• Add Review
  • Subscribe
  • Nominate
  • Submit Media
  • RSS
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ID 16 = Ran Fujioka {Neckochi, unpublished}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

author=Marrend
Ugh. I almost hate being the one-and-only Heartache-dev that visits RMN on a regular basis.


Hey, I'm here once a day or so...it's just that the things I can help with are relatively limited :( , and you usually beat me to them.
Oh, I didn't mean to come off as trite (did I come off as trite, or am I reading too much into this? ^.^;) I was just going off of the ID list of the time. The last two I hadn't previously requested ID's for, by the way, just Sanshi and Rie. Thanks for updating the list. ^.^

... and thus ends this ultimately pointless post. ^.^;
Hi, I wanted to reserve the ID #60 for my character.

Here's some information about her:
Her name is Yuuki Makoda (Just for clarification, Yuuki is her first name). She's a 1st year high student who just moved with his parents to the city where the PC lives, because his parents wanted to stablish a family restaurant there, and now she studies at the same school as the PC. The PC meets Yuuki when she finds her in the courtyard because she got lost in the way to her class, so he decides to guide her to the class. And that's not the first time it happens, she tends to get lost... a lot, which tends to cause troubles for the PC. As I stated before, her family has a restaurant in which of course, she works. She works as a waitress, and the only thing that makes her job not that good, are the constant arguments with his father. When her relationship with the PC grows, she will start seeing in him a guy in which hshe can trust her problems and secrets...

And here's the tachie of the character:


The story is still in development but I think that should be enough. I got a little carried away with the info, didn't I?

P.S. : Is there a way to make a custom character have a relation with a built-in character?
author=Ilan14
Hi, I wanted to reserve the ID #60 for my character.

Here's some information about her:
Her name is Yuuki Makoda (Just for clarification, Yuuki is her first name).P.S. : Is there a way to make a custom character have a relation with a built-in character?

All the built-ins already have their relation slots taken up, so no. :<
author=Mute
author=Ilan14
Hi, I wanted to reserve the ID #60 for my character.

Here's some information about her:
Her name is Yuuki Makoda (Just for clarification, Yuuki is her first name).P.S. : Is there a way to make a custom character have a relation with a built-in character?
All the built-ins already have their relation slots taken up, so no. :<


Oh. Oh well, it's not a big deal!
So, Dozen is the one who decides if I'm in, right?
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
Dozen has done ID reservations in the past, but not recently. However, both dewelar and myself have done it.

My first glance of your character info was okay. A somewhat closer inspection reveals a misuse of pronouns...

She's a 1st year high student who just moved with his her parents to the city where the PC lives, because his her parents wanted to establish a family restaurant there, and now. Now, she studies at the same school as the PC.

...amongst other things. Nothing to give a flat-out denial to, though.
You know, it's really curious how the grammar of the phrases I write look good in my head, but is wrong when is actually written... :(
author=Marrend
Dozen has done ID reservations in the past, but not recently. However, both dewelar and myself have done it.


Right. I've been a bit conservative in when I'm willing to assign an ID -- I'd want to see more than just a single tachie and a brief description, unless you've already had something published. However, if we've got thousands of IDs available, maybe I shouldn't care so much :) .
What else excactly do you want me to add?
Because if it's true that there's more than 99 ID's, then the requirements to reserve an ID shouldn't be too exigent, and because of that, the data I posted should be okay.

But that's just my opinion. ;)
I think my concern is that currently, there are only eleven characters that are finished (and that's including 21, which is only sorta-finished), yet there are 81 ID's reserved (beyond the 8 included in the game), which means that characters that either are still in progress or abandoned (mostly abandoned) outnumber complete ones by more than six to one.

As for what more I'd want to see...I would like to see a profile file with the character's basic info (i.e., everything but the response list), a story file with at least a few completed stories in it, and a full set of tachie (even if they're just placeholders). That much tells me you've learned the basics of character creation within the game's parameters. But...like I said, I'm kinda conservative like that, and I'm pretty much the junior member of this team, so I can always be overruled :) .
I think I can arrange that, I'm in already in process of making the story events and I just completed one (well, actually they're two, but the first story makes a transition to the second story...). So if you want, when I finish a few stories more, I could send the files to you through PM, or I could post them here, whatever is the more convenient way...
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
I seem to recall manually compiling stats in regards to custom content I know about. I've done another compilation out of curiosity. If 21 Ways is considered "in progress", they would look like...

Custom Route Stats
Complete11
In Progress11
Unpublished60
Cancelled1
Total83


...that, I guess?

Note: I'm including Ilan's character in these figures, apparently.
author=Marrend
Note: I'm including Ilan's character in these figures, apparently.

