything, but this was a particularly egregious offender.

EDIT: This suggests to me that BoA should have a direct link to the "download scenarios" page on SW's front page the way that BoE does.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:15: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #4
Sent to Morgan. I assumed .sit, because I think I remember that you have a Mac.

Overwhelming, it was supposed to give the number of your level (in thousands) of coins. So if you rose to level 15, you were supposed to get 15000 coins. In v1.1, since you can start at any level, it gives you the difference between your starting and ending levels (so if you brought in a level 11 party and chose to bring it up to level 18, it would give you 7000 coins). If it did anything other than that, it's a bug, and let me know what you did and what happened.

EDIT: And sent to Cade, too, also as .sit.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:08: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Beta Call for HLPM v1.1 in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #4
Sent to Morgan. I assumed .sit, because I think I remember that you have a Mac.

Overwhelming, it was supposed to give the number of your level (in thousands) of coins. So if you rose to level 15, you were supposed to get 15000 coins. In v1.1, since you can start at any level, it gives you the difference between your starting and ending levels (so if you brought in a level 11 party and chose to bring it up to level 18, it would give you 7000 coins). If it did anything other than that, it's a bug, and let me know what you did and what happened.

EDIT: And sent to Cade, too, also as .sit.

[ Thursday, July 15, 2004 10:08: Message edited by: Just Call Me Kel ]

--------------------
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
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #15
omfg I just soiled myself. You, sir, deserve a MEDAL.

I will play with this a great deal over the next few days, so any bugs I find I will send to you.

It would be lovely if you could get the various things that are not displayed (terrain scripts, etc) to display. I imagine a little box with 3-d versions of those graphics in the corner of the terrain that they're on, much like the 2-d version, but I have no idea how hard that would be to implement. If not, I'll just switch to 2-d. No big deal.

Seeing icon adjustment would be great, but this seems like it would be hard. Stating the obvious here, you could try asking Jeff about it, and if you show him this app he might pay attention, but then, he might not.

I may have just missed this, but is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between 2-d and 3-d? That'd be really nice, if it's not already there. Maybe TAB, if that's not already used for something.

And yeah, the toggling to see the line of sight thing would be really cool, too, if you could pull it off. I imagine you could hack together something out of the scenario script based on the different directions of sight that are blocked.

But even if you do nothing to this thing, I will use it regularly. Thank you!

--------------------
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
Betatesters for 3D Blades of Avernum Editor! in Blades of Avernum
Off With Their Heads
Member # 4045
Profile Homepage #15
omfg I just soiled myself. You, sir, deserve a MEDAL.

I will play with this a great deal over the next few days, so any bugs I find I will send to you.

It would be lovely if you could get the various things that are not displayed (terrain scripts, etc) to display. I imagine a little box with 3-d versions of those graphics in the corner of the terrain that they're on, much like the 2-d version, but I have no idea how hard that would be to implement. If not, I'll just switch to 2-d. No big deal.

Seeing icon adjustment would be great, but this seems like it would be hard. Stating the obvious here, you could try asking Jeff about it, and if you show him this app he might pay attention, but then, he might not.

I may have just missed this, but is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between 2-d and 3-d? That'd be really nice, if it's not already there. Maybe TAB, if that's not already used for something.

And yeah, the toggling to see the line of sight thing would be really cool, too, if you could pull it off. I imagine you could hack together something out of the scenario script based on the different directions of sight that are blocked.

But even if you do nothing to this thing, I will use it regularly. Thank you!

--------------------
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

Pages