Rpg Maker Scripts Storing Algorithm for Scripters

[Narzew]

Hello. I'm explained the RMXP/VX/VXA scripts.rxdata structure and want to explain it to all.

It has an array structure.

Firstly, it's unique script ID. (??) (I wanna check more..)
Secondly, it's script name.
Thirdly, it's Zlib compressed script source.

For Example :

Script.rxdata =
[
[23333439, "*First script", Zlib["source_code_of_script1"]],
[39283232, "*Second script", Zlib["source_code_of_script2"]]
]

The algorithm is not fully checked. It's works with unpacking. I'm not test it with packing too.
If you want to build scripts.rxdata use 0 as first argument :)
The second and third is 100 % checked.
I must check the first unique ID generation :)
I'll add it so soon.

Nice working.

Some practice :

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Look at the save_script method in my NRGSS library. Method saves a script from Scripts.rxdata to txt file. It has used this algorithm too...

Code:

#===========================================================
#**save_script
#**Saves a RGSS scripts to text
#**Narzew
#===========================================================

def save_script(filename='script.txt', scriptfile='Data/Scripts.rxdata')
file = File.open(filename, 'wb') # Opening a new blank file
script = load_data(scriptfile) # Reading a scripts file
script.each {|s| # Each item of array
file.write(Zlib::Inflate.inflate(s.at(2))) # Write to file Zlib decompressed 3rd element of array (2. Index starts at 0, not a 1.)
file.write("\n\n\n") # Writes an three blank lines to makes spaces.
}
file.close # Closes a maked file
end # Method end

For more practice, try make a method that's returns scripts data from Scripts.rxdata file ;)

Nice working.