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**kyonides** · 12-29-2019, 05:26 AM

So people, got any OTHER suggestions? Laughing + Tongue sticking out

Really, I don't wanna deal with fonts for a while... Confused

***DerVVulfman*** · 12-29-2019, 05:39 AM

I got one, but it's a killer.....

Map Zoom and Distance. Obviously, zooming in brings all tiles/sprites/etc closer to the viewer or player. Makes everything larger. Distance is the reverse and makes it so you see more than a normal 20x15 tile viewport with RMXP.

**kyonides** · 12-29-2019, 06:14 AM

Nah, the zoom is kind of incorporated in mkxp and HiddenChest from the beginning, just change some settings in the hiddenchest.conf file and you get... a permanent zoom Laughing + Tongue sticking out

***DerVVulfman*** · 12-30-2019, 02:32 AM

Not when it's a cinematic part of a game that a game developer wants, like having the camera zoom away to show how big the world is. I've seen it requested in games for quite a while. And MGC's NeoMode7 has that feature in his DLL.

**kyonides** · 12-30-2019, 03:15 AM

So practically you're asking me to include a Mode7 script / code... Not gonna happen any time soon, guys! Laughing + Tongue sticking out

Recall I'm developing it on my own and I'm not a superb C++ nor C developer at all. Sad

***DerVVulfman*** · 12-30-2019, 04:29 AM

Oh, no no no no. It was also made a decade ago with the RMXP SDK whilst using SephrothSpawn's Tilemap remake. Nothing but Ruby code there. BUT it would be faster with C+ and you were game, his Neo Mode 7 thread has source code for his DLL Winking

**kyonides**

Something Makes Me Think We Are in the Twilight Zone!

At least that's what I think... What about you, guys? Confused

[Image: screenshot-2020-01-02-21h58m55s.jpg]

It's true! Shocked

Now we gotta read backwards! Confused

Nah!

I just let you use a new method to draw text in the opposite direction. Laughing

No images on the harddisk are needed here! Grinning

Guess what? Happy with a sweat

There's still more I need to tell you today! Shocked

Now you can load fonts located in several different paths! Grinning

Like /usr/share/fonts and many others! Very cheery

You don't really need to stick with the local Fonts directory! Very cheery

What I (un)intentionally forgot to mention here is that it's only valid for Linux distros sadly... Laughing + Tongue sticking out

Alright, it's a good thing for Linux enthusiasts like your servitor. Laughing

I don't know how to convert %WINDIR% into a working path so Windows users gotta wait a little bit longer... Indifferent

Even so I've got good news for you! You can be saved today! Shocked

OK, fine!

This is a maker site, I know... Indifferent

But it's still kind of valid even for the RMXP engine based game projects... Winking

Melana: Kyonides, is it really so hard for you to finally let us know what you're talking about here?

A living pack of wolvish fleas: Let him be! He just need to add some thrill to his story as usual.

Melana: Yeah, you're probably right, DerVVulfman... It gotta be just another awesome feature he included in his engine.

Kyonides: Huh!? I wonder what made you think so in the first place. Confused

I guess I might end up disappointing you, guys, a little bit but not more than that. Winking

It happens that I managed to find a pesky bug and smash it! Grinning

You know, it felt really good to exact revenge on it. Laughing

Melana: Oh I see... You could say bug fixes are welcome as well.

Kyonides: Glad to read that, dear sweet dreamer!

Especially because it happened right in the midst of bloody battles against those cold assassins better known as phantoms! Shocked

Melana: Why do you say so? Did they appear and disappear in battle as real ghosts?

BountyHunterLani: O_O *vanishes in thin air like a ghost then*

Kyonides: Kind of... Even if I didn't notice she had visited my thread earlier today... Confused

Some admin: You gotta have scared her with your beyond the crypt news for sure! Laughing + Tongue sticking out

Actually what I really mean here is that we've got other ghosts than the actual white ghosts Aluxes seems to love... slashing in his spare time. Laughing

Melana: This is really perturbing, now my dreams will become actual nightmares for sure. Sad

Kyonides: On the contrary, Melana!

DerVVulfman: Then explain yourself!

Well, on Windows but never on Linux distros you were able to witness something "amazing"...

Battle animations except for colored flashes had disappeared! Happy with a sweat

I've told you there were more ghosts than ever to talk about here. Laughing

Don't worry, my fellow adventurers! Shocked

It has been fixed permanently! Grinning

Melana: But how did it happen?

