Dev log - what's cooking today?

  Player titles given 1 time only and don't change. 
    first option: replace father as King/Queen
      correctly knows player gender regardless of race, states replace father as Queen not King if you are female
      correctly sets faction name
    second option: return to your father  (Prince / Princess)
      works with all races and both genders
    third option: Vassal  ( Baron  / Baroness)
      works with all races and both genders

    Companion titles, custom titles disabled.

    formations AI from motomaru without the potential remap of F1 key

    second tree viewer from Silverstag

    encumbrance check from Phosphor and encumbrance adjustments to troops from Phosphor
        minor encumbrance changes for heroes checked before every battle (specifically temporary riding speed adjust and dodge adjust from encumbrance)
        encumbrance matters in that weight of your gear in the 4 armor slots and 4 weapon slots is compared to your strength;
        you get bonuses for keeping it under your strength, an extra bonus if the total is not over 60% of your strength, and a series of minus values
          as it goes from 1.5 to 2.0 to 2.5 to 3.0 to 3.5 times your strength.  These affect:
            {Athletics (and thus dodge), Riding, Horse Archery, Power Draw, Shield}

    smoke meat available from camp: actions: menu IF you have a raw meat that qualifies
      which is useful since more things go rotten

    all of Phosphor mission triggers code (thus Rigale combat extensions, some of Silverstag's combat enhancements, troop ratio bar)
        including changes in speed as troops are damaged, a self heal buff once per minute, a rally & area effect heal for your side useful in seiges,
        whistle for a horse, crossbows reload slightly faster when agi is > 8, tactics skill increases ranged damage (the effect is 2x more with crossbows),
        slightly different shield breakthrough handling, display of encumbrance in inventory window IF the correct template stored in textures is present in folder,
 
    enough intitialization of global variables to break any savegame from .75 and coincidentally to satisfy pieces of Silverstag
        including making space in constants.py for up to 29 factions (+1 player) so diplomacy does not corrupt mid game 'slots' based variables
 
      Items and troops from Phosphor (except Rigale crafting, Rigale troops, Drow/Undead/Skeletons, or Perisno .8 Giants)
        including edits for troop skills, lowered damage from bows, adjustments to armor stats, adjustments to weapons damage,
        adjustments to how module.ini handles armor by type of damage, lowering of horse charge damage, lower horse base armor,
        items and weapons are sorted into a number of different categories to please my generic enough scripts

    Dialogs - removing the restriction to have a companion or spouse be minister before can assign fiefs or change culture
    Simple Triggers - Taxes lowered
                              rent buff changed from (6*prosperity) + 200  per acre      to      (5*prosperity)/2 + 85 per acre

    edited all chest armors in {Leather section (including cuirboilli), silk, and fur}
    crimson greatsword flagged as 1 hand/2 hand bastard sword class, but longsword flagged as 2 hand only.  Swapped those!

    Troops readjusted: Drahara, Maccavia, Elvarie, Hakkon, Falcon, Valahir, Kaikoth, Zann
        looks like Maccavia and Valahir troops would benefit from "skirmish mode" orders (F7)

    did not get to minor factions today.
    more importantly, the chain/scale/plate armors are fairly crazy and need organizing better.

EDIT  Friday:    finished "spirit of 76", its now moved to testers.
          The troops and items balance adjusts will be part of Phosphor v21 ETA roughly 15th-22nd September

          Michadr reported an issue with the tigers and together we traced it to a change in Perisno_Mounts.brf dated in January 2015; the Christmas version was clean, but since then 13 other mounts are added to the brf  so the resources need to be remade.  This caused lines to appear from the moving tigers.
The workaround for now is to stop handing out so many tigers to Ukundu and give them legion hunters  instead.  Long term the Perisno team will rebuild the resource file.

and time permitting after that I will continue with the following changes for v21:
  Magic resistance script
  simple heals from NPCs
  simple item based magic just to test the resists
  female vassals for Drahara and Redwood factions at the point where males are offered to become vassals

  "Air" religion introduced for Drahara
      vegetarian and non killing bonus
      doing good deeds for 14 days has a 33% chance to boost air skill by 1, to a limit of 6.  Draharans start with 1 and others 0
      at 3 the player can fly during battle using the death cam mechanic (but theyre not dead yet)
      this is based loosely on Buddhism

probably won't have time:
  "Fire" religion  for Hakkon
      based loosely on Islam
      needs a race of Jin

  certainly will add Drow, undead and skeletons
  undead at battlegrounds that go "stale" with no one to bury the dead within 3 days

  merged the new kingdom factions, map, Giant skin, script initialization assigning giant lands and faction setups:
      items    had 100 to move around, now it's 180
              OPEN
              also had wanted items from Curtain of Fire
                      need to load magic.brf (only) from CoF in module.ini
                      to support CoF items
                Giant items should have much increased weight to be undesireable for companions and player to wear
                      which implies putting more teeth into heroes encumbrance

