[LibDay:3.01] First Arrival and Mask of Arcadius Port

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not or even related to your mod Bigfoot but in LD I can't progress any further, I'm at the point where you set the course for Cera and Ava tells you of three side missions.  They are: Attacking the PACT fleet at Tydaria, Investigating missing civilian ships near a nebula and another Union mission thats not an escort mission.  I only get the attacking PACT at Tydaria mission on the map and when I completed that nothing else shows up so I can progress, no red boxes telling me a missions here or any new locations to go to and there are no characters to talk to on the Sunrider.  I have the character side missions mods as well as the Ceran Corvette for LD mod added to the game if those make a difference.  Also there is no error log.  If you could or anyone help me out with this that would be great, cheers!

www.dropbox.com/s/6px3jsnipolktix/1-4-LT1.save?dl=0  This is after Ava tells you about the side missions

www.dropbox.com/s/y3ur87uqti0n1ri/1-5-LT1.save?dl=0  This is after I finished Battle of Tydaria

I hope those are the right files of my game that you need, if not let me know, cheers!

Thanks mate, cheers!  And I figured that I was in the minority in making that choice ^_^;;  One day I might actually try the other choice....one day....

I didn't start applying missiles to my strategy until Far Point, and even then I didn't expect them to be game-breaking death blossoms. So no, I hadn't relied on missiles that early in the game.

But you're still getting far from my point that the stage by stage difficulty of the port, and the behaviors and capabilities of the opponents, is a very poor fidelity reproduction. Instead of stabbing in the dark as to what I'm saying here, could you try playing the original FA and this port side by side, battle by battle, and give your impression of the comparison?

Sure, no problem

The first thing, is the mod doesn't include the images, because they are absolutely massive and would take forever to upload/download and its easy enough to download MoA through steam and just copy the images across (and I feel LiS should get some recognition from people downloading MoA).

• Download MoA through steam or the website, the MoA port rar and the Sidemission mod rar
• Extract the MoA folder into "Sunrider Liberation Day\game"
  
• Copy the image folders listed in the first post from "Mask of Arcadius\game" into "Sunrider Liberation Day\game\MoA", its on the main page but here is the list again:
• [Background, Battle Ui, Censored, cg, Character, gameplay, Map, Menu, Music, sound, space, Transitions]

Now MoA is installed, you can run LD-MoA and if you get any problems let me know and I will try to help

To install Saibotlieh's mods:

• Open the Rar file and drop the Mod folder into the "Sunrider Liberation Day\game" folder
  

If you have any problems, then let me know and if you could post the traceback report that should open if the game crashes, then that would be very helpful

It might be useful if they have been installed wrong, to delete the MoA and Mod folder in the Lday install so they don't cause conflicts.

Let me know how it goes!

Recently tried out this mod and so far it seem great! ...except for one crippling bug... the option to conduct research never showed up - no button for it anywhere and no option in dialogue (although from the sounds of it the second one of these is intentional).

Operating system: windows 7
Downloaded mod within the past two days and sunrider should be up to date as of the time I posted this.
Let me know if there is any other information that could prove helpful. The game plays very differently when money for upgrades, escorts, torpedoes doesn't come at the cost of worse long term performance and its been fun messing with that a bit.



Edit: Nvm, my memory of when one first gets access to research was just off a bit. My apologies. That said I now have an actual bug now but will make a new post for it.

So to use the mods do I want that link on the first page to get more missions, or is there another link I want to use?

A few bugs:

Sometimes the game fails to start and the following traceback log is generated:
'
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
File "game/MoA/Character Sprites.rpy", line 510, in script
image ava hs handonhip angry:
Exception: Possible infinite loop.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 281, in bootstrap
renpy.main.main()
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\main.py", line 401, in main
game.context().run(node)
File "game/MoA/Character Sprites.rpy", line 510, in script
image ava hs handonhip angry:
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\execution.py", line 52, in check_infinite_loop
raise Exception("Possible infinite loop.")
Exception: Possible infinite loop.

Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
Ren'Py 6.99.8.959
Release 3.01
'



Bug potentially from this mod but likely from another one dependent upon this instead:

Preface: This may be from this mod or from another mod which requires this one and adds extra character side missions (link follows): innomenpro.com/forums/index.php?topic=1307.0
 Upon a little more testing its seeming more and more likely that its actually the other mod, since the error only started after finishing some of the extra missions that were added. Including a mission that didn't have the sunrider (and I think possibly after that one in particular).
Issue: The full forward command isn't affecting the paladin. To be more specific the paladin receives the buff (as in it appears on their list of buffs) but does not have any indicated change to its accuracy or damage (including when damage is dealt to targets, it matches expected damage for no buffs - tested with kinetic to avoid possibility of only some shots hitting).
When (in terms of missions cleared): After shore leave but before completing any other original (as in not from a mod) mission in MoA.

I found a little bug:

image claude nurse fingeronlip kittysmile:
"MoA/Character/Claude/claude_nurse_fingeronlip_kittysmile.png"
yanchor 0.51 ypos 1.0
xanchor 0.5
zoom 0.6255
subpixel True

image claude nurse fingeronlip kittysmile:
"MoA/Character/Claude/claude_nurse_altneutral_bod.png"
yanchor 0.51 ypos 1.0
xanchor 0.5
zoom 0.6255
subpixel True

(Line 2815 - 2826 in Character Sprites.rpy)

This causes Claude to look... strange in some situations: Creepy Claude



Edit: Ah and another bug. As soon as I shield down/flak down the Legion it says "effect is half effective bla bla bla" but the Legion still get its shield/flak down by 100%.

