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RE: What's up, RMers? - Kain Nobel - 06-19-2014

Currently drafting an area devastated by a massive earthquake. The road breaks off into various elevations with open sewer pipes exposed which one may be obligated to pass through to gain higher or lower ground. Some rickety buildings still partially remain and must also be navigated to get through the region. Certain plans include the player pushing a car into a gap to cross from point A to point B, finding goodies in crumbling buildings and also assisting survivors along the way.

Initial development for ReGaL's Editor application starts Monday.

RE: What's up, RMers? - DerVVulfman - 07-02-2014

Some may have seen finalholylight's recent notice in MicKo's Skill Tree script. While a nice system, he found a drastic flaw with the feature that lets one upgrade a skill in their tree:

If you upgrade one skill, anyone else with that skill will have it upgraded too... including your enemy's.


So the question is... WHAT THE HELL DO I DO? I'M USING THE SUCKER IN MY GAME TOO!!!

And the answer.... diagnostic rewrite.

MicKo's system used a system that altered the original $data_skills that was loaded into the game when you started it. And it is both reloaded and saved in your save games. If you increase your heal skill, it overwrites the heal skill in the entire data file and replaces it with another powerful skill. But again, anyone using that skill would also gain that benefit. Imagine increasing your powerful attack to wipe out an evenly matched opponent, only to find you just worked your self like crazy to upgrade his killer skill too!

So MY trick is: Make an array of skill IDs and Levels for each actor. So if you have the generic 32 skills, you have an array of 32 Skill IDs for each actor that can be upgraded. And it references that list when used within Game_Battler's skill system (and a few other parts). By doing so, only the actor doing his skill upgrade will get that upgrade. :D

Oh, and I'm adding a little 'Skill Book' feature too. Read a book, upgrade (or learn) that skill. It's MOSTLY done.... Some cleanup to take care of now. I'll prolly use a .chm help file to to describe the features.

RE: What's up, RMers? - Steel Beast 6Beets - 07-02-2014

(07-02-2014, 04:03 AM)DerVVulfman Wrote:

If you upgrade one skill, anyone else with that skill will have it upgraded too... including your enemy's.

That part sounds like it would make a decent gameplay gamble, not unlikely games that level up enemies along with your characters. You could either chose to became strong at the risk making foes stronger as well or you could opt to remain weak so your enemies would remain weak too.

RE: What's up, RMers? - KasperKalamity - 07-02-2014

there's an snes game called 7th saga, and it does that. it's really irritating because the enemies are op

RE: What's up, RMers? - MechanicalPen - 07-02-2014

I think the intent of the script was for everyone to have unique skills. VVulf's version would be useful too, though!

RE: What's up, RMers? - DerVVulfman - 07-03-2014

Well, I got it fixed up. I didn't include the 'Passive Skill Effects' that MicKo had, but it would require full board editing of every detail in a skill and could be a bit of a headache. Trust me. Tongue sticking out

However, I did as I intended, add arrays to the actors so they could just track their learned skills and do a little copy/paste of skill IDs and increase of skill levels as the needs arise. At the same time, I was always annoyed that you HAD to have skill trees for every actor otherwise you would crash, so I worked out error preventing statements. So if you cycle through the tree system, you get a big blank area for actors without trees. But you can add individual picture backgrounds for them if you want.

And I made sure that the 'Change Actor Skills' method works with the revised skill ranking system and added ... BOOKS ... that you can read and learn new skills with.

RE: What's up, RMers? - Taylor - 07-29-2014

*appears* I... haven't really been doing much of anything with RM. In fact I don't really remember what I did last? Oh, wait no, it was turn order display and changing the behaviour of critical hits.

Lately I've been toying with Ren'py instead. Toying/strangling. But that's not RM. :v

RE: What's up, RMers? - DerVVulfman - 07-29-2014

Hey, Taylor. I got RenPy tags for the forum. Post away. Winking

RE: What's up, RMers? - Kain Nobel - 07-30-2014

Started a new sub-project dubbed RPGUI, which is short for Ruby Platform Graphical User Interface. It's nothing BIG yet but, for now, a prototype is being built using RGSS then it will be further ported to the RGL core. Yes, it will run on the RGL core but it will not require the actual ReGaL project itself. Instead, it is what I plan on building the Project Editor systems with, BUT... it's just a GUI utilities kind of dealio, you should (in theory) be able to build a graphical interface for any kind of multimedia application.

