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howitsdone · 2012-01-14 07:56:02

Hey there. I'm currently working on a project but I'm taking a little break (oh, I'm suuch a slacker, it's true) to make an RPG with Scratch. Now, almost all good RPG's have a character customizing feature. Is it possible to make that with Scratch? I would assume one would have to use variables and make A LOT of sprites to do this... but can it be done?

SJRCS_011 · 2012-01-14 08:27:46

howitsdone wrote:
Hey there. I'm currently working on a project but I'm taking a little break (oh, I'm suuch a slacker, it's true) to make an RPG with Scratch. Now, almost all good RPG's have a character customizing feature. Is it possible to make that with Scratch? I would assume one would have to use variables and make A LOT of sprites to do this... but can it be done?

Yes, if you have several different costumes for each sprite you want to customize.
Should be easier when 2.0 comes out.

howitsdone · 2012-01-14 09:48:22

SJRCS_011 wrote:
howitsdone wrote:
Hey there. I'm currently working on a project but I'm taking a little break (oh, I'm suuch a slacker, it's true) to make an RPG with Scratch. Now, almost all good RPG's have a character customizing feature. Is it possible to make that with Scratch? I would assume one would have to use variables and make A LOT of sprites to do this... but can it be done?
Yes, if you have several different costumes for each sprite you want to customize.
Should be easier when 2.0 comes out.

Hmm, it's not working... I wish there was some way I could set something so that when the player set the Face sprite in the customization "level" to Costume3 by clicking the arrow, then the sprite they play the game with would have the same face (i.e. if the customization "level" face sprite was at the green skin color, then main gameplay sprite would have a green face as well).

laptop97 · 2012-01-14 09:59:19

howitsdone wrote:
SJRCS_011 wrote:
howitsdone wrote:
Hey there. I'm currently working on a project but I'm taking a little break (oh, I'm suuch a slacker, it's true) to make an RPG with Scratch. Now, almost all good RPG's have a character customizing feature. Is it possible to make that with Scratch? I would assume one would have to use variables and make A LOT of sprites to do this... but can it be done?
Yes, if you have several different costumes for each sprite you want to customize.
Should be easier when 2.0 comes out.
Hmm, it's not working... I wish there was some way I could set something so that when the player set the Face sprite in the customization "level" to Costume3 by clicking the arrow, then the sprite they play the game with would have the same face (i.e. if the customization "level" face sprite was at the green skin color, then main gameplay sprite would have a green face as well).

Are you using variables?

henley · 2012-01-14 10:13:30

SJRCS_011 wrote:
Should be easier when 2.0 comes out.

How?

Dazachi · 2012-01-14 10:15:22

To customize, you could make multiple sprites and have them move together. It could get slightly messy potentially. If you wanted to do the work, you could also just make all the possible combinations as costumes, but that could take a while.

howitsdone · 2012-01-14 18:41:22

I think I've figured it out, actually. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I think I can make it work.

& no I'm not using variables, that won't make a difference. Or will it?

Dazachi · 2012-01-14 23:21:31

howitsdone wrote:
I think I've figured it out, actually. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I think I can make it work.

& no I'm not using variables, that won't make a difference. Or will it?

Depends how you are doing it. There are plenty of ways, you should be fine.

Thescratch3 · 2012-01-15 00:31:19

henley wrote:
SJRCS_011 wrote:
Should be easier when 2.0 comes out.
How?

More abilities and blocks.

Thescratch3 · 2012-01-15 00:32:21

Try checking out this project of mine, it has the character customizing feature, just download and use the scripts and give credit if you do use it: Cube Land.

cheekycheese · 2012-02-05 15:47:58

I would like to have a customizable character in my third- person shooting game. I'm not interested in customizing the appearance of the player's character, but more their abilities and the weapons availible to them. I have made it so the player can choose a Primary and Secondary weapon out of about 10 different ones, and they can also choose an extra ability, eg. Run faster, more health, more grenade damage, etc. It works properly. If you have ideas of extra abilities, or other ways in which I could customize the character, could you suggest them on this forum please, because in games like COD and battlefield 3( which is awesome) you can customize a lot of stuff, not just 3 things.

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Is it possible to create a customizable character option in a game?

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