      factions  MERGED
          constants updated to new factions for tree2
          so many factions would have stressed diplomacy earlier, this should be solved already with Phosphor's updated slots useage

      troops                MERGED
            tree2_presentations updated to support the now 16 factions instead of 11
              minor factions display tuned to 6 sections this morning before merging in .8
              this allows all of the troops to be displayed, which allows support for special troops such as wizards monsters etc for special tests later

      party templates  MERGED

      skins -  DONE  but needs checking in game
          with Giant male, Giant female,  Undead (male), Skeleton (female), Drow male, Drow Female skins

      Resources and Textures:  MERGED previously  (one reason to bother to turn on Robin's .8 troops and items

      scripts - DONE
          did all the initialization merge, still looking for anything else added by Robin
          14:15 at line 20000 will break for lunch now
          finished 17:34  got Robin's tournament changes for giants

      parties  (towns and villages)  - DONE
      map                                        DONE
      strings                                    DONE
      constants                                DONE
      music                                      DONE
      sounds                                    DONE
      quests                                    DONE
      animations      NO CHANGE
      meshes                                  DONE  5 banners changed by .8
      presentations                          DONE  commented out Windyplains linkage of Mini Map to troop ratio bar, maybe that resolves the double mini map issue
      dialogs                                    DONE
      game_menus      not done

  I will not be merging Robin's start, its a can of worms for me right now and messes with my Kaos starts as well. 
    I agree in concept Pho is far too easy to start and skips several game weeks of painful grinding with rather generous starting options --
this is because Phosphor, as an "ever alpha" concept is constantly restarting savegames so it shouldn't be heavy to get a character going and launch to
mid level quickly.  Thus I disagree with the "lets make em all start naked and with a club and tunic for items, and a negative inheritance".
No, not today.  This also lets me not have to write 7 new starting dialogs and all this stuff a person 1/3rd my age and all summer long with no school should have finished for me.  At least he isnt choking and gasping after a coca cola.

    I'll put a v21 r0 asap.
    It won't have magic fully set up, just some quick stubs to add onto later.
      in theory, my main issue with Curtain of Fire etc is they all do the traditional 3 types of damage (pierce, blunt, cutting) handled by warband engine
but I REALLY want to handle magic resistance OUTSIDE the warband engine, so that implies a lot more work for rev 1/2/3 etc.  In the meantime I may as
well test the extra factions and hey why not put this troop viewer I put some effort into tuning for Perisno into tuning for Phosphor right away.

  Merging in all these items, troops, and factions (and resource overhead) gives the art people a reason to actually make art, as I was invisible all this time to them (no fame in doing me a favor).  Fine.  It also gives me more diversity to work with.

  .8 had issues with giant stuff being unsuitable for normal people, and that code isnt implemented.
  .8 had some diplomacy issues I'll fix as soon as I can find them -- many of them should be already put to rest by changes in slots assignment.
      there may be other issues I haven't thought of, so the next rev will be even less stable.  May as well reward those 2-5 players that actually try things.

  I realize that Perisno has > 100K players and Phosphor < 0.020K, but it's the thought that counts.

Friday 11 Sept 2015:
  got a Phosphor logo in DDS format.  I've learned a little more about the process, now I need one with a clear background  heh
  Michadr pointed me in the correct direction: use GIMP with a DDS plugin to make one
      did so, now it has a transparent background, played with colors.  The result is too big but I can fix it next rev; it works for now, as a placeholder
          secret to shrinking the logo when over a transparent background is to place some periods or other small items at corners of the 1024x256 space
          then this whole image is auto-sized and placed over a box reserved for mod name.  Otherwise the logo, no matter how small, is resized and entirely
          fills the box, which is quite large...  wasted nearly an hour with this, ended up deciding its a "next time" issue, at least I have gimp etc now..

  recovered the last build I made for Phosphor v20 r7  so I won't need to re-create that in source if I have to abandon v21 r0 for a weekend publish date...

