TODO.MD

Engge II

Known Bugs

• wrong actor placement during give animation
• annoying kid is walking like a crab
• When play first with franklin the icon is a ghost
• When willie snore, his head vanishes (lips contains head1 and 2 but not the anim)
• In closeup room, the actor seems to walk
• failed to get object: FUNCTION [createSpeckOfDust()] Helpers.bnut line [2072], enteredRoom()] Helpers.bnut line [1467], NATIVE line [-1], QuickiePalOutside.bnut line [156], NATIVE line [-1], MainStreet.bnut line [749]
• failed to get object or actor: animateBirdObject()] Vista.bnut line [128]
• inventory_slot indicates where the inventory object should be present in the inventory
• text and speech: language is not translated
• Save game should be disabled in start screen/options
• pizza code is almost not visible
• weird animation when climbing stairs in the library
• the camera constraints are not correct in the library
• when we se the elevator in the van, we don't see the actor
• Delores cannot pickup SR-01 programming book
• Delores cannot take the key in the workshop
• The pigeon van should arrive in front of the hotel
• Cannot give pigeons card to hotel manager
• Voice not hear in dialog
• text and speech: language is not centered when changed
• sound and focus events for the underlying menu
• the hitbox for the yes and no button in the quit dialog starts a few pixels too low
• main menu is not translated if language is changed
• strcrc should return an integer not a string
• when ransome pushes the trampoline, it never ends
• Delores cannot guess the number to decode the will
• the walkbox in cemetery is wrong (at the end of the path)
• strlast not implemented
• clock movement is incorrect in mansion entry
• failed to get text: BStreet.bnut line [221]: sayLine("@28912", (_ringPhoneTID ? "@28999" : null))
• postal worker cutscene does not end
• weird animation when climbing stairs in the mansion library
• Franklin shouldn't be touchable before becoming a ghost
• When postal worker gives the letter to Delores, the cutscene is never ending
• Weird animation when agents go up in the bus
• When using bloodtron, the light is not correct and the flashing light is not working
• When Delores in the pillowtron, the ghost effect with franklin does not work
• When Delores use pickup verb, Delores walks
• Each time we enter a room with a fan, the fan rotation has a weird rotation
• actors sounds are still played when changing room
• PhoneBook.bnut line [186] objectState(previous_button, OFF) can be null
• ThimbleCon.bnut line [500] actorDistanceWithin(batdork, nextSpot ) not implemented
• The phone book in the library is empty (correct after loading game)
• When using map the actor is big
• We should be able to talk to agents
• When we give an object, the give verb is still active
• Array shuffle returns an array of array
• After the bridge cutscene video, if we go back to the bridge, the room is black
• actor is not in the good direction when entering a room
• actor still walks when changing room
• actor still walks when switching actors
• When calling radio station the answers are "$answer1", "$answer2" and so on
• It's not possible to awake the coroner in his office
• Dave should move
• Reyes cannot give a map to Ray
• Ray or Reyes should watch the van
• Franklin cannot leave his hotel room
• when we use the notebook, the text is not at the correct position
• in closeup room, go to the options menus, savegame should be disabled
• hide sentence when HUD in not visible
