ELDER71'S PROFILE

author=Dragnfly
I think many of us have played Metal Gear and remember the nightmare that was having to select keys.

Oh yeah, crikey, I'd forgotten about that. Sigh.

author=Dragnfly
There aren't enough bullets in the world for that thing on the left.

Well...

author=Dragnfly
Even small things like being able to loop from one edge to another are great for the player.

And yeah, this looks like the menu you'd see in a modern game, albeit RM res. Fantastic work.

The scheme at the minute is that keys are used automatically when you try to open the door they unlock, and you use Q,A,S,D to use specific items like the revolver. It saves the player having to equip/unequip/re-equip items that they'll need constantly.

So the inventory is just a means of checking what items you have and finding out how they work, not to equip or unequip anything. I guess I'll see how effective that setup is when I start play testing.

author=NoBody13
Looks good!

Thank you :)

author=Frogge
YES YES YES THIS ISN'T DEAD!!! I hope

pls tell it isnt

Nope - it's alive. It's gone through about 50 revisions in terms of design and conceptual outline. I'm learning to script now (which is my latest excuse for the delays) so I can design my own mechanics and menus and wotnot. I'm planning on uploading a video tour of the new menu system today also.

These sprites will be an absolute nightmare to actually animate, but I'm determined to keep ramping up the challenge for myself as a creator, so I'll persevere.

author=Trihan
I can't check the code right now because my work network blocks mass storage sites like Google Drive, but that looks like the ATB gauge is being overdrawn by the actors below it (you'll note that the cutoff point is the pixel directly above the border of the selection rectangle). The reason the bottom one is "thick" is because there's no actor underneath to be drawn on top of it. It's not that your other bars are 1 pixel high, it's that the contents of a later actor are being drawn over the top of them.

Edit: Sorry, didn't notice the bit at the top of the post. What was it?

In my efforts to figure out how the scripts work via curious trial and error, I had changed a value in Window_Base:

def draw_gauge(x, y, width, rate, color1, color2)
fill_w = (width * rate).to_i
gauge_y = y + line_height - 1 <===== I CHANGED THIS.
#gauge_y = y + line_height - 8
contents.fill_rect(x, gauge_y, width, 6, gauge_back_color)
contents.gradient_fill_rect(x, gauge_y, fill_w, 6, color1, color2)
end

You can see I left the original value in, commented out. Have no idea why I changed it or why I didn't change it back.

I am usually extremely methodical about reversing any changes I make to scripts once I've tested the effect.

Ironically, I'm so methodical about it so that folks on forums can help me out more easily... Anyhow, I've relearned a valuable lesson about being careful with script tinkering.

Thanks for getting back to me though!