Blogs

Development on a new theme

Hey guys, Today I'm going to post a screenshot of the forum skin I have been working on. It's based off of the new site skin, which I did not make. Features of the forum skin: -uses sprites and the same images from the site(which means faster loading) -uses a menu derived from the database, and is the same for both site and forum -breadcrumbs system is integrated(not shown on the site screenshot) So I'm going to post the forum screenshot first, followed by the site screenshot f

April 4, 2010

A new theme

Hey guys, As I have stated recently, I am planning on creating an new skin for the site. Here's what it should look like within the near future: This shows only the website, but I plan for this to be forums skin as well. What do you guys think?

April 2, 2010

Coming updates

Hey guys, It's been a while since the last major update, and nothing much has really been happening, so I'll try to write a little insider on what's to come. First of all is a new, global skin. As I said in my last blog entry, it should be difficult to distinguish the website from the forum. It will also be a completely new look, but this will take some time to develope. I don't necessarily design skins myself, because if someone can do it better, then why do it yourself? Instead I lik

March 26, 2010

Multi-threading in RGSS

Here are a few thoughts on multi-threading in RGSS. They may very well be applicable to RGSS2, but on the other hand there might be differences. I am assuming that you have knowledge on the multi-threading in general. Single Core It doesn't matter how many threads you make, only a single core on a single cpu can be utilized in RGSS. I believe this is a short-coming of the Ruby interpreter itself although I am not completely sure. It does seem like the Audio runs in a thread outside the R

March 17, 2010

END

Here's a little mention about an interesting special term, __END__. The rest of the section after that will not be run. In fact I believe the parser will stop at __END__ and therefore won't even build the abstract syntax tree for what comes afterwards. (An effect is the lack of syntax checking) This can be used for preventing the inclusion of test code except when you want to use it. I am sure you can see how it can be helpful in providing test data for scripters while being ignored normal

March 17, 2010

Waiting for movement's completion

To show one use of my Interpreter command_355 fix I'll show how you can make events wait for movement of a single event or the player to finish rather than all movements which the Wait For Move's Completion command does. Let's add this little snippet for checking whether Game_Character is moving or not. (Both Game_Player and Game_Event inherits from that class: (Add anywhere above main) http://paste-bin.com/view/6af9b1c2 It returns :wait when called. You can now put $game_player.wait_fo

March 17, 2010

Interpreter command_355

This command has given people headaches and many don't really understand it. In the default scripts if the script call is evaluated to false then the event waits and tries evaluating the script again. Naturally if you don't think or accidentally cause false to be the result of the script call all the time, the event practically freezes. An example could be $game_switches[42] = false which will evaluate to false every time. I really think that is not the purpose. Of course you could have $game

March 17, 2010

What does this script do? :3

Hey all! I stumbled upon project which contained a script I made who knows how long ago. I admit I had completely forgotten about it. So who can guess what it does? It's obviously for XP since it does something with terrain tags, but what? I may update this post with the answer some time later :3 *hugs* class Game_Character attr_accessor :terrain_tag alias_method(:zeriab_terrain_tag_passable, :passable?) def passable?(x, y, d) new_x = x + (d == 6 ? 1 : d == 4 ? -1 : 0)

March 17, 2010

Extracting the dialogue of a project

Here is a small script I cooked up some time ago. It extracts all the text messages and choices of all the events in the game. One file for the map events, another for the common events and a third text file for the battle events. It can be useful for reviewing purposes and also for simple-minded word spell-checking. Note that since there is loss of information to the format presented you should consider it infeasible to be able to inject your modifications back into the project by auto

March 17, 2010

My blog

I already have my site which is kinda bloggish: http://sites.google.com/site/zeriabsjunk Commenting for visitors is tedious at best, so I will be crossrefering to this blog in case anybody wanted to comment on anything. I'll start by reposting the RGSS related entries from my site here should people want to comment on them. Note that scripts for RPG Maker XP are filed under RGSS and scripts for RPG Maker VX are filed under RGSS2. Entries about scripts that works in both are filed under

March 17, 2010

The Programmer's Blog

Getting closer!

First up, huge Thank You to Marked. I was at a dry point in programming Pool when he gave me some motivation to get my spirits up and going. Thanks again man. Next, I've finally figured out how to do the GUI for the Basic Theme, and funnily enough, it shrank! I originally had to do a separate form for each different type of item that Pool could download, which was a HUGE waste of resources. Now, one there is one form for browsing items. It's looking great. It almost completely works, just mi

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March 16, 2010

Completeing Integration?

Hi all, I haven't made a Dev Blog entry in a while, but trust me there are many things being developed. I'll try to keep this one short. This is about completing website-forum integration, visually. At the moment the integration is very efficient, we can share database information back and forth between the website and the forum as if they were one software. It could be better, but it works. But it does at times look weak mainly due to the fact that the two look completely different.

March 6, 2010

Menu Integration

Hey Everyone, Yesterday I just completed something I've been working on bit by bit over the past week. It is an IPB(forum) hook which completely rebuilds the menu system from the website, one of the most complicated things I have attempted so far. Here is little preview for those who don't understand. This preview is from my test board on which is an offline server, and I use default installations of each software, so it doesn't look anything like RMXPUnlimited: The menu works ve