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So, any progress about that Nvidia problem guys?

This is awkward

On the one hand, I'm happy that it works for you - but I don't understand why it doesn't for Ryex or me. Are our GTX570 cards cursed? This is really weird..
Well, I still have much to do and hope that in the end it will work flawlessly with ARC since I want to release it with 60 FPS + across Linux/Windows/Mac..

The worst thing is that I have no idea how these problems are even possible. I have no problems on my PC whatsoever.

Does the Zombie re-spawn with your version? And do the battle animations stack? I just don't understand why it works perfectly for you while it works shitty for us despite having very good rigs..

Also, I fixed the "Day survived" bug, so that's not a thing anymore.

Mhm that doesn't sound so good..

I hope that I can make the game run on ARC somehow and get rid of these bugs.. :/

F0's reaction





Please rock our world F0!

You should download the newest DirectX for your OS from Microsoft's site and the newest drivers from the website of your graphics card manufacturer (nVidia, ATI or Intel in some cases). After installing DX and the newest drivers, things should work. Which graphics card do you have anyway?

We're currently trying to get F0 to finish the editor so ARC LE Beta can be released. http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,12485.0 Feel free to join in.

I have a Geforce GTX 570, 16 GB of DDR3 RAM and a i5-2500K @ 3.30GHZ - actually it should have no problem with my system and most of my drivers are always upt to date since I play modern PC games.

Okay, good to know. I'll join you guys

Alright, I took at look at the game. While in arc.cfg the frame rate was not set to 60 (it was 40, as is RMXP's default), the game was running smoothly on my PC and a lot better than with RMXP's engine. So it must be your PC. Make sure that your drivers are up to date and that you have the newest DirectX installed. Let's see what Ryex found out about the animations and events.

Okay, so what kind of drivers I need to update besides DX? At least it runs great on your system

Besides, how is it going with ARC? Any big news to be expected?

if you want you can Just PM a Team member the project that demo the problems, we will not to share the data out side of the team and only use it for debugging purposes.

Appreciated! I can definetely do this and trust you guys with my baby Who of you has time for it?
I will send the person the XP + the Arc project I made. What I noticed is that all the battle animations seem to.. stack? If I hit an enemy, a sword animation is being shown. If this enemy explodes in a fountain of green blood (another animation), this animation has the sword animation on it - it really looks weird. And if you use another battle animation, it gets stack on top of those two and so on; it really is crazy.

I try to prepare the project as far as I can

[The events from the other maps don't work like they should.]

could you show us an example of animation being displayed wrong? (and ins a screen shot of right and wrong). we need to know this sort to thing to fix it. also, how exactly do these events copied from another map fail? there is no reason that a script that worked in rmxp would not work in ARC.

as for the frame rate that's really weird. ARC naturally runs at 60 FPS with is far faster than RMXP and has far more power than RMXP so it would take a lot more to slow it down.

Alright, I'll try my best to explain my problems

This is how it's supposed to look


The player uses dash and a small dust animation is being shown on a event which is spawned at the hero's position before using dash.
Unfortunately I couldn't make a screenshot of the ARC version of the game because all I get after using the print button is a blackscreen. But the dust graphic is being shown on the player's character. And then some other battle animations get stacked on him as well which looks really weird.

The events from the other maps don't work like they should. It works flawlessly in the XP version. In the ARC version, a enemy gets spawned on the map and is dead after one hit. It seems like it doesn't carry over the variables like HP or switches. I don't know why this is the case. Maybe there is a flaw in the script itself? You can take a look at it (it's a German script btw):

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#==============================================================================
# ** Events klonen V1.1
# EventsKlonen.rb von Abt Ploutôn, Monsta (07.08.2008)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/scriptdb/node/51
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=9900
# http://www.rmxp.de/forum/rmxp-de-technik/rgss-skript-datenbank/programmierhilfen/p227129-events-klonen/#post227129
#==============================================================================

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Events klonen V1 @ Abt Ploutôn
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Monsta Edit: 1.0 05.06.07