Furry Wolf: Yeah, I've never seen that on any other engine...

Kyonides: Well, there's a funny story behind it... Happy with a sweat

I might have had introduced a minimal bug about a couple of months ago that prevent the engine from setting the default sprite's opacity to 255 as usual. You see, originally both the setter and getter functions written in C used a macro that called C++ code to get its value.

BountyHunterLani: Me not understand... Confused

Oh...

It means that setting and retrieving the current opacity value depended on an entirely different language, namely C++. I just preferred to load it from Ruby itself and that's where the opacity was set to nil instead of 255 or any other valid value. Laughing

So I had to manually set it and now it works as expected. Laughing + Tongue sticking out

What I find the most curious out of all of this long tale is that it also took me a few days to find it out on my own. Laughing

We could now say that the length of my current post reflects those days of confusion, dead ends and frustration. Laughing + Tongue sticking out

You know what? Indifferent

Loading fonts from other locations on Linux also seemed to be such a pain you know where... Happy with a sweat

I was supposed to upload the demo like on December 31st, then last night but it only took place today. Laughing

By the way, I repeat: "horizontal flip applied on fonts now work on all officially supported platforms!" Shocked

Here's a sample script.

Code:
@sprite = Sprite.new

@sprite.set_xy(100, 100)

@sprite.bitmap = Bitmap.new(250, 44

font = @sprite.bitmap.font

font.flip = true

font.name = 'Hack'

font.shadow = true

font.shadow_size = 2

@sprite.bitmap.draw_text(0, 0, 250, 40, "Hacking your PC! :P", 1)

***DerVVulfman*** · (This post was last modified: 01-03-2020, 05:31 AM by DerVVulfman.)

(01-02-2020, 10:14 PM)kyonides Wrote:
It happens that I managed to find a pesky bug and smash it!

Funny you keep talking about fleas, but are the one having to use up big cans of 'Raid'.

(01-02-2020, 10:14 PM)kyonides Wrote:
Nah! I just let you use a new method to draw text in the opposite direction.

So okay... I got a challenge... Instead of left-to right, how about a Top-Down format for the text as it's written in Japanese or Chinese books?

T..W

H..O

E..L

...V

...E

...R

...I

...N

...E

**kyonides**

Do it yourself by changing the default RGSS script... =_=¡

By the way, I'd like to ask you to send me PM's with the most common Win32API calls so as I can include some sort of script in HiddenChest to transform them into HiddenChest Game Scripting alias HCGS (since I can't call it RGSS for I don't own that acronym... Confused

)

**kyonides**

Graphical Improvements & Extended Arrays

Well, I guess you might recall I provided colored backdrops that included several colors like gray, sepia, blue, red, green and yellow. Guess what? I totally forgot about black! Happy with a sweat

I don't offer white because, well, the engine thinks it's pretty much transparent or excessively grayish. Laughing

What's this? Shocked

A gradient backdrop!? Grinning

I can also take a look at the current map! Shocked

A backdrop with vignettes included! Shocked

Backdrop Additions

Backdrop.color_bitmap(:black)
Backdrop.gradient_bitmap(color, color, false_true_nil) - With different results for each boolean type!
Backdrop.pos_gradient_bitmap(Xpos, Ypos, color, color)
Backdrop.map_gradient_bitmap(opacity, Xpos, Ypos, color, color)
Backdrop.vignette_bitmap(color_or_array, boolean)

Array Extensions

@max_items and @min_items - Now an array can be limited if deemed necessary! Grinning

Array#items_min_max(min, max) - Set its minimum and maximum
Array#push_upto_max(new_element) - Append unless it's full
Array#unshift_upto_max(new_element) - Prepend unless it's full
Array#pop_upto_min - Delete elements till it reaches its minimum number
Array#shift_upto_min - Delete elements till it reaches its minimum number
Array#clear_upto_min - Delete elements till it reaches its minimum number
Array#push_uniq(new_element) - only if it's unique
Array#unshift_uniq(new_element) - only if it's unique
Array#even_indices alias Array#even_indexes - every element in positions 0, 2, 4, etc.
Array#odd_indices alias Array#odd_indexes - every element in positions 1, 3, 5, etc.

Already Available on:

*Ubuntu 18.04 LTS & Fedora 31 & Windows

Keep checking out this thread for future updates!

Happy Photo Taking with Vignettes Included! Laughing

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