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Max McGee
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CloseI vaguely remember there being a 'quick questions and answers' thread in Help Me! for questions that didn't deserve their own topic. Was that ever a thing?
Anyway, does anyone know the exact specific filesize that makes RPG Maker VX (ACE) shit the bed when you try to encrypt and compress a project? What I understand is something along the lines of, if there's an image that's too large, like x by y pixels or whatever, the program fucks up and throws an error when it's trying to encrypt/compress a game project. I just don't know what the file size cap actually is.
Obviously I'm not planning to include a lot of STUPID DUMB HUGE images in my game or anything. It's really only an issue for my IconSet file. Right now it's 384x4992 and I'm really feeling out of room for icons I need and I want to make it bigger. But I'm worried that an x or y dimension of 5000 pixels is the point where problems start cropping up.
Anyway, does anyone know the exact specific filesize that makes RPG Maker VX (ACE) shit the bed when you try to encrypt and compress a project? What I understand is something along the lines of, if there's an image that's too large, like x by y pixels or whatever, the program fucks up and throws an error when it's trying to encrypt/compress a game project. I just don't know what the file size cap actually is.
Obviously I'm not planning to include a lot of STUPID DUMB HUGE images in my game or anything. It's really only an issue for my IconSet file. Right now it's 384x4992 and I'm really feeling out of room for icons I need and I want to make it bigger. But I'm worried that an x or y dimension of 5000 pixels is the point where problems start cropping up.
I believe there was one: I distinctly remember that I either started one or was quite active in one that someone else started.
In topic, I'm honestly not aware of a size cap in VX Ace; is this an issue you've experienced directly?
In topic, I'm honestly not aware of a size cap in VX Ace; is this an issue you've experienced directly?
author=Max McGee
Obviously I'm not planning to include a lot of STUPID DUMB HUGE images in my game or anything. It's really only an issue for my IconSet file. Right now it's 384x4992 and I'm really feeling out of room for icons I need and I want to make it bigger. But I'm worried that an x or y dimension of 5000 pixels is the point where problems start cropping up.
There may be a script in existence to address such an issue. If you can't find such a thing, the issue probably doesn't exist.
edit: why on earth do you need 3,328 icons anyway
Nirwanda
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From the vx ace help file:
Note that the Compress Game Data command may fail with game projects exceeding approximately 2 GB.*
*This value is merely a guideline. It will vary depending on the PC hardware and OS you are using and the game you are creating.
Note that the Compress Game Data command may fail with game projects exceeding approximately 2 GB.*
*This value is merely a guideline. It will vary depending on the PC hardware and OS you are using and the game you are creating.
edit: why on earth do you need 3,328 icons anyway
my game has LOTS of skills, status effects, weapons, and armor. LOTS. obviously they won't all be used, but a LOT of them will. Obviously I don't know a priori which ones exactly I will or won't use, that won't be decided until the database (i.e. the game) is fully complete. But there is enough icon-needing content in the game that I want at least that large of a pool to choose from.
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author=Nirwanda
From the vx ace help file:
Note that the Compress Game Data command may fail with game projects exceeding approximately 2 GB.*
*This value is merely a guideline. It will vary depending on the PC hardware and OS you are using and the game you are creating.
wait a second...you, there, with the avatar. STOP, IMMEDIATELY. your username/avatar is Nirwanda, the "True Name" of the Jester Spirit from the SNES Shadowrun. IS THIS CORRECT??
Nirwanda
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THIS IS CORRECT: I'm not funny enough to warrant the name Laughlyn, so I went for the second best thing.
OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN
Ok so I'm kind of a huge Shadowrun fanboy I started with the SNES game when I was a little'un and I moved onto the tabletop game and long story shorts Shadowrun dominates at least 40-60% of my life/thoughts at any given time. I am whatever the Shadowrun equivalent of a Trekkie or a Star Wars person is.
So yeah actually like four years ago I got a job WRITING FOR SHADOWRUN (the tabletop game) which was AWESOME like the BEST THING EVER at least for a while. Then...eh...shit got complicated. As it's wont to do in life, sadly. Anyway I am quasi-retired from that now, but I expect to jump back in or at least do my damnedest at some point in the future.