# Aufruf:
# $game_map.add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
# ...weitere Events...
# $scene.spriteset.refresh

# Neuerungen vom Monsta Edit
# - Man kann sich die ID des neuen Events zurückgeben lassen (@id = $game_map.add...)
# - Bug mit Self Switches bei geklonten Events behoben
# - Die Zeile "$game_map.need_refresh = true" brauch nicht mehr ins Call Skript
# - ID's werden richtig ersetzt (siehe Post SLB)

class Spriteset_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def refresh
    $game_map.need_refresh = true
    unless @character_sprites == nil
      for sprite in @character_sprites
        sprite.dispose
      end
    end
    @character_sprites = []
    for i in $game_map.events.keys.sort
      sprite = Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_map.events)
     @character_sprites.push(sprite)
    end
    @character_sprites.push(Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_player))
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end

class Game_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
    s = 1
    (1..@events.size + 1).each{|s|break unless @events.keys.include?(s)}
    map = load_data(sprintf("Data/Map%03d.rxdata", map_id))
    ev = map.events[id]
    ev.id = s
    @events = Game_Event.new(@map_id, ev)
    @events.moveto(x, y)
    return @events.id
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end

class Scene_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  attr_accessor :spriteset
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end
#==============================================================================
# ** Events klonen V1.1
# EventsKlonen.rb von Abt Ploutôn, Monsta (07.08.2008)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/scriptdb/node/51
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=9900
# http://www.rmxp.de/forum/rmxp-de-technik/rgss-skript-datenbank/programmierhilfen/p227129-events-klonen/#post227129
#==============================================================================

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Events klonen V1 @ Abt Ploutôn
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Monsta Edit: 1.0 05.06.07

# Aufruf:
# $game_map.add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
# ...weitere Events...
# $scene.spriteset.refresh

# Neuerungen vom Monsta Edit
# - Man kann sich die ID des neuen Events zurückgeben lassen (@id = $game_map.add...)
# - Bug mit Self Switches bei geklonten Events behoben
# - Die Zeile "$game_map.need_refresh = true" brauch nicht mehr ins Call Skript
# - ID's werden richtig ersetzt (siehe Post SLB)

class Spriteset_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def refresh
    $game_map.need_refresh = true
    unless @character_sprites == nil
      for sprite in @character_sprites
        sprite.dispose
      end
    end
    @character_sprites = []
    for i in $game_map.events.keys.sort
      sprite = Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_map.events)
     @character_sprites.push(sprite)
    end
    @character_sprites.push(Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_player))
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end

class Game_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
    s = 1
    (1..@events.size + 1).each{|s|break unless @events.keys.include?(s)}
    map = load_data(sprintf("Data/Map%03d.rxdata", map_id))
    ev = map.events[id]
    ev.id = s
    @events = Game_Event.new(@map_id, ev)
    @events.moveto(x, y)
    return @events.id
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end

class Scene_Map
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  attr_accessor :spriteset
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
end

The FPS is not 60 FPS. This got me wondering as well. The game runs better in XP than in ARC. I didn't use a anti-lag script in the ARC version to keep it as clean as possible and I didn't play around with anything else. None of the scripts I use are "technical", they mostly are for graphical things like changing the chipset or making events flat so that the player can walk over.

Hope that this description helped a bit better

So I could finally start the game! Problem was the game used a sound effect from the RTP which I used as a placeholder.

And well, seems like there is much of adjustments to do. Battle animations are displayed wrong, Events which are copied from another map via script don't work correctly and the framerate isn't as good as on XP. Plus some moves like dashing don't work. But oh well, it's still an early dev build and I'm just very happy to make it work!

BTW, which is the best anti-lag/perfomance boosting script out there? Since I use the event copy script, a lot of events are getting copied onto one medium-sized map. Thanks for your help

There are a few more things you need to do right now before it will work. You can find out more here: http://forum.chaos-project.com/index.php/topic,11882.0.html

Ah, thanks Blizz! Will look into it later

[Seems like it works]

interesting... anthing special about your project? how many scripts does it have. what is the last message in the log before it freezes?