  First compiles at lunch time:
  Troops:
      need to add kingdom lords and ladies then update initialize_aristocracy script  IN PROGRESS
          did kings
                ladies
            on  lords  NOW
            then have to adjust initialize_aristocracy branches and counts for edge of each kingdom's family, which needs 40 minutes
      needed to merge second patch Perisno .8 troops changes  DONE
          this expanded Bakhal Giants, Sut Giants, Aroulo  troops  DONE
          new troops for 3 factions needed markers to troop tree2 moved in constants  DONE

  Items
    some giant items needed adding from second .8 patch        DONE

  scripts
    15 useages of unassigned variable  ":town_original_faction"  DONE
        unable to find "p_outpost_one", "p_outpost_two",    DONE

  game_menus
        unable to find  "p_outpost_one", "p_outpost_two",  in 5 places each    {look at older parties}  DONE
  ----
  clean compiles but initialize_aristocracy needs heavy editing for so many new factions and kings, lords, ladies, families.  DONE
  compressed and mailed to myself, twice on two different paths, to follow up from home.

  after that will be the first few seconds of the first game, which I have many debug messages tell me how it wakes up

  have NOT added Curtain of Fire things, yet, as that would need a half day's time to add:
      items,
      particle systems
      parties
      scripts
      party templates
      triggers
      simple triggers
      strings
      animations
  from CoF     

game_menus
  removed sneaking and ambush from camp and pre-battle checks
      [Far cleaner to use Silverstag sneaking at a later time]
  hid behind cheat menu requirement the ability to select make a settlement, which isnt finished and no need to test - its a known hang
 
  reduced risk of losing the rest of a stack of tools during a critical harvest failure from 50% to 15%
  non-critical mining success (but not a minor failure) increases ore count by 50% not 33%

  added chance of rare harvests for (mining or gardening) critical success:
      chance is (1 in 8 ) during a critical success that another item other than what you were looking for happens to be there
      now a check is made to see if you actually recognize it for what it is:
          random roll(1 to 25)  <  (your skill in that type of harvesting)
                                                    with any master in that harvesting accompanying in your troops, effectively adds 8 to your skill
              success gives 1 rare ore  or  1  spices, plus whatever you normally would get.

  mission_templates    uses simplified mission_templates from Perisno .76, which has ambush and sneaking removed
  presentations          removed troop ratio bar from calling its own private battle mini map, sized differently than Perisno's battle mini map, and thus
                                  making battle mini map appear like double vision and blurry

  scripts                added processing for temporary fishing spot encounter that seems to have missed all Rigale versions 12 and up !
  party_templates  sometime in v20 r6 or perhaps earlier, ALL the random party_templates defined for Rigale temporary harvests, battlegrounds, etc were lost
                              or perhaps that was clumsiness during Perisno v.76 preparations.  Restored those.

  info_pages          adjusted formatting of guilds, Phosphor credits
 
EDIT: 17:00 Saturday
  last minute testing / tuning etc ate my day.
  I'll have to postpone v21 launch, no time.

    Did fix some important open bugs.

  items
      reduce pricing on any item that could be crafted by player with a potentially high item modifier to limit insane high sales value  DONE

    IN PROGRESS / if time in afternoon -- short documentation on how to:
          what is Perisno

          troubleshooting
                load textures on demand
                determine if you need a full download or can use a smaller patch
                stuck in town

          guilds in town
              difference between guild membership level "political training"
                      and              knowledge training  "skill improvement"
              buying items useful for crafting, which guild has what?
              discounts by guild membership level

          harvesting
            bring your tools
            types of harvesting and how often they refill

          crafting
            bring your tools
            types of crafting
                recipes are automatic by skill in that guild - no need to buy recipes
                what recipes exist?

          fatigue and "why does everyone else stop at night"?  IN PROGRESS
              camping outside in the wilds
              resting in town
              sing to your men for morale or fatigue removal before battles - if you have (any) bard skill
                  fatigue greatly affects battle advantage, which influences how many troops can fight on each side at a time

          Wise men and knowledge
     
          encumbrance and how it influences troops
          battle cries / added commands

          formations
              limitations and understanding when and how they act
              strategies to fake out the enemy AI

          stuff that isn't Perisno or staying in its present form much longer:
            shaman interactions mostly when camping outdoors
            battlefields
                  safe to interact with now, but intended for v21 series (when magic and religion begin to arrive)

  mission_triggers  only some missions have CoF extensions.
                              This is highly likely to be unstable for a bit!

  triggers  has some pieces of Rigale that were moved to simple_triggers in earlier Phosphor versions so may need comparison tomorrow to eliminate duplicates
                noticed v21 had merchants refreshing weekly, this really should be 4 days, so they have coin and food again

    game_menus  need to replace the pistol for pre-made troops with a player CoF wand so can watch shooting in different mission types
                              and put each of the CoF items into inventory so can cycle through each looking for hangs and error messages

    party_templates  intentionally did NOT merge to keep the amount of magic just to player for debugging

    CoF modules that needed merge:  particle_systems, constants, troops, items, scene_props

    Mission_templates looks tangled, it acts like backspace key is forever depressed
      finally got CoF to not call presentation "battle" (which normally backspace key calls it) every 0.1 seconds
      was able to move player around and use CoF items now  (15:25)
      still some issue with game message output overflow from illegal syntax in script_formation_end
          found it, the Rigale CoF uses its own formation_end that is not compatible with the modmerged formation_scripts_wb declaration of formation_end

          DID find some missing scripts:
              healthbars, morale_check, battle_cry, rally, rout_check, rout_enemies, rout_allies, flee_enemies, coherence, hero_exp_penalty
                some further investigation suggests they are PBOD but not compatible with the formations Motomaru gave Perisno, which dont use WSE
              still trying to have a error message free battle to get game message window back...
                got it.  17:42 Magic, CoF style, is working fully with game message window working.
                I suppose some day I should back port this to Rigale, maybe for Thanksgiving.
                In the meantime I may as well make a new magic system that stays private a few more weeks.
                OK this frees me to chase Perisno bugs tomorrow.

