KRIMSONKATT'S PROFILE

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I am currently in the process of designing a fan-made Lunar game, in this video they are using the ATB Plugin. I would like to have the battle system like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioDd4qFdObY&ab_channel=LecodeWorks
I want to have my Lunar fan game similar to the original games as possible.
Please is there anyone who can help me with the ATB plugin?

The plugin you showed was a plugin in development by Lecode Works, which was being actively worked on 6 years ago. I have no idea where he is now, but if you could get in contact with him he might be able to give you the code to that plugin so someone else can finish it. And heck, maybe that plugin is already finished by now! That WIP build video was posted 6+ years ago after all.

Edit: Just did some heavy research and it seems like this LeCode guy only has one plugin under his belt, an ultra-complex TBS plugin. The TBS plugin may or may not be an evolution of his Lunar Battle System, as he posted the Lunar Stuff only in the early stages of his TBS plugin before the latter really took off. However, due to him going into college in a top university perusing computer science and his new 9 to 5 job at a big tech company, he doesn't have much time to work on RPG Maker. Last time he posted was January 2020, so it's possible he might not even be alive due to the pandemic and stuff. That would be very tragic. If you can, try to reach out to him to see if he's alive and maybe get him to send you the current version of the Lunar plugin, no matter how unfinished it may be.

Edit 2: TLDR you will probably need to make the plugin yourself of find someone to commission to do it. Fiverr is really good for commissions for a decent price. I have absolutely no knowledge of Lunar other than being interesting in playing them (which I would if they weren't so dang expensive and the English versions not butchered by Working Designs) and knowing about how unplayably awful the DS game was making it arguably the worst RPG of all time. So I can't really suggest anything or help you with making the plugin you need. Sorry.

So, you all probably don't know this, but the site DeviantArt is currently in the process of a massive site-wide purge. This is akin to the great Tumblr purge and exodus of 2018, only on a slightly smaller scale. Basiclly, overnight without any warning, multiple major artists in the genderbend art scene got their entire accounts nuked and permabanned. The reason was according to DA for "posting content sexualizing minors." They did nothing of the sort. What they ACTUALLY did was post (mostly) SFW or heavily censored NSFW images of transformations involving FICTIONAL underage characters. And no, I do not mean lolis. I mean fully physically developed anime characters that just so happened to be canonically underage. Like, in the 15-17 age range. This most infamously includes the majority of human characters from Pokemon and My Hero Academia, who have been the main target of the mass purge. The purge is growing in size every day and I'm not completely up to date of how many users have been permabanned, but the list is growing and it's growing fast. The art isn't even NSFW (mostly) and the characters aren't lolis/shotas, just people transforming into dawn, misty, or serena from Pokemon or a genderbend comic about Deku from MHA turning into a girl. Once again these characters ARE NOT REAL and DO NOT LOOK LIKE KIDS, yet DA is going after transformation artists and SPECIFICLY transformation artists and using these characters as a crutch to mass ban that genre of art from their website. There is also the fact that the majority of these artists are also trans (mostly trans girls) so this may be a purge based on transphobia and other forms of hate.

If you didn't know already, I use DeviantArt frequently (my @ is/was KrimsonKattTG) and post a decent amount of genderbend art on there. I have around 800 followers on there. The problem comes that I have posted multiple genderbent arts of Pokemon characters and other "underage" characters according to DA despite them being not real and looking and acting like adults in canon, and are only underage because anime is wildly unrealistic age-wise. DA also does not accept excuses of "aging up characters." If they are under 18 in canon then they are banned. The worst part is that a lot of these post I made involving "underage" characters (which were SFW mind you, no nudity or sex) were commissions. People paid me to make and post them and now I'm being banned for them. Once again, THE ARTWORKS WERE COMPLETELY SFW. The only ones I did that was even mildly NSFW was the ones I did for Pyra and she is over 500 years old. (mental age is unknown, though she certainly isn't a child)

