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This page is for discussion of the technical side of content creation. If you have a technical issue or question with regards to a character or story you are creating, talk about it here.
(The old Custom Content thread can be found here)


Helpful things:

--> Medium build girl, the .psd that was used to create the built-in characters, is available with layer names in English.

--> Kudos to SparkleFox for finding us a male tachie generator, authored by "彩 雅介" (Aya Mayabaikai?)! This one is put together as a program, but has PSD files with layer-names in Japanese. No "fan-translation" available at this time.

--> You can use any of these images for making new custom characters.

--> Notepad++ with syntax highlighting for Heartache 101 can be a big help with story creation. To set it up, go to the View menu and set User Defined Language to HeartAche. Then close View, go to the Language menu and select HeartAche. (If you already have Notepad++, here's userDefineLang.xml by itself)

--> Mr. Help File has, regrettably, forgotten to mention certain locations! They are as follows:
Beach (sunset), Grounds (sunset), Roof (sunset), Bedroom (Morning), Downtown, Studio Room.
Note that these locations must be specified via a PLACE command. To the best of my (ie: Marrend's) knowledge, they cannot be obtained via the generic "School" or "City" code.

--> If you are writing story content that includes the appearance of existing characters (built-in or custom), the following list may be of reference:

ID 0 = The Player
ID 1 = Nakajima Miki {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 2 = Ikeda Keika {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 3 = Onishi Tsubasa {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 4 = Kaneshiro Shihoko {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 5 = Kaneshiro Riho {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 6 = Sato Akari {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 7 = Hiraoka Hinami {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 8 = (Secret character) {flowerthief, Built-in content}
ID 9 = Watanabe Junko {Nekochi, "Junko"}
ALSO = Tsukino Emi {Silent Pheonix, "Tsukino Emi", in progress}
ID 10 = Mitsuya Masako {Marrend, "Masako"}
ID 11 = Monotami Ruri {Marrend, "Uchioniko"}
ID 12 = Nemoto Mayu {Marrend, "Uchioniko"}
ID 13 = Terakado Shoko {Marrend, "Uchioniko}
ID 14 = Shirazu Izumi {Marrend, "Uchioniko"}
ID 15 = Watanabe Aoi {Nekochi, "Junko"}
ALSO = Lambaria Yuu {KimotoDragoon, "Yuu", in progress, Caretaker: Marrend}
ID 16 = Ran Fujioka {Neckochi, unpublished}
ID 17 = Torako Koizumi {Neckochi, unpublished}
ID 18 = Yumemi Tanno {Neckochi, unpublished}
ID 19 = Umehara Joruri {Marrend, "Joruri"}
ID 20 = Sakuragawa Fuyuki {Fuyuki, "Fuyuki", cancelled}
ID 21 = 21 Ways {dude797, "21"; Caretaker: Dozen}
ID 22 = Ikari Kyouki {Dozen, unpublished}
ID 23 = (Reserved for Nekochi)
ID 24 = (Reserved for Nekochi)
ID 25 = Kuwabara Emiko {Marrend, "Emiko"}
ID 26 = Tanaka Yoko {triad2/Noone42, in progress}
ID 27 = Katanashi Seira {triad2/Noone42, in progress}
ID 28 = (Reserved for KimotoDragoon)
ID 29 = Shitazawa Arika {Dozen, unpublished}

