HOUSEKEEPING'S PROFILE

First off, if anyone can fix this issue, I'm willing to pay or trade favors or something. Just let me know your estimate (or what you want from me) after taking a look at the script.

Here's a link to the script itself for reference.

So, this script has been a blessing and a curse. For those not aware, this script allows larger sprites to function with the appropriate priority if they're, say, walking under a tree tile (as in if they're in front of the tree, the treetop won't overlap the top part of their sprite, and if they're behind the tree, the treetop would overlap them). This is basically a necessity for anyone working with sprites that are over the default 32x32.

Anyway, the script works by duplicating an "above" sprite over your own sprite when you're below tiles given the specified terrain tag. This functions well, but it also causes a fairly significant dip in performance. I don't mind this for the most part, but, for some players, this will crash their game, either when the script is actively working or after playing the game for a few hours.

I've tested the script on a clean game file and the performance dip wasn't as significant; this was with all my other game scripts running, so there's no script conflicts. I've also tried testing this on a clean map in my game project, and the performance dip is about the same as a fully populated map, so I think the issue might be the sheer size of my game; when the script is active, the memory usage seems to double and even triple, so with a small game this was pretty insignificant, but when your baseline is 250mb, it can start to spiral out of control. At least that's what I saw in my tests.

Since I can't shrink my game, I'm curious if this script can be retooled to be more performative, or, barring that, I'll take any feedback I can get. I've been pulling my hair out over this for months.

I needed to find some audio clips for a song I'm working on, and I found a site that some people might find useful--or at least interesting. It's a database of old advertisements, mainly from the 50s and 60s (there's a decent chunk of 70s ads, too). The cool thing is that a lot of these are common domain now, so you can dissect them however you want and work them into your own art/videos/games/music/etc. Here's the site:

https://archive.org/details/classic_tv_commercials&tab=collection

I haven't looked at anything other than the advertisements, but it's just part of the internet archive, which I'm sure has all sorts of stuff. About the advertisements, though, it's kind of an interesting peephole into the weirdness and stupidity of the past. Some of my favorite ads are old cigarette ads, like this campaign from Virigina Slims where they tried to co-opt the women's rights movement in order to sell cancer sticks. Or, there was this one, where Dial has a bizarre prize for a contest.

Hope you guys find this interesting and/or useful!

Edit: On the off chance that anyone was trying to solve this, I managed to event my way around having to need a script at all.

So, Grooveshark finally crumbled from legal pressure. I routinely listened to it as I worked, both with my job and whenever I worked on games, and I heard a lot of music I never would have been exposed to, which, regardless of legality, was a good thing. There are other services like this now, so I'll move on, but I'm going to miss it.

Slight silver lining if you used Grooveshark:

http://groovebackup.com

You can export text files of your playlists. It's going to be a pain in the ass to recreate these in Spotify (or whatever you move to), but it's something. I'm not sure if the lists are complete or not; they're kind of jumbled up, so I can't tell at a glance. The songs I spot-checked are all there, though. Also, if it can't retrieve one of your playlists, try again later. The two of my playlists that didn't load last night loaded fine this morning.

On my current project, I can't get a taunt skill to behave correctly. I want a taunt that makes all enemies target the caster. Here's how I'm doing it:

-The taunt skill runs a common event that puts a state on all the characters that multiplies their target rate by zero.
-The taunt skill then removes that state from the caster and multiplies the caster's target rate by a thousand (I realize that there's no reason to increase the caster's target rate if everyone else's is zero, but I couldn't fight the urge that "bigger is better").

The thing is, this method works fine on the project I was working on before I started my contest project, so I suspect that one of the Yanfly scripts I'm using is producing a weird conflict, because the character in first position is getting targeted exclusively by monsters after a different character uses the taunt.

Here's the full list of scripts I'm using and the order in which they've been added:
-Yanfly Ace Core
-Yanfly Ace Message
-Yanfly Ace Core Battle
-Yanfly Ace Equips
-Yanfly Ace Skill Restrictions
-Yanfly Ace Steal Items
-Yanfly Ace Menu
-Yanfly Ace System Options

I suspect that the core battle engine is overwriting the targeting formula, but I don't really how to look for that or if that's even the issue in the first place. Any suggestions?