Whoops! Seems like it works; it just took very long time which is awkward considering the powerful rig I have
Sorry Ryex! 

But I can't start the project - I click on the Game.exe, the window opens, and then closes after 1-2 seconds

I use the following scripts

- TitleSkip
- Change Tileset
- Keyboard script
- Flat Events
- Event Clone machine

As you can see, nothing really crazy, mhm.

Another thing: I admire your work guys, seriously. When I read about the feature list of the ARC editor I couldn't stop smiling since there are so many things that I miss when using RMXP! Cross-platform release and the huge perfomance boost will be reason enough for me to pay you guys and release my game under the ARC flag. I hope you guys make good progress, this will be pretty big when finished

Kudos!

I tried to convert my XP project, but the converter froze several times for me 

Hi people!

I try to get PK8's SelfData Script to run, but it won't work..
This is the Error that I get..



The scripts that I use are:

- the SDK
- a Event Clone Script

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#==============================================================================
# ** Events klonen V1.1
# EventsKlonen.rb von Abt Ploutôn, Monsta (07.08.2008)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/scriptdb/node/51
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=9900
# http://www.rmxp.de/forum/rmxp-de-technik/rgss-skript-datenbank/programmierhilfen/p227129-events-klonen/#post227129
#==============================================================================
 
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
# Events klonen V1 @ Abt Ploutôn
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 
# Monsta Edit: 1.0 05.06.07
 
# Aufruf:
# $game_map.add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
# ...weitere Events...
# $scene.spriteset.refresh
 
# Neuerungen vom Monsta Edit
# - Man kann sich die ID des neuen Events zurückgeben lassen (@id = $game_map.add...)
# - Bug mit Self Switches bei geklonten Events behoben
# - Die Zeile "$game_map.need_refresh = true" brauch nicht mehr ins Call Skript
# - ID's werden richtig ersetzt (siehe Post SLB)
 
class Spriteset_Map
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  def refresh
    $game_map.need_refresh = true
    unless @character_sprites == nil 
      for sprite in @character_sprites 
        sprite.dispose 
      end 
    end
    @character_sprites = [] 
    for i in $game_map.events.keys.sort 
      sprite = Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_map.events[i]) 
	  @character_sprites.push(sprite) 
    end 
    @character_sprites.push(Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_player))
  end
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end
 
class Game_Map
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  def add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
    s = 1
    (1..@events.size + 1).each{|s|break unless @events.keys.include?(s)}
    map = load_data(sprintf("Data/Map%03d.rxdata", map_id)) 
    ev = map.events[id] 
    ev.id = s 
    @events[s] = Game_Event.new(@map_id, ev)
    @events[s].moveto(x, y)
    return @events[s].id
  end 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end
 
class Scene_Map 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  attr_accessor :spriteset 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end
#==============================================================================
# ** Events klonen V1.1
# EventsKlonen.rb von Abt Ploutôn, Monsta (07.08.2008)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/scriptdb/node/51
# http://www.rpg-studio.de/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=9900
# http://www.rmxp.de/forum/rmxp-de-technik/rgss-skript-datenbank/programmierhilfen/p227129-events-klonen/#post227129
#==============================================================================
 
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
# Events klonen V1 @ Abt Ploutôn
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 
# Monsta Edit: 1.0 05.06.07
 
# Aufruf:
# $game_map.add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
# ...weitere Events...
# $scene.spriteset.refresh
 
# Neuerungen vom Monsta Edit
# - Man kann sich die ID des neuen Events zurückgeben lassen (@id = $game_map.add...)
# - Bug mit Self Switches bei geklonten Events behoben
# - Die Zeile "$game_map.need_refresh = true" brauch nicht mehr ins Call Skript
# - ID's werden richtig ersetzt (siehe Post SLB)
 
class Spriteset_Map
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  def refresh
    $game_map.need_refresh = true
    unless @character_sprites == nil 
      for sprite in @character_sprites 
        sprite.dispose 
      end 
    end
    @character_sprites = [] 
    for i in $game_map.events.keys.sort 
      sprite = Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_map.events[i]) 
	  @character_sprites.push(sprite) 
    end 
    @character_sprites.push(Sprite_Character.new(@viewport1, $game_player))
  end
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end
 