ID 31 = Maeda Eriko {triad2, "Meada"}
ID 32 = ? Genji {triad2, "Meada"}
ID 33 = ? Ryoko {Dozen, unpublished}
ID 34 = (Reserved for Tthedragon)
ID 35 = (Reserved for Tthedragon)
ID 36 = Murakami Megumi {Render, unpublished}
ID 37 = Kawano Fujiko {Render, unpublished}
ID 38 = Matsuhara Akane {Render, unpublished}
ID 39 = Momohana Nami {GloopMaster, Unknown, in progress}
ID 40 = Konohana Midori {LordNight, "Midori", RMN only, in progress}
ID 41 = Natsume Rika {LordNight, "Midori", RMN only, in progress}
ID 42 = (Reserved for LorSquirrel)
ID 43 = Hasegawa Kanon {LordNight, "Midori", RMN only, in progress}
ID 44 = Kirihara Kana {LordNight, "Midori", RMN only, in progress}
ID 45 = (Reserved for LordNight)
ID 46 = (Reserved for LordNight)
ID 47 = (Reserved for LordNight)
ID 48 = (Reserved for LorSquirrel)
ID 49 = (Reserved for LorSquirrel)
ID 50 = (Reserved for LorSquirrel)
ID 51 = Shiromiya Kagami {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 52 = Tsuchitsuru Airi {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 53 = Kimura Shizuka {Mute, unpublished}
ID 54 = Columban Kuri {?, unpublished}
ID 55 = Shikimori Asuka {Render, "Clique", unpublished}
ID 56 = Shikimori Sanako {Render, "Clique", unpublished}
ID 57 = Nakao Yasuko {Render, "Clique", unpublished}
ID 58 = Sakaki Usagi {Render, "Clique", unpublished}
ID 59 = Waifu Mai {pegaso, "Mai", unpublished} (temporary reserve?)
ID 60 = Makoda Yuuki {Ilan14, unpublished}
ID 61 = Hisatsuki Seiryuu {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 62 = Torahashi Mio {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 63 = Eienji Rie {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 64 = Hamaguchi Takako {dewelar, unpublished}
ID 65 = Yoshimura Noriko {dewelar, "Noriko"}
ID 66 = Ichini Sanshi {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 67 = Kimura Sachiko {Mute, unpublished}
ID 68 = Hitsuragi Yuureiko {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 69 = Hanata Haruka {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 70 = Shiraki Kotone {BasedMG, "Kotone", in progress}
ID 71 = Kurokawa Sarako {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 72 = Kurokawa Mikari {BDFalcon, unpublished}
ID 73 = (Reserved for LorSquirrel)
ID 74 = Yamisaki Eliza {Kevincalanor, Wolfpack}
ID 75 = Yamisaki Alessa {Kevincalanor, Wolfpack}
ID 76 = Nakamura Yuriko {Kevincalanor, Wolfpack}
ID 77 = Harada Himeko {Garage, "Winggirl"}
ID 78 = Fujikawa Sayumi {Garage, "Winggirl"}
ID 79 = Fujikawa Mayumi {Garage, "Winggirl"}
ID 80 = Hashimoto Midori {Ertad, unpublished}
ID 81 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 82 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 83 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 84 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 85 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 86 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 87 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 88 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 89 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 90 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 91 = (reserved for Ertad)
ID 92 = Itawa Miyuki {RukasuWYZ, "Ijona on'nanoko", probably canceled}
ID 93 = Shogowa Yuka {RukasuWYZ, "Ijona on'nanoko", probably canceled}
ID 94 = Fujita Suki {RukasuWYZ, "Ijona on'nanoko", probably canceled}
ID 95 = Chihiro Sato {RukasuWYZ, "Ijona on'nanoko", probably canceled}
ID 96 = Shingoza Ayumi {RukasuWYZ, "Ijona on'nanoko", probably canceled}

