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Hi, everyone! Let me offer my apologies for disappearing four years ago. I was finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the changes being made to BFW at the time. My old scenarios were being rendered problematic or unplayable with changes in code or art, while I was finding it difficult to ...

... Yay! Alrighty, these nice comments are enough to get me revving to go again. :) Amazing what a kind word can do, isn't it? This month, I've been busy with an online roleplaying world called Kings and Vagabonds MUCK. It's one of many, many places based on Disney's "The Lion King" (what ...

Woot! I'm wondering if the reason I haven't gotten any feedback yet is that no one wants to play through all the early scenarios just to get to the new one. I should probably put up a saved game, huh?

I have just released version 0.6.0 of A Gryphon's Tale! This update took me weeks of labor and was rife with frustration and tedium, but it had to be done, because now that I've started this thing I can't leave it unfinished. This update can be found on the 1.1.7+ server. Its features include: * A n...

Done! The problem turned out that I was just trying to send too much. I was including all the music that was taken out in 1.1, which drove the total campaign size to over 5 megs. I figured this would be okay because there are a couple of campaigns of that size, but maybe it just took their creators ...

After a year since my last update and weeks of hard, tedious work, I have completed an update for A Gryphon's Tale! The problem is, I can't seem to publish it. When I try, I get the Terms window and click OK, and then it just hangs, and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del Wesnoth. I tried waiting for half an hou...

I'm having trouble convincing units on one side (side 2) to attack the sole unit on the only enemy side (side 3). The would-be attackers are strong units at full health; their intended target is incredibly wimpy and is guaranteed to die in a single blow. Side 2 has the following ai tag: [ai] village...

Thanks, all, this looks doable.

I'd like to create an object that gives units the 'teleport' ability. I've looked through the Wiki, the utils.cfg file, and a saved game file, but I'm still at a loss. It's worth noting that the Wiki page on the [unit] tag (for unit types) doesn't include the [abilities] tag that I see being used, o...

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Durnit! The developers apparently changed the 'fly' movement type, so that now it takes 3 movement points for a flying unit to cross a cave hex. That breaks Orcish Prison and the new scenario I'm working on. I didn't want to have to create custom gryphon units, but now I can't think of a good altern...

I once asked about how to comment out a block of text, and I got a lot of useful suggestions. The most efficient suggestion was to enclose the text I wanted to comment out in braces, as it was very unlikely to be a preprocessor directive. I've done that successfully for a long time, but recently I'v...

What I want to do in my campaign is have the player's own units start fighting against the player if a given event is triggered. I know it's possible to change what team a side is playing for. It doesn't seem to be possible, however, to change who controls a given side--human versus ai. The other ch...

I'd like to use the [colour_adjust] tag to permanently change the color of a scenario. However, it always resets to zero when the event it's part of ends. And when I use a second [colour_adjust] tag, it just overwrites it with the new figure instead of adding it as the wiki suggests it will. Is this...

I can't seem to get any of my 'sighted' events working properly. I recall that a year ago, the [filter] and [filter_second] tags were reversed from what the Wiki said about them. So as it happened, they would trigger when primary_unit is sighted by secondary_unit, and not vice versa. Now, it doesn't...