Addon or Update Script System BETA

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Addon or Update Script System BETA
by samamanjaro
Nov 15 2006

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Welcome,

Update- Found out that you cannot add updated scripts, yet...

The Addon or Update Script system allows for you to make addons and fixes for your game, the way it works is when you encrypt your game it does not encrypt Data, so that will allow for you to fix your game and just release the fixed map, thus making it better then download the whole game again, (great for big games!)
It stores all of the Data in; Game-Dictonary/, rather then Game-Dictonary/Data so it will not be encrypted. You may be thinking 'Now anyone can just edit the maps to give them alot of gold or somthing. That is this system's weakness, though games like Half-Life 2 you could edit so easily and look how great a game that is. (Though I am thinking of making it so only Valid Maps, or addons will be accepted (any help with that would be great!)

Well here I will tell you how to set it up for your game...(You need to know alittle about scripting and where RMXP places its files

Setup

Step 1:

In game_temp add under def initialize

Code:

$data_scripts = load_data("Scripts.rxdata")

Step 2:

In game_map remove "Data/" from line 50

Step 3:

Above main and under scene_debug add:

Code:

#==============================================================================
# Addon/Update Script System BETA
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This may still have a few errors in it.
# By Sam Lockart Thursday, November the 16th
#==============================================================================

class Alternate_Data
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # This loads up the alternate database.
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def main

    # データベースをロード
    @map = load_data(sprintf("Map%03d.rxdata", @map_id))
    $data_skills = load_data("Skills.rxdata")
    $data_items = load_data("Items.rxdata")
    $data_weapons = load_data("Weapons.rxdata")
    $data_armors = load_data("Armors.rxdata")
    $data_enemies = load_data("Enemies.rxdata")
    $data_troops = load_data("Troops.rxdata")
    $data_states = load_data("States.rxdata")
    $data_animations = load_data("Animations.rxdata")
    $data_tilesets = load_data("Tilesets.rxdata")
    $data_common_events = load_data("CommonEvents.rxdata")
    $data_actors = load_data("Actors.rxdata")
    $data_system = load_data("System.rxdata")
    $data_classes = load_data("Classes.rxdata")
    $data_scripts = load_data("Scripts.rxdata")
  end
end

Step 4:

Ok that is all done, if you want to update somthing in Data open up your UnEncrypted project and chnage it, save then drag what you done EG, You updated Common Events so you would drag Commonevents.rxdata into the Encrypted game dictonary.

Notes

Next release I will add more organized folder system so you place maps in Maps and so forth.
This may still be buggy, I havnt tested it to much. Please report any bugs to me.