ID 97 = Sawada Merika {Garage, "Winggirl - Pathways"}
ID 98 = Nagai Shika {Garage, "Winggirl - Pathways"}
ID 99 = Harada Hibiko {Garage, "Winggirl - Pathways"}
ID 100 = Robin Clark {Wowzer_, "Robin"}
ALSO = ? Takuya {Kevincalanor, "Built-off", tachie/profile only}
ID 101 = Miyazaki Kiyoka {Nedras, "First Years", unpublished}
ID 102 = Matsumoto Atsumi {Nedras, "First Years", unpublished}
ID 103 = Kagawa Yasuna {Nedras, "First Years", unpublished}
ID 104 = Azuka Ishikawa {Nedras, "First Years", unpublished}
ID 105 = Hayashito Kaede {ShinigamisApples/KiyokoKaia, unpublished}
ID 106 = Hayashi Kitsune {Garage, "Kitsune"}
ID 107 = Sasaki Riku {Garage, "Nadeshiko"}
ID 108 = Yamaguchi Ayame {Garage, "Nadeshiko"}
ID 109 = Kimura Nanashi {Garage, "Nadeshiko"}
ID 110 = Takahashi Karen {Garage, "Rivalries"}
ID 111 = Inoue Azami {Garage, "Rivalries"}
ID 112 = Yamamoto Hina {Garage, "Crossover", unpublished}
ID 113 = Kojima Daishi {Garage, "Crossover", unpublished}
ID 114 = Hashimoto Chiyo {Garage, "Crossover", unpublished}

ID 121 = Furuya Reika {ScarbucksCoffee, "Reika", unpublished}
ID 122 = Furuya Shunpei {ScarbucksCoffee, "Reika", unpublished}
ID 123 = Shimada Tsukasa {ScarbucksCoffee, "Reika", unpublished}
ID 124 = Shimada Tomo {ScarbucksCoffee, "Reika", unpublished}

ID 130 = Tanaka Grace {mysteriousone3, "Grace"}

(Note: You don't need to care about this list if your story events will not include existing characters, as ID numbers for characters in separate files don't have to be unique)

--> Finally, I've listed the game cheats here. You can use these during story events to test your content:
SHIFT + F5 -- Adds 10 to Looks
SHIFT + F6 -- Adds 10 to Athletics
SHIFT + F7 -- Adds 10 to Personality
SHIFT + F8 -- Adds 10 to Mind
SHIFT + F9 -- Adds 10 to Soul
ALT + F5 -- Adds 1000 to yen
ALT + F6 -- Active speaker's affection decreases by 100
ALT + F7 -- Active speaker's affection increases by 100
ALT + F8 -- Advances the calendar by 1 day
ALT + F9 -- Advances the calendar by 7 days

Posts

Hehe, thanks Dozen & Marrend!

There is one small issue, and that is that i could use a proper "surprise" tachie. As i said, the character is based off of the Character 27 tachie made by flowerchild. Currently i have it as basically the mouth from the "dislike" plastered onto the "unfriendly" tachie. If someone could be so kind as to make one that looks more similar to e.g. Miki's surprised tachie, that would be great.

Also, commenting on an old topic, a few English-named people would be fine. Perhaps that could be part of the storyline, e.g. They all travelled together or something.

And this is more towards Marrend: Uchioniko seems to be throwing Ending events as generic events. At the very least, it's throwing events out of order/in the wrong places. I got one with Sei... At school. With both a black background and no freakin idea what was going on.

I am (hoping) to make some extra events just to make my character converse with some other custom characters. This would be accomplished with extra story files that would be unzipped seperately.

And one last thing. The name of the set that Nami's in is "Nami". Looking at the list i also realized that i put it right next to Midori, who has a similar name.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
author=GloopMaster
Hehe, thanks Dozen & Marrend!

There is one small issue, and that is that i could use a proper "surprise" tachie. As i said, the character is based off of the Character 27 tachie made by flowerchild. Currently i have it as basically the mouth from the "dislike" plastered onto the "unfriendly" tachie. If someone could be so kind as to make one that looks more similar to e.g. Miki's surprised tachie, that would be great.

Alternatively, you can get GIMP, or similar free graphics manipulation program, and try and learn to do it yourself. Though, I offered my services to make tachie some time ago, and nobody took me up on it. In light of that, I should be able to finagle a proper "surprised" tachie, if the base is one of flowertheif's pre-made ones (Who's flowerchild?).

