JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

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Does anyone know if Maniacs and EasyRPG jive yet? Because I'd hate to convert to maniacs (because it does look very interesting and has features I could probably use to elevate HR remaster, but I don't want to shut out people who were hoping to play this on Macs or Androids :(

The EasyRPG blog cites compatibility with Maniacs commands having been implemented with two major limitations: It's only up to the version where BingShan rewrote the engine (I don't remember which version was that, or if that's exactly what happened technically) and Battle-related commands are out of the picture as rm2k3's battle system is much too delicate and adding in new commands would add unbelievable development costs.

With that being said, you can check out whether the actual commands you want to use are officially supported, and just a single command can make an entire difference in your workflow or shorten hundreds or thousands of lines of code. Just the ability to use variable pointers for instance, or the much improved loop command. My favorite command obviously is Show String Picture which is also supported.

It can, through the "Control Battle" command. That retrieves certain battle information during that specific frame when the flag you're looking for happened. It's covered in the 3rd blog post on Maniacs-specific commands iirc.

edit: to be clear, that command just gives you information in the form of 6 variables. how you're gonna turn those 6 variables into a display is up to you, your imagination is the limit.

UBI is an ironically capitalistic and economically orthodox concept anyway
(not that i'm saying it's bad in the context we're in)

MZ is iirc 1.7.0 as of now. Meaning it had 7 major updates since launch. It was already a considerable improvement over MV at launch, but with each major update bringing in new features, it's imo the best RPG Maker has ever been. Which is, to say... Obviously not perfect. But really good.

It also has the best plugin library*, and the experience of Eventing on MZ is especially awesome when considering that plugins can extend eventing functionality through the new Plugin Command event -- which just as it sounds allows plugin developers to create new Event Commands.

This, added to the amazing Visustella library -- eventing with rm2k3 Maniacs Patch is pretty awesome, but eventing with MZ and Visustella Events and Movements Core is even moreso. (And it's one of their Sample Project plugins)

Also people complain that Visustella Plugins are expensive but that's only if you're a completionist. Vanilla MZ + Events & Move Core just blows the competition, the paid plugins are more for convenience than really needed.

Just make sure to learn a bit of JavaScript and dig around in the console if you wanna make complex evented systems. Knowing how to call event commands with code can help you a lot.



*in my subjective experience, which differs from some others like the poster above. But never has a plugin library been as cohesive and committed to updating and bugfixing as the Visustella MZ plugin library, with plugins designed for maximum compatibility building upon the knowledge of previous iterations of plugins and scripts. And that's not getting into the other developers, which offer all sorts of development solutions and user experiences.

author=Illy
I must evacuate and need an escape rope

a rope would be the last thing i'd be looking for if i needed to evacuate

you know?
poop jokes
i'm 28 years old btw



edit: very small text as a means of <<x>> is so very rpgmaker.net btw. like. we're so quirky. so unique. no one else does this. i'm so proud of us