class Game_Map
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  def add_event(map_id,id,x,y)
    s = 1
    (1..@events.size + 1).each{|s|break unless @events.keys.include?(s)}
    map = load_data(sprintf("Data/Map%03d.rxdata", map_id)) 
    ev = map.events[id] 
    ev.id = s 
    @events[s] = Game_Event.new(@map_id, ev)
    @events[s].moveto(x, y)
    return @events[s].id
  end 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end
 
class Scene_Map 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
  attr_accessor :spriteset 
  #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
end

- a Anti Lag script

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#===============================================================================
# ** AntiLag Script
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# f0tz!baerchen
# 0.71
# 06.01.2007
#
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Credits: 
# Chaosg1 (for testing ;) )
# NearFantastica (for the Event AntiLag I used and improved)
#
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Features:
# - Event AntiLag: Event (and their Sprites) which are not on the screen are 
#   not updated except they run on "Autostart" or "Parallel Process" or they
#   have an empty comment in the first line
# - High Priority: Game can be run on high priority
# - Smooth Antilag: the Event AntiLag does only work fine if the events are
#   distributed over the whole map, but when there are many events at the same
#   place it lags again. If the script notices that the CPU utilization
#   gets higher than $antilag.max_cpu_utilization it will slow down the game and
#   reduce the framerate as long as needed.
#
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Settings: 
# can be changed anytime during the game. They are found at the end of the 
# script.
#
#===============================================================================

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# * SDK Log Script
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SDK.log('AntiLag', 'f0tz!baerchen', 0.71, '06.01.07')

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Begin SDK Enabled Check
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
if SDK.state('AntiLag') == true
  
#===============================================================================
# Class for Antilag Settings
#===============================================================================
class Antilag_Settings
  
  attr_accessor :event
  attr_accessor :max_cpu_utilization
  attr_accessor :cpu_tolerance
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # initializes default settings
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def initialize
    @event = true
    @high_priority = true
    @max_cpu_utilization = 100
    @cpu_tolerance = 20
    @SetPriorityClass = Win32API.new('kernel32', 'SetPriorityClass', 
                                     ['p', 'i'], 'i')
    @GetProcessTimes = Win32API.new('kernel32', 'GetProcessTimes', 
                                    ['i','p','p','p','p'], 'i')
  end
   
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # turns high priority on/off
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def high_priority=(value)
    @high_priority = value
    
    if @high_priority
      @SetPriorityClass.call(-1, 0x00000080) # High Priority
    else
      @SetPriorityClass.call(-1, 0x00000020) # Normal Priority
    end
  end
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # returns the current CPU Utilization
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def get_cpu_utilization
    
    # uses API Call to get the Kernel and User Time
    creation_time = '0' * 10
    exit_time = '0' * 10
    kernel_time = '0' * 10
    user_time = '0' * 10
    @GetProcessTimes.call(-1, creation_time, exit_time, kernel_time, user_time)
        
    # converts times into integer (in 100ns)
    kernel_time = kernel_time.unpack('l2')
    user_time = user_time.unpack('l2')
    kernel_time = kernel_time[0] + kernel_time[1]
    user_time = user_time[0] + user_time[1]
    
    # takes differences to calculate cpu utilization
    if @old_time != nil
      timer_difference = Time.new - @old_timer
      time_difference = kernel_time + user_time - @old_time
      result = time_difference / timer_difference / 100000
    else
      result = $antilag.max_cpu_utilization
    end
    
    # saves values (to calculate the differences, s.a.)
    @old_timer = Time.new
    @old_time = kernel_time + user_time
    
    return result
    
  end
  
end

$antilag = Antilag_Settings.new

#===============================================================================
# Scene_Map class
#===============================================================================
class Scene_Map
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # update method, smooth antilag has been added
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias f0tzis_anti_lag_scene_map_update update
  def update
    
    f0tzis_anti_lag_scene_map_update
    
    if Graphics.frame_count % 20 == 0 and $antilag.max_cpu_utilization <= 100
    
      # calculates difference between max utilization and current utilization
      abs = $antilag.max_cpu_utilization - $antilag.get_cpu_utilization
    