• verb is not reset when executed
• all actor's text are White
• actors don't respect useWalkboxes
• when franklin enters in the Hotel's lobby, Reyes should not be visible
• actor does not climb but walk on the ladder
• we don't see Chuck in the tvs in LaserHall
• PillowTronEndDialog never ends
• sayLine crash with an array
• Franklin cannot go through doors
• Ransome cannot give the floppy disk to Delores
• Chuck computer text is not translated
• Clara in the elevator should not be visible
• cannot press buttons in the elevator
• Franklin cannot put on his glasses
• wrong number of args when opening elevator
• actor is not visible in countymap
• no camera pan in the hotel
• actor is not moving in countymap
• crash when using countymap
• when using copytron, the game is frozen
• if you take once the map in the Nickel news then you can't leave the room
• hide debug tools by default and allow toggle
• it's not possible to give the letter to chuck
• Delores dance never ends
• Delores dance is buggy
• Fix delores using letter on mailbox
• ransome can't pickup his money in the safe (again)
• loading a game can crash when loading selectableActors
• fix camera position when delores use doors in the mansion hall
• (drinking sound)sip sip sip sip in dialog
• Ransome has no face when using gel
• Ransome loses his makeup
• Ransome can't take his makeup
• Ransome can't give his money to Carney
• not possible to pickup money in ransome trailer
• change actor's facing do nothing
• lips don't move anymore
• we should reset actor's follow during cutscene
• we shouldn't see cursor during cutscene
• crash if sayline with only space characters
• sometimes when actor is walking, the actor stops but the animation walking is still running
• actor sometimes disappears
• actor switcher should be not available during cutscene
• actor switcher should be not available during dialog
• dialog with coroner is never ending
• some inventory objects are empty
• empty inventory icon has 1 white pixel
• inventory icon is all white
• walkto keep the actor in memory stack
• when walk down or up, we should see the face or back of the actor
• after loading a savegame actors aren't visible
• {notalk} makes the actor disappear
• in closeup room the actor switcher should allow to go to the options menus, actors are disabled
• when we are in a closeup room, we can still move the current actor
• when we talk to Sandy, the actor is walking to the wrong spot
• when we talk to Sandy, the dialog stops before the end
• when walking the actor is wearing a hat sometimes ???
• script error when using agent badge
• selecting an actor does not switch room
• menu hotspot is wrong
• inventory hotspot is wrong
• dialog choice hotspot is wrong
• invalid talk offset (with pigeon brothers for example)
• wheels are missing in pigeons van
• when actor is switched, the verb colors are wrong
• after a cutscene, the current room is not where the actor is
• sheriff animation flip_coin3 crashs
• objectAlphaTo can be called with null as argument
• invalid room size
• when using camera on cadaver, the actor says there is no more film inside
• an actor can give something to itself
• dialog text can contains this " instead of "
• when using a door, the actor is no more in the current room
• crash with "trying to set 'thread'"
• actor's head is 1 pixel offset
• walk fast does not work
• bug use verb mouse down
• layer 1 pixel offset :(
• tutorial objects are in background
• cursor text is too big
• some triggers don't work

