Jon Bon

It's tough to say. Really depends on how awesome it is. I have been doing research recently regarding this and I read that they tried this once a while back with a fan site, from which they were going to convert it into their official forum. And from the paraphrased words of the owner 'due to Enterbrains chaotic behaviour, and the flop of action game maker, we weren't able to go forward'. This was obviously some time ago, but if Enterbrain handles this current site anything like they handle the rest of the stuff they do, I don't expect much from it at all. I also read it was out already just not in english. I wonder if anyone knows anything about its functionality and design etc. Because if it's just another forum plain and simple, i can't see it being a huge threat unless they have support for paid users of their product and such, which I highly doubt. Anyhow just my 2 cents.

***UPDATE MARCH 02 2012*** Added: -Sprites to the Character Pack(mostly monochromatic) -20+ Icons to the Icon pack -Paperdolls File-Use in conjunction with Moonpearl's Charset Maker, or with an image manipulating program. -Video explaining features of Mononpearl's Charset Maker to main post. -Video showing all Icon to main post. For next time: -More Paperdolls

So I noticed no one posted here. So I went and made a video to demonstrate how awesome and multi purpose this character maker is. This script set should effectively put Character Maker XP into the 'out dated' pile. Without boring you with text details about how versatile and amazing this script is I will simply show you with the video below. The video is poor quality and it is hard to see the hue and offset features clearly, so I intend to remake it. However it does serve its purpose for the time being. http://youtu.be/yaHjbqB87jw

Agreed, I am definitely going to check this out when I have more time. Amazing job, seems right up my alley.

That's awesome, I know exactly what you are talking about. I have had that same problem and never used that graphic because of it. This is definitely a huge help, very nice to be able to control this. Great job, slick creation mate. -Cheers

You and me both. The first time I played FF6(Eng), and I realized that you could play two players, it blew my mind. Since that day I have wanted to make an mmo in that style. I definitely think you will find the help you need on this site. And if you ever need a spriter for a 16 bit mmo project, count me in. -Cheers

Hey man, Post in my Testing Shop, I am super busy this week but I will try to get to you as soon as possible. I know you already made this thread, but if you post there I can promise you first dibs! -Cheers.

Heya mate, Haha, I have definitely been to an irish pub called that. DnD campaign with legos as avatars sounds super fun! I am sure you will find all the help you need here, welcome aboard.

So I got my Package on Thursday finally, and was supposed to get it a week before that. Pictures below. I still have the system they sent me and have been playing around with it. I am thoroughly impressed, and that's coming from a gamer who hates touch screen interface. 20 games so far out for the system, with 70 already in development, and 5 current PS3 titles that share cross platform gaming(pause and continue on PSV) They gave me a whole slew of information, so I decided to do a write up, keep an eye out for it on this sites blogs early next week. I am definitely going to buy one, once they make me mail the one I have back to them.

Story sounds good. You should definitely take a look at some of the mapping guides on this site. Also take a look at ForeverZero's Weather script, it should spice your game up quite nice. Also your website for you game forces the different links to open in an entirely new internet window, even though my preset is new tab for that scenario, that can be annoying when browsing a site. I like the idea, keep it up.

Interesting, I would try this. To setup a download link, just find any site that allows free media hosting, and sign up. Once registered upload your file, the site should give you a link. Come here and post that link. I use a program called Dropbox, it allows you to do many things with file storage, if you need a hand setting it up, send me a pm.

I think your confusion may be that the 'Demo' header/title is actually inside the 'Screenshots' header/title. I admit it could be confusing, however I downloaded this script a while ago and had no problem finding the link. For the record, the download link also works for me as of this post. This script requires, very minimal setup comparative to what it does, and for the most part I believe just pulls icons and graphics that were already assigned. I have zero complaints on this script and would recommend it to anyone.

