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I've donated 25.00 to your noble cause comrade!

I know nothing is set in stone at this point other than streaming for 25 hours on November 2nd. But if you're planning on sticking to the 1 hour per game format could you add either, Name73, Origin, Oathguard or the recently released Phantom Legacy to the list?

I'll probably have to scrounge up a link for the first two.

Again, Thank you guys for taking the time to reply!

@Dookie
I've actually done what you've described, to a similar effect, on another rpgmaker game I was working on prior to this one, I've posted a video below.


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As you can see, it's very similar to what you described:
Using Battle animations acting as the 1st layer,
Pictures as the 2nd and 3rd layer
"Same layer as hero" as the 4th
"Below hero" as 5th
And using the panorama as the 6th layer.

But In this particular example the player is set as a stationary Battle Animation which places it as the top layer in rpgmaker2003 and leaves the other layers to move freely underneath it.

The problem with using this method though is that, it's primarily a run-on-scene; Beyond this particular scene, you can't really use it for much of anything else, since the player can't really interact with it. So it isn't a very good example since it's just one giant cutscene.

What I actually want to do in rpgmaker2003 is like what DHM described; to have multiple parallax backgrounds and have them behave like their current implementation in rpgmaker2003, in order to create a scene where there are multiple backgrounds that move as the player does; Multiple backgrounds that the player can freely move on top of. For example the Village of Redmont in YS III for the SNES, which utilizes a static image panorama in addition with a horizontal scrolling panorama to create parallax scrolling. I've posted a video below.


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Now when trying to implement this into rpgmaker2003, this quickly becomes a problem - Because of the nature of RPGMAKER2003, you really only have one panorama to work with.

So then if you were to recreate this in rpgmaker2003 how do you go about implementing that second panorama; that static image of the clouds that's displayed independently of the panorama?

Well, you can try achieving this through Pictures. But as everyone knows Pictures take draw priority over other layers.


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So in order to rectify this I then tried creating a picture of the lower tileset that would be placed over the first image so that it'd behave similar to a second panorama.
As you can see, this works up until the player leaves area, because as DHM mentioned

author=dragonheartman
...To get the same pan effect you'll need to know the camera's screen offset (to the pixel)

…Which I believe is -645; I'm not sure if this is fixed in the rpgmaker2009 patch that Cherry made (If anyone can confirm this let me know and I'll see what I can do from there) but rpgmaker2003 wouldn't allow me to place images beyond a -640 x coordinate.


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…And even if I can get this image to move beyond -640, this particular work around
would only work for this area and few other areas in the game.
But It won't work for all of them as you can imagine from the the examples I've provided below;
Some of these examples would have the player walk into the image you would use as a
second panorama and immediately cover the player.


But hopefully now you can understand why, creating multiple panoramas through
other means is a feature that rpgmaker2003 simply cannot achieve on it's
own and perhaps why creating a plugin for multiple panoramas (if it's possible)
would be a really neat feature to have for rpgmaker2003.

Again, thank you guys very much for taking the time to read and reply to this post.

EDIT: I didn't realize there was a new section on the forums now. If one of the moderators could kindly move this topic to the "Programming & Plugins" section of the forums that would be greatly appreciate. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused. :(


This request is for Rpgmaker 2003:

I'm not quite sure if these are the appropriate channels to post this in. I'm hoping maybe Cherry or another experienced member, familiar with the ins and outs of rpgmaker2003 would help me out with this request:

Now, I'm not quite sure how rpgmaker2003 works outside of it's initial features, but would it be possible to create a plugin/patch for rpgmaker2k3 that would allow rpgmaker2003 to show more than one panorama?

In other words, would it be possible to get rpgmaker2003 to behave in a way that it would allow it to show two parallax backgrounds, one on top of the other at the same time?

More importantly has this already been done before?

I imagine, if someone were to enable this feature, ideally It could behave similarly to how rpgmaker2003 handles pictures within the maker:

The panorama assigned with the biggest number would be the first panorama layer the player sees and any panorama assigned with a receding number would go beneath it.

As always, It will be up to the user to create images that would accommodate this feature; to craft images with the correct transparency that would allow the player to see both images at the same time - one on top of the other.

Lag will probably be an issue of course, but at this point I just want to know if this is actually possible. Is it possible to create a patch or a plugin that would allow rpgmaker2003 to show two panoramas simultaneously, one on top of the other?

EDIT: I remember someone at some point mentioned they were working on something like this some time ago. But unfortunately they weren't able to get it to work for some reason.

If nothing else, perhaps someone could give us an update as to why it just isn't possible to get panoramas to behave this way in rpgmaker2003? :(

Thanks in advance.

I played Hero's Realm, 5 years ago; back when it was first released on the forums of gaming world and the game has just never really appealed to me. I could never get past the initial stages of the game, because there are some things I’ve always, oddly felt, just shouldn’t be in rpgmaker.

But that’s not the point.

Hero's Realm in many ways has sort of become the focal point of rpgmaker.net. Whenever I think of rpgmaker.net, I immediately think of Hero's Realm. It’s helped create our community and perhaps even helped establish the identity of our community as well.

This idea of the hobbyist rpgmaker; that you don’t need necessarily need an extraordinary amount of graphics or an incredible story in order to make a good game. All you really need is passion, maybe a bit of determination and this genuine love for the medium that all we grew up with.

It’s funny how time changes everything.