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The Great Purge ~ engine changes

  • Melkino
  • 12/06/2012 12:21 AM
  • 3935 views
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been looking into moving the game to VX Ace. This is because of various technical issues that are out of my control with the VX version:

- Out of battle party members gain no exp because of a script conflict
- Status effects that occur periodically such as Poison and Regen take effect at seemingly random times because of Melody's CTB mode. I thought they'd occur after the character takes their turn, but noooo. Regen was once in the demo but removed because of this.
- overall lag

Outside of spending hours hunting down scripts for certain functions, the porting tests have been going pretty well. I feel like I'm getting things done in a fraction of the time. All of the skill animations have been ported thanks to that VX-to-Ace conversion program, and I've found even more animations from tekepon.net. I've already rewritten many of my custom action sequences to be compatible with Yami's Battle Engine Symphony. (it's pretty cool!) The evented title screen has been ported over as well. The things I've learned from editing VX scripts has helped me in quickly editing the Ace ones.

Fortunately, it seems like the majority of the important features that were planned for the VX version can be replicated in Ace. Crafting will likely be streamlined and result in less inventory clutter. Learning skills from books will probably be changed once I find a script that suits the game.

Assuming I don't run into a serious problem while messing around with this revision, future development will likely continue in Ace. I'll change the engine label later.

In other news, I've been working on more waist-up portraits and getting a bit faster at it. Here are some WIP screenshots of them being used in menus!



(note: the stats are wrong and the equipment is debug-only)

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I always find the scripts the show off the full character to be really awesome. I also quite like the artwork.
Oooh. How exciting! I hope everything goes well Melkino! Also, the shots look quite lovely. The only thing off seems to be the hands. I can't draw hands at all though so I have no advice for it.
Aaaaaahhhh, original artwork!! It looks so much better than the RTP stuff-- great work!
The original art does look great, but I'm wondering... Is Moshi's face supposed to be that round? She looks rather cartoonish. =P

One more thing, will you re-release the current demo once you complete the switch or will you wait until you have more to show?

Either way I'll be looking forward to it...
Melkino
solos collectors on purpose
2021
thanks guys! :)

author=alterego
The original art does look great, but I'm wondering... Is Moshi's face supposed to be that round? She looks rather cartoonish. =P

One more thing, will you re-release the current demo once you complete the switch or will you wait until you have more to show?

Either way I'll be looking forward to it...


Ideally, I'd like to put in more content, but if people really want a re-released demo, then I'll think about it. The battle system's pretty different right now, though. I've been thinking about using either the default battle style or Yanfly's "free turn battle". (but with sideview sprites, of course!)
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
Her face itself isn't any rounder than usual, I think the placement of her mouth just makes her look like she has a huge Jay Leno chin. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I guess.

In a CTB, I would *assume* that regen and poison happen after a certain amount of "time". So, if a character is faster, it'll get more turns, but it'll still regen at the same rate. Though in Melody, I'm almost certain that you can control which style of timing to use for poison/regen...
Can I just say how refreshing it is to see a female avatar with some realistic breast sizes? >.> They look great!

Anyways, good news on the move to Ace
Craze
why would i heal when i could equip a morningstar
15150
The Tempest is Shakespeare's best play behind Caesar and on par with Hamlet </unpopular opinion>
author=SummonOfYuna
Can I just say how refreshing it is to see a female avatar with some realistic breast sizes? >.> They look great!

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Changes are always good if they get you to be closer to what you were looking.

Cheers,
Orochii Zouveleki
author=Craze
The Tempest is Shakespeare's best play behind Caesar and on par with Hamlet </unpopular opinion>


The only Shakespeare I've seen had Leonardo DiCaprio and that girl from My So Called Life in it. Therefore, that is the best Shakespeare movie.
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