Question arcs ADV Mode/1080p development

[Daniel Wong]

I'm listing the known bugs/gotchas for ADV mode as I work on it here, mainly because they might be hard to fix and might not occur often enough for you to notice them unless you do a full playthrough:

Missing Features (compared to Answer Arcs)

Known bugs

• It is theoretically possible for the text to overflow the textbox, if there is a very long text line, but I haven't seen this happen yet. Please let me know if you see this happen

• If the text is cleared (as no more space is left), and the next sentence to be displayed has a space in front of it, the space will be displayed (the first sentence will be indented slightly). I don't know if this can be fixed easily.

• clicking during a voicedelay command (my custom command) causes the text to stop displaying half way through the sentence, and only fully display once the the text has reached the end. . It may be possible to fix this by making the game 'freeze' in the pretext callback, so that at least the next line is displayed. For now I will just leave it. EDIT: is this fixed now? I haven't seen it happen in a while?

Example

langjp:voicedelay 1600:dwave_jp 0, nan_1e21:^^遣り残し。@:dwave_jp 0, nan_1e22:受け継いで欲しいことや、/
langen:voicedelay 1600:dwave_eng 0, nan_1e21:^�or matters you have left unfinished.^@:dwave_eng 0, nan_1e22:^  Things you want to pass down to others...^/

langjp:voicedelay 1890:dwave_jp 0, nan_1e23:^^……伝えたいこと。@:dwave_jp 0, nan_1e24:……何でもいいんです。」\
langen:voicedelay 1890:dwave_eng 0, nan_1e23:^�...or merely matters you wish to communicate.^@:dwave_eng 0, nan_1e24:^  ......Anything you want."^/

• end scrolls have wrong timing (affects non-adv mode as well) EDIT: I have gone through all the credits and it should be fixed now, but it's possible I missed some credits. Let me know if you have credits problems.

• No method to switch to alternate textbox. Also, black textbox has the wrong (answer arcs) icon!

Some other notes which are not bugs:

• you can change the font at runtime using the pmapfont command (I thought you couldn't because there is also a h_mapfont command which you can only use in the definition section of the program
• you can use clickwaits in the clickwait callback but it will cause an infinite loop unless you have some way to break out of it. I can't think of a good reason to do this
• you can't print text in a pretext callback, it will cause an infinite loop

TODO:

• remove not used ADV functions. I put some functions in earlier which I thought I'd use, but they're not used anymore.
• once ADV mode is finished, add a notice at the start of the script that ADV mode has been added

Fixed bugs

• fixed: the *text_cw (clickwait callback) and *pretext (callback before each text phrase is displayed) occur for both the japanese and english lines and clickwaits. This caused some wierd bugs, but I have fixed it by using the same method that was originally in the script:

getreadlang %cur_read_lang
if %cur_read_lang != %cur_language jumpf
    do stuff here 
~

This also renders what I did with the 'dwave_jp' and 'dwave_eng' useless - I only mad ethose functions because I didn't know how to check whether you were in japanese or english mode :S.

• fixed - it turns out there aren't that many special regions in the script, unless I missed them. The answer arcs had way more - Special text regions aren't supported yet (to be copied from umitweak)

• fixed: adv mode is cleared when encountering a setwindow command, and not automatically enabled at game startup: this one is relatively easy to fix, but hasn't been done yet.

• Clearing the text box when a different character is speaking is not supported yet

• Showing the name of the character speaking is not supported

• Nameboxes for 4 characters are missing! (just waiting on our team to generate those 4 nameboxes)

• Backlog doesn't work properly

[FatesTimelines1337]

Trying to view the text log with ADV mode enabled results in character dialogue not being recorded in the text feed.

[Daniel Wong]

@DogLover314 the backlog should be fixed now...but i'm not 100% confident since I haven't messed with the backlog code before. Let me know if you see any problems.

you'll need to re-download the script file to get the fix.

[Domenico Taormina]

Maybe i didn't catch it in the list above, but it's normal that the sentences arent well justified? Like i encounter a lot of text that goes like this "hey.i'm good". With no capitalized letter after the full stop and no space between the 2 letters

[Daniel Wong]

@DoKu39 can you post some examples I can look up in the script? There shouldn't be any of those, as if there were, they would also be present in the non-adv mode version of the script (the version we've been using previously for a long time). So...it's probably a bug, or maybe the error was masked due to how the newline breaks occurred in the old script.

Also could you include how long ago you downloaded the adv mode script?