WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

No, that doesn't have anything to do with these commands. However, it's annoyed me how the music restarts after battle, so I'll fix it later (I need battles at all first before having the music resume).

Still not out of the mess yet though >.<

Don't forget to always use the Import command or the transparent color won't be correct sometimes.

You are using a normal copy of RPG Maker 2003 without any changes to the editor, right?

If you mail me the project file, I can try and see where it crashes.

I put the line Year=20XX in rpg_rt.ini. There is no wcrpg.ini in the folder.

wcrpg.ini is a file you may or may not decide to make yourself.

What am I doing wrong?

Simple. You're trying to run the thing using the play button in your editor. Double click on the actual .exe itself to run.

I'll add support for the play button when I resume this project. It's a bizarre command line system that rpg2003.exe uses. It uses the command line for when you want to run in debug mode, battle test mode, etc. Fun thing is that you can pass debug mode command line parameters to run anyone's game in debug mode so you can edit variables and stuff with the existing RPG_RT.exe

because you can watch most any anime and see that they are very bound to that naturalistic anatomical form in spite of any 'style' or huge boobies.

Actually, this is Sturgeon's Law. In good anime, you can see interesting variations in style. I even see some interesting differences in some bad anime too. You'd be surprised if you actually looked harder, I sure am. Most anime you see when you load up lineups is trash made to sell things and full of the fanservice you mention. But even among the garbage you can still see how they have distinct changes on characters.

Whoops, for some reason I didn't parse the "in spite of" in my head. Yeah, the first thing I tried to learn when drawing characters is how to change form and to be able to pick one to fit what I need (ex: block chibi when doing high resolution yet square shapes for VX-style sprites / semi-realistic for RM20XX/3 because the aspect is closer to reality).

When making a game world from scratch, I actually fuss about the scale/form of the world and characters for quite some time.

As you can see if you browse my sketches, I'm still trying to get the form correctly for large pictures as it's still not quite right when I draw panels or large stills that have more of the character's body in it.

I actually do agree that the first thing someone should learn about a medium is the metrics. Most people I see who want to draw in this medium go straight to learning faces, hair, clothes, etc. and even skim over hands and feet.

Also, define 'copying?' If you mean tracing from something, that is a very ineffective way of learning because you are not relying on your visual memory to do it, and thus do not retain the 'information' as easily. It is way better to draw from a reference or life or something.

Yeah, I meant references.

I have no idea what you are on about here.

Despite understanding a few things you mention, I still have no idea what you're going on about either. I wasn't really talking about how to learn anime here, I was talking about this weird and disgusting idea that "white people can't anime" or that the entire medium is for posers.