Human beings hosted it. Each with their own belief system. All events have some form of committee or group which organizes the event. Any of the 'christian themed' aspects of the event were discussed before the event itself. Each public speaker's dialogue was consulted and reviewed before said to everyone. For reasons like this it is apparent to me that somewhere down the line in the christian religion got involved. The only other possibility I can think of is that the group in charge of the event decided to include Christianity as the majority represented religion for your area. As even though you said religion is separate especially in your country, there would still be a majority religion. In any case the christian elements did not magically appear and were in fact chosen to be included and were more than likely signed off on by more than one person involved in planning that event. For those reasons its apparent to me that this was a christian event. Furthermore I personally believe that with little research and questioning you could easily find out the reason for the inclusion of the christian religion. Start by finding out who organized the event, everything from there should be merely a factor of asking the correct questions. I believe everything boils down to intent, and if you can find out why Christianity was included, then you can determine if it was truly disrespectful or not. But at first glance, as long as they weren't directly trying to convert people, then no, it wasn't disrespectful. As far as I(atheist) am concerned, no. For the reason that it's not disrespectful for any religion to pray for a member of another. Because their intent is not malicious nor harmful.

I am not from the US, so I am not sure how that is relevant. A human being organized that event, the money came from somewhere, and everyone has beliefs. I stand by the statement that the event was obviously somehow affiliated(officially or unofficially) with the religion that was primarily themed. Whether it was the fact that the person in charge was a member of that religion or that the money came from a source affiliated with that religion, it was, again obviously, somehow tied into that religion, otherwise it would'nt be there. Why? Because someone HAD to decide to include the things that made it themed towards said religion. Why would they settle on THAT religion, because someone who had pull/say wanted that religion present? In any event, from what VERY little information you can give about the ceremony it seems that it was merely a show from that religion to honor the dead. I too would have stayed for the moment of silence and left after it got all preachy, but that's my beliefs and has nothing to do with which religion, I just don't like to be preached to.

Well, the color of your skin and your geographical birth location or current inhabited location do not automatically dictate which religion or beliefs you follow. 3 from Israel, can we even be certain what religion these people followed? We can't simply assume they all had the same beliefs. If we automatically include their country of origins most popular/common religion as their religious beliefs in a ceremony to honor the memory of their life, wouldn't that be disrespectful? Without more information regarding the event you attended its tough to say. But I would have to assume the event was held by Christian followers and maybe even organized or funded by the Christ Church, which would make sense why it was Christian themed. In any event, this was most likely not an event to worship jesus christ or god as christians see him/her/it but merely a show of support to honor the dead by christian followers. You really need to be careful when being involved in any event such as these, many of them are religious in background and often times creature 'dummy corporations/groups' with non religious names who sponsor or organize the event so people do not catch on. To answer your question, No I do not think it was disrespectful. But on the other hand, I probably would have left too.

Holding down the button, and adding a cycle by 10, plus memory of last selection should cut down inefficiency for sure. A lot of the reason a layer may have 100+ options is because of variations on one graphic, you could have 1 shirt, with 3 variations(long sleeves, short sleeves, no sleeves) and then have 6 colors for the shirt and all of a sudden you have 18 different graphics for 1 mere shirt. If you were to upload these files they would be named something like 'fancy shirt blue', 'fancy short shirt red', 'fancy long shirt green' etc. I had an idea where instead you would name all the shirts 'fancy shirt_00', 'fancy shirt_01', 'fancy shirt_02' etc. then when cycling through the options, it would only show 'fancy shirt_00' and to see any fancy shirt 01-99(if that many exist) you would keep hitting a 'shift/variations' button that would then cycle through the different numbers for that shirt. This way you could have many variations on one graphic and it wouldn't add so many to cycle through. This way you pick based on graphic, then hit a button to change the style/color, rather than cycling through every graphic variation for one shirt, pants, glove, shoes etc, since a lot of those graphics can come tucked and untucked. The user can then decide if they want all shirts to be a separate graphic or if they want variations linked together, or colors linked together etc. or add no extension at all and all the graphics would just be in there. Is this possible?

The simplest idea would be to add both a 'cycle by 10' and 'cycle by 25' button to cut down the time. My idea was instead use a 'dropdown box' for each layer and select the piece by name rather than graphic. Using the two displays you would be able to see the graphic before actually picking it as well. The way I envisioned it was you clicked the drop down box for say layer 4, then selected an option by left clicking it, the drop down box would close and the image would appear in the 'preview' window. If you then selected the 'assign' button beside that layer it would apply the same graphic seen in the preview window into the 'assigned' window. After having the graphic assigned you could then go back into layer 4's dropdown box and pick a different graphic which would then be displayed in the 'preview' window and you could compare the new graphic with the first graphic. In other words the preview window would always show whatever is selected currently in the layer system(like you have it now), but the assigned window would only display what was from the preview window if you pressed a button specific for each layer. I believe what you described in you reply to yourself is exactly what I wanted, and the best way to do it is with a button for each layer.

