PhoenixSoul

Don't they say you should sit in the bathtub or something? Apparently it's best to go to the inner most room bathtub or not, but bathtubs are fairly heavy and attached to the wall/floor at least? I donno. Anyway if a tornado does come, it dosn't necessarily mean instant death, so don't give up okay?

*snuggles you* Hehe, I am here if you need help always. Might not be able to help you all the time, but I can at least look into the problem a bit.

Yeah. Neither bathtub is in an ideal place; mine is against an outer wall, the other is perpendicular to the exterior hallway.

Let us just hope that if such a disaster unfairly befalls me, that I'm able to be at least four steps ahead of it.

The chances of such are never very high, but...


Anyway, you're about the only reliable aid I have with RGSS stuffs; there are others who assist on occasion but you're the most consistent...

Yeah, and isn't it sad that I, a flighty fairy who can be super lazy, am the one who ends up helping you the most? XD

I am pretty sure a NoMethod error for <= is actually not nonsense at all... Remember Ruby uses duck typing and has methods for everything, so yeah, <= is in fact a method and is not defined for anything in witch the concept of 'less then' doesn't make sense. Like if you have 'nil <= 1' it will give that error. Likely something is trying to compare a variable that hasn't been set yet with something.

I've found it very difficult to pinpoint nil issues since I don't understand it well enough.

That said, I've decided to go about it a different way, and have chosen to focus on other functions.

Ultimately, there's even more to add before I come to a finished demo state, but I think I have this now...
I hope...lol

Yeah, that would be an issue, lolz
Glad you were online on Discord earlier.

I am glad to help! <3

Thing is, I might be getting a hang of this, to a fashion. Of course, sometimes I still believe that when something works, it is truly just me getting lucky, lolz

Oh my, someone has a dirty dirty mind. <3

Quote

"a labor of love, one that took a lot of f*cking"

Can't really blame him with a statement like that.

@Kayzee, @Knighterius, @Animebryan, lolz

Heavily inspired, likely because when I play NFS: HP2, I play the Coastal Parklands circuits the most (there are three-two closed circuits and one point-to-point road race akin to the type of racing you'd expect from Rad Racer or Road Rash).

It's kinda funny; the theme consists of both coastal vistas and heavily forested areas in one area. It's the craziest mish mash of environments of the five themes (though on PC there's only four), with Island Oasis being right behind with both a volcano and a rainforest in reach of a populated area.

The other three?
Wine Country (lots of winding and narrow curves with blind corners everywhere in a Mediterranean environment)
Autumn Trails (Taking to high elevation roads in the mountains and abandoned mines as shortcuts)
Desert Wastelands (console exclusive-Narrow passages through dusty cliffs and roadways through various military establishments)

I'm almost tempted to try my hand at recreating Empire City from NFS III: Hot Pursuit (a bonus circuit you unlock for winning Knockout on Expert). Almost. There's a lot of elements from that circuit that Track Mania United Forever doesn't have, nor does TM Infinity.

Updating this:
I got something to work, after all the BS I went through with other things.

That said, it's really bad when one asks for aid, and ends up with the short end, on a cyclic pattern.
Burnout exists, after all...

Anyway, that's just how it is because of uncontrollable circumstances, little to none of my causing. I can't help it if people are going to be stupid and ignore both compassion and common damn sense! lulz

I'm still a novice at Ruby who occasionally gets lucky; even if I took @Kayzee's advice on just tinkering with Ruby scripts, that's only part of gamedev, and that's where my heart lies is the whole thing, not just one piece of it.

It's like writing a story; if you only spend your time on the mechanics of one aspect, you're gonna forget about everything else pretty damn quick (which is why I've had a really hard time with my most recent story because there's one mechanic of the story lore that is really hard to put together and have it work with everything else).

No, I won't go into detail on said story here; Maturity Rank 3 stuffs, lol

Rank 3? Huh... What are the ranks?

Maybe:

0 - Kid friendly

1 - Implied adult issues/jokes/situations

2 - Explicit adult issues/jokes/situations

3 - Implied sexual adult issues/jokes/situations

4 - Explicit sexual issues/jokes/situations

5 - Sexual teasing/fanservice

6 - Softcore
7 - Hardcore

8 - Kinda kinky

9 - REALLY kinky

10 - OMGWTF!

...

9999 - Paraphore

Rank 1: "There's a reason why you don't eat boogers..."
Rank 2: "Well, I guess it is time for us to talk about sex..."
Rank 3: "Okay; maybe there's some things about you that are meant to be kept to yourself..."

It's often like this when you're using something you don't understand (besides what it is for and some things in the configuration). Since it does not work even after directly copying from the demo, you clearly had to miss something or perhaps other scripts you use may cause incompatibility issues, which is a common thing, because they're written by 9999 different people.

I've been there, that's how I was toying with my first project back when I was a complete noob and there constantly were issues I could not explain to the point, where abandoning the game and starting over was a good option. It's like modding a game - each mod has its own job, but weird things happen (eventually crash) if there are many.

Instance items and crafting definitely sounds like a combo that may not work together, because one of these changes how they are stored, then the second one tries to get the items in a changed environment. Imagine working in a software you're familiar with (rm for example) and then someone suddenly telling you, that you need to work with a completely different software, with a completely different interface after which you're like "FUK". That's what the crafting script feels after the instance items one told it to work somewhere else. Though I believe they could work together if some things would be "updated" to the new environment, in the crafting script.

Of course, incompatibility is just how this is, and since I'm a novice at scripting, me going in and figuring out what's needed to be changed is the same as giving an average third-grade level student, trigonometry to solve.

(No, I've no experience with that either, lulz)
The one thing I could do is do all the crafting via variables and events (I was doing this in the RM2K project I had started but currently sits on the other HDD that my computer refuses to read properly), but that right there, would end up being absolutely absurd. It was absurd for the RM2K project, would be even more so for a game with a lot more to it!