Yes, you understood my convoluted attempt as “sacrificing” a key…that is correct what I was getting at.

I also did not know that the keycode for an English keyboard [ stays in that spot and will be a different character/letter on another keyboard type, but simply in the same position. Interesting as I did not know that and it does present a…[Read more]

Yeah, and that’s where it gets a little tricky, for other keyboard localities. I think for just displaying character, like [NORMAL], it is OK because it provides for the actual ASCII value, using ascii_193, instead of char_v_. But for the character images that display on the “key map” feature, that doesn’t quite work because I don’t think there…[Read more]

Perhaps because lower e is already defined in the font .ini file for [KEYBOARD_SYMBOL]:

char_e_ = 32,192,32,32

If defined more than once, either confuses things, or more likely it uses the first one it encounters.

For a bracket, I just tried this and it works:

Added to [KEYBOARD_SYMBOL] the following:

char_[ = 256,64,32,32

This actually…[Read more]

We could do that.

BTW, I found that the dot and brackets are defined in pc_init. These keycodes (keycode values are sometimes different than ASCII and are defined here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/language/reference/user-interface-help/keycode-constants just have to convert hex to integer if you want to know that a dot is…[Read more]

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by “does not accept?” The PC Keyboard characters will only show on the options/keymap screen for the game because I think that’s the only place that uses that font definition. If you mean you cannot map a dot, comma, bracket key, that is because for that purpose, you first have to define the keys in…[Read more]

I don’t know why it was resized, but I can guess.

The fonts were redone by some modder on PA! awhile back and offered up. I don’t think it caught on, but MK liked it, so we just copied it into ERAS.

Comparing interface buttons from COAS to this version, it looks like they filled in the outlined version of the letters to a solid look and in the…[Read more]

Correct, you can’t use the same name. This code:

iLev1Bonus = 0.5;
iLev1Bonus = 1;

Will just assign variable iLev1Bonus to .5, but the very next line will just replace its value with 1, so that’s what you will get.

You can replace the values like you show:

iLev1Bonus = 0.5;
iLev2Bonus = 1;
iLev3Bonus = 2;
iLev4Bonus = 3;
iLev12Bonus =…[Read more]

This engine work is enough of a pain in the ass to resolve problems that should have never passed testing back in 2009…why would I want to torture myself with another problem child? LOL

Anyway, can you just grab it from an old copy you have already, or update from Itch? I’m not sure, but I would imagine if you remove the files from where Itch…[Read more]

It is a little messy, but I’ll try to explain as best I’ve deduced.

First, I have no idea why FONT_1, FONT_2 and FONT_3 files are there. They do appear to be unused anywhere in the game and on my COAS cd circa 2009, those files are dated 2002, so my guess is they were copied there from maybe previous versions of this game and just left there for…[Read more]

The value added is determined by the result of function SetCharacterSkillByItem in the line:

skillN = skillN + SetCharacterSkillByItem(_refCharacter, skillName, SKILL_LEADERSHIP, "jewelry3_2", iLev2Bonus);

The SKILL_LEADERSHIP and other skill types are defined in characterscharacters.h and determine where the item bonus will apply in the…[Read more]

It’s a new feature to prevent clicking through a conversation by mistake.

If you accidentally double-click (or multiples beyond) to start a conversation, you would actually start and click the first response without being able to read what happened. Also, sometimes in the midst of a fight, the enemy might start a conversation and if you are…[Read more]

Find the item description in RESOURCEINItexts…ItemsDescribe. Example:

itmname_jewelry3_2 {Order of the Golden Fleece}
itmdescr_jewelry3_2 {
A rare find, but not too uncommon among senior Spanish government officials or military officers - captains, Admirals or Generals. Tucked away in a fine suede leather bag is a Spanish medal of office…[Read more]

Updates on Itch:

Maelstrom

Performance enhancements:

* Remove extraneous/unneeded ray tracing

* collide trace

* cannon tracing

* spyglass

* Crosshair targeting

* Island

* Rain drops

Script runtime compiler crash fix

Dialog first select delay feature

ERAS II

Alarm Stop fixes

TradeToTeam bug fix

Fix cabin OnLoad/money/items…[Read more]

Because there is no such definition for JEWELRY_ITEM_TYPE.

The valid types are:

#define GUN_ITEM_TYPE
#define BLADE_ITEM_TYPE
#define SPYGLASS_ITEM_TYPE
#define PATENT_ITEM_TYPE
#define CIRASS_ITEM_TYPE
#define MAPS_ITEM_TYPE
#define HEAD_ITEM_TYPE

But if you want to remove all the generic items a character got during the creation method,…[Read more]

I don’t know what program you are using to save it, but the formatting message must be specific to the program you are using, because I don’t see such a message.

Make sure you keep the break; statement at the end, before the next case, and every statement has a semicolon. Here is the complete block, also showing the next case statement for…[Read more]

Weird. Looks like something to do with the copy/paste of double quotes is the problem.

Notice on some they are slanted/curled “pistol56” and other are just straight vertical "pistol56". Turns out when you pasted the slanted/curled into the code source, the game can’t compile them. They all have to be the straight kind: ""

I found this by cop…[Read more]

The ship is still there because you need an “else” block for the GenerateShip line, otherwise it executes and creates the ship anyway after you set to SHIP_NOTUSED. Also should probably equip the other gun.

if(sti(chr.index) == GetMainCharacterIndex()) {
chr.Ship.Type = SHIP_NOTUSED;
RemoveOfficerEquip(chr, GUN_ITEM_TYPE);
}
else…[Read more]

They have another gun because the hero gets equipment based on the hero type in initMainCharacterItem(), before GrantHeroSpecifics (not every character is handled in GrantHeroSpecifics, so this ensures they all get a gun of some type).

If you want to remove the gun and ship, do so in their case block of GrantHeroSpecifics. If they don’t have a…[Read more]

Maelstrom Update

FMOD update to version 1.10.13 – 05/08/2019 Studio API minor release (build 102169)

Add Ptc file name for output during teleport log

Crash fix for char model location test

FMOD crash fix

Change dialog first/last name space-append

Add ambient light to character model

Fix crash locator array

ERAS Update

Fix treasure map…[Read more]

That system log helped; the last line specified the exact problem. Doesn’t always do that, but this time told us the problem. That crash issue is fixed and will be in next update.

Balandra sails also corrected.

Thanks.