WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

Wouldn't reading many from a single sheet (maybe even of arbitrary size) be preferable to many tiny individual images

Wouldn't one like to browse icons by name when finding them to assign to other stuff? Say, "potion" instead of icon 14?

Also, are there are dimension limitations on this command?

Icons are 16 x 16 square pictures, or more since any resource could be double or more in size for higher resolutions. The editor doesn't render these always correctly, nobody has created a test set of double resolution tiles and things.

To be more precise, icons are as wide and tall as the height of a line of text in the message box.

Oh and, probably pure nostalgia at work but - I honestly think some support for 2k3 style 1-bit mask-based custom characters would be a neat thing to have in addition to a more robust icon system (ie the way custom glyphs worked with 2k3, whereby they're rendered as text and refer to a 1 bit image for their details). But maybe that's too superfluous or what-not to warrant being implemented.

Because the font can be changed to anything, and the font drawing is self contained inside the engine, it will render the special symbols out of a font.

Also what exactly is meant by "anything ever printed to the screen, ever",

You can use these commands as item names, hero names, and other strings that show up in the game. None of the commands persist so the text won't suddenly become all a different color because you had an item name in a different color.

basically equate to: "print the user-given name of variable #0001" etc? That's kinda cool, it'd be nice to have ones that print the database name of other entites too (items, characters, monsters etc) - or is that the point and we're just meant to point to those or something?.

One thing I thought was missing in RPG Maker 2003 that was really needed were string manipulation functions. You'll use this to display them. Just like the older RPG Maker 20XX, there should also be something that gets names and numbers from the database.

Don't give me any credit just yet, many people have tried making an entire classic console style RPG creation suite, but they either fizzle out or release with something either really confusing to use or substandard.

..even if it won't handle many players at once.

Actually it could, all those whoever-knows-how-many-prototypes-by-now of LandTraveller could, my point is that you can't. Well, unless a sysadmin of a large server farm is reading this. In that case, it really could (there would be a 64-bit version of the server program so it could use RAM sizes in excess of 4GB).

Despite me considering moving LandTraveller to work off the RPG20XX engine (which would be a smart idea), it was doing way more over the network than a JRPG would need and yet I could go up to about 32 players before things started to cave in. These were done on your typical VPS hosts you can rent.

I would obviously host the first dedicated server under the landtraveller.com domain. There's actually a Garry's Mod server there right now. You'll have to use the legacy server browser and put in "landtraveller.com" as the domain (you don't need to type the IP address).

why go into details again when it's the SAME things it was doing last time i told you?

Because you never really went into detail the first time.

Go to the config folder and tell me the contents of the log here (C:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Roaming\rpg20xx\log.txt in Windows Vista/7/8).

Don't forget I said it was unfinished. The script area is a mockup.

So, you hinted at this in your post, but what exactly do those "#0.000", "#1.000", etc. things mean? I'm guessing that they're placeholders for something else, but what are those "something else"s?

Lots of those have just been changed to phrases like "Greater Than", "Yes", etc. There will be more decoding of information on screen into readable formats as I progress.

And i never thought you would add any kind of scripting.

Assuming RPG Maker 2003 didn't have scripting? How then were you making RPGs with the old editors?

I second NB's concern with the overload of icons, the event window here is far harder to read than RM2K(3)'s text-only way.

It will be arranged and reorganized as I complete this dialog.

Also, I highly suggest that the text used inside the window be a monospaced font like Courier New or something similar (ideally it would be user definable!). Monospaced fonts are far more easily readable when we're reading code or psuedo-code.

Right now it's the default font. Eventually you'll be able to change the font.

I find the icons and layout very helpful for visualizing the code. I hope you don't change it if more people express that opposing opinion.

I knew it was hard to read before posting this, but re-arranging it and doing all the fine touches will take a very long time to perfect. The final result will indeed be full of icons though, so don't worry.

which I believe WolfCoder suggested they were.

They are. Those are the raw values, some of them will become words, phrases, names, previews, etc.

Even something as simple as alternating line background tone with a light grey could probably improve readability

I'm not alternating colors, I can't focus my eyes well on those, but I am going to do stuff with the background to make the separate commands more obvious and the block level structure more obvious, and to make the changes in block level (ifs, returns, etc.) the most obvious.