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author=SgtMettool
The biggest benefit from moving to MV is if you anticipate your game having a large audience and want to make use of MV's export options. MV is generally more powerful and can go farther with scripting than Ace can.

That said, if you're making a simple project and don't plan to be doing much in the way of scripting, Ace might get the job done just fine.

well this is not something I'm going to sell but just in case anyone would like to play it (if I ever end up with a finished product), it would be great to have a mobile possibility.

Another thing I'm wondering now, say it'll take me years to complete the project using VX Ace, am I going to start finding it difficult to get scripts for it and other stuff? Is it going to kinda disappear into the shadow of MV?

To be honest, there's not a whole lot I need from MV. The equipment type feature would help to give each character individual types of equipment, I'd like to have a side battle system built in rather than using the script (although it works fine currently with a script).

If I can get all the features from MV I really want with Ace, I'll stick with that. I would like to use a higher resolution like MV but it seems to have drawbacks when working with small sized maps. If I'd use MV I'd make some of the maps 16 tiles width (like my reference is) but I don't want any black borders as MV seems to put in there on maps that small.
If there's a script to just SLIGHTLY make the resolution bigger in VX Ace even if it stretches and lowers the quality, that would be awesome.
Of course, I could keep the size 17 width like the minimum is in VX Ace and just keep the maps the same. Don't know really why I need tiles 48x48 rather than 32x32 like in Ace and if I move to 48 I would need to pretty much do stuff over again. OR, if I can use 32x32 tiles in MV, then that would make things easy. I just have to decide what to do before working on more maps in Ace.

sorry but if you know how to implement this converter....I would ask on the other forum but well, I'm not a member there. I copied the files created into the data folder of an MV project, does anyone see on that forum if I need to do something else? As in, anything to make MV read the files?

Hi guys.
New on this site, had a couple of posts on RPG Revolution but goodbye site and goodbye profile.

So a semi simple question.....I started working on a game on VX Ace and was wondering:

A: Is there anything you can easily import straight into MV from VX or do you have to make everything from scratch?
B: Is it worth it, moving a game you've already started on from one engine to another?

So I'm not far but far enough that it's a choir. I just finished painting a world map and it took two days (or well, about 3 sittings for hours). I have mostly been working on maps and have just a few battle mechanics semi sorted out. But there's not really a whole lot of game mechanics done. Mostly maps like I say.

I am working on an RPG version of an older game, just a remake, not meant to be sold. I've been playing it and capturing graphics directly from the game and needless to say, I've got some plenty of Photoshop files, but one question is, have sizes changed a lot in MV? I wouldn't mind having to move my PS junk to a new MV folder and most of the maps would take a pretty short time to repaint (except the world map). But am I going to need to change the size of all my tiles!? If so, that's gonna me some headache.

With that said, I took a short peek at MV and I like some features, some which I would definitely use, stuff that I have in my game but through scripts which is default stuff in MV (SV for example). I also feel that I might want a higher resolution and stuff like that.

I do have a few custom scripts from the forums including:
*Core Xail
*Map Slide Transition
*Damage Popup
*Jet Side Battle (easily replaced in MV I suppose)
*A script for randomly dropped Gold from enemies (a bad thing. Made by a generous guy on the forums which I'll now have to reconfigure if I'll use MV).
*Some script to displaying amount of Gold from XS. Don't even remember what for. I guess it was to show a message during battle saying how much Gold you got from a fallen enemy.
*Gold Limit....to limit amount of Gold you can carry.
*A script to change the limit of how much of an item can be carried. I need this to have a different limit on each item.
*Custom Equipment. To change equipment slots for individual characters. Had a hard time implementing it and it seems MV has a default system in the database for this.


Sorry this was NOT supposed to be this long but please tell me.....should I move the game to MV and if anything, can I easily import anything straight to MV, anything that retains the same sizes, like tiles?
Keep in mind I have started but I only have like 15 Maps.

Thanks
Regards, ST