      # changes Frame Rate if difference is bigger than the tolerance
      if abs.abs >= $antilag.max_cpu_utilization * $antilag.cpu_tolerance/100.0
        Graphics.frame_rate = [[10, Graphics.frame_rate + abs / 2].max, 40].min
      end
      
    end
        
  end
  
end


#===============================================================================
# Game_Event Class
#===============================================================================
class Game_Event
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # for AntiLag, decides, if an event is on the screen or not.
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def in_range?
        
    # returns true if $event_antilag is false or the event is an 
    # Autostart/Parallel Process event or it has an empty 
    # comment in the first line
    if not $antilag.event or (@trigger == 3 or @trigger == 4 or 
    (@list != nil and @list[0].code == 108 and @list[0].parameters == ['']))
      return true
    end
          
    screne_x = $game_map.display_x
    screne_x -= 256
    screne_y = $game_map.display_y
    screne_y -= 256
    screne_width = $game_map.display_x
    screne_width += 2816
    screne_height = $game_map.display_y
    screne_height += 2176
    
    return false if @real_x <= screne_x
    return false if @real_x >= screne_width
    return false if @real_y <= screne_y
    return false if @real_y >= screne_height
    return true
            
  end
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # update method
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias f0tzis_anti_lag_game_event_update update
  def update
    return if not self.in_range?      
    f0tzis_anti_lag_game_event_update
  end
  
end


#===============================================================================
# Sprite_Character Class
#===============================================================================
class Sprite_Character < RPG::Sprite
  
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # update method, parameters added for Loop_Map, rebuild for 8dirs
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  alias f0tzis_anti_lag_sprite_char_update update
  def update
    return if @character.is_a?(Game_Event) and not @character.in_range?
    f0tzis_anti_lag_sprite_char_update
  end
  
end

end

#===============================================================================
# Settings
#===============================================================================

$antilag.max_cpu_utilization = 95 # the maximum CPU utilization, the script
                                  # try to stay under this value during changing
                                  # changing the frame rate. The lower this
                                  # value the higher will be the lag reduction
                                  # (and the smoothness, too), a value > 100
                                  # will disable this feature completely

$antilag.cpu_tolerance = 20       # this value tells the script how many % of
                                  # the CPU utilization change should be ignored
                                  # If you change it too a higher value you,
                                  # your Frame Rate will be more constant but
                                  # smaller lags will be ignored.

$antilag.high_priority = true     # set this to true if you want the game to run 
                                  # on high priority

$antilag.event = true             # set this to true to enable normal anti-lag

- Title Skip Script

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#==============================================================================
# Xenres' Title Skip
# Version 1.0
# 2010-11-24
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Loads necessary objects and skips to the start map to use as a title screen
#  or whatever.
#==============================================================================

class Scene_Title
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Main Processing
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def main
    # If battle test
    if $BTEST
      battle_test
      return
    end
    # Load database
    $data_actors        = load_data("Data/Actors.rxdata")
    $data_classes       = load_data("Data/Classes.rxdata")
    $data_skills        = load_data("Data/Skills.rxdata")
    $data_items         = load_data("Data/Items.rxdata")
    $data_weapons       = load_data("Data/Weapons.rxdata")
    $data_armors        = load_data("Data/Armors.rxdata")
    $data_enemies       = load_data("Data/Enemies.rxdata")
    $data_troops        = load_data("Data/Troops.rxdata")
    $data_states        = load_data("Data/States.rxdata")
    $data_animations    = load_data("Data/Animations.rxdata")
    $data_tilesets      = load_data("Data/Tilesets.rxdata")
    $data_common_events = load_data("Data/CommonEvents.rxdata")
    $data_system        = load_data("Data/System.rxdata")
    # Make system object
    $game_system = Game_System.new    
    # Make each type of game object
    $game_temp          = Game_Temp.new
    $game_system        = Game_System.new
    $game_switches      = Game_Switches.new
    $game_variables     = Game_Variables.new
    $game_self_switches = Game_SelfSwitches.new
    $game_screen        = Game_Screen.new
    $game_actors        = Game_Actors.new
    $game_party         = Game_Party.new
    $game_troop         = Game_Troop.new
    $game_map           = Game_Map.new
    $game_player        = Game_Player.new
    