In short, I need to find a new website to post my art, but I don't have many options. Twitter is a hellsite run by billionaire man baby Elon Musk and is currently in the process of imploding, and Threads is too early in it's life to be reliable. There's no way in Tartarus I'm posting on a furry art site like FurAffinity or Weasyl, as I'm not a furry and neither is my art. Newgrounds is probably the best option, but that site doesn't have a mobile site or app and is very laggy and unpolished, heavily limited reach since the majority of people only use social media on their phones now. Tumblr is a no-go since I'm not sure what the status of their infamous NSFW ban is, and Insagram and Facebook are also off the table because my family is on there, uses it religiously, and all follow me. I don't know Japanese so sites like Pixiv or ArtStation are also out of the question. And there's no way I'm posting on a porn site like R34 because once again, 99% of my art is SFW. I have no idea what to do. I need to leave DA ASAP and repost my art somewhere else, but I have nowhere to go. I obviously can't post it here since this place is for free indie games, not for art of a mildly erotic manner. Anyone who has any experience with art, where should I go to post my stuff? Any site I should know about so I could switch? Thanks.

The face images made with the RPG Maker MV/MZ generator are meant to go with the "show text" command where you can also show a face go along with the text. These "facesets" are in a 4x2 grid and feature 8 faces each. Each face image is 144x144 pixels, while the full faceset image is 576x288 pixels. The generator generates one face image at a time. All face images generated using the character generator are cut off, and the actual assets used in the character generator found in the source files for the engine are cut off as well.

Meanwhile, the character images in the "pictures" folder are bust images meant to be used with the "show pictures" event as an alternative to faces. These images are referred to as "busts" in the community. Busts cannot be created with the character generator in either MV or MZ, so you will have to create them yourself or commission someone to make them for you. I strongly recommend against the use of busts for for your first game, stick with the faces.

If you want to "zoom out" the faces so that they aren't cut off, you will either need to draw completely original facesets using a separate program such as Aesprite, Gimp, or Clip Studio Paint or to copy the generator assets to a personal folder, edit them to have them not be cut off and have both the lighting and the base images combined, and then place the face assets manually using photoshop, gimp, or any other layer-based image editing software to create your own custom assets. I also recommend against doing this as well. Just stick with the default faces for now. They serve their purpose fine and are great for making simple OCs for your game instead of using the generic default actors, especially the MV generator. (the MZ RTP, or default assets, are really bad IMO)

Step 1: Have a unique artstyle.
Step 2: Add horror stuff.
Step 3: Have no rips and sell for $15
Step 4: Pay a big streamer to play your game.
Step 5: Profit.

This goes for any indie game really. All you have to do to become insanely popular is to have a unique artstyle and have horror elements. That's it. Omori is the most popular RPG Maker game of this era and yet it has incredibly barebones mechanics and gameplay. People only like it because the art is unique and it's edgy. Pizza Tower, while not an RPG Maker game, is the same. It's literally just Wario Land 4 but only the chase sections. That's it. That's the game. And then people say the OSTs are "fire" and post non-stop remixes/mashups/rips of those songs over and over again 1000+ times (PLEASE STOP POSTING 100 SUNNY TIMMYTURNERSGRANDDAD IM SICK OF IT) while other series get completely neglected. There is only one active user making Xenoblade remixes on a consistent basis and he ONLY does Xenoblade 1 stuff because he refuses to play XB2 or 3 because "they would never live up to the hype of XB1." And then when he does do XB1 remixes he does songs like Tephra Cave instead of bangers like Engage the Enemy or Zanza the Divine/God Slaying Sword. It's really frustrating how everyone in the music community hyper-focuses on these subpar indie games with incredibly mid OSTs instead of games with amazing OSTs. Octopath Traveler 2? Never heard of them. Literally anything SMT related? Shin me-goo-me what? Way better indie games like Crystal Project, the Spark Trilogy, and Rabi Ribi come out every month yet no one cares. Everyone is all about Pizza Tower or Omori or whatever just because they have "unique artstyles." I'll say it again, graphics do not matter. The only things that matter are gameplay and story and everything that goes along with it. As long as the graphics aren't eye bleeding or intrusive to the gameplay, I couldn't care less what a game looks like. If Pizza Tower was 8 bit with megaman graphics or if Omori used default RPG Maker MV assets literally no one would care. Undertale/Deltarune proved it's worth not by fancy graphics, but by amazing music and characters. Gameplay in UT sucks IMO, but Deltarune's gameplay is significantly better especially chapter 1. Chapter 2 felt way to railroaded. But both games have pretty bad graphics and yet UT is beloved to this day with DR is one of the most hyped indie games ever for the full release. But then why is this sentiment not repeated with games with shallow gameplay but "unique" graphics like Pizza Tower or Omori? I'm just sick of people obsessed with these games instead of broadening to more obscure titles both from indies and the big companies. No one played Octopath 2 and that game was a 10/10 masterpiece. Even less people played something like Crystal Project.

