Charas Chain Game 4 Official Thread (Complete)

[Prpl_Mage]

Man, the fact that I get that code scares me.

[DragonBlaze]

Has anyone tried editing an rm2k3 game with the Stream version of rm2k3 and then go back to the old translated version?

I was running into performance issues when I was using 1.08, but opening up a copy of the game in the steam version and converting the project magically fixed everything. It seems like I can open the game in my old 1.08 with no issues, but I don't want corrupt the game for anyone else.

[Fisherson]

Has anyone tried editing an rm2k3 game with the Stream version of rm2k3 and then go back to the old translated version?

I was running into performance issues when I was using 1.08, but opening up a copy of the game in the steam version and converting the project magically fixed everything. It seems like I can open the game in my old 1.08 with no issues, but I don't want corrupt the game for anyone else.

I worried about that when we began since some of us can afford the new maker and had already installed it before we got our chapters and that'd make it impossible to play on RPG Maker Tsukuru (Pirated 2003's new name). I can't test it since my pirated copy died and I couldn't find one so I finally gave up and managed to DL the new one....any volunteers to test this scientific theory? I'll give any volunteer a cookie~?

[DragonBlaze]

Good news and bad news.. The good news is I finished all of the code for my custom system, created the levels, created all of the graphics, and things seemed to be running well. The bad news is that I learned that each time you call an event in rm2k3, it takes 0.0165 seconds, which means the entire thing lags like hell. To fix the lag, I need to do two things.
1. Once a picture is drawn, make sure to move it instead of trying to redraw it, which should lead to smoother animations.
2. Be much smarter about making check to see if an event should be called before calling it. So for example, when there is a common event to check for a collision, check to see if there is an entity that is eligible for a collision before calling the event instead of checking to see if the entity is eligible for a collision within the called event. 

I feel bad for taking too long, but hopefully my chapter will be worth it once it's complete. Plus my system will be easily reusable if anyone else wants to make new scenes.

[Prpl_Mage]

Sounds awesome

[Moosetroop11]

I remember someone (meiscool?) going on about putting 0.0 waits in code which reduced lag somehow.

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah, wait 0.0 actually waits 0.0165 seconds, giving time for rm2k3 to execute the commands before it tries to execute them again in a loop or parallel process event. I only have one label loop powering everything, but so many commands are being executed in that loop that I need five or six wait 0.0 commands to make everything run smoothly, which gives me roughly 10 frames a second. I was doing a lot of my animation by redrawing pictures around 30 times a second, which gave a smooth looking animation, but 10 frames will be too choppy. Moving pictures instead of drawing them should at least make the animations look smoother. As for the rest of the system, there's certain common events that I call ~200 times in a row, and I can probably be a little more efficient on how I handle that.

[Prpl_Mage]

So, how is progress?

[DragonBlaze]

Fixed all of the issues I mentioned earlier, and everything is running smoothly other than a few bugs that don't really have a big impact, so I'm not fixing them. My weekend is completely open, so I'm planning on wrapping it up by Sunday night.

Who's next, Momeka? Are you ready to start soon? Who should I send the download link to?

[Fisherson]

I think you send it to Purps then he sends me a copy which I can't retrieve and peek at till I get to Wi-Fi. >-> But then again I'm a tiny bit out of the loop right now.

[Prpl_Mage]

I suppose it's either Momeka or AFL. Depends on who has time now.

[Momeka]

Yeah, I can do it. So you can send it to me.

[DragonBlaze]

Didn't finish Wrapping up the dungeon I was working on took longer than I thought. I finished that part, but I still need to tie all of the parts of my chapter together. It should be done very soon though.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I had my first day of school as a teacher today, so I'm a little overbooked at the moment. Thank you for taking it Momeka.

[Dr. Ace]

Hey DragonBreath, hurry up! Fred and I want to make the most wicked chapter of them all! (Due to busy schedules we're dividing the workload together).

Also I know your feels AFL, next week all my classes are starting as well and I'm swamped with learning three new classes to teach.