STORMCROW'S PROFILE

This is NOT primarily a help thread or a place for people to suggest workarounds, scripts, or plugins, to solve the problem. Don't get me wrong, that kind of thing is totally allowed and encouraged it's just...the main point of this thread is just bitching.

I remember hating that VX only allowed one tileset by relegating tilesets to the System folder inside Graphics, it seemed like such an enormous step backwards from earlier versions of the engine that had allowed you to have as many tilesets as you want. I'm sure there were workarounds and scripts for it at the time, but I was massively relieved when I got Ace and was allowed to use as many tilesets as I want again.

A better example, probably: why does Ace let you change each character's Max Level, but then not have that Max Level reflected in the parameter or experience curve configuration? I mean, realistically, the vast majority of games made in this engine, even the tiny percent that actually get FINISHED, are not going to be the kind of sprawling epic that actually takes you from Level 1 to Level Fucking 99. I generally set my level cap to 30, or to 60 if it's intended to be a full length project; even less or no levels at all for shorter/non-RPG projects (obviously). But anyway, to actually accommodate the max level you want in a game, you need to do a fair bit of awkward guess and check and really deform the parameter curves, repeatedly entering an incrementally less arbitrary value for Level 99 and fast/slow to see what that brings the maximum parameter to at the ACTUAL level cap of your game.

Example: Night City has a Level Cap of 30. I wanted my MC to go from 400 Max HP at Level 1 to 1600 at Level 30. To do that I had to trial-and-error my way to a Level 99 MHP of 2700 with the acceleration slider pushed all the way to fast to get the basic numerical progression I wanted, then 'cheat' a little bit to get round numbers at the start and end. It wasn't a big problem by any means, but with the number of projects I start, it's a pain.

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I think this is one aspect of graphics/visuals that I don't see get a lot of discussion because it's not as make-or-break as maps or sprites, but what are some of the best battle animations you've ever seen, whether in RM games or commercial games? (Although the focus is slightly bent towards RM games since this is in GD&D.)

So, as a general statement, I once heard the key to not getting bored or burnt out when devving is to vary what you're doing when you start to lose motivation, and I think it's good advice. Like, if you're sick of making maps, work on importing/creating/tweaking resources for a while. If you're tired of painstaking pixel art, switch gears and write dialogue for or program a cutscene. Whatever.

That said, I think there are definitely parts of indie game development that are more 'fun' and other parts that are more 'work', and that it's subjective from dev to dev.

Me, for instance, I find that mapping is really a chore (I have been around long enough that I CAN make really good maps if I really want to but I rarely find it worth the effort), and I get really jazzed when I'm balancing and tweaking gameplay usually in the database. This is why I love the sample maps in Ace (and MV which has even more, but I'm not ready to move on to MV yet). I almost always edit them heavily, but they give you something to work with so you're not just looking at a blank screen.

How about you?

So this isn't a free-for-all "which game engine is the best" kinda thread, I just want to specifically ask about RMVX Ace vs. RMMV. For those of you Ace users who made the jump to MV, was it all you'd hoped for, was there anything you regretted, etcetera? What does MV do better than Ace, and if applicable, vice versa?

I was initially gunshy around MV because it switched from Ruby to Java but...I'm kind of kidding myself that I've really made any progress in learning RGSS scripting over the years. Any scripting ability I have with Ruby is incredibly basic, not to mention rusty.

On balance, I'm probably inclined to buy MV, but if I shouldn't, please tell me!

Thanks.

So, the "Event Touch" trigger does not function for large events that "know" they're more than one tile big. I'm using GubiD's Large Events System for Ace. The script works in most regards: it increases the number of tiles an event will respond to for Player Touch and Action Button triggers, but Event Touch will never trigger. This is frustrating because I am making a game where you are chased by big monsters. If you stand still, the event can run into you until the cows come home and not trigger. If you walk into it, it triggers. I checked another project to make sure that Event Touch works in general (it does), and I removed the comment that "told" the event how large it was, and it was able to track me down and kill me just fine (as long as I stood still: Yanfly's Event Chase Player script is slightly wonky). But that meant it was behaving as a 1x1 Tile event instead of a 3x3 tile event in terms of running into stuff (so you couldn't, for instance, go into a narrow space to escape from it).

Anyway, I can work around this, but if anyone has any experience with getting large events to have proper collision detection in VX Ace.

(I'm getting the large monster graphics from Pioneer Valley games character sets. Some of the monsters are freaking insanely huge.)