A good script tutorial site?

[Kickback]

So I'm new to this whole "scripting" thing and I really want to learn but I have no idea where to start. I've looked at some codes on custom games but they confuse me as to what they are, what they do, etc.

Is there a site out there where I can learn?

Also ... Marcus ... any chance you can give a nice step-by-step on how to get the names to appear above the text boxes in your game? :D <3

[Valkysas]

if you want RGSS scripts, RPGAdvocate has a bunch of cool ones at phylomortis.com, like a side view battle system and other stuff.

[Kickback]

I followed the instructions for the "side view" battle and this is the result I got.

http://www.tfw2005.com/~kickback/wtf.jpg

So as the name of my file states .. WTF?

[Valkysas]

...huh. WTF indeed. Guess I shouldnt reccomend something I havent tried myself.

[Kickback]

Gonna make a new thread...

[RPG Advocate]

See below.

[RPG Learner]

There's just one problem with this what if you have two people or more in the party would'nt that cause some conflicts?

Well i'm just wondering how do i get the characters to move to the very back to make more room for monsters

I'm playing with the X and Y corrodinates but i need to know what's the max instead of going to battle test to find out.

[RPG Advocate]

I followed the instructions for the "side view" battle and this is the result I got.

http://www.tfw2005.com/~kickback/wtf.jpg

So as the name of my file states .. WTF?

Though I can't see the image, I can guess what happened. You probably used the default battler graphics and they appeared all stacked up on the right side of the screen. The reason for this is that the script was designed for use with sprite-size (48x64) battler graphics.

Here's how it looks when used with that type of battler:

http://www.phylomortis.com/junk/ag-fire.png

Note that the picture shown is from my game, which has a lot of modifications made the window layout.

[ValhallaRPG]

So I'm new to this whole "scripting" thing and I really want to learn but I have no idea where to start. I've looked at some codes on custom games but they confuse me as to what they are, what they do, etc.

Is there a site out there where I can learn?


Yeah Ruby Scripts are really thought to understand at first. I'm very confuse as well. If there would be Ruby Script schools to help learning it, I would go there :) Well since there's no school for that Kickback, I recommend that you take time to read the help file of RPMXP about Ruby. Take your time to read the help file and to look at the original Scripts while reading it. The help file is fairly well detailed, although I wished it would have more examples. And it would have really helped if it included step-by-step tutorials to complete.

I'm currently modifying the Game_Map, Game_Character, and Game_Player scripts so that characters can do steps per 1/2 tile instead of 1 tile. I'm doing this so I can make a puzzle game similar to the NES game Adventure of Lolo. It took me countless hours just to figure out how to make this, and now I finally did it.

[RPG Learner]

Your scripts works RPG Advocate but now there are some slight issues


http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c378/Dragontripmon/RPG%20Maker%20XP%20Trial%20Project/XP%20Related%20Help/ScreenshotforSideViewGame.png

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c378/Dragontripmon/RPG%20Maker%20XP%20Trial%20Project/XP%20Related%20Help/WindowScreenshot.png

Hmm how do i edit the windows to make it more like a sideview. Is there a tutorial for this as well.

[Crimson Knight]

I found out how to manipulate windows and such through experimenting(though I haven't gotten a round to actually making my own specialized windows yet).

I haven't seen a good RGS tutorial, but this Ruby guide (http://poignantguide.net/ruby/) is well done and allows you to absorb the basics of Ruby pretty quickly, which takes half the work out of learning RGS.

Unless one is really dedicated to learning a good deal of the Ruby language, I suggest you just look around rmxp.net or something and just copy and paste pre-made scripts into your game.

[RPG Learner]

That's what i do problem is there's a lot and i just want to learn some simple commands to edit some of the defaults slightly.

But advocats simple battle view scripts is a pretty handy edit now to start playing around with the X and Y variable to see what will work for this.

[Crimson Knight]

Unfortunately, XP's scripting isn't like RPG Maker 2's, so you're gonna have to learn more than just a few simple commands if you wanna do some basic stuff on your own.

I'd say that if you aren't learning Ruby though, you can get by just editing existing scripts and values since it's very easy to dechipher code.

[RPG Learner]

Darn. well i guess it's time time for me to at least learn some of the basic ruby laguage.