Show, don't tell. The golden rule of storytelling.

I find that good character building is often the key factor towards moving the plot forward succesfully in RM-type games.

Thanks!

I'm using RMXP. I decided to give GubiD's isometric script a go and the inspiration have been pretty much non-stop since I started! It took quite a while, but I'm just so glad to see an isometric script that finally works like it should! Tactical battles just seems so much more "right" in isometric view than anything else:p

It's isometric. The original work is in 3D, though.

As you haven't guessed the origins of the resoruces, and as I'm not looking to take credit for something I haven't made from scratch myself: The backgrounds are from Final Fantasy Tactics(except for the panorama), while the characters are modified characters from the same game.

I've made some adjustments to the first background by merging two maps from the game together and adding a panorama,

I'm pretty enthusiastic about my new project!





No mockups or anything like that. Both scenes are fully walkable and ready to be battled out!

As for now, I only have one fully animated battle character, though. But I have a lot of animated battlers available to be ripped That's probably the biggest task at the moment. Well, that and setting the height settings correctly

NinjaEdit: Oh, forgot to mention it, but the window graphic is not final;)

Hey Craze I am liking your mapping in rm vx.

Ditto!

I just played that same video with "&fmt=18" and it didn't show any difference AT ALL. however, I used "&fmt=6" and the resulting quality was much MUCH better.

For me "&fmt=18" shows the video in slightly better quality than "&fmt=6".  I don't really know why the results are so inconsistent from user to user at the moment.

Hell no, I converted the screenshot cuz it's s o big already. But I guess it's not a good idea when trying to prove something that would depend on the appearance of the pic..

So I uploaded screenshots again, now with the real colors.. But the videos are no different from each other.

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That's weird. If it's not your codec, you might want to check your settings with your youtube account. Click your name hero3bash>account>Video Playback Quality> Make sure it's NOT ticked at "I have a slow connection. Never play higher-quality video."

@Swordfish: Glad I could help! Thanks for the cookie btw

@Jeff: Why don't you try some different videos? Some videos, especially the featured videos are at a higher quality by default, though. If you're refering to the videos I posted, try reading the text. It's near impossible to make out what it says in the poor quality one.

I apologize if this has been posted somewhere before or if this forum's not the right place to post these kind of "tricks".

I'm guessing a lot of people already are aware of the fact that you can change your personal settings to adjust the quality of the videos. Did you know, however, that by simply adding this little line at the end of the url, you'll be able to crank up the quality? "&fmt=18"

This is an ordinary link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsiQO3hO3pc

This has better quality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsiQO3hO3pc&fmt=18

Do note that the version with better quality will load slower.

Update!4/9/08

"YouTube announced in November that they would be testing out encoding videos at higher resolutions (and with higher-quality audio encoding). Now it appears that a small sampling of uploaded videos can already be seen at their higher resolutions, simply by adding a little tag to the end of the video's URL. To get a (slightly noticeable) bump in resolution, try adding &fmt=6 to the end of the address line. The trick, according to YouTube watchers, seems to work primarily with newer videos, and bumps the resolution from 320x240 to 448x336. Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL, and you might get an MP4-encoded version, with better audio and a 480x360 resolution"

If "&fmt=18" doesn't work for you, try using "&fmt=6". Some users has reported that this improved the quality, when "&fmt=18" didn't work for them.

I'll try to find out what's causing these codes to work diffrently from user to user.

Also, this "trick" only works where there is a video of higher quality available. So you won't see a difference in every video on youtube. Newer videos usually has a version with better quality available, though.