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author=LordBlueRouge
once 2024 rolls around, i wanna take another stab at this. the hardest part right now is just redoing the animations? cause default rpgmaker2003 only has 25 slots for battle animation sprites and unless they're sprites that remain stationnary there's a lot of ghosting, as you see when sabin jumps towards the monster in the gif above.

I'll try and fix that, and if I like it, I'll continue with it. But ya I'll dig up the old templates. One was from gamingw back in 2007, and the other was from Neok, I think.

EDIT: just keep in mind, don't expect miracles with this; I'm just a dumb newgrounds flash animator from the 2000s, trying to see if this works. SideWinder is doing most of the great legwork with this.

author=LordBlueRouge

author=RayVee
Checking if you're still gonna release it or not.

Ah, probably not this year, my apologies. too much stuff on my plate at the moment.
it's just hard trying to find the time to put it together.

Worse comes to worst I'll throw up links to the older templates, SideWinder and I looked at, before making this one, then I'll upload what I have. The hardest part is just, recreating the animations and then just troubleshooting it, so someone else can very easily plug it in and recreate it, in their own game.

But ya, my apologies, 2023 is just kind of washout at the moment.

author=LordBlueRouge

author=Doctor_Lugae
Any help would be welcomed, and anyone who can help me with the coding issues I have for combat / battles I would be more than happy to credit you in the final game. Thanks for your help in advance guys!

Hi Doctor_Lugae, thanks for finally joining the forums. (very cool screen name♥!)

SideWinder and I were working on something like this before the pandemic hit. I was doing the animation, he was doing the programming - and like most of his work in RM2k3 - it was very easy and simple to understand. I was gonna originally release this tech demo alongside 6 other games I planned on working on/releasing, but then the pandemic hit.

But yeah the tech demo was going to be out there, so anyone could copy and paste the code into their own game and create new moves alongside the original without much work - similar to what Aten did with his Steal/Scan tutorial for RM2003 back in 2007.

I can't promise anything. But I'm gonna bookmark this page. Just in case I start tinker with it again. I was really impressed by SideWinder's work, because the biggest problem with Blitza and RM2k3 with creators in the past was that, it didn't actually look like FF6 Blitz? it only functioned like FF6 Blitz in theory - you could punch in keys and have a skill play out on screen - But it didn't feel the same way like it did in FF6. Sidewinder and I were able to get it look almost exactly like it did in FF6, but with a few changes so that it'd look more approperiate to RM2k3.

I'll keep ya posted, but ya, the biggest take away from this project is that; and I've said this many times to everyone since then. - don't come into RM2k3 with a set of ideas of what you want to do - learn what RM2k3 can do first, then build your game around those limitations.

By doing it this way, you may not be able to get the way you want it to work in RM2k3, but you'll get something that looks like it.

Update: I finally got around to tinkering with it today. Keep in mind, this is still like, super raw
it'd be better to add a cursor pointing at Sabin while performing the button inputs,
so it looks more like the original? and other stuff, like the jumping etc

But it works. You can even add new moves and animations to it.
Which is what I had planned to do with it originally but just never got around to it.
I'll try releasing it at some point once it's more complete.

author=KosmicD
I know it has been some time since the last post, I was wondering how this is going? I am not good at this stuff but I am sure the community here can help if you need it.