    Pho v21
      adjust CoF items to use better icons, limit number of discharges by changing item type to "firearm" class, slow the reload greatly, change ammunition bullet class items to very small numbers (12) so when assigned to lords etc magic does not dominate the battle as much.  Lowered damage, applied further flags for extra penetration.  Icons chosen to help remember what type of ammunition is used and what effect based on the shape at the end - area (arc) or single target (pointy), generally the fanciest spells have the most ornate launcher.  CoF uses items to launch a spell; Phantasy Calradia simply conjures the item for an instant and the item is removed immediately after, which could be the next layer.  I wanted to reduce the number of thrown items to remove power throw bonus; also animations need to be appropriate, and sound effects.  Some of that was done and parts of it are missing from original CoF.

      Test battles show many times more morale effects than seen with previous mission_triggers; formations now break up and enemies rout if they are suddenly losing 6+ soldiers from a area effect.  Messages regarding enemy morale now seen.  This is from last night's recovery of lost morale code from a fragment of PBOD.  Also Rigale extensions that were missing now work more cleanly - if the player kills many enemies the player's side gains a morale bonus applied to the troops nearest the player.  If I can get this very clean by lunch I could back port it, minus magic, to Perisno .76 and Pho v20 r7 [10:40 AM]
     
      need to add a modifier to have damage break through shield for magic  [mostly done]

[someday]         
  debug Rigale sprint to add a slots based flag that sprint was activated on player from Rigale sprint
    then de-activate by check at start of each battle (or segment of many linked battles)  to keep it from stacking
                                  check by simple_triggers timer for same to deactivate if player ends battle early and thus still has sprint effects on char
[/someday]

  Next week:
  need to start magic_resist right after can use each CoF item as player, so can test scripts to bypass armor.

Sat: day of reflection.
  I've decided to stop postpone maintaining Perisno.  I'll immediately start work on a mod free of Perisno assets, and when I have it I'll make a topic in Pioneer's forum and be eligible for membership on the roster of "finished" mods, "someday" (TM).  Unlike the rest of Perisno, I really am not anxious to be #1 at Moddb.  I've never put Pho there.  Being #1 moddb without writing 1 line of code all year isn't how I roll.  Having to conform to some user's expectations of ISO documentation isn't my style either.  I can push papers or make something live.  I sure as hell won't try to do both. 

    I have very little time to kill.  I can barely swallow fruits; coca cola has me coughing until I see bright lights moving.  I can't even get a tube down my throat to see what the problem is.  My heart and circulation are generally poor and my bones hurt constantly.  I'm too young to retire, with too few hours worked for disability, and my chances at a job are poor.  These things keep me in good humour, without which I'd probably feel depressed.  As it is, I plan to die laughing at myself.  But I won't waste time on a mod that doesn't even respect me, let alone LIKE what I do.  The audience that hates my work is welcome to try it as I found it, 11 months ago, with the owner almost abandoning it and being assured "all the REAL bugs are gone".  Ergo, what bugs there are today are MY FAULT.  Well, I can help that best by refusing to add more. 

    Instead, I'll keep all my bugs here, where I know their ancestry, and lineage.  Too many problems in Perisno preceded me.  Yes theres red messages in princess marriage.  But consider this -- when I got there, the princess was a DUDE and you'd have to be gay to talk dirty to him.  I changed all that. Diplomacy allows gay marriage, and I respect that.  But if I didn't write it, why should I be blamed for it?  And if I am not free to change it, whose fault is it I am still working on it?  I should work on something I have the right to change, or leave alone, or even leave it broken if I don't have time to make it right.  But about half of it is broken enough it may be cleaner to leave it on the table, and start with something that works differently.  We've all seen enough of Native, and all it's thousand variations.

  Monday 28 Sept 15:
    editing Items from Rigale v12.1 to be sorted according to item type in order to apply in OSP format some of the tricks used in Phosphor for an update to Rigale.  I think this needs 3-5 days before a v12.2 can be ready.
  Tues 29 Sept 15
    items now finished armor sorting, starting on weapons.  14:30