Note to Self: After Major Changes, Test EVERYTHING

posted in Beals Software
Published May 18, 2012
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I had a nice long post here explaining how I implemented triggers and such, but somehow managed to go back a page and lost everything, so now I'm going to have to cut it down. Speaking of this though, is there something that I'm missing? The editor says that it auto-saves, but how do I access the auto-save?



Engine Additions


Triggers are now implemented and working properly. I simply added a new script function to objects, OnTrigger, that is activated when the character reaches an object/character. The nice thing is that this also allowed me to get characters facing each other/objects.



As I plan on using SAGE for different games, I needed a way to specify different values for certain things (title, player asset, initial scene, etc) so I implemented a new system for that. To test it, I swapped in the old development assets and gave her a run. This leads to the reason for the entry title.





Test Everything


I started it up and the very first thing I tried was testing out the characters facing and ended up talking to Testy...only the conversation system was completely broken. The other day I refactored a majority of the UI system; a lot of it was very tightly tied to the engine (for example, the ConversationDisplay class had a copy of the engine to allow it run script functions and interact with coroutines.) I then ripped out a lot of stuff, added in events and then worked the code back into the new events, except I didn't do this for the ConversationDisplay. So, I've spent the last couple hours getting that all working again.



Now I'm off to bed.





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Gaiiden
[quote]The editor says that it auto-saves, but how do I access the auto-save?
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You have to reload the page and the text in that spot will say something like "reload last saved" and you click it to pop up a dialog with your saved text you can then choose to restore. It's not perfect but it's saved me a few times to some extent.

If you can remember to do so it's still best to make long entries externally and just copy paste...
May 19, 2012 02:04 AM
Programmer16
[quote name='Gaiiden' timestamp='1337393068']
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The editor says that it auto-saves, but how do I access the auto-save?

You have to reload the page and the text in that spot will say something like "reload last saved" and you click it to pop up a dialog with your saved text you can then choose to restore. It's not perfect but it's saved me a few times to some extent.

If you can remember to do so it's still best to make long entries externally and just copy paste...
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Thank you sir! Normally I write it in Notepad++, but I hadn't thought about it last night, until I lost all lol.
May 19, 2012 06:34 PM
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