I've been wanting to try and make a quest for some time. Finally I got up the nerve to go ahead and download the thing, to try it out. My luck, it doesn't work on Vista, so I'm stuck with 2.5. So, everytime I try to make a quest, I get a few screen in, get some crazy bug, and I'm forced to quit. I'd be willing to make multiple saves if I could actually get far enough to save anything. Anyway:
I was using 738 (?) a week or so ago, and my hearts turned sideways. Ok... WEIRD.
Today, using 743, my health and item displays get swapped (so that the health is on the left side and the items are on the right side and) when going to another map. The subsequently flip back when leaving.
Both times I was fiddling with quest rules. I don't know for sure if it's those rules that'd be causing it, but it's all I can really say to help narrow it down. Specifically, I unchecked magic and arrows both times. Another note, this time, both magic and arrows are still displayed up top, even though I turned them off.
Now, I'm new at this, so for all I know, I'm doing something wrong. Normally, I'd just assume that, but this seems too weird.
so you enabled magic and arrows, saved it then turned them off and saved again? i guess it's not turning them off during the actual 'save' part or it just goes psycho on your quest :P
No, I disabled magic and arrows. They were enabled by default.
But that whole going psycho thing is a great theory.
Oh, and I just noticed that magic and health are flipping backwards too, so that health goes from the top to the bottom, and magic goes from the bottom to the top.
Might I have a peek at the quest file in question?
Oh, and I just noticed my hearts are depleting from left to right now, too. This is weird, but there's a good chance that it's because I'm doing something stupid.
Anyway, I'm not even going click that link; I know were it leads. It's not like I could have posted the quest anyway.... Stupid dial-up. I'll post it sometime in the next few days, but it's crap. I didn't hardly get anywhere, and already it was crap.
Crap. I just remembered that I deleted the quest. I was fiddling with it a few days ago, decided it sucked, and deleted it, forgetting that I needed it for this bug... Sorry. I'll try to make another quest, and when I get a similar bug (seems likely) I'll let you know.
EDIT: I've recreated the bug. I'll get it up very soon, and then you can take a look at the whatever-it-is-that's-happening.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WG4AE7P4
Ok, so there's the quest. Just pick up the raft, head over one screen to the right, and head onto the island. The quest is crap, but whatever. If it's not a bug, and I'm doing something stupid, at least you can tell me what it is.
Okay! Here's what you did wrong - DMap 0 has the "New, B" passive subscreen, but DMap 10 has the "Alt, B" passive subscreen. Did you know that you can fix this in the "Appearance" tab of the DMap Editor? It's true!
Heh. Told you I was doing something stupid. I noticed the appearance tab..., but I didn't notice any difference between them. I wasn't looking closely enough I guess. I still seems kinda weird that that'd happen by default somehow. I didn't mess with appearances, so I didn't figure they'd get mixed up.
But wait! I've got another one!!!
Remember when I said my hearts turned sideways? Could that be related to this somehow? I wasn't messing with DMaps, so far as I know, but I can't be sure. That quest is long gone, though, so I can't post it or anything.
Anyway, if that's not a bug, you probably won't hear from me again, probably for a long time, lol.