Sooo... is that a yes?
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
Take it as a "yes-for-now". Oh, who am I trying to kid? I've reserved it already. You could post the basic profile anyway, though.
Ok, I'll prepare and post the profile, and the set of tachies. However, the story I can't post it yet, because you know, I just completed one story event...

EDIT: Thanks! But I still will post the profile and tachies.
author=Marrend
I seem to recall manually compiling stats in regards to custom content I know about. I've done another compilation out of curiosity. If 21 Ways is considered "in progress", they would look like...

Custom Route Stats
Complete11
In Progress11
Unpublished60
Cancelled1
Total83


...that, I guess?


Ah, right, I forgot to count Aoi as a finished character, which would bring the total to 11 (or 12 including 21 Ways). I'll trust your numbers on the remainder.

author=Ilan14
Ok, I'll prepare and post the profile, and the set of tachies. However, the story I can't post it yet, because you know, I just completed one story event...

EDIT: Thanks! But I still will post the profile and tachies.
That's fine by me, too. Also, it's probably easiest to upload stuff to your locker rather than PM it. The PM system here seems to have...issues sometimes :( .
I decided that I'm going to wait to finish a few stories before posting content. I'll work on it and then, I'll post it to content creation (artistic) page (Is in that page where I'm supposed to post incomplete content, right?). It may take me a while, but one way and another I'm going to finish this character!

Not even death will stop me...
author=IIan14
It may take me a while, but one way and another I'm going to finish this character!

Yeah! You can do it! I'm new to this community, but I look forward to seeing your stuff.

I also made a custom character for this game, it took a ton of work, but the result is posted up on the 'Finished Content' page. Her name is Robin Clark (ID = 100), an American Transfer Student. Soooo... 12 Completed Stories???
Marrend
Guardian of the Description Thread
21806
author=Ilan14
I'll work on it and then, I'll post it to content creation (artistic) page (Is in that page where I'm supposed to post incomplete content, right?).

Correct.

author=Wowzer_
Soooo... 12 Completed Stories???

We shall see momentarily!

*Edit: By-the-by, welcome to RMN, Wowzer_! Share your creativity with... oh. Uh. I guess you already shared your creativity with us!
Hi again! Responses a plenty below! Also, posted on Technical Forum because self-declared 'Finished Content' is clearly unfinished.

author=Marrend
I seem to recall some events at the beginning of robin_story_4 which looked a lot like cut-and-paste events based on where <player> took Robin. I believe we could cut that code down through some "Common Event" tech. What would need to happen is to have the sequence play out as normal, then use a JUMP command for when choices would need to be displayed. I'm not 100% sure what the condition for the initial event would look like, but, I'm at least 90% sure what the JUMP conditions would look like.

Right, that could definitely work out and I don't know why I didn't think of it originally, probably too tired late at night. And yes, gratuitous amounts of Copy+Paste were involved. In a more elegant final draft it could definitely look like that. I'll post it on my to-do list.

author=Marrend
Anyway, here's the thing I believe you will want to do for Robin for her post-DAY-80 content:

Oh... Yup! That's the ticket. I think I can swing that. Thanks! I read the help guide a lot during this process, but I totally missed that.

author=Marrend
Edit: Very tempted to hand Robin ID# 100. Takuya doesn't have a story attached to him, and wouldn't be as much effort to change.

author=Kevincalanor
Pass it up ^^
In fact, Takuya don't have anything attached to him atm, so it will be far from a problem to change it up.

Thanks so much guys. Granted I know Robin has actually received the ID# yet, but I appreciate you working with me on this small problem.

author=Marrend
I stopped playing when I saw the DAY 80 requirement and wasn't up to doing TIME TRAVEL to get there. Though, for full disclosure, I did TIME TRAVEL to get to the DAY 50 event, so, BOO ON ME.

Not gonna lie, when I play-tested her I reached the stadium event by Day 30 (far too soon therefore I slapped on the DAY 50 condition) so not only did I put off starting that event line by 2 weeks, but after I did I skipped 2 weeks in order to come close to Day 80 event. Pacing will definitely be a focus as I fix the story. I'm thinking of expanding the player-choice-order plot lines (instead of singular events) and small subplots for having Robin meet more Built-In characters.

author=Marrend
I think you mis-read my intentions with the "References" section. I love references! Darigaaz, you should see Emiko! That content is chock full of them!

Oh! Well if that's the case you need to look for some of the more subtle ones hidden in the dialogue, at least more hidden than the Minecraft reference. I should see Emiko... The only custom content I've downloaded thus far is Masako, Unchioniko, Joruri and Junko. (Sorry Noriko...)

author=Marrend
*Edit: By-the-by, welcome to RMN, Wowzer_!

Thanks! I'll do what I can here. And be more, ...appropriate, in sharing my content.