RPG Maker 20XX Engine

author=SGCN
What I mean is, when you play your game, do you load up a previous save file or do you start up a new game file? Just wondering becuase it may be why some commands don't work for you sometimes. This is just a guess though, could have nothing to do with it.

Oh, nope. I don't load a save file.

author=SGCN
Question, are you loading a file or starting a new game every time?

I do everything in the same project. What do you mean by loading a file? A game? I use an existing game I started working on that doesn't have much to it yet. I don't make small games for testing 1 thing, I'm trying to put things together as a whole game now. Which is hard to do because some of the more useful stuff isn't working yet.

I'm pretty sure it's (x,y,pixels-full,width), here's proof:
rpgmaker.net/users/SGCN/locker/BarTest.rar

haha Guess what?...it's my system graphic again. D'oh! That thing is really screwing me around. I gotta remember to check my graphics next time something doesn't work. Well, anyways, that means the information on the game page is wrong.

12 Draw Health Bar : (A=x,B=y,C=size of bar,D=value inside bar)

author=SGCN
Try to open your battle charset file in an image editor and shift it a few pixels and see how it looks.

I bet that's it.

It's probably drawing the top-left corner of the image at those coordinates...hmm, maybe I'm better off finding a way to center it in game rather than start editing the files. Even if I do edit the file to move the image to the top-left, it won't be centered on the charset.

*Every time I try to do something, it doesn't work. Then 20 minutes later I try it again in what seems like the same way, and it works :/


As a side note: I keep wasting time on misinformation in the documentation. First it was lack of documentation and now what's there is wrong. There needs to be a serious effort to proof-read stuff and make sure it's correct. We've got the same information spread out in several places and it's all different and each piece seems to be wrong in different ways. Then when something is updated it's not updated in each spot.

In the document called "20xx-command-reference.txt" which I downloaded from that link WC gave me.
It says "12: Draw Health Bar (x,y,pixels-full,width)"
but it's actually 12: Draw Health Bar (x,y,width,pixels-full)
(sent an email on this)

Argh! I'm trying to figure out why my health bar isn't working and duhhhh

Sorry, battle charset. 20xx special command 20.

* xD just played it today. Amazing piece of work.

I meant the font size of the game profile :x (sorry, I wasn't very specific!)

author=amerkevicius
Not to sound pessimistic, but it just seems coincidential that now that MD is down (not sure for how long, as I can't find anything anywhere about that), suddenly the project is springing to life again on RMN, at least with discussion and blogs. What's going to happen when MD gets rolling again?

I doubt it has anything to do with that. Feld would talk about the engine every once and a while, and the most recent time I suggested that he become a dev on this game page to bring focus back here.

This has nothing to with WC, it's all us.





@Feld - Please include this link somewhere where it will be noticed. It's the link to find the documents regarding commands and working functions that are missing in the download.

https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/rm20xx/rpgm20xx/release/docs/

Note: this reflects the immediate state of the engine on my(WC) laptop and source code, *not* the latest release in the ZIP file- but it shouldn't be too far out of sync.

author=SGCN
From the pdf:

• F5 – Opens the save menu so that the tester can save anywhere.

• F6 – Takes a picture and saves it with the game save data.

• F7 – Opens the game save folder in the file browser.

• F12 – Toggles FPS and information overlay (useful for taking
  clean screenshots).

This only works in test play mode if you renamed wcrpg2kxe.exe to RPG_RT.exe. Also remember to open up your RPG_RT.ini file in a text editor and add the following line: Year=20XX

If you want the F9 debug menu back, I think you just remove the "Year=20XX" line.

Yeah, I know this stuff but I was just making the point that there should a full list of these functions because there are others that aren't listed, like F10 activating some kind of slow mode. Sure I can just press them to see what happens, but that's besides the point.

And if it's possible to get the previous functionality back, that should be documented too.

Weird, these special commands are listed on this blog, however in the 20xx-command-reference.txt file they are not listed. Perhaps they are not implemented yet?

What file is that?

Yeah the drawn window will always be on top of your pictures. You want to use the Draw Window command with the other Draw commands (Number, Health bar etc.) to make a custom HUD for example.

No, the draw window command appears over the- haha oops, I just tried it again and it does appear under the other draw commands. I must have made a mistake when I first tried it, because I put both on at the same time and only saw the window. Oh well, I'd rather use pictures for under those other draw commands anyways ;)

The Draw Health/Mana Bar function takes in 4 parameters: x-coord, y-coord, pixels full and width. The "pixels full" parameter can be set to someone's current HP or set to another variable. The "width" parameter controls the max size. I think the appearance of the health and mana bar is dependant on your system graphic.

Hmm, I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I had no issue using it, it's just that since both the HP and MP bars use variable C and D you can't have HP at 10 and MP at 5. That's what I want. To have them both on screen at all times and have them both moving independently.

I think I skipped over this command.

Since you have the doucments, is this on the list of things that are supposed to work?

I told WC that there is no spreadsheet so hopefully he will put back any missing files.

Take a look at this sample game: rpgmaker.net/users/SGCN/locker/SelfVarTest.rar

The important thing to remember is to teleport to a new map after setting your self variables.

Oh, ok. It's not listed anywhere that you have to move to a new map, so I didn't know that part. And it really should be listed in the set self variable command that you have to use the save variable command afterwards. Even though as you read through the list you will read the save variable command and should be able to realize how it works. My whole point is that this process needs to be more user friendly and laid out in extremely clear terms. If I'm going through the list and trying each command one by one, I'm going to try and get it work before moving onto another command.