Also, commenting on an old topic, a few English-named people would be fine. Perhaps that could be part of the storyline, e.g. They all travelled together or something.

Perhaps another could make a better point against this thought, but to me, it doesn't seem likely that these students from oversees would necessarily attend this school that the game takes place in. Whatever it's called.

And this is more towards Marrend: Uchioniko seems to be throwing Ending events as generic events. At the very least, it's throwing events out of order/in the wrong places. I got one with Sei... At school. With both a black background and no freakin idea what was going on.

It's strange that stuff like this is propping up now, when it didn't seem to be an issue before. They are on the stack for a revision, so I'll keep this in mind when the time comes to make the revisions.

I am (hoping) to make some extra events just to make my character converse with some other custom characters. This would be accomplished with extra story files that would be unzipped separately.

Who are you trying to use? If you're using Shoko and/or Masako, I've been known to be pretty picky about them!

And one last thing. The name of the set that Nami's in is "Nami". Looking at the list i also realized that i put it right next to Midori, who has a similar name.

"Momohana" Versus "Konohana" versus "Momotami"! Fight!

I don't think this should really be a "worry point". Optimally, your character should stand out enough that people will be able to pick her out from the crowd.

*Edit: Does this work for you? I think the hair color is a bit off, but...
author=Marrend
author=GloopMaster
Hehe, thanks Dozen & Marrend!

There is one small issue, and that is that i could use a proper "surprise" tachie. As i said, the character is based off of the Character 27 tachie made by flowerchild. Currently i have it as basically the mouth from the "dislike" plastered onto the "unfriendly" tachie. If someone could be so kind as to make one that looks more similar to e.g. Miki's surprised tachie, that would be great.
Alternatively, you can get GIMP, or similar free graphics manipulation program, and try and learn to do it yourself. Though, I offered my services to make tachie some time ago, and nobody took me up on it. In light of that, I should be able to finagle a proper "surprised" tachie, if the base is one of flowertheif's pre-made ones (Who's flowerchild?).

Also, commenting on an old topic, a few English-named people would be fine. Perhaps that could be part of the storyline, e.g. They all travelled together or something.

Perhaps another could make a better point against this thought, but to me, it doesn't seem likely that these students from oversees would necessarily attend this school that the game takes place in. Whatever it's called.

And this is more towards Marrend: Uchioniko seems to be throwing Ending events as generic events. At the very least, it's throwing events out of order/in the wrong places. I got one with Sei... At school. With both a black background and no freakin idea what was going on.

It's strange that stuff like this is propping up now, when it didn't seem to be an issue before. They are on the stack for a revision, so I'll keep this in mind when the time comes to make the revisions.

I am (hoping) to make some extra events just to make my character converse with some other custom characters. This would be accomplished with extra story files that would be unzipped separately.

Who are you trying to use? If you're using Shoko and/or Masako, I've been known to be pretty picky about them!

And one last thing. The name of the set that Nami's in is "Nami". Looking at the list i also realized that i put it right next to Midori, who has a similar name.

"Momohana" Versus "Konohana" versus "Momotami"! Fight!

I don't think this should really be a "worry point". Optimally, your character should stand out enough that people will be able to pick her out from the crowd.

*Edit: Does this work for you? I think the hair color is a bit off, but...

flowerchild is a person from another place. (also known as minecraft (better than wolves mod.) Too many names. Indeed i meant flowerthief.

I wasnt going to do anything with Masako and/or Shoko because the fact that i simply don't understand the characters. Same for the secret one and Akari in the builtin game, don't expect much to happen there (as if it would happen anyway).

And i wasnt saying the name similarity was an issue; i merely noted that she is immediatly before someone with a similar name.

And while that image itself isn't what i want (re: hair color), i can splice what i need from it and put it on one of the other tachie for the character. I'm not at all good with human or human-like characters, as far as drawing them goes.