TODO

• UI dialogs
  • Options
    • Video
      • safe area
      • ransome unbeeped
    • Help
      • Intro (back: back to options even from mainmenu)
      • Mouse tips (back: back to options even from mainmenu)
      • Controller tips (back: back to options even from mainmenu)
      • Controller map (back: back to options even from mainmenu)
      • Keyboard map (back: back to options even from mainmenu)
    • Save game (enabled only in game)
    • Load game (back: go back to main menu or game)
    • Sound
    • Controls
    • Text & Speech
  • the background is greyed out (and is inactive)
  • Main menu (StartScreen) does not pause game
  • pause game (cursor is changed)
  • quit game (is over options, background is darker, no: go back to main menu or options)
• dialogs
  • choice anim
  • expressions
    • waitfor
    • allow objects
    • override
    • goto
    • code
    • choice
    • say
    • pause
    • dialog
    • shutup
    • waitwhile
    • limit
    • parrot
  • conditions
    • code
    • once
    • show once
    • once ever
    • temp once
  • choice slide when too long
  • yack intepreter
  • yack parsing
  • draw choices
  • allow to choose a sentence
  • hide choices after having chosen a sentence
  • disable input during dialog
  • use actor colors
  • hide cursor text* [ ] achievements
• input
  • command handlers
    • ToggleHud
    • ShowHotspot
    • ToggleDebug
    • PauseGame
    • SkipCutscene
    • SkipText
    • ShowOptions
    • SelectChoice1
    • SelectChoice2
    • SelectChoice3
    • SelectChoice4
    • SelectChoice5
    • SelectChoice6
    • SelectActor1
    • SelectActor2
    • SelectActor3
    • SelectActor4
    • SelectActor5
    • SelectActor6
    • SelectPreviousActor
    • SelectNextActor
  • verbs shortcuts
  • input mapping
• shaders
  • lighting shader
  • object shader
  • room effects
    • EGA
    • VHS
    • b/w
    • sepia
    • ghost
  • room fade
    • IN
    • OUT
    • WOBBLE
    • WOBBLE sepia
  • verb shader
• HUD
  • fade
  • actor selection
    • fade transition when switchin actors
    • actor switch
  • verbs
    • highlight default verb
    • draw verbs
  • mouse text repositioned
  • when sentence is set to classic the cursor change over objects/actors
  • inventory
    • scroll
    • inventory item animation
  • mouse zsort
  • mouse cursor
• resource management
  • ref counting with resource management
  • if a resource name contains "_en" then replace by the selected language: texture, spritesheet, ThimbleweedText_en.tsv, loadArray
• audio
  • support italian voiceover
  • sound position
  • talk
  • sound
  • music
• camera
  • advanced camera movement
  • camera follow actor
  • camera pan
• actor
  • actor reach animation
  • actor costume
  • actor animations
  • actor walking
    • path finding
    • animation
    • animation offsets
    • zsort
    • scaling
    • walk facing
    • final facing
    • walkboxes
  • actor blink
  • actor talking
    • talking speed should be adjustable
    • actor lips movement
    • change state if in {}
    • replace " by "
    • ignore text if in ()
    • ignore #M or #F at the end of a text
    • sound
  • actor walk fast
• logging
  • add colors to console
  • file log: ng.log (all levels) and errors.log (only for warnings and errors)
  • console
  • debug tool console
• preferences
  • private preferences (achievement)
  • user preferences
  • temp preferences (debug)
• sentence
  • classic sentence
  • use lookat verb for inventory object
  • use flag: with, in, on
  • use flag: giveto
  • cursor verb should be reset (walk to) when action is executed or cancelled
• debug tools (dear imgui)
  • shortcuts to show/hide
  • preferences to enable debug tools
  • console
    • dump variables
    • input
    • log
  • general
  • objects
  • actors
  • room
  • textures
  • threads
  • sounds
• cutscene
  • cutscene UI (ESC)
  • cutscene override
• triggers
  • room trigger should be called in a thread (to be breakable)
  • sound triggers
• script
  • squirrel bindings
  • easy squirrel constants bindings
  • change thread management in order to use only 1 thread
• test object hierarchy: scene graph ?
• text
  • horizontal alignment
  • vertical alignment
• continuous integration

Functions

Actor

• actorAlpha
• actorAnimationNames
• actorAnimationFlags
• actorAt
• actorBlinkRate
• actorColor
• actorCostume
• actorDistanceTo
• actorDistanceWithin
• actorFace
• actorHidden
• actorHideLayer
• actorInTrigger
• actorInWalkbox
• actorLockFacing
• actorPlayAnimation
• actorPosX
• actorPosY
• actorRenderOffset
• actorRoom
• actorShowLayer
• actorSlotSelectable
• actorStand
• actorStopWalking
• actorTalkColors
• actorTalking
• actorTalkOffset
• actorTurnTo
• actorUsePos
• actorUseWalkboxes
• actorVolume
• actorWalking
• actorWalkForward
• actorWalkSpeed
• actorWalkTo
• addSelectableActor
• createActor
• flashSelectableActor
• isActorOnScreen
• isActorSelectable
• is_actor
• masterActorArray
• mumbleLine
• sayLine
• sayLineAt
• selectActor
• stopTalking
• triggerActors
• verbUIColors