(Of course things don't always go as planned...)

A sample screenshot of an RPGUI widget...

[Image: RPGUI-Sample_zps8bebf630.gif]

And the code used to generate it...

Code:
#===============================================================================
# ** Scene_SampleGUI
#===============================================================================

class Scene_SampleGUI
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Initialize
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def initialize
    @bg       = GUI::Background.new(160,120,320,240)
    @panel    = GUI::Panel.new('Panel', 168,128,304,96)
    @button1  = GUI::Button.new('OK', 79, 212, @bg.viewport)
    @button2  = GUI::Button.new('Cancel', 161, 212, @bg.viewport)
    @button2.enabled = false
    @objects = []
    @objects << @bg
    @objects << @panel
    @objects << @button1
    @objects << @button2
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Update
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def update
    Input.update
    Graphics.update
    @objects.each {|object| object.update}
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Dispose
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def dispose
    @objects.each {|object| object.dispose}
    @disposed = true
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Disposed?
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def disposed?
    @disposed
  end
end
  
  
#===============================================================================
# ** Begin button test
#===============================================================================

begin
  gui = Scene_SampleGUI.new
  while !gui.disposed?
    gui.update
  end
end
exit

Thus far, it uses absolutely no graphics as things are code generated, but it will (optionally) allow for custom widget graphics later on. The current theme is based on VX Ace, but a custom color A and color B can be assigned as well.

Code:
#===============================================================================
# * GUI::RedButton
#===============================================================================

class GUI::RedButton < GUI::Button
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Color A
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def color_a
    @color_a ||= Color.new(160,96,96)
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Color B
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def color_b
    @color_b ||= Color.new(128,64,64)
  end
end

#===============================================================================
# ** GUI::BlackBackground
#===============================================================================

class GUI::GreenBackground < GUI::Background
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Color A
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def color_a
    @color_a ||= Color.new(96,160,80)
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Color B
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def color_b
    @color_b ||= Color.new(0,80,0)
  end
end

#===============================================================================
# ** Scene_SampleGUI
#===============================================================================

class Scene_SampleGUI
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Initialize
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def initialize
    @bg       = GUI::GreenBackground.new(160,120,320,240)
    @panel    = GUI::Panel.new('Panel', 168,128,304,96)
    @button1  = GUI::RedButton.new('OK', 79, 212, @bg.viewport)
    @button2  = GUI::Button.new('Cancel', 161, 212, @bg.viewport)
    @button2.enabled = false
    @objects = []
    @objects << @bg
    @objects << @panel
    @objects << @button1
    @objects << @button2
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Update
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def update
    Input.update
    Graphics.update
    @objects.each {|object| object.update}
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Dispose
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def dispose
    @objects.each {|object| object.dispose}
    @disposed = true
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Disposed?
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def disposed?
    @disposed
  end
end
  
  
#===============================================================================
# ** Begin button test
#===============================================================================

begin
  gui = Scene_SampleGUI.new
  while !gui.disposed?
    gui.update
  end
end
exit

Producing this:
[Image: GUISample_zpsf1e94c97.png]

This is still very early development though, but... there you have it. That's what I've been up to. That and bashing my head against the wall to get various IDEs, compilers, libraries and other development tools to chain together and work, but that's a whole other post for another day :| There is much to plan out, but hopefully the end result will be worth the effort :3

RE: What's up, RMers? - DerVVulfman - 08-03-2014

It is official!!! I am now sporting a new badge!!! I now have the badge of
[Image: newb_logo20082007.jpg]

I just got my first book on C++, so I am can learn C++ for ReGaL. As I am new to C++ coding, I cannot be anything right now than an official C++ Coding Newb!

Yay!!!