The Screenshot Thread 2

[BizarreMonkey]

Worth bumping for, I think!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7u31N0aq34
Volume Notice: If you have your sound up high, you may wanna turn it down a tad.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

You balogne-butts are forcing me to bump again.

Well I've done much, but I think I'll just drizzle a few screenshots around.

Finally, a spoopy music piece by my composer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_oHQqs7Cng

 

[BizarreMonkey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MldmU1OhJg
This, is how we do this!

This shit's more real than branston pickle.

 

[Xilef]

I'm considering making a post-processing shaders plugin for RPG Maker MV.

Here's the preliminary investigation;

About a billion times easier to do in MV than it was in XP/VX/VXA as shader support like this is actually already built in - just that there's no good API for using it.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

That's very cool, Xilef. We could make some special effects like the ones the PS FF games use for random battle encounters. And I'm sure many more other uses.

 

[Xilef]

That's very cool, Xilef. We could make some special effects like the ones the PS FF games use for random battle encounters. And I'm sure many more other uses.

At the moment I've set it up so the menu background uses post-processing filters (configurable via the Plugin manager), so you can achieve something like the FFXII menu background (crazy blur + crazy colour tinting).
I've also made it so map filters stack, which opens up the possibility for combinations.

My plan for battle transitions (and applying filters on the map/in battle) is to have it so you define the start parameters and end parameters which are automatically interpolated between. On the map you'd get the duration in frames and a boolean for wait for completion. Map transitions is another one I'd like to look at, but that will come after battle and map filter interpolation.

It uses JSON at the moment. Here's my custom "Blobs" shader;

The plugin command for blobs is; ScreenFilter blobs {"size":{"x":0.001,"y":0.001}}

There are a LOT of weird quirks with the Javascript system MV uses. A lot of core stuff relies on getters and setters correctly activating (very annoying with arrays - you can't actually use array methods on most of their objects).

 

[Injury]

You should make a transition suite plugin with like 10 transitions per pack

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Some amazing main themes were composed recently, for I314. But since this is a screenshot thread, I'll embed only one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=379AEOvf3Hs
And screenshots!

 

[BizarreMonkey]

This is a pretty cool video with a new intro sequence for Intelligence, the old one is still there, it just comes later!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkOO9LjIStE
Trying to make things a bit more linear and easy to understand in the beginning.

 

[Ellie]

So you get a popup when you enter a new region (which isn't very often), that you can toggle at any time from then on, which tells you all the Big Things you've discovered in that region, as a kind of checklist of how you're progressing. There are of course more Little Things to discover, but these are the main ones where you'll find the most quests, NPCs, and other Things of Importance.

 

[Xilef]

So you get a popup when you enter a new region (which isn't very often), that you can toggle at any time from then on, which tells you all the Big Things you've discovered in that region, as a kind of checklist of how you're progressing. There are of course more Little Things to discover, but these are the main ones where you'll find the most quests, NPCs, and other Things of Importance.

This is looking good. I honestly am excited to try this out and see what you've done with MV.

Incidentally, I've been thinking about your using of 3x scaling; have you done this via scaling assets or have you made a plugin for scaling up the map with nearest neighbour filtering?

 

[Ellie]

It's just 3x sized graphics - I was thinking of trying your filters and seeing if anything looks nice that way.

 

[Xilef]

If you want I can make a plugin just for you to try out filters. The public plugin needs rewriting but I could quickly make something for you that applies post processing to the map so you can experiment.

 

[BizarreMonkey]

@Xilef: If you're good at making plugins for MV-- I and my better 15 could make good use of you.

Meanwhile, here's more work on Intel 314
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seMt-cQEAjg

 

[Ellie]

Thanks Xilef! But I'll wait - if I start working on that kind of thing now I'll never hammer the actual game down.

 

[Eric_SD-RPGStudios]

This is our new series: Shaola. It's still in early stage of development but I feel really good about it.

He doesn't even want to be a hero.

This mysterious stranger has an ice cold calmness in him.

More screenies:

Spoiler

Game thread: viewtopic.php?p=930904

 

[BizarreMonkey]

Could show ya'll a video but I think a screenshot does it.

 

[coyotecraft]

Stables and Sidewalks

I'm really fond of the 3 tile wide cobblestone roads and the 1 tile sidewalks. It just looks right.
Playing around with tile combinations I found the mine entrance could be used as a makeshift stable and the horses fit neatly inside.

But I really hate how none of the doors in any rpg maker seem to have a door frame. The way they cut sharply into bricks like that looks unnatural.

 

[ZenVirZan]

if you ever get bored coyote, make that shit happen

 

 

[Ellie]

Nice.

Agree on the roads. Looks very Roman.

Doors in rpg maker have always been an afterthought.