    # Set up initial party
    $game_party.setup_starting_members
    # Set up initial map position
    $game_map.setup($data_system.start_map_id)
    # Move player to initial position
    $game_player.moveto($data_system.start_x, $data_system.start_y)
    # Refresh player
    $game_player.refresh
    # Run automatic change for BGM and BGS set with map
    $game_map.autoplay
    # Update map (run parallel process event)
    $game_map.update
    # go to REAL title screen
    $scene = Scene_Map.new
  end
end

- Change Tileset script

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#====================================
#  Phylomortis Script, Ryethe.  Rewrite: Leon_Westbrooke
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Game_Map and Spriteset_Map are aliased
#  To call $game_map.replace_tileset(x), where x is the ID number of the new tileset.
#====================================

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#  Game_Map
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
class Game_Map
  attr_accessor :new_tileset
  
  alias leon_gm_tileset_setup setup
  
  def setup(map_id)
        @new_tileset = false
        leon_gm_tileset_setup(map_id)
  end
  
  def replace_tileset(new_tiles)
        tileset = $data_tilesets[new_tiles]
        @tileset_name = tileset.tileset_name
        @autotile_names = tileset.autotile_names
        @panorama_name = tileset.panorama_name
        @panorama_hue = tileset.panorama_hue
        @battleback_name = tileset.battleback_name
        @passages = tileset.passages
        @priorities = tileset.priorities
        @terrain_tags = tileset.terrain_tags
        $game_map.new_tileset = true
  end
end

#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
#  Spriteset_Map
#~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
class Spriteset_Map
  
  alias leon_sm_tileset_update update
  
  def update  
        if $game_map.new_tileset == true
          @tilemap.tileset = RPG::Cache.tileset($game_map.tileset_name)
          @tilemap.priorities = $game_map.priorities
          for i in 0..6
                autotile_name = $game_map.autotile_names[i]
                @tilemap.autotiles[i] = RPG::Cache.autotile(autotile_name)
          end
          $game_map.new_tileset = false
        end
        leon_sm_tileset_update
  end
end

