VX versus XP. Your view upon the two engines.
01-01-2009, 05:30 PM
I've never really gotten that low-level with my scripting, or have I ever felt I needed to, although I appreciate your insight.
At first, and maybe even still now, I prefer the mapping in XP to VX. On the other hand, I also prefer the larger color palettes and greater ease in scripting I find with VX.
When I first got started in XP, I was doing most of my game-making on an old IBM Thinkpad that I bought on ebay. It wouldn't play games using the "Mode 7" scripts at all, would give the hanging error. Aside from that issue, frame rates were not bad at all - only suffering with an absurd number of events on a map. I agree with you that the reductions to boost frame rates were very unnecessary. In spite of the changes though, I still use VX myself.
At first, and maybe even still now, I prefer the mapping in XP to VX. On the other hand, I also prefer the larger color palettes and greater ease in scripting I find with VX.
When I first got started in XP, I was doing most of my game-making on an old IBM Thinkpad that I bought on ebay. It wouldn't play games using the "Mode 7" scripts at all, would give the hanging error. Aside from that issue, frame rates were not bad at all - only suffering with an absurd number of events on a map. I agree with you that the reductions to boost frame rates were very unnecessary. In spite of the changes though, I still use VX myself.