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[Byron]

Enderal is actually pretty fun.
I always found skyrim pretty boring, but Enderal somehow makes it quite fun. It's an interesting story.

 

[Spoo]

Yeah, I'm enjoying it thusfar as well. Straight up elementalist mage feels a lot better in the mod as opposed to the main game.

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

I should make some sort of game design document for future people who want to help me develop my personal game... But for some reason I want to make it pretty look at.

#priorities

 

[Spoo]

I get that Dark Souls is Dark Souls, but when I'm trying to duel I'd love not getting summoned (to the fight club area, no less) by some asshat ambusher.

With the Steam name xxSephiroth26 no less.

 

[Jason]

Deciding whether or not to buy RPG Maker MV... might just be a dick and pirate it or something.

 

[Xilef]

Deciding if it's worth me pursuing a 3D map rendering Plugin for MV. Made a WebGL rendering scene and a lot of code was required just to get a cube spinning on the screen, so it would be a large Plugin.

From a business standpoint, it's a total waste of my time as I wouldn't gain anything from doing it and the MV community largely doesn't seem to care about flashy Plugins.

 

[Jason]

Are there any Mode 7 plugins for MV yet?

 

[Xilef]

Are there any Mode 7 plugins for MV yet?

No publicly released ones. Because there's no support for native code it all needs to be in WebGL which raises the barrier a lot.

I did an experiment to get mode 7 running as fast as possible in JavaScript. Not good.

 

[Jason]

Hmm, guess I'll just stick with VX Ace for the time being then

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

You could always pirate it and then buy it if you like it.

 

[Xilef]

This is what mode 7 in MV with Javascript looks like - talk to the NPC

With WebGL it's a thousand times faster, has a thousand times more potential features and is a thousand times more difficult to code, but it can be done and I can do it.

This is (a very small glimpse) at what is possible with WebGL (and this cheats somewhat by using the Three.js library)

 

[Jason]

The example in the video is exactly how I'd want it, for a world map

 

[coyotecraft]

Damn. I just ate a whole pizza by myself. Granted, it was thin crust and I hadn't eaten anything all day.

 

[Ellie]

I've just been testing my app for the last half hour, gaining resources and leveling up, then realised I wasn't logged in.

So who's getting those resources... and where the hell is my level being stored?

#badprogramming

 

[Jason]

Damn. I just ate a whole pizza by myself. Granted, it was thin crust and I hadn't eaten anything all day.

... I do this a minimum of once a week, except with two pizza's since the place I go to is buy one get one free, and I'm not letting the other go to waste!

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

This is what mode 7 in MV with Javascript looks like - talk to the NPC

With WebGL it's a thousand times faster, has a thousand times more potential features and is a thousand times more difficult to code, but it can be done and I can do it.

This is (a very small glimpse) at what is possible with WebGL (and this cheats somewhat by using the Three.js library)

Awesome.

 

[Ellie]

Never been a fan of mode 7, but damn, that 360...

 

[Xilef]

Never been a fan of mode 7, but damn, that 360...

Perhaps you'd be a fan of 3D maps in general? Leads directly into Plugins like dynamic lighting, bump mapping, 3D models, realistic water and more.

I know that if I were to finish this Plugin it would support static 3D models as well as blocks (place cuboids on the map of varying height). Could likely get animated MD2 3D models in as well, but static OBJ would be simpler for a version 1.

So you'd get things like 3D models for towns/cities on the world map.

I can also imagine having the secondary layers on the map extrude geometry from their alpha value (Minecraft item style) so forests would be raised slighting from the ground. Also, vertex displacements is another thing that isn't far-fetch'd, so that would be PSX Final Fantasy quality world maps.

Pretty much anything is possible, as long as the target device supports WebGL (and is powerful enough to run these things).

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

I just got very excited. Maybe we could host a campaign.

 

[Ellie]

Fear my horrific skills (or lack of).