- Keyboard script

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#===============================================================================
# Key.press?(key) keyboard Script
#===============================================================================
# Input Module written by Cybersam. Modified by Synthesize
# version 1.0.0
# May 11, 2008
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
module Key
  @keystatus = Win32API.new("user32","GetAsyncKeyState",['i'],'i')
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Check if specified key is being pressed
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def self.press?(key)
    return true if @keystatus.call(key) != 0
    return false
  end
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Create Letter Values
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_A         = 0x41        # A key
  Key_B         = 0x42        # B key
  Key_C         = 0x43        # C key
  Key_D         = 0x44        # D key
  Key_E         = 0x45        # E key
  Key_F         = 0x46        # F key
  Key_G         = 0x47        # G key
  Key_H         = 0x48        # H key
  Key_I         = 0x49        # I key
  Key_J         = 0x4A        # J key
  Key_K         = 0x4B        # K key
  Key_L         = 0x4C        # L key
  Key_M         = 0x4D        # M key
  Key_N         = 0x4E        # N key
  Key_O         = 0x4F        # O key
  Key_P         = 0x50        # P key
  Key_Q         = 0x51        # Q key
  Key_R         = 0x52        # R key
  Key_S         = 0x53        # S key
  Key_T         = 0x54        # T key
  Key_U         = 0x55        # U key
  Key_V         = 0x56        # V key
  Key_W         = 0x57        # W key
  Key_X         = 0x58        # X key
  Key_Y         = 0x59        # Y key
  Key_Z         = 0x5A        # Z key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Mouse
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Mouse_L = 0x01        # left mouse button
  Mouse_R = 0x02        # right mouse button
  Mouse_M = 0x04        # middle mouse button
  Mouse_4 = 0x05        # 4th mouse button 
  Mouse_5 = 0x06        # 5th mouse button
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Control Buttons
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Backspace      = 0x08        # BACKSPACE key
  Key_Tab       = 0x09        # TAB key
  Key_Return    = 0x0D        # ENTER key
  Key_Shift     = 0x10        # SHIFT key
  Key_Control      = 0x11        # CTLR key
  Key_Alt       = 0x12        # ALT key
  Key_Pause     = 0x13        # PAUSE key
  Key_Capslock   = 0x14        # CAPS LOCK key
  Key_Escape    = 0x1B        # ESC key
  Key_Space     = 0x20        # SPACEBAR
  Key_Prior     = 0x21        # PAGE UP key
  Key_Next      = 0x22        # PAGE DOWN key
  Key_End       = 0x23        # END key
  Key_Home      = 0x24        # HOME key
  Key_Left      = 0x25        # LEFT ARROW key
  Key_Up        = 0x26        # UP ARROW key
  Key_Right     = 0x27        # RIGHT ARROW key
  Key_Down      = 0x28        # DOWN ARROW key
  Key_Select    = 0x29        # SELECT key
  Key_Print     = 0x2A        # PRINT key
  Key_Snapshot  = 0x2C        # PRINT SCREEN key
  Key_Insert    = 0x2D        # INS key
  Key_Delete    = 0x2E        # DEL key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Number Keys
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_0         = 0x30        # 0 key
  Key_1         = 0x31        # 1 key
  Key_2         = 0x32        # 2 key
  Key_3         = 0x33        # 3 key
  Key_4         = 0x34        # 4 key
  Key_5         = 0x35        # 5 key
  Key_6         = 0x36        # 6 key
  Key_7         = 0x37        # 7 key
  Key_8         = 0x38        # 8 key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Windows Key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Lwin      = 0x5B        # Left Windows key (Microsoft Natural keyboard) 
  Key_Rwin      = 0x5C        # Right Windows key (Natural keyboard)
  Key_Apps      = 0x5D        # Applications key (Natural keyboard)
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Numpad
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Numpad0   = 0x60        # Numeric keypad 0 key
  Key_Numpad1   = 0x61        # Numeric keypad 1 key
  Key_Numpad2   = 0x62        # Numeric keypad 2 key
  Key_Numpad3   = 0x63        # Numeric keypad 3 key
  Key_Numpad4   = 0x64        # Numeric keypad 4 key
  Key_Numpad5   = 0x65        # Numeric keypad 5 key
  Key_Numpad6   = 0x66        # Numeric keypad 6 key
  Key_Numpad7   = 0x67        # Numeric keypad 7 key
  Key_Numpad8   = 0x68        # Numeric keypad 8 key
  Key_Numpad9     = 0x69        # Numeric keypad 9 key
  Key_Multiply  = 0x6A        # Multiply key (*)
  Key_Add       = 0x6B        # Add key (+)
  Key_Seperator = 0x6C        # Separator key
  Key_Subtract  = 0x6D        # Subtract key (-)
  Key_Decimal   = 0x6E        # Decimal key
  Key_Divide    = 0x6F        # Divide key (/)
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map F-keys
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_F1        = 0x70        # F1 key
  Key_F2        = 0x71        # F2 key
  Key_F3        = 0x72        # F3 key
  Key_F4        = 0x73        # F4 key
  Key_F5        = 0x74        # F5 key
  Key_F6        = 0x75        # F6 key
  Key_F7        = 0x76        # F7 key
  Key_F8        = 0x77        # F8 key
  Key_F9        = 0x78        # F9 key
  Key_F10       = 0x79        # F10 key
  Key_F11       = 0x7A        # F11 key
  Key_F12       = 0x7B        # F12 key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Numlock and Scroll keys
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Numlock   = 0x90        # NUM LOCK key
  Key_Scroll    = 0x91        # SCROLL LOCK key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map Control, Shift and Alt keys
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Lshift       = 0xA0        # Left SHIFT key
  Key_Rshift       = 0xA1        # Right SHIFT key
  Key_Lcontrol  = 0xA2        # Left CONTROL key
  Key_Rcontrol  = 0xA3        # Right CONTROL key
  Key_Lalt       = 0xA4        # Left ALT key
  Key_Ralt       = 0xA5        # Right ALT key
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Map seperator keys
  #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Key_Comma         = 0xBC        # , key
  Key_Dash         = 0xBD        # - key
  Key_Period         = 0xBE        # . key   
end