EDIT: Eh, seems that the tachie won't play nice with me copying and pasting.
(aka I'm too damn lazy.) I'll keep what I have, it's fitting to the character somewhat.
author=GloopMaster
And while that image itself isn't what i want (re: hair color), i can splice what i need from it and put it on one of the other tachie for the character. I'm not at all good with human or human-like characters, as far as drawing them goes.

Wait, so you don't like the design to begin with? Then in retrospect I shouldn't have started granting your request just yet...
Tell us what you want, I'll do it for you from scratch.
author=Dozen
author=GloopMaster
And while that image itself isn't what i want (re: hair color), i can splice what i need from it and put it on one of the other tachie for the character. I'm not at all good with human or human-like characters, as far as drawing them goes.
Wait, so you don't like the design to begin with? Then in retrospect I shouldn't have started granting your request just yet...
Tell us what you want, I'll do it for you from scratch.


The thing is I don't want it from scratch if that can be avoided; I'd like it to be edited from Character 27 on flowerthief's post here. I would like it to be essentially a "surprised" tachie for that character.
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
So, if we take my attempt, finagle that hair color to be closer to how it looks with the other images, we'd be good? Forgive me, but I've got a terribly tendency to mis-read things.

As for making tachie from scratch, that's more or less what I did. I took the base "material_m", and did some editing to make it look like "Character 27". Not close enough to the character for your purposes, it seems.
author=Marrend
So, if we take my attempt, finagle that hair color to be closer to how it looks with the other images, we'd be good? Forgive me, but I've got a terribly tendency to mis-read things.

As for making tachie from scratch, that's more or less what I did. I took the base "material_m", and did some editing to make it look like "Character 27". Not close enough to the character for your purposes, it seems.

Precisely. Having a character swap hair color all the time wouldn't make sense, and my character is, most definitely, not a fantasy creature ;)

Edit: also your image is larger by 3 pixels in both directions
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21781
author=GloopMaster
Precisely. Having a character swap hair color all the time wouldn't make sense, and my character is, most definitely, not a fantasy creature

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. However, we do have magical girls, ghosts, and dream entities! Having a girl that changes hair color according to her mood is probably fair ground!

Edit: also your image is larger by 3 pixels in both directions

That's interesting. The built-ins, and practically all the other characters that use material_m, have dimensions of 255 by 468. I was more or less assuming the pre-made tachie were the same size. Resizing things shouldn't be too much of a hassle, though. The thing I'm not exactly sure of at this moment is how flowertheif managed that hair color!
author=Marrend
author=GloopMaster
Precisely. Having a character swap hair color all the time wouldn't make sense, and my character is, most definitely, not a fantasy creature
Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. However, we do have magical girls, ghosts, and dream entities! Having a girl that changes hair color according to her mood is probably fair ground!

Ha, perhaps a different character could use that. All I know is that my character is not like that ;)

Edit: also your image is larger by 3 pixels in both directions
That's interesting. The built-ins, and practically all the other characters that use material_m, have dimensions of 255 by 468. I was more or less assuming the pre-made tachie were the same size. Resizing things shouldn't be too much of a hassle, though. The thing I'm not exactly sure of at this moment is how flowertheif managed that hair color!

252 x 462. So actually it's a 3x6 difference. And you can always just look at the RGB values of the existing hair.
author=GloopMaster
The thing is I don't want it from scratch if that can be avoided; I'd like it to be edited from Character 27 on flowerthief's post here. I would like it to be essentially a "surprised" tachie for that character.

I can do that, too(I have the half-finished suprised tachie at hand, in fact), but it's much easier to do it from scratch if you want other changes. Messing a single part is one thing, recoloring is also quite easy, but completely reshaping the char when you could just use the base material is a waste of time. Also, Meiga will probably take offense.

Her smile barely conceals the darkness inside.
Tell us what else would you like to change, and then we will decide if we rework the current pictures one by one or use the template.
I simply want the character to have a "surprised" expression, similar to Miki's surprise expression. The thing is: The character 27 is precisely what I want.

