Hi Vasily. I have to say, your development efforts are simply heroic. The changes are coming very quickly, but they are well documented so that makes it easier to keep up. I think the least I can do to help you out is to test your builds of IVAN.
I have downloaded your repository, but now I'd like to compile on windows to see if I can compile it and ultimately run it.
So I understand I have to run your distribution of k8jam to compile your version of IVAN, however, I'm having troubles compiling k8jam using FTjam (as jam.exe). I don't know what else I have to configure besides setting

set MINGW=/install/path/to/mingw/compiler
set JAM_TOOLSET=MINGW

When I try to build k8jam with FTjam I get:

C:k8jam>jam
Compiler is GCC with Mingw
warning: unknown rule set-profile
warning: unknown rule set-target-locations
warning: unknown rule gcc-suggest-attrs
warning: unknown rule softinclude
warning: unknown rule softinclude
warning: unknown rule BuildFileList
warning: unknown rule IncFile
warning: unknown rule ObjectNoAliasing
don't know how to make <src>jamgram.c
...found 161 target(s)...
...using 24 temp target(s)...
...updating 3 target(s)...
...can't find 1 target(s)...
...can't make 3 target(s)...
...skipped <src>jamgram.o for lack of <src>jamgram.c...
Cc srchsregexp.o
srchsregexp.c:87: hsregexp_unicode_mapping.c: No such file or directory

gcc -c -o srchsregexp.o  -DNT  -DMKJAMBASE_COMPACT -Isrc  srchsregexp.c

...failed Cc srchsregexp.o ...
Cc srckstrings.o
srckstrings.c:9: warning: invalid character in macro parameter name
srckstrings.c:9: badly punctuated parameter list in `#define'

gcc -c -o srckstrings.o  -DNT  -DMKJAMBASE_COMPACT -Isrc  srckstrings.c

...failed Cc srckstrings.o ...
Cc srcscan.o
srcscan.c:24: jamgram.h: No such file or directory
srcscan.c:33: jamgramtab.h: No such file or directory

gcc -c -o srcscan.o  -DNT  -DMKJAMBASE_COMPACT -Isrc  srcscan.c

...failed Cc srcscan.o ...
...skipped libjam.a for lack of libjam.a(jamgram.o)...
...skipped jam.exe for lack of libjam.a...
...failed updating 3 target(s)...
...skipped 3 target(s)...

I must be missing something obvious.

Sadly, I don't know how entity and pool work, or what they are for. Can you explain?
I'll try have a wee diff of what you changed to understand better.

I know that the script is really full of big mines. I had to tiptoe carefully to avoid causing the game to crash when I built new levels, creatures and materials. It will require documenting for others to be able to quickly make new things for themselves.

Do you think you will change the way the worldmap is created based on what was discussed in the thread with SquashMonster?

Edit: From your developments -> "klein bottle contents can't be dumped"

Great stuff Beswick. Good focus on continuing world domination plans for IVAN. Using CVS is great since it is the most recent version the original devs put out and is relatively stable.

I have reason to beleive that the bug which is caused by offering to one of the shrines in the forest is the result of the following:

In the script file, a room is generated, which has DivineMaster = 0. An altar is generated inside the room. The altar successfully generates, and is devoted to a random god, which is the intention.
When the player comes to offer at the altar,

 if(game::GetGod(Square->GetDivineMaster())->ReceiveOffer(Item)) 

is called during the offering, which checks the square underneath the altar to see who the room is devoted to. If the room has no DivineMaster, then this is consequently zero. This results in a crash due to the above code.

This can be solved in a number of ways, but I propose a function that randomly assigns a DivineMaster to a room if it is set to DivineMaster = Random; in the script file. Altars are normally randomly generated by the game, and if an altar is assigned to a room, then the game changes that room's DivineMaster to the appropriate god.

I'd like to be able to set DivineMaster = 10:15; which would select a random chaotic god, to give the room and altar some evil flavour.

The other way to solve this is to hard-code the DivineMaster for each shrine, but that would make life boring.

Hey that's great news! Good to see you back


Try not to remember to port the bugs. I've recently observed a bug in CLIVAN that crashes the game when you make an offering in one of the altars in the forest. I'll be looking into it to see what the fatal exception is.

Here's the new repo reposted here

Keep up the great work my man. If you have any questions about some of my implementations then feel free to ask.

Thanks D. This is one of those crazy bugs that tempts you to code more IVAN.

Hi dlbeswick and welcome! It's a great day when someone works on IVAN.
Can you explain how you fixed the bug?

It must be this year's april fool's day trick...

A good criterion. I think that mistresses would make great ghosts too.

Re chao, there could be a chance for ghost to spawn from a specific death of a character. Also, levels could have a flag like "AllowGhostsToSpawnFromDeadChars = true" type of thing. There could be a cooldown timer between the time of creature death and the time when the ghost shows up.

Should the ghost show up on the level where they died? Or can they show up at any level where you happen to be? Should they show up where their corpse is?

You could offer a dead creature's corpse to a god to prevent the ghost from rising. (not every creature would have a soul, but say if you wanted to be sure that Sherarax didn't show up in ghost form...)

Ghosts could arise out of their former avatars being killed in a certain way (beheading?) or there could be simply a 10% chance of them showing up at all, after the death.

Another idea:
Engraving could be modified to require a tool, like a pen or something. Then you would dip the pen in some ink, and it would "engrave" onto the surface of the floor. Other ways to write would be by engraving with a tool that is harder than the floor on which is being engraved.

I introduce that idea because I thought it would be cool if ghosts could write threatening things in blood all over the dungeon floors.

People want ghosts to resemble those humanoids which they used to be.

For this, we will need to create a new way of making ghosts. This type of ghost will come from humanoids, and will be modeled on zombies from IVAN CVS, where special types of zombies were preconfigured using "CreateUndeadConfigurations".
Somehow, the torso and limb configurations will be retrieved to create a ghost and the colours of the torso, head and limbs will be switched to grey scale. One question is, what will ghosts equip? Does their gear need to be switched to ghost materials??
-One thing I'd like to implement is if the humanoid was killed by beheading, then the ghost that comes from that will forever wield its head (in both hands), and will also aquire an attribute bonus upon generation.
-Ghost bodyparts get sucked into hell when severed.
-Ghosts have move-type ethereal (walk through walls).
-After a number of days, all ghosts become invisible (as per another type of character we won't name)
-Ghosts of izzy, sherarax, danny?
-Ghosts of the slave from Attnam? If he dies during the game, he comes back a bit later to kick your arse. Makes you think twice about taking that guy with you.
-Ghost of Ivan??
-Ghosts only made from humanoids with souls?
-The question follows: Do goblins, orcs etc have souls?
-Undead dark frogs? (for that matter, zombie dark frogs?)

Most perversely there is the remote opportunity to make a spell scroll that splits the player's body and soul apart, so that the player becomes a zombie and must find his wandering ghost (somewhere on the level) in order to become human again.

What other things could be suggested to make ghosts more integral to the game?