The Weekly Gazette 11-10-2024

[DerVVulfman]

(November 4 to November 10, 2024)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area

Announcements and Updates

For those wondering about the Forum Updates Happening, its is mainly the onging recreation of RPG Maker Central within the forum's Archival board. Having finished recreating the Scripts and Plug-ins, DerVVulfman began work upon restoring the resources lost, and had already reconstructed the Audio, 3D Models and 2D Resources sub-forums. However, he still has a ways to go as he only just stared upon the RPGMaker resources sub-forum itself.

General Chat

Sometimes, and old game is still entertaining. So if you are a fan of classic first person shooters, you may wish to ask AVGB-KBGaming just "What are YouTubing?" This past week, she was checking out a video of Doom Mods that gave the classic 1993 game and its '94 successor new graphics, new sound and new life.

This week, the re-Election of President Donald Trump hit the Thread=7628]News of the World[/Thread]. And while many world leaders such as Zelensky, Modi and Milei sending congratulations, he received cold shoulders from Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, and a rocket barrage by Hezbollah launched at an Israeli town named in his honor. And with that, so too are the Democrats not pleased, Hollywood actors threatening once again they'll leave the U.S., and California's Governor Newsom working to impede the Trump administration. Even worse, a FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) official had to be fired after learning she instructed workers to ignore any homes in Florida that had Trump-For-President signs. Within the Middle East, Qatar had requested Hamas no longer remain within their country, their presence unacceptable after Hamas refused another hostage release proposal this past October. And after Israel called for the replacement and removal of the UNRWA, the United Nations which has yet to condemn Hamas for October 7th claims its replacement would be Israel's responsibility and problem. And of the Ukrainian/Russian conflict, Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Moskow, the largest since the war began, shutting down its major airports. However, Ukrainian troops have now encountered North Korean units deployed along the Kursk border, fighting on Russia's behalf. California's Gascon losing re-election to Hochman on a pro-law and order platform, China increasing their aggressiveness towards Taiwan by 300%, Nancy Pelosi flip-flopping over how the Harris Presidential campaign began, the death of Tony Todd, known for roles such as Candyman and Final Destination, monkeys gone loose in Florida, and more hit this week's news.
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Games Development

Code Support

When the week began, so did Tepe's request for wachunga's Fog of War be adapted to let NPCs erase the static background that conceals the map. DerVVulfman took a look at the nearly two-decades old script and nervously gulped, but later returned with a demo that showed some promise. Tepe appreciated teh cleaner code and had an edit of his own, one that established both map and event options as configuration data rather than having it coded into the maps themselves. Near the end of the week, DerVVulfman returned with another demo with more functions and NPCs actually walking around and clearing the map as they go, and included his own variation of one of Tepe's options as he states the work is still ongoing.

Material Development

Scripts Database

RPGMaker XP (RGSS) Engine

Someone experienced an issue with the RPGMaker XP edition of KBattleFront XP, that being a call for a non-default Graphics.width property. With that, kyonides performed another update, making it compatible with standard versions of RPGMaker XP as well as his HiddenChest engine that has the Graphics.width property built within.

There may be times when you want the dialogue to be hidden for a time, the appearance of a character portrait before a monologue for example. For this, kyonides created the Toggle Message Window script for RPGMaker XP, one that allows the game developer to hide and reveal the message window when desired.

RPGMaker VX/VXAce (RGSS2/3) Engines

There may be times when you want the dialogue to be hidden for a time, the appearance of a character portrait before a monologue for example. For this, kyonides created the Toggle Message Window script for RPGMaker VX, one that allows the game developer to hide and reveal the message window when desired.

Creativity Section

Music and Audio

For those wanting music with that low-fidelity feel, Eric Matyas revisited some of hisOriginal Music and Sound FX from four years earlier and re-recorded three of his compositions. The new LoFi tracks of sorts have two energetic pieces, and one that is a bit more thoughtful and introspective.

Art and Design

This week three new granite-like textures appeared within Eric Matyas's Library of Free Images. One of the textures is very much cobalt blue, the second slate blue/gray and the third a lighter pale gray with dark mottling.

Well, that's it for this week.

"I’m thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, ‘Why stop at one?’ I don’t like being limited in that way. Therefore, I’m considering a platoon of monkeys. So that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around." - Robert Downey, Jr.

PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

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Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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