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It's just going to be VBScript. At least this way people can learn some basic VB and later on get into programming. But I'm hoping this engine will flexible enough so that they don't have too :P
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New menu interface:
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Just added support for scripting. Now I'm adding support for MySQL database support.
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I may have to forget the idea of isometric, unless I stick with the idea of 45 degree isometric, but then I'd have to make my own tiles :(
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PlayerRealms is a compiled engine focused towards non-programmers. It will include several tools for making changes to the game to ensure it is flexible and has the ability to be completely custom.
Before I touched on Visual Basic 6, I tried several game editing engines and while they were good, they all lacked that one common thing, and that was the ability to create your own custom interface, to set your game apart from the others.
The PlayerRealms database will use MySQL, which will allow players to display stats on their websites, and also adds the support for web-based login and character creation, user control panel, admin control panel and much more.
At this current time I haven't decided on which engine I want to use, but I'm leaning towards my edited version of Skywyre v10 due it's already amazing features, and I have already implemented 48x48 tiles which means higher quality and more detailed graphics.
I'm looking forward to expanding on the engine and providing a suitable and feature-rich engine for those without the skills of programming.
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Is that just for making the character walk diagonally though? Because I already did that. Or are you talking about a real isometric system using real isometric graphics? Because the issue with the isometric graphics is that, for example, ground tiles have to over lap each other. The diamond shape of the graphic means that the actual tile has blank spaces in each corner where the next tiles would go.
The graphics rendering would have to be rewritten to solve this issue, so that the tile system is diamond shaped instead of square.
Everything uses X and Y, and pixel width and height. That means straight across and straight down. The entire graphics system in EO is based on -------- and |
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I was just trying to scare him into not charging for his game and making a horrible mistake of never getting any players lol. Everybody knows Consty or Shannara doesn't give 2 fucks about MS any more lol.
Well, actually, Consty is re-making Mirage Online as a browser based game.
https://twitter.com/consty
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It's a lot of work. I'm not in a rush to release the game, I might give it a bash and see what happens but it'll be tricky to convert the current rendering system. It's nowhere near as simple as you think it might be.
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Video displaying diagonal movement in SkyWyre v10:
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As explained in the shoutbox, server-side code adjustment is necessary. This happens in Sub PlayerMove. In **Case DIR_UP** where you have:
*Call SetPlayerY(index, GetPlayerY(index) - 1)*
You need to add under that:
*Call SetPlayerX(index, GetPlayerX(index) - 1)*
And then you do a similar process in the other direction cases.
Otherwise the movement doesn't function correctly, as I did try it without.
There is something else, called **Sub ForcePlayerMove**, which I adjusted but haven't tested it's functionality. This is only ever used **TILE_TYPE_SLIDE** which I doubt I'll ever use so haven't bothered testing yet.
Apart from that, **Sub PlayerMove** is the only part of the server script that needs adjusting to work with diagonal movement. -
Yeah, that works for the client side, but for server side in Sub PlayerMove, you have to more or less rewrite it. The code itself remains pretty much the same, but you're doing extra checks.
For example, if you move up, it checks the tile which is -Y of the players current position. Since moving up is now -Y and -X, you now need to check the tile up and left of the players current position. As for how the graphics rendering system is "moving" the sprite, I'm as of yet unsure, as I don't think it'll be as simple as "Oh, the sprite is moving up and left at the same time, I'll just draw it so it's moving diagnonal", there will probably be some rewriting of that to show the sprite moving properly in the "new" direction. But we'll get to that.
Once that's all done, I'll see what happens when the screen moves. If it's written the way I think it is, it just moves in the direction of which the sprite has moved, but whether it's move in 2 directions at the same time is yet to be determined.
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Yeah I was thinking that. I'm just editing some code to get the character to move diagonally and then I'll put in some iso graphics and see how it looks. I mean essentially it's the same thing from the players point of view, who really cares if the engine isn't true isometric? It'll make mapping a little more complicated, but if it works, it works.
The main area of code that needs to be edited, is **Sub PlayerMove**. It more or less needs to be rewritten for checking the tile they want to move too but it's definitely, definitely achievable. I'll post a short video if I can get this functioning correctly. -
Well, I've been giving it some thought and the idea of trying to make the engine Isometric appeals to me. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to achieve this though, it may be way out of my skill set which is probably why it's never been done before.
I could always go down the route of fake isometric and just have the character move diagonal, with normal tiles made to look isometric. We shall see. -
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You want people to buy the game? Hmm.
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You'll probably find that large 3D games don't always use large maps, they're just seamless.
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To be honest, you don't really benefit much from having large maps, besides being able to talk to other players on the same map, but who wants to talk to other players when you're grinding? Not me!
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Update:
Making good progress with 48x48 conversion. I have sprites and tiles converted which was the easiest. Directional blocking now works correctly with the conversion. Targetting works as it should but I need to move the target image down a bit.
Autotiles seem to be the trickiest to do so far. Not sure why as I've changed the values to what they should be.
16 = 24
32 = 48
48 = 72
64 = 96
80 = 120
Those should be the right values but I'm still not getting autotiles displaying correctly.
Another thing I need to correct is the point of where the map starts scrolling when the player is moving. I doubt this should be much trouble so I think I'll get that fixed and leave autotiles for last.
I imagine there will be other things I need to fix such as ranged weapons and spells but they might be ok, not tested yet. But so far the map editor seems to be functioning as it should with everything else :)
Just an example of 48x48 tiles. I'm not super happy with the RMMV tileset so I may look for others:
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Forgot to mention downside of this is you can only have 1 map to each side of a map. You'd have to use warp attributes for say, Map 3 to Map 2 and Map 4. But your world map will be consistent with this method.
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I'm now currently in the process of converting the engine to 48x48 pixels. I know this is going to be a hard process but I'm determined to have it. The graphics are just so much better and it will set it apart from other Eclipse games and allow me to take full advantage of the RMMV graphics, which are beautiful.
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I was a Super Moderator at BaronSoft back when it was on the QBite forums. I played the original EO and EO2 (Which I have the source code for).
I believe there is somebody else attempting to recreate Era Online and the world of Menath, but from what I saw from it, it was still using crappy graphics, crappy programming and it just wasn't appealing at all.
As an old Era player from many many years ago, I believe Era deserves some justice, and I also believe it's fans deserve to see a modern, decent game.
I don't really require any old graphics or anything, but I could benefit from some old world maps, storyline, lore, anything of that nature that I can incorporate into this new game. -
Anything cyan will be transparent through the whole form. So if you have a cyan PictureBox, you'll actually see straight through to the desktop, rather than the forms background image.
I have some LaVolpe source code but it's for PNGs in ImageBoxes, which is fine because it works. And I only need 4 ImageBoxes for clothes, beards and hairs and accessories. I would have preferred to draw them, but it's only for character creation so it's not a huge issue.
I could easily just have a black picture box, and draw them onto it, but I'm stubborn and I want my character creation interface to look good, without black squares and shit.
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