KAZESUI'S PROFILE

Playing with additives in DynRPG with some help from a person at RPG-Atelier.
(Nope, the scene in the background is not from a game of mine)



edit: changed background image on request of the actual developer of the game in previous pic

If the actual map has to be bigger than the room:
Second to last post

If the actual map doesn't need to be bigger than the rooms themselves you might want to consider this instead (simpler):
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author=LockeZ
You spend the first half of this article telling us why we should use GOTO every chance we get?

Technically speaking, all loops and branches are based on "GOTO", just abstracted away in the programming language such that it's to the compiler to add in it afterwards. These are structures you don't have as readily available in rm2k3, and then you have to make do with what you have.

I also fail to see where I advocated spaghetti coding here. Are you really saying that you prefer the first example in the multiple branch part I showed? Really?
The labels are pretty much making the code MORE readable.
Using GOTO != Spaghetti Code
Labels aren't inherently evil, it's the people using it poorly.
You rarily will need them in an actual programming language, as they are considerably more flexible and less prone to performance issues.
rm2k3 however is considerably more limited in terms of performance and control structures, and when you start building some bigger custom system, you can very quickly notice performance issues.

I'm not sure what world you come from, but lag in rm2k3 games which does anything outside of the "usual" isn't exactly that rare. The games themselves might be more of the rare kind (depending on the fanciness of a potential CMS attempted), but it's also rather that kind which this tutorial is aimed towards.

I might not have emphasized enough on the importance of keeping your code readable in this tutorial, and don't remember if I said it up there, but sacrificing readability for sake of performance should first happen when performance becomes an issue. But as said, I'm merely showing some applications of labels with none of the examples really produce the spaghetti code you talk of.

while the tutorial mentioned by avee introduces the basics a custom menu, this tutorial expands on how it can be used for a dynamic item sub menu, which would most likely be rather similar in terms of implementation
(even has a demo project which you can mess around with to get a better understanding of it all)

You're not the first one to get trouble with it. Didn't work for me either when I tested it. You can do the same as me and create work arounds though, creating special commands within a string which you format into hero names, making use of

That's what I did. By similar means you could get skill, item and condition names (and descriptions).


doesen't seem to work. Maybe that's why the the N1 for hero names isn't working?

Also, although not related, I think the casting the text into a char pointer is superfluous, since it's already a char array in the parsedData object.