WOLFCODER'S PROFILE

Are you talking about a heightmap ? Something like this ?

No. Block tile map. Like some of the PS1 RPGs. Final Fantasy Tactics, Breath of Fire III, Grandia. etc. I've got an example of what I mean here and here.

I tried this for a worldmap test and it was really painfull to map with it. I want to stay in a simple way.

Unrelated to what I meant, but you can easily turn fractal noise into world maps.

If you want a 2D world map generated from noise techniques like that one, just set thresholds for sea, land, and mountain tiles. Don't generate all the levels of the noise pyramid for a simple way to eliminate the noise that sometimes happens. It'll get you some really good world mappey looking maps.

For random biomes, you could try separate noise maps for conditions like rainfall, foliage, etc. and add logical comparison tests (when specific maps are between specifics levels at the same place) that could paint biomes over the world map for deserts, forests, etc.

It's common for people to want to import the sheet and use right away like they used to, so in the future RPG20XX will do something with those. Probably list all unassigned images under full sprite or something, I haven't decided yet.

I can't seem to figure out how to give images transparent backgrounds?

Right now its either using the alpha channel (and saving as 32-bit .BMP or .TGA) or using the color (R=255,G=0,B=255). For some reason, FreeImage doesn't load the alpha channel in .PNG files.

Hi Wolfcoder, um, opening it in Wine seems to work fine.

For Linux or for Mac?

Interestingly, what solved this problem for me was changing the scaling percentage to 150% or 200%. 20XX works with these options, but not 125%. In that case, this would just be a small issue that may affect ~1% of users?

I just tried that and it's glitching out for me at any DPI setting. In 1.5 years of development with 1398 downloads, it might really effect only ~1% of users. It's interfering with my program's ability to update itself. The methods I link to only allow my program to detect odd DPI settings. Because it can, there might be some obscure method or workaround I can throw in that only activates when odd DPI is detected. Despite people having rare problems, I like to still address and resolve them whenever I can. I try my hardest never to blame the end user's machine, rather, that RPG20XX should detect and adapt.

I'm running 20XX on a Mac

Also try it with the Mac version of WINE. I'm just curious if it works. Running RPG20XX using WINE on Linux is a valid platform (I'm testing against it), so you can submit bugs about the program if you're using WINE.

First thing that happens when I click on the exe is I get an error warning reading 'Could not draw GDI bitmap'.

Something may be preventing the AlphaBlit from working. Can you give me a rundown of how you're running Windows 7, exactly? And what the basic operating system display settings are?

All this occurs as of version .28, though as far as I know I've got this message through all the versions you've released. I haven't tried testing 20XX on my PC lately (cause it's broken) but as of a few versions ago I don't recall having most of these problems. So who know? Maybe you do, but in any case I hope this is helpful.

All your problems sound like something is denying RPG20XX access to a lot of things. I'm not entirely sure. All the details about your environment would be helpful.

Just to be sure, this is a new install? Try deleting the C:\Users\<Your Name>\AppData\Roaming\rpg20xx folder and starting a new project to see if it still crashes.

does it support pixel by pixel movement?

That's a future feature, and it's going to be coming more recently than I previously planned since I need pixel movement for LandTraveller.


"Poses" as you can see in the default character sprites imply you can create the 4-directional animations for jumping and attacking you would in a top-down isometric action RPG. The pose feature is just a way to force a specific frame in a character sprite so you can make custom animations for events. The pose commands are already in. Weapon handling is going to be in the next release for sure, I might as well do pixel movement too. Weapon handling lets you specify grip points, angles and frames with weapon sprites for both the default battle system, custom battle systems, and it would be handy for an action RPG system.

Oh, return your DPI/scale size to normal, but then under the window theme settings, make the font all big. There should be a way to make the title bar and controls all big by doing this.

Luckily, the end user product game engine itself is completely unaffected by this DPI madness.