Edit: If Chronicles: The Lost Page had no rips and more "unique" graphics (mainly a van-goh paint like artstyle), it would have 100,000 sales instead of just around 150/200 and I would be a millionaire. That's how easy it is to make a popular game, just be spooky and have pretty graphics. You don't need to have a good story, or good characters, or good gameplay, just nice graphics and creepy stuff.

Edit 2: Sorry about the rant, I'm not feeling the best recently.

Never mind, I figured one out on my own with a bit of brainstorming. So the fight goes like this:

Mewtwo is the main enemy in the battle who possesses two arms, both additional "enemies" on the field with their own turns. Each hand has two moves. The left arm has "Psycho Shot" which deals severe almighty damage to one foe while inflicting every non-lethal status effect and "Psycho Blast" which deals unreal almighty damage to all foes that lowers all stats. The right arm has "Psycho Boost" which buffs all stats for all allies besides itself while dispelling all debuffs and statuses and "Psycho Heal" which heals all allies besides itself based on remaining AP. (my version of MP, since it's not just for magick)

Mewtwo has 4 weaknesses: Spears, Guns, Force, (which is wind+earth+poison spells, basically a nature element) and Dark. When the left arm is active spears and force are protected, while when the right arm is active guns and dark are protected. Since this game uses the Octopath Traveler battle system, exploiting weaknesses is very important in order to break the enemy's shield, stunning them and opening them up for big damage. So your priority at the beginning of the fight is to get rid of the arms ASAP.

Meanwhile while you're fighting the arms, Mewtwo's main body is using two different skills, Hypernova which deals unreal almighty damage to all foes twice and Nightmare Eclipse which does dark damage to all foes equal to 50% of their max HP. So not only do you need to destroy the arms, but you also need to keep your HP above 50% so you're not instantly wiped out by Nightmare Eclipse.

But once you destroy the arms and open up Mewtwo's weaknesses to start breaking his shield, it's far from over. Once you get rid of the orbs Mewtwo will use a skill called "Omnidrive," beginning to charge up for his ultimate attack. You may think this would be the perfect time to break his shield and deal big damage, but think again. While in Omnidrive Mewtwo not only protects against all weaknesses, but also has his ultimate attack powered up based on how much damage he is dealt. Once the 3 turns charging are up, Mewtwo will use "Realground Shattering," dealing almighty damage to all foes based on the damage taken while charging x4. And if you thought of avoiding attacking Mewtwo at all and just healing and buffing while he's charging, once again, think again. Because if Mewtwo takes 0 damage while charging Realground Shattering will be powered up to max level and will do a garenteed 9,999,999 damage, spelling instant defeat. The trick with dealing with this attack is using an attack item that all do a set 100 damage and then don't attack again, which will bypass the move's 0 damage flag and cause the move to only do 400 damage, almost completely nullifying the attack.

However, even if you manage to survive Mewtwo's ultimate attack, it is still not over. At this point Mewtwo summons three orbs, a fire orb, ice orb, and thunder orb. Each orb uses a powerful magickal attack based on what orb it is, Rexfire, Rexfrost, or Rexthunder, each spell dealing unreal damage of their respective element to all foes 4 times. After 5 turns of being active, the orbs will self-destruct, with each orb using a different skill when slain that gives Mewtwo a different buff. The fire orb uses "Last Rites" upon death which gives Mewtwo HP Regen and temporary reraise/auto-life status. The ice orb uses "Frost Shield" upon death which gives Mewtwo +20% armor. Not defense, armor, meaning that he gets +20% damage reduction from all types of damage. And finally the thunder orb uses "Thunderous Brine" upon death which gives Mewtwo +25% physical and magickal armor pierce.

If the orbs self-destruct on their own, Mewtwo will do another round of Omnidrive before immediately reviving his hands again. However, if the orbs are defeated manually, Mewtwo will be open to attack for 6 turns completely uninterrupted before summoning the orbs again. After the orbs are destroyed for a second time no matter if it is done manually or they self destruct, Mewtwo will revive the hands restarting the pattern.

How do you like this idea for a superboss? Pretty cool, right?