Anyway my point in all of this is that the character you picked for your Avatar and username (I guess he made kind of an impression on you!) made such an enormous impression on ME, also, that one of the things I did during my stint as a Shadowrun writer was explicitly and canonically take the Jester Spirit from the SNES game and write him into the background fluff of the Shadowrun tabletop universe, linking him narrative-wise to the character of Harlequin with whom he shares some obvious thematic similarities. I wouldn't say "claim to faim" but it is one of my favorite things I accomplished during my time writing for Shadowrun. Like this was not a fanfic or some shit. This is something I actually did. To the canon. With my own two hands. I saw where the Jester Spirit from the SNES Shadowrun was not, and I said..."this will not do".
I needed to tell you all of this because maybe like five people on the entire internet IF THAT can appreciate this obscure BS I am vomiting forth and you are CLEARLY AND UNMISTAKABLY one of them.
*deep breath*
Ok so I'm kind of a huge Shadowrun fanboy I started with the SNES game when I was a little'un and I moved onto the tabletop game and long story shorts Shadowrun dominates at least 40-60% of my life/thoughts at any given time. I am whatever the Shadowrun equivalent of a Trekkie or a Star Wars person is.
So yeah actually like four years ago I got a job WRITING FOR SHADOWRUN (the tabletop game) which was AWESOME like the BEST THING EVER at least for a while. Then...eh...shit got complicated. As it's wont to do in life, sadly. Anyway I am quasi-retired from that now, but I expect to jump back in or at least do my damnedest at some point in the future.
Anyway my point in all of this is that the character you picked for your Avatar and username (I guess he made kind of an impression on you!) made such an enormous impression on ME, also, that one of the things I did during my stint as a Shadowrun writer was explicitly and canonically take the Jester Spirit from the SNES game and write him into the background fluff of the Shadowrun tabletop universe, linking him narrative-wise to the character of Harlequin with whom he shares some obvious thematic similarities. I wouldn't say "claim to faim" but it is one of my favorite things I accomplished during my time writing for Shadowrun. Like this was not a fanfic or some shit. This is something I actually did. To the canon. With my own two hands. I saw where the Jester Spirit from the SNES Shadowrun was not, and I said..."this will not do".
I needed to tell you all of this because maybe like five people on the entire internet IF THAT can appreciate this obscure BS I am vomiting forth and you are CLEARLY AND UNMISTAKABLY one of them.
*deep breath*
Nirwanda
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How do I answer to this? I hate to dash you hopes, but I'm not one of them. It makes me feel a little guilty. I mean, look at you, I wish I had that kind of passion about something.
I enjoyed the games as the flawed gems that they were and found the character memorable enough to use him as an Username/avatar. But that's really the extent of my commitment to the Shadowrun universe.
Why do you say that only 5 people would understand you? There are a lot of Shadowrun fans on internet; after all, last years' Shadowrun Returns got funded via Kickstarter. You DO know that...right? You're more likely to find like-minded on their forums.
I enjoyed the games as the flawed gems that they were and found the character memorable enough to use him as an Username/avatar. But that's really the extent of my commitment to the Shadowrun universe.
Why do you say that only 5 people would understand you? There are a lot of Shadowrun fans on internet; after all, last years' Shadowrun Returns got funded via Kickstarter. You DO know that...right? You're more likely to find like-minded on their forums.
oh dude I know...I'm not plugged into the SR online community cuz reasons but I have been in the past. as a writer for CGL I was a minor celebrity there. I could probably have written for SRR or SRO too, but passed because I was busy with my own stuff.
the truth is...like...the number of people who play the shadowrun tabletop game that I see online is actually VASTLY greater than the number of people I see online who remember the Shadowrun SNES game. so yeah...people who care about the SNES Shadowrun game are actually rarer in my circles than people who are obsessed with the tabletop game, like me.
anyway i was just excited lol. if you don't know shit or care about the shadowrun tabletop game that's fine. i just couldn't help but inform you that i took the character you have chosen for your avatar and rewrote him into canon because i thought if nothing else that was remarkable.
the truth is...like...the number of people who play the shadowrun tabletop game that I see online is actually VASTLY greater than the number of people I see online who remember the Shadowrun SNES game. so yeah...people who care about the SNES Shadowrun game are actually rarer in my circles than people who are obsessed with the tabletop game, like me.
anyway i was just excited lol. if you don't know shit or care about the shadowrun tabletop game that's fine. i just couldn't help but inform you that i took the character you have chosen for your avatar and rewrote him into canon because i thought if nothing else that was remarkable.
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