~Screenshot Central!

[drenrin2120]

I very much like those screenshots Ephiam. Everything flows and looks very nice and clean.

So, I've realized I don't like making games so much as figuring out how to make things work. So I've kick started some new projects as well as old ones. Thanks to DYNText Plugin by someone who's name I can't remember, this screen took only a few hours to put together as well as with the help of some old code still lingering in my old common events.




Also...


All wip, no miracle.

[zuhane]

I've been using the DynRPG plugin a lot, but I can't get dynamic text to work. Great screens, dren.

[Meiscool]

Looks good. I never thought of using the plugin for a CMS.

I would get rid of that blue background or put a boarder around your faces though. At least for the menu pictures.

[drenrin2120]

The plugin allows you to callback things like variables, hero names and even item descriptions. Which are awesome. Use of variable instead of specific coordinates make it really the only option worth taking. The aesthetics of it all are kind of bland, but I'll fix it up once it functions properly. Funny thing though, I already coded so many pictures to be used in the CBS, they'll probably stay there. Though I may have to swap out pictures for skill display because it lags pretty bad with the auto scroll and I don't know how to get around it.

[Meiscool]

Do you have the pictures show once and that is it, or do you auto refresh them?

EDIT: Goddamn it, hit modify again instead of quote.

[drenrin2120]

Because there are so many pictures being used already, I had to make it so the pictures change every time. The best I could do was some jimmy rig system where (since five skills are displayed at a time) skills move up and the top picture bounces down to the bottom, that way only one picture changes at a time. But when auto scroll is used, is when you notice the lag. It helped a lot but not enough.

but besides all that, I think the GUI for skill selection is too small anyway, so it'd probably be easier to just scrap the whole thing and replace them with scrolling text.

[Meiscool]

If the CMS map is only 20x15 auto-scroll shouldn't be needed.

[drenrin2120]

I was talking about the CBS, where a player is choosing from 60 different magic skills. Auto scroll in the CMS won't lag because there's no pictures moving accept for the cursor.

[Meiscool]

oh... I can't help there then. I didn't put quite so many skills in my cbs's

[drenrin2120]

Change order functionality complete.


Magic menu option nearly complete, just need to finish coding the use of cure magic and the display of Affinity Rank.


Stats window in progress.

[Natako]

That's looking pretty spiffy there, Dren. Even with addons, it must take a lot of dedication to change an entire menu around in 2k3. That's why I eventually migrated to XP.

Starting to look really good, though. Can't wait to see what the finished version looks like.

[Moosetroop11]

And just think of all the items you could buy with all those loks.

[zuhane]

WHOAAA!! I think my head just exploded a bit! I'm gonna start making games again after seeing that.

[Prpl_Mage]

That's something alright.

[Meiscool]

Any ideas on how to better this? Looks bland