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Much Accomplished, but Stuck on Something Simple


Storms of Superior

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Hey, folks.

 

I just decided to call it a night with the CK; I accomplished an entire rebuilding and expansion of my first mod, Crippling Poisons, but now I'm at a loss for how to deal with a particular problem.

 

First of all, here is my forward progress: I created three crippling poisons, each with a greater escalation of effects than the previous poison. I also remade Slaver's Frostbite Venom (SFV) with exactly the same effects that it had before I lost the mod a few months ago (quite the memory there). I also remade Frostbite venom XL exactly as it was, and I even made it craftable at a cooking pot.

 

In addition to this, I made a leveled list with all of these items, and stuck it in another leveled list to be read by a merchant NPC. I also made that merchant NPC. Along the way, I spent several hours trying to get merchant dialogue to appear in game. I became fed up with the trial and error method that was producing the same predictable result; I made a new character to test the mod, and, for some reason, the merchant dialogue appeared, and now I have to figure out how to streamline the new mod so it doesn't require a new game. Once I selected The merchant dialogue, I found a completely empty page where saleable items are meant to show up. I spent another hour trying to figure that one out.

 

So, now I am going to take 'er easy, and try not to get burned out over this new problem.

 

Thanks for reading, folks.

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Content Consumer

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It's usually something trivial.

You'll spend days trying to figure out how to do something, or trying to fix a bug... and when you finally figure it out, you'll slap your forehead in wonder at how dumb you've been for not noticing this tiny checkbox or single line of code.

At least, that's what generally happens to me...

I once made a spirograph-like program that was supposed to fill in a circle. But it never did... it would fill in most of the circle but not all of it, and I went crazy for days trying to figure out what was going wrong. I changed every variable I could find, messed with every function I made, and couldn't figure it out.

Eventually I discovered that I had included the line:

     int pi=3.1415927

Instead of the line:

     float pi=3.1415927

Right at the top of my source.

Facepalm.

Storms of Superior

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Yeah, I don't do coding at this point. I checked the container, the merchant NPC, and the faction, over and over, and I came to the conclusion that I would just need to rest a while, who knows how long, and then go back to it when I'm not sick with a cold and ring headache. That rest isn't over yet. I feel worse today, even without the headache.

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