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yeah okay great my reply just failed.
Anyway I said I'd definitely be doing a couple of bigger maps split into sections like you said if not only for performance. I won't be imitating everything exactly the same like making all the hidden passages but those will be just similar dwellings, one room with a guy to talk to.

And yeah, my game won't be just Link walking aimlessly around. There'll be more characters, dialogue and you'll have a clue on where to go next or straight out be told where to go.

Thanks for clarifying this for me. I can continue working on it now.


I've also managed to get a script that allows map scrolling pretty good. Not exactly right but of all the different scripts, this one's the best. I just need to figure out now if I can do the same scroll even if the player is transferring between maps, not just when he's moving between screens on the same map.

I was looking for such a camera trick but didn't find one that works exactly.
I don't understand why people talk as if this is so impossible to finish. I've already made all the tiles from Zelda 2 overworld and Zelda 1 overworld. If you look at Zelda 1, there's very few different tile graphics. It now literally takes a minute to draw each map.

The dungeons are a couple of more tiles but they're all just color swaps from there.

One thing I should mention, I may be relatively new to RPG Maker but I'm not a Photoshop beginner and am quick to learn computer related stuff.

RPG games are large games and do take time to make. If I don't finish this game, it's not because it was too big a project.

A world map in an RPG game is a big map. Yes I'm trying to make a game three times as big as Zelda because it's an RPG version. That doesn't mean it's impossible.
Like I say also, I consider this to be a practice project just as well. If I finish it, then great. But you don't have to limit yourself to a 5 minute game to practice and learn stuff. You can just as well work your way through a bigger project. I'm not a level 1 beginner.

It could well be that I won't reach 999 maps, but I don't however see the problem with it if I will unless it's hardware related and I just can't work around it. People just say "you'll never do it" or "are you immortal, you won't live that long." I'm making the same thing whether it's one big map or multiple small ones. Well roughly.
There'll be 9 main dungeons in the first world. That's 180 maps if we say that all of them are 20 map screens but some of them, like the 9th level will ultimately be bigger.
Say there are 8 levels or so in the next world, that's 160 maps and again, more maps for the larger dungeons. Then there's optional dungeons which I don't know anything about yet. They don't have to follow the same format with map slides and stuff and I don't plan to make all the dungeons act the same anyways. Some of them will look like the Z1 dungeons while others will have larger maps like Z2 and Z3 (obviously not 2d platforming like in Z2) but some of the dungeons are meant to be underground...something like in Z1 while others are more like palaces.
Adding this all together, 2x Zelda 1 worlds, two Zelda 2 worlds (only two maps), 9 dungeons with 20 screens in world 1 and 8 in world 2 I have 593 or so. I can add onto this some maps since dungeons will be larger than 20 maps. There's towns and buildings which I haven't reached yet and optional dungeons but ultimately, I may not reach 999 maps but in the current format, I'll be getting dangerously close to it.

Now if there is a way like you guys have mentioned...to make the Zelda 1 world a single map by moving the camera only at the edge of the screen, I'm pretty much set, I'll definitely do so. That means, the Zelda 1 world will become 2 maps instead of well.....256 or whatever it was. Same for dungeons, only one map per dungeon instead of 20+
This is what I'm trying to figure out...the best way to achieve this map sliding feature without using multiple maps. So as to know what path I need to take from here. Taking the maps I've already made and copying them into one big map takes just a couple of minutes. This way, I'd be able to finish the whole Zelda 1 world with one map, getting rid of all map naming and map arrangement stuff.

And wow...sorry, this wasn't supposed to be so long jesus....


EDIT: Sorry short edit....I've just tried GALV's camera plugin and it seems to work just fine. The events on the edge of the screens just moves the camera to XY and it's just easy as hell. Only problem is it slows down as it nears the coordinates. I'd like a more linear transition. But it's better this way.

You guys don't happen to know how I can make it so Scroll Map doesn't slow down as it reaches it's destination but rather has a linear movement?

Well I only have one world map where you can use a ship and an airship. And only one type of water tile which is basically one of two tiles that are impassable for the actors, including mountain tiles.

The ship is supposed to pretty much just work on the sea tiles. I have some bridges as well which the ship should be able to pass under but I'll work that out with Events (although there has to be a distinction, since the actors pass over the bridge, the ship goes under).

The airship is fine regarding well, it can pass over everything, however, the problem with that comes with the landing part. It should be able to land on grassland, dirt paths and even deserts, but I need to exclude forests, swamps and more which are all passable for actors.

Haven't fetched it yet, but I'm gonna believe that regions plugin will work for all of this.

what if I'm doing a game I can't sell and a lot of people (given that I complete this for whatever reason) would play mostly on mobile?

Actually, after working a little on MV I'm already getting into strange problems. Like B tiles stacking on top of each other. Is that normal and did it happen in Ace too? Don't remember that.

I would have never moved the game had I been a long ways into developing. I just have some 18 Maps or so and repainting stuff into MV hasn't been too brutal. Kill your darlings and all that.

One thing I was stressed about continuing Ace is that I'm no programmer and am not going to make any scripts on my own, Java nor Ruby. So in the instances where I'll need custom scripts, as I will, I must rely on the community. So I was afraid users would abandon making Ruby scripts for those still working on Ace.

Can you guys tell me some specific things as to why to dislike MV? Any terrible bugs, features that have changed for the worst (I know the map max size has changed which has already impacted me) etc etc? Or tell me anything MV has positive other than multi platforming

well I tried putting my ship in water impassable by my actors but it didn't move so I think I'll have to tell it that that's a water tile unless it's a specific space on the A5 template. Then obviously I don't want my ship to move anywhere else, it's not supposed to go through mountains. I only have one graphic for water, nothing animated and such so maybe that just has to occupy the correct water tile space on A1 (or A2 whichever it was).
Likewise a problem with the airship, I have forest tiles that are passable but I don't want the player to be able to land their airship on it. Same for swamp tiles for example

I don't think the A5 tileset is programmed like the other A sets to work with ships. Specific tiles on A1 for instance are meant for water tiles, whether it be custom made or default.