[Ohrrpgce] ichorescent goals

[James Paige]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:14 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was originally hoping that we could release in December (3 months after
> hróðvitnir). I'd like to go back to aiming for releases every 3 months or
> even faster if there's something significant worth getting in people's
> hands.
>
> My branch for that backcompat bit for non-320x200 battles is almost done
> now that the UI is slicified.
>
> As for converting the in-battle Items and Spells menus, before that
> happens I've got a big patch from Sword to make the number of display
> columns variable, and depend on the resolution (the main goal was actually
> to support smaller resolutions!) In the Spells menu it also separates the
> number of display columns from the number of spells per Level MP level.
> It's not easy to get this patch finished. Of course slicifying the menus
> would make much of it obsolete.
>
> Currently I'm working on 256 sprites by using palette index -2 to mean to
> use the master palette directly. Considering how relatively easy it is, and
> what a big limitation it is, we really should have done it many years ago!
> The process of fixing things up also gets us a lot closer to supporting
> real 256 colour palettes in the sprite editor, so I wonder whether I should
> try to squeeze that into the release too, by adding a very simple .rpal
> file format.
>
> I'm also working on a big patch to add sprite slice transforms. I'm
> working on bugfixing it currently, and might manage to get that done today.
>
> I've also got a branch for a new CPU usage display debug mode, which is
> done aside from graphical tweaking.
>
> Bena has been working on adding a "read attack data" command. I don't know
> when it'll be done, but it'll need to alot of review to avoid backcompat
> headaches in future.
>

That all sounds like good and fun stuff :)


> As for things that need fixing:
>
> I'm really concerned by the report we had about the missing slice
> collection error in the Items menu on Android, likely a problem with
> datafiles.o. And even before that there have been reports for years that
> the Items menu was seriously buggy on Android.
>

I don't remember anything about this one. I didn't run into any item
problems in my last playthrough of Wandering Hamster on android. Do we have
anything reproducible?


> Feenick reported that deleting an NPC in the NPC editor deletes NPC 0
> instead.
>

I have added this to my todo list


> attack_can_hit_dead still needs to be updated for Turncoat & Defector.
>

I have added this one to my list also


> Do you want to fix battle menus to update each tick? In particular for
> player-controlled enemy menus.
>

Yes, I could. It is already on my list, and I could prioritize it for
ichorescent


> I think we need to update crashrpt to use https? You want to remove the
> http redirect?
>

I do want that, but it is not an ichorescent priority. We can do it later.


> But over the weekend I'm going to have to stop to work on my 7DRL game
> instead! (I'll be using Godot again, although I'm hoping by next year we'll
> have a new script interpreter and I'll use the OHRRPGCE)
>

Yay! Exciting! I'm looking forward to playing whatever you come up with :)


>
>
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2022 at 17:37, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> I am thinking about what my goals are for the ichorescent stable release
>>
>> I am pleased with the amount of battle ui that I have finished
>> slicifying. I don't plan to attempt to slicify the spells and items menus
>> for this stable release.
>>
>> I do want to remove the parts of old ui drawing code that I have
>> obsoleted.
>> I definitely won't start on making the battle ui user editable before
>> ichorescent, although I might possibly go as far as making a few additional
>> pre-set ui elements that you can choose from.
>>
>> For the new battle states, I don't plan on any more big features before
>> ichorescent, but I do expect to do a little more cleanup, like adding that
>> "Turncoat and defector always treat self as an ally" bit that you
>> suggested, and cleaning up Flip state so it doesn't cause you to run away
>> backwards
>>
>> What about you TMC? What stuff do you want to get merged before we
>> release ichorescent?
>>
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>> James
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