The Shining Source

Feel free to leave any suggestions for patching (or enhancing) BABS here.

Meanwhile I'll mention here what I patched/enhanced today:

- Changed game graphics routine so that map animations are supported once more .
- Added "nextmap" value to scriptfile, which enables setting up collections of battle following up after each other .

I think I had a bug with the resize tool. I do not know how it is supposed to work... and I did not find out.

Hmm... when I test the resize tool myself I see all sorts of exceptions coming up too :/. It turned out to be an issue with recreating the layers.

The bug is fixed, and the resize tool works well now. Even 1x1 tile maps seem to work .

Another bug with the save/load option.

I saved a map. When loading it, it appears to be shifted up and left. Probably just an initialisation bug...

Also, is it possible to add chars on the battle map?

Hi Zylokh. The shifting during load has been fixed.

Adding chars on the battle map through SMEE is on my todo list, but you can already add them by editing the entityfile .

This is what I thought afterwards. Yet, it won't work with the shifting of the map. Have you released the corrected version?

Not yet, as I'm currently implementing walkabout maps. Any new version will also get a new version number.

Specially for you I'll just release something today though if you like .

I was just asking this for the BABS contest (isn't there a BABS contest going on?) What is  to be released exactly?

"isn't there a BABS contest going on?"

There was, but nobody submitted anything. Still, any decent battle map you'll make will make it to the next release and very likely to the final game .

What is to be released is a customized battle map with participants. You don't have to make all the sprites/tiles/animations yourself, but the battle does have to be fun to play .

If there are any features/spells you need in order to make your favorite battle, let me know .

Actually there is one: "Talk".

You know when you come close to a NPC in a battle and begin to talk to him/her... In order to make him join your force...

I'm planning this for the second battle of Shining Odyssey, which I intended to draft with BABS

Hmm.. a "Talk" option in battle?

That sounds interesting, but rather new as well . Right now I don't really know how to implement this best yet. Should it happen automatically when you are nearby or should there be an actual talk button?

Also, if the NPC joins, then it implies that the participant needs to switch sides after the talk as well?

And should the 'Talk' be interactive?

Just some questions from my side

If I may interrupt, the "talk" option is used in Shining Force III a couple of times. The first time you use it to talk to Hayward in the second battle and then he joins your squad, and the second time is in Scenario II where you use it to dissipate a fight, proving battles are not always won with swords

In SFIII the icon replaces the hold/search button at the relevant moment, rather than happening automatically

The interactive option is a bad idea because it could mean they'd say the wrong thing and the person wouldn't join/event wouldn't happen, presuming that's the kind of event you're looking at following interactive dialogue.

That's just about all I have to say about that. Carry on

Thanks for replying for me. Couldn't have put it better...

I see.

Well, I've started a bit with implementing this. I assume the hold/search button is equivalent to the "stay" button in Shining Force 2?

That would the correct assumption to make