[DYNRPG] RPGSS

• MIT Licenced.
  
• Lua instead of C++. Lua is very easy to pick up, dynamic, powerful, extendable, widely used (even in commercial video games) and very fast ( compiles Lua code to machine code at run time).
  
• Rapid extension development and painless maintenance. An extension in RPGSS is simply a human-readable Lua source code file.
  
• Meaningful error messages and a detailed stack traceback, when something goes wrong, assist the developer.
  
• Most of the powerful C++ DynRPG API available to Lua scripts.
  
• Rich set of powerful standard libraries. RPGSS provides a lot of essential libraries out of the box with an easy to pick up API.
  
• Fast and powerful graphics routines. Unfortunately the graphics routines available to a DynRPG plugin developer are slow and simplistic. RPGSS provides a rich set of blazing fast graphics routines that open up new possibilities.
  

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• Improve the documentation. (Priority: High)
  
• Add more scripts. (Priority: High)
  
• Add more graphics routines. (Priority: Middle)
  
• Optimize the graphics routines even more. (Priority: Middle)
  
• Add a spatial audio library. (Priority: Low)
  

author=gadesx
amazing work, so it support images of full color?

author=LizardKing
@kyuu - actually, if it's not too much trouble could you add an 8-bit screenshot option? For some odd reason my SFX.exe has stopped working and this sounds way easier than routing through two or three external programs. =/

Edit: Well, I figured out how to do it using ImageMagick and some os. functions, and the code you provided. Thanks a bunch for writing this!

author=Razzy
so can it read ogg files ?

author=Razzy
I think I'm not really understanding how to install it or see any difference.

author=LizardKing
I noticed in the demo that you bound the mouse sprite to the mouse "coordinate system" (in esi\spritelib.lua)

What other coordinate systems are there that you can bind sprites to? Events? Battlers? Or just the mouse?

        if self._coord_sys == "screen" then
            -- NO-OP
        elseif self._coord_sys == "mouse" then
            local mouse_x, mouse_y = mouse.getPosition()
            x = mouse_x + x
            y = mouse_y + y
        elseif self._coord_sys == "map" then
            local cam_x, cam_y = game.map.getCameraPosition()
            x = x - cam_x
            y = y - cam_y
        elseif self._coord_sys == "hero" then
            local hero_x, hero_y = game.map.hero:getScreenPosition()
            x = x + hero_x
            y = y + hero_y
        else -- event
            local event = game.map.findEventByName(self._coord_sys)
            if event ~= nil then
                local event_x, event_y = event:getScreenPosition()
                x = x + event_x
                y = y + event_y
            end
        end

author=Razzy
also wondering how the font works x_x

• There must be 256 characters (each maps to an ASCII code, starting from the top-left).
• There must be 16 rows of 16 characters.
• All characters must have the same maximum width and height (the actual character width can be smaller).
• A 1px border with an unused color must separate the characters.

author=gadesx
drawing windows using window skins, drawing text using bitmap fonts, seamless reading from archivesI need this ;)
How can start to use it? can you make a project sample with a message?