You should look up MoA/MoA/sound/battle.wav in your code. I found a couple of these that caused a crash, easy enough to fix. At least for me, the extra MoA folder was unnecessary.

I finally played through the whole mod, and I love it. Sunrider felt fresh again and I had a Blast on Captain difficulty. Ava has a sore throat now from screaming "CORE IMPLOSION IMMINENT!," but that's beside the point. A problem I ran into however was that Ren'py kept running out of memory. I searched for ways to increase the memory available, but every person who talked about it, instead of giving ways to increase memory, simply said that if the Ren'py engine ran out of memory, then you're images are sized incorrectly. That could be the problem, or it could not be, idk. Ultimately I ended up trying to use Large Address Aware, but that didn't make any difference. Is Sunrider: Lib a 32-bit app or a 64-bit app, because that could affect whether or not L.A.W. works or not.

Most of the time the memory crash happened either right after or right before you place your units for a battle, often when it tries to bring up dialogue or the text for your objective. Which makes sense, that's when the game has the most things going on at once.  

Also, I can't believe I forgot to say this before, but thanks for taking the time to make this mod and for helping with any issues.  emoticon_claude2_small

Don't know if this is intended but after Reset_on_LD the Sunrider loses his 'Sunrider Shield Upgrade'. It's not readded like the rocket upgrade or the repair upgrade of the Liberty. Was caused by a mistake in my Jaguar Mod. Forget this.

Maybe you could add an eval of a certain list in reset_LD() where modders like me and saibotlieh can add functions which are called when resetting to LD. The problem is, the upgrades which can be bought in saibotlieh's mod and in my mod before the reset are lost as well.

Maybe adding something like this?:

   def reset_LD():
       ...
       if reset_LD_actions != []:
           for item in reset_LD_actions:
               if eval(item[0]):
                   item[1]()

init -1 python:
   reset_LD_actions == []

saibotlieh would then have the following code in any of his .rpy's:

init 50 python:

   def saibotlieh_rewards_and_items():
       if HasSL_SM_SolaMission_StoreItem:
           seraphim.move_cost -= 10
       if SL_SM_ChigaraMission_Complete:
           liberty.max_en += 10
       if SL_SM_IcariMission_StoreItem_Attached:
           phoenix.max_en -= 10

   reset_LD_actions.append(("True",saibotlieh_rewards_and_items))
One more thing: The music in the very first fight is wrong. I think "The_Final_Battle.ogg" is a bit too epic for the first warm up fight Also the enemy turn music is turned off. In the second fight the enemy turn music is turned off as well. Correct would be:
Fight 1:
$ PlayerTurnMusic = "MoA/music/Titan.ogg"
$ EnemyTurnMusic = "MoA/music/Dusty_Universe.ogg"
Fight 2:
$ PlayerTurnMusic = None
$ EnemyTurnMusic = "MoA/music/Sui_Generis.ogg"

I got this while running the intro of arrival:


I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While loading <'Image' 'MoA/Character/Ava/ava_uniform_alt_neutral_neutral.png'>:
 File "game/MoA/MoA in LD.rpy", line 574, in script
   ava "We've been working for the past two weeks testing her systems. She's prepped to go on your word, sir."
IOError: Couldn't find file 'MoA/Character/Ava/ava_uniform_alt_neutral_neutral.png'.

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
 File "game/MoA/MoA in LD.rpy", line 574, in script
   ava "We've been working for the past two weeks testing her systems. She's prepped to go on your word, sir."
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\ast.py", line 603, in execute
   renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\exports.py", line 1121, in say
   who(what, interact=interact)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\character.py", line 828, in __call__
   self.do_display(who, what, cb_args=self.cb_args, **display_args)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\character.py", line 690, in do_display
   **display_args)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\character.py", line 493, in display_say
   rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='say', type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\ui.py", line 277, in interact
   rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\core.py", line 2424, in interact
   repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, **kwargs)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\core.py", line 2765, in interact_core
   self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\core.py", line 1849, in draw_screen
   renpy.config.screen_height,
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 394, in renpy.display.render.render_screen (gen\renpy.display.render.c:6190)
   rv = render(root, width, height, 0, 0)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\layout.py", line 650, in render
   surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3104)
   cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\layout.py", line 650, in render
   surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3104)
   cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\layout.py", line 650, in render
   surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3104)
   cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\image.py", line 261, in render
   return wrap_render(self.target, width, height, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\image.py", line 124, in wrap_render
   rend = render(child, w, h, st, at)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 103, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:3104)
   cpdef render(d, object widtho, object heighto, double st, double at):
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "renpy/display/accelerator.pyx", line 104, in renpy.display.accelerator.transform_render (gen\renpy.display.accelerator.c:1905)
   cr = render(child, widtho, heighto, st - self.child_st_base, at)
 File "renpy/display/render.pyx", line 185, in renpy.display.render.render (gen\renpy.display.render.c:2721)
   rv = d.render(widtho, heighto, st, at)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\im.py", line 478, in render
   im = cache.get(self)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\im.py", line 200, in get
   surf = image.load()
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\display\im.py", line 529, in load
   surf = renpy.display.pgrender.load_image(renpy.loader.load(self.filename), self.filename)
 File "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Sunrider Liberation Day\renpy\loader.py", line 533, in load
   raise IOError("Couldn't find file '%s'." % name)
IOError: Couldn't find file 'MoA/Character/Ava/ava_uniform_alt_neutral_neutral.png'.

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 6.99.8.959
Release 3.01