PNEUMATIC'S PROFILE

I'm trying to come up with an idea that will add a little bit of strategy or at least uniqueness to RM2k3's default battle system.

So far what I have is using the attack command or physical skills will cause the exhaustion gauge to rise. Once the gauge tops out, every time you use the attack command or physical skill after that, there's a chance the character will be inflicted with Exhaustion, which halves attack and speed stats. (Or maybe just attack)

The gauge will decrease every time any command other than attack or skills are used, and if the gauge is not at 100%, then every turn after that there's a chance Exhaustion will disappear if the character is afflicted.

For magic, similarly the magic gauge will rise every time spells are used, and decrease when any other type of command is used. If the gauge tops out then every turn after that a spell is used there is a chance the character will be afflicted with magic poisoning, which halves magic power and inflicts damage similar to poison. This one will not disappear without being cured via spell or item.

Weak skills/spells will cause the gauges to rise slowly, stronger skills/spells or those that target all enemies or the whole party will increase it more. I thought this might be a good way to add some strategy to battles and prevent the strongest skills and spells from being spammed over and over, but what I don't want is for it to become too tedious. There will be spells/skills/items that modify the rate the gauges fill at, such as half rate, 2x rate, etc.

Would just like to know if this seems like it would work out if implemented properly, or if it sounds like it would make battles too difficult, a chore, tedious, etc. before I actually start putting it into action here.

Ok, sort of a weird request here.

There's a song I want to use in my game, but it only appears in episodes of a TV show, and is not on the OST in the version I want to use.

I have tried downloading episodes and using a vocal remover and fooling with the equalizer to no avail, I have also tried splicing it together from clips and it just sounds terrible. I have tried to compose it myself using MP3 software, but I have no idea how to compose music and am just wasting my time.

So, I am looking for someone to essentially listen to the song, and then recreate it as accurately as possible. It isn't that complicated, it's about a minute and a half long, but it's mostly a repetitive ominous chant with no instruments at all for the entire thing. I'm well aware that songs like this are a dime a dozen, but this is the one I'd like to have.

I don't think it would take much effort at all to anyone who knows what they're doing, so if you're interested PM me or reply and I'll send you the clip and we can discuss payment

Thanks!

I've been having an issue with trying to get battle animations sorted out between two computers.

On one computer, when I use a spell, there's a delay while the character's casting animation shows, and then the battle animation for the actual spell shows.

On my new computer, when I use a spell, the casting animation and the spell animation both start at the same time. I know I could fix this by adding extra blank frames to the start of the spell animation, but seeing as this seems to differ between machines, I don't want to end up with a huge gap before the animation starts after the casting animation finishes, if that makes any sense.

Going back to some of my old projects on my other computer, I found that this even seems to differ between projects, some delay the start of the spell animation, some don't.

Does anyone know why this is? Is there a hidden setting or something I'm missing?

I have kind of a strange problem here. I am using battle animations for the battlecharacters in my game, and I have it set on all weapons that they should move to the target and attack, and then return to position.

I created a custom dashing animation and a custom "jumping back" animation for each character, and made sure that they all had the exact same settings in the character animations tab.

But, for some reason, despite the fact that I just copied and pasted the same "dash" and "jump" animation for each character, only the first one displays correctly, and shows the full move to target and return animation.

That is, for the first character in the database, his animations work properly. I copied and pasted the actual animation and changed the image file for the other characters, so they are all essentially the same animation. Yet, for some reason, the dash and jump animations are very choppy for the other characters instead of running smoothly, like the first one.

I have checked and rechecked everything to ensure that all settings for animations between characters are the same, but I can't seem to figure this out.

EDIT: Created a skill that when used causes the character to move to the target. When used, dash and jump animations display just fine. When using the regular attack command though, they're choppy. What gives?