So, put simply: I want a surprised tachie, and only a surprised tachie. Not a reworked tachie-set.
author=GloopMaster
I simply want the character to have a "surprised" expression, similar to Miki's surprise expression. The thing is: The character 27 is precisely what I want.

So, put simply: I want a surprised tachie, and only a surprised tachie. Not a reworked tachie-set.
author=GloopMaster
And while that image itself isn't what i want (re: hair color), i can splice what i need from it and put it on one of the other tachie for the character

Uh-huh. So you can change it, but you can't, at the same time, somehow, and also you don't want the hair color, yet don't want to recolor it either. Now it all makes perfect sense.

Anyway, give me a few hours. Do you want the exact same eyes as Miki's tachie's, or are you fine with a less wide one? I felt like her eyes and mouth shouldn't open all the way even when startled, what with her "I'm so baked" look on the rest of the images.
author=Dozen
author=GloopMaster
I simply want the character to have a "surprised" expression, similar to Miki's surprise expression. The thing is: The character 27 is precisely what I want.

So, put simply: I want a surprised tachie, and only a surprised tachie. Not a reworked tachie-set.
author=GloopMaster
And while that image itself isn't what i want (re: hair color), i can splice what i need from it and put it on one of the other tachie for the character


Uh-huh. Now it all makes perfect sense.

Anyway, give me a few hours. Do you want the exact same eyes as Miki's tachie's, or are you fine with a less wide one? I felt like her eyes and mouth shouldn't open all the way even when startled, what with her "I'm so baked" look on the rest of the tachies.


Heh. I meant that I could copy-paste the parts that indicate "surprise" in Marrend's image onto one of the existing images for the character.

And I would, yes, like it to go with the rest of the tachie. So, no, do not have the same eyes as Miki's. Keep the eyes the same, but make the rest of the face signify surprise, e.g. eyebrows and mouth.
I'm surprised that someone knew Midori's existence here even though she's still wasn't on the download page

offtopic though
that's all I wanna say
author=LordNight
I'm surprised that someone knew Midori's existence here even though she's still wasn't on the download page.
Well, then finish 'em, why don't you? Or at least ask someone to fix the grammar mistakes! Such a good story too, and it's just sitting there...
Is there a character whom I am unaware of?

Wouldn't be surprised, I don't read anyway.
author=Dozen
author=LordNight
I'm surprised that someone knew Midori's existence here even though she's still wasn't on the download page.
Well, then finish 'em, why don't you? Or at least ask someone to fix the grammar mistakes! Such a good story too, and it's just sitting there...


err... it's fine, I'll finish Midori's story myself
O-kay, GloopMaster! I got three tachies for you in the artist thread.
author=Dozen
Uh-huh. So you can change it, but you can't, at the same time, somehow, and also you don't want the hair color, yet don't want to recolor it either. Now it all makes perfect sense.

ID = GloopMaster
DISLIKE
I thought it would be an easy task; I was wrong.
And the hair of <i>Marrend's</i> tachie wasn't what I wanted.

(Boredom abounds!)

EDIT: That would error though, because "GloopMaster" isn't a defined profile. ****.
author=Dozen
author=GloopMaster
The thing is I don't want it from scratch if that can be avoided; I'd like it to be edited from Character 27 on flowerthief's post here. I would like it to be essentially a "surprised" tachie for that character.
I can do that, too(I have the half-finished suprised tachie at hand, in fact), but it's much easier to do it from scratch if you want other changes. Messing a single part is one thing, recoloring is also quite easy, but completely reshaping the char when you could just use the base material is a waste of time. Also, Meiga will probably take offense.

Her smile barely conceals the darkness inside.
Tell us what else would you like to change, and then we will decide if we rework the current pictures one by one or use the template.


Am I allowed to ask what the color blotches on her skirt and blouse are?