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Would you be able to adjust the size for the tiles? 16 by 16 is good for nintendo's handhelds but not the scratch screen. Tiles sized at 48 by 36 would be best. When you have a .map file ready (or whatever file extension tiled uses) please share it here. For the testing area, which tests most of the game's functions it should look like Virdian city, pokemon mart/center, gym grass somewhere, sea.

Last edited by archmage (2011-04-21 21:00:35)

Yeah if 48x36 is too blurry then 32x32 is fine. Just leave them as 16x16, I'll just set the size to 200%.

So each costume is going to be 15 tiles wide and 11 tall. Also, it is important to note that there must be layers for collision and pokemon areas. So, when you submit a map, there must be a map of black tiles showing walls and places you can't move in to, and there must be another map of black tiles showing where you can find pokemon. In tile based maps, each tile has different properties so all these issues can be addressed at once in a tile based system, not the case with this, there needs to be layers.

Last edited by archmage (2011-04-21 22:58:11)

What I need is just a black square, it will be invisible.

You have to put these black tiles everywhere the player can't move into.

Last edited by archmage (2011-04-21 22:59:29)

Good stuff Mkolpnji, keep em coming!

One thing that has to be added sometime soon is the elemental modifiers and adjusting the damage formulas to account for them.

Yeah, each element should have 3 lists, 1 strong against, 2 weak against, 3 not affected by. The code should be something like this,

E_element is the element of the enemy, there are no dual element monsters, this assumes the player is using a fire pokemon.

if (fire_strong contains E_element){
set ele_mod to 1.5
}
else{
if (fire_weak contains E_element){
set ele_mod to .5
}
else{
if (fire_nonafft contains E_element){
set ele_mod to 0
}
else{
set ele_mod to 1
}
}
}

And I think you may have to do this for each element, this wouldn't be the case with multidimensional arrays. There may be a better way of doing this, but I can't think of anything better at this time.

Before all that, you have to make a list with the elements though.

EDIT: Just thought of a faster way of doing this. First put all the elements of pokemon in a list, for example say there are 8 different elements. You have a list called elemental_mod which lists the modifiers for each monster. Say fire is the first element, the first eight values in the list contain the modifier values, say water is the second element, the next 8 values contain the modifers for the water element. The script would look like this:


set ele_mod to (8*(player_ele-1)+ene_ele)

I will code an example of this soon.

Last edited by archmage (2011-04-22 00:17:59)

Jeeze, just open paint, bucket fill, then change the dimensions to 16 by 16.

Last edited by archmage (2011-04-22 00:47:06)

I already finished coding most of the element stuff with your method already archmage, so there's no need to create an example. 

archmage wrote:

Errr which method did you use? The first thing I mentioned takes a ton more scripting space than the last one.

The second one.
I'm uploading it right now.

I am looking for the element script and I can't find it    Can you say where you put it?

Wait a sec, this takes in to account monster with more than 1 elements, I was just thinking of doing 1 but 2 is good too. Sorry, I've looked over your code and its hard for me to read it, so could you comment it a bit.

Like I understand the set ele_mod to (8*(player_ele-1)+ene_ele) part that I told you but I don't get the rest, like the stuff you do with the i variable and the other element variable setting.

I've been following this for a while and saw that you were trying to get some new members. If you give me a programming assignment to prove my skills I may be able to help you. I may be able to contribute a few ideas to this colab, too.

Thanks -jj

cooljj100 wrote:

I've been following this for a while and saw that you were trying to get some new members. If you give me a programming assignment to prove my skills I may be able to help you. I may be able to contribute a few ideas to this colab, too.

Thanks -jj

Umm sure, can you try to code a realistic RPG battle simulation? Just try to clone the battle engine of your favorite RPG game.

Ok, just pick any rpg, pokemon, final fantasy, golden sun, ect, and make an accurate battle clone using the formulas from the game you pick.

This is an example of what I mean
http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/mkolpnji/1492994