What's up, RMers?

[Ace_V]

I am about to die...    

First off... that script I said yesterday would be the hard one to translate and work upon?  Well, I just spent 10 hours translating all the content, repeatedly testing the "Element Tagging" that was originally in Japanese to ensure everything functioned, and REPAIRED STUFF!!!!!

One of the features was to allow for the prevention of selected skills from being usable unless the caster was blessed with (or inflicted with) a defined status effect.  Indeed, the original script author intended for developers to do things like... "You can only cast ICE if you are inflicted with VENOM state." ... which does sound weird.  But after some investigation in this 1000 line monstrosity from 2006, I found the issue and fixed it.

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I'm calling it a night ...   

 This is very relevant to my interests (the script, not you dying!) 

[DerVVulfman]

MORE and MORE software translating from a Japanese site that has been gone roughly two decades.  I won't go into any other details other than I was on a roll translating SIX SCRIPTS today.  I was on a ROLL.    I just hope I'm passed all the element tagging scripts.  UGH!!!

[DerVVulfman]

Well, I translated five more scripts. The next is going to be a headache. So nope.... calling it on translation for the day. :D

Still, had some interesting ones that forced limits on in-game effect usage.

[DerVVulfman]

Anyone got Tylonol?

The first script of today to translate into English from Japanese from the decades old site was WORSE than a headache. The manner in which it suggested defining elements in the database was... "OKAY, ARE YOU HAVING SPACES BETWEEN ARGUMENTS OR NOT? WAIT, SPACES BETWEEN SOME BUT NOT ALL? THE HECK? WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL?"

Yeah, not everything was ergonomic in design and the instructions didn't make it clear.

Once I realized what the authorsssss PLURAL did... (yeah, one scripter driving me nuts wasn't enough... it took three)... then I got the rest of the beta-testing of the scripts AND the translation done. WITH BETTER INSTRUCTIONS!

Oh, and did I mention it had four child scripts? The ABOMINATION HAD OFFSPRING (or is that AWFULSpring?). Fortunately smaller, and thus didn't cause me as much headache. But I would say 80% of the 8 hours marathon was one abhorrence.

And with that, I've translated 40 of the scripts from this site. Don't ask how many are left. But I'm making good headway.