General

• activeVerb
• adhocalytics
• arrayShuffle
• assetExists
• cameraAt
• cameraBounds
• cameraFollow
• cameraInRoom
• cameraPanTo
• cameraPos
• chr
• cursorPosX
• cursorPosY
• distance
• exCommand EX_ALLOW_SAVEGAMES
• exCommand EX_POP_CHARACTER_SELECTION
• exCommand EX_AUTOSAVE
• exCommand EX_AUTOSAVE_STATE
• exCommand EX_BUTTON_HOVER_SOUND
• exCommand EX_CAMERA_TRACKING
• exCommand EX_FORCE_TALKIE_TEXT
• exCommand EX_IDLE_TIME
• exCommand EX_OPTIONS_MUSIC
• exCommand EX_RESTART
• exCommand EX_SHOW_OPTIONS
• findScreenPosition
• frameCounter
• getPrivatePref
• getUserPref
• in_array
• incutscene
• indialog
• inputVerbs
• int
• is_array
• is_function
• is_string
• is_table
• loadArray
• markAchievement
• markProgress
• markStat
• ord
• pushSentence
• random
• randomfrom
• randomOdds
• randomodds
• randomseed
• refreshUI
• screenSize
• setAmbientLight
• setDebugger
• setPrivatePref
• setUserPref
• setVerb
• startDialog
• stopSentence
• strcount
• strcrc
• strfind
• strfirst
• strlast
• strlines
• strreplace
• strsplit
• translate

Room

• addCallback
• addTrigger
• clampInWalkbox
• createLight
• lightBrightness
• lightConeAngle
• lightConeDirection
• lightConeFalloff
• lightCutOffRadius
• lightHalfRadius
• lightTurnOn
• lightZRange
• definePseudoRoom
• defineRoom
• enableTrigger
• enterRoomFromDoor
• findRoom
• masterRoomArray
• removeCallback
• removeTrigger
• roomActors
• roomEffect
  • EFFECT_NONE
  • EFFECT_SEPIA
  • EFFECT_EGA
  • EFFECT_VHS
  • EFFECT_GHOST
  • EFFECT_BLACKANDWHITE
• roomFade
  • FADE_IN
  • FADE_OUT
  • FADE_WOBBLE
  • FADE_WOBBLE_TO_SEPIA
• roomLayer
• roomOverlayColor
• roomRotateTo
• roomSize
• walkboxHidden

System

• activeController
• addFolder
• breakhere
• breaktime
• breakwhileanimating
• breakwhilecamera
• breakwhilecutscene
• breakwhiledialog
• breakwhileinputoff
• breakwhilerunning
• breakwhilesound
• breakwhiletalking
• breakwhilewalking
• cutscene
• cutsceneOverride
• dumpvar
• gameTime
• include
• inputHUD
• inputOff
• inputOn
• inputSilentOff
• inputState
• inputController
• isInputOn
• logEvent
• logInfo
• logWarning
• microTime
• moveCursorTo
• rawsafeget
• startglobalthread
• startthread
• stopthread
• threadid
• threadpauseable

Object

• createObject
• createTextObject
• deleteObject
• findObjectAt
• is_object
• isInventoryOnScreen
• isObject
• jiggleInventory
• jiggleObject
• loopObjectState
• objectAlpha
• objectAlphaTo
• objectAt
• objectBumperCycle
• objectCenter
• objectColor
• objectDependentOn
• objectFPS
• objectHidden
• objectHotspot
• objectIcon
• objectLit
• objectMoveTo
• objectOffset
• objectOffsetTo
• objectOwner
• objectParallaxLayer
• objectParent
• objectPosX
• objectPosY
• objectRenderOffset
• objectRoom
• objectRotate
• objectRotateTo
• objectScale
• objectScaleTo
• objectScreenSpace
• objectShader
• objectSort
• objectState
• objectTouchable
• objectUsePos
• objectUsePosX
• objectUsePosY
• objectValidUsePos
• objectValidVerb
• pickupObject
• pickupReplacementObject
• playObjectState
• popInventory
• removeInventory
• setDefaultObject
• shakeObject
• stopObjectMotors

Sound

• actorSound
• defineSound
• fadeOutSound
• isSoundPlaying
• loadSound
• loopMusic
• loopObjectSound
• loopSound
• masterSoundVolume
• musicMixVolume
• playMusic
• playObjectSound
• playSound
• playSoundVolume
• soundMixVolume
• soundVolume
• stopAllSounds
• stopMusic
• stopSound
• talkieMixVolume