Awesome, sounds like you have an excellent script on the go. The one thing I would like to request is, if possible. two display windows, one as a preview area and one as a 'selected' area. The purpose is so you can quickly and easily compare between two pairs of pants, or shirts, or perhaps a hat and shoes, and quickly decide which pieces look best combined. With only one display window you have to cycle back and forth between pieces and remember what they look like, or go ahead and create two sprites and compare them, then change and compare etc. Two windows cuts the creation time down drastically. Yeah character maker xp(available on this site) would be an amazing resource, if it were reliable. I have had numerous weird errors with the program. It wont even work on my laptop. It lacks efficiency in the aspect that you 'cycle' through selections with a left or right arrow. So if I had 145 shirts to pick from and wanted to use shirt 125 I would have to click the 'right button' 125 times. If I then picked my pants, and went back to shirts, and now wanted to try say shirt 126 I would have to click the 'right button' 126 times to get back to where I was. The program requires no installation you should grab it and take a look.

Hey thanks man, yeah any help is help. I am fairly certain that is the generator I verbally helped on at another site which name escapes me at the moment. The guy actually deleted the entire thread once the generator was done. Looked exactly the same with same pieces just less of them. Now I know where it went lol. Yeah I have checked every generator out there, character maker xp by far has the most intractability, but is not stable and forces you to cycle through every option to reach the last one. The real issue is I need a generator that allows me to use my own pieces. I have been mulling this idea over for a few months, and it originally started as a script request, but I decided that because of my lack of knowledge I wasn't sure if RGSS could even achieve what I wanted. I am definitely interested in helping add resources to your script, because it seems you are designing what I would need/want. My only real request for the script is that it is efficient, and does not slow down char creation much like character maker xp does. I am curious what kind of interface your script will have, or will it be much like others where I edit raw code in the script editor?

I would like to request that someone with programming skills make me sprite generator. My intent is to have a program that functions much like character maker xp, only made efficiently and reliably. After creation I would like the end results to remain a free product, and ideally only be accessible on this website. I have separated my request into basic and ideal functions, in case some one lacks the skill to meet the full demand but can still begin and complete the basic idea. I am unsure of limitations due to programming etc, but am more than open to suggestions. Basic Functions Allow: uploading of 128x192 png type picture files category assignement for each file which then applies it to the corresponding layer assignment of layers based on a dropdown box which has each file assigned to that category. Display window(128x192) showing current assigned clothing. Reset button to assign nothing to current layer Assign button to assign current selection to layer. Exporting of a png file type with all displayed layers Category/Layers Order (Top to bottom) Ideal Additional Functions Picture Mock Up The below picture mock up is a to scale representation of one possible layout for the program. Terms I would definitely like this as soon as possible as it would cut down the time it takes me to make things immensely, but at the same time I understand the reality of how long it may take. I am willing to pay currency of your choosing, provided you have a portfolio etc of completed work I can reference. We can negotiate price, or I will pay based on your price structure if existent. In any event I would like this to be a free product for the community to use. Feel free to post here, message me or contact me directly by email at boninkcreations@hotmail.com

Just got a gig to demo the new Vita at two different store locations. Not sure what exactly they are going to let me fiddle around with, but I should have access to a good majority of what is out for the system in a few days. I'll post here if they send me anything cool.

This is definitely the easiest solution. Should be very easy to do in any imaging program. If you need/want I can teach ya how to do it so you can edit future skins.

Those look excellent. Yeah I was definitely thinking magic attack for the whole body thing. I do have one critique though. Is it possible to have his hair move at all? I think that would complete the animation much more. Maybe not on each one, but definitely on the sword swing animation, seems odd without hair movement. Specifically for the one where he is holding the orb and bobbing up and down(top left), try maybe having the orb bounce opposite to him, so it would look like he is bouncing and the orb is floating/hovering in his hand(may not work). I cant wait to see these in action!

Super smooth! Much better. You are definitely a step ahead of me. I like the look of the next character. It would be cool to see the dark aura around his hand potentially encompass his entire body during an attack.

Hmmm, I assume it's the one on the left. It's really hard to tell what these will look like when they are small. Definitely doing a great job though, love it.