- Flat Events

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#========Flat-Events Script=======#
#===========by Monsta==========#
#=====Version 1.1=== 12.1.2007 ===#
#=======www.Monsta.aw3.de======#
 
# Benutzung:
# 1. Dieses Skript über Main einfügen
# 2. Sich einen oder mehrere Namen für die untersten Events aussuchen
# 3. Diesen Namen hier bei "FLAT_EVENTS" eintragen (Array)
# 4. Events im Spiel mit diesem Namen benennen
# 5. Sich freuen und mich in die Credits schreiben ;-)
 
# Anmerkung:
# Man kann diese Einstellung auch noch während des Spiels ändern.
# Einfach in ein Eventskript folgenden Code eingeben:
# $game_map.events[*id*].flat = true
# Das "*id*" muss durch die ID des Events ersetzt werden.
# Soll das Event nicht mehr Flach sein muss man das "true" 
# im oberen Code durch ein "false" ersetzen
 
class Game_Map
 attr_reader :map
 FLAT_EVENTS = ["Speicherpunkt", "Blood", "Flach"]
 alias original_setup setup
 def setup(map_id)
  original_setup(map_id)
  for ev in $game_map.events.values
    $game_map.events[ev.id].flat = FLAT_EVENTS.include?($game_map.map.events[ev.id].name)
  end
 end
end
 
class Game_Character
 attr_accessor :flat
 alias original_screen_z screen_z
 def screen_z(height = 0)
    return 0 if @flat 
    original_screen_z(height)
  end
end

I tried this line of code as Script command

self_variable([@map_id, @event_id, @id], 50, 0)

But like I said, it won't work. I hope someone can help me

Speaking of encryption modes, which is the "safest" for XP games at the moment?

Can nobody help a brother out? 

[and]

Hi there!

I want to include a fully functional account system into my game. The player should be able to login into his account, and all achieved scores or "gamerpoints" should be sent to a online webpage.
I know that there is no way around PHP and stuff, but this would be a really great feature and I wonder if there is something like it. Note that I might plan to make commercial use of my project, so I hope that there are brave souls out there who can help with suggestions.

To sum up: the player is able to login ingame and on a website. His highscores are sent from the game to the MySQL database and show up on his profile page.

Why not do what Blizz said and just flip a switch then.

And you can have events set as local variables and actually work normally without restructuring how the default scripts work. There should be no need to do this, and if there is, you likely need to think of a different way of going about it.

If you don't mind me asking, what are you trying to do?

I'm creating an highly ambitious tower-defense like game which copies enemies from one map to the main map where the action takes place.
The game has no problems with perfomance yet, but I want to prevent any lags by deleting those enemy events from the map when they are done.

I understand under "local variables" that I practically just need to create one enemy event so that every copy of it acts as an individual because it has local variables. This would be neat and save a lot of time.

Once you leave a map, all events are discarded and upon reentering the map, only the default events are loaded again. The cloned ones aren't there initially, except if you clone them again. So I don't think you will really need to delete anything.

But the game takes place on one single map.. No teleports.

For those who use cloned events: is there a possibility of local variables? This would be a makers' dream right here..

Thanks for those answers!

To make my situation clear: I use an event clone script which clones events from different maps and since this function is used almost constantly I want to make sure that those events don't pile up into an huge lag-monster. Is it enough to use switches?

@ForeverZer0
Where should I put that class? In every single script or what? Sorry, when it comes to RGSS I'm a dumbass..