I want the  attack animation to play immediately after having pressed "attack". For some reason this doesn't happen even though it's the players turn. There is an annoying delay that occurs in-between that I want gone but am not sure how...Anyone that can help me with this?

Context and Problem summary:

I've been developing a game for a month or so in RMMV (macOS). Any time that I want to play test the game, test troop battles, or play a deployed version of the game, I can expect to run into one of the following issues:

• Game launches with a black screen (sound still works)
• Game plays for a little while but eventually turns into a black screen (sound still works)
• Game crashes before opening
• Game plays for a little while but eventually crashes

The frequency of these issues and which particular one occurs seems to be totally random. Usually if I try running the game enough times, it will eventually work for a long enough period for me to test what I need, but as you can imagine, this gets very annoying and makes a full play-through of the game impossible.

From what I can recall, these issues have been occurring since the beginning of the game's development. Up until this point I have just kind of tolerated it, but I plan to ship the game to some playtesters soon, so I need to get this issue resolved.

Plugins That I'm Using

As I mentioned, these problems have persisted since basically the beginning (I'm pretty sure before I added any plugins), so I don't think this issue is plugin related. I also don't believe that I'm doing anything sophisticated with plugins that might break the game, but in case it's helpful, here is a list of the ones I'm using:

Community_Basic

HIME_ActorBattleCommands

No Level & EXP

FilterController

Iavra Event Popups

Solution That I Attempted

I've unfortunately not been able to find many solutions to this problem online so far. I did see someone suggest creating a new project and copying the files from the game into this new project. I did this (using my friend's PC) but it ultimately had no effect on the issue.

Thanks in Advance

I really appreciate anyone who's willing to take the time to help me out : ) I'm scheduled to ship the game to playtesters on Tuesday (4/12), so I'm hoping to get this resolved before then. Happy to provide screenshots or additional information/context if necessary.

Best wishes,

Franklin

I'm wondering if there is a way to disable the "pass turn" feature in Yanfly's Battle Engine script. When you press the left and right keys, you can scroll through the actors and select their skills. The only problem is that 1) it lets the player skip turns when I want the player to have to make actions and 2) when you press the right arrow key while selecting the skills of the final actor, it begins the battle sequence, which often leads to accidentally skipping an actor's turn.

Here is the link to the script: https://yanflychannel.wordpress.com/rmvxa/battle-scripts/ace-battle-engine/

So I'm trying to implement scrolling battlebacks into my VX Ace game. I have this scene where the character says something in a battle, the screen flashes, and then the front and back battlebacks change, and then they start scrolling and looping much like a parallax background. I tried coding some manual events, but this seems impossible without a script. I looked around for a script and only found this one: 

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/scrolling-battleback.41844/

It seemed like it would do the trick, but after inserting it into my game, as soon as I boot up the game I get this error:

I have never seen an error like this before. I even put it into a new project and it still wouldn't work. Does anyone know what the problem is and how to fix it? Or does anyone know of another script that does this?

One of the worst things that could have possibly happened to me happened. I was using RPG Maker VX Ace and as soon as I saved it, my power went out about a second later, exactly at 7:26 on the 4th of February. When I tried to re-open my project, whether it was opened manually or through VX Ace, this message appeared:

When I tried double-clicking the actual game application, this message appears three times in a row for some reason:

Which is then followed by this error:

I did some research on this topic and discovered that this happens to a lot of people, but my situation seems much more extreme. What most of the tutorials suggest to do is create a new project and move all of the audio, data, graphics, movies, and system files into the folders of the new project, which I did. The only files having issues were the data files. I learned that you can see if a data file (in "rvdata2" format) is corrupted by opening it up in Notepad and seeing if there is anything in it. Unfortunatly, these files were apparently corrupted:

-animations, common events, map212, map214, mapinfos, scripts, states, system, tilesets, and troops.

Usually, only 1 or 2 files are corrupted during an interrupted save, but this is quite a lot of damage. At this point, I went to go replace the empty corrupted files with the files from my backup in the "projects" folder within the RPGMVXAce folder located in the Steam folder. The problem though is that it's gone! I only have the external copy of my game's files, which has the corrupted files in it. All of my other projects are still there though, including the blank template I made to try and fix this error.

I was able to replace all the other files properly, and replacing the DLL file in the systems folder stopped the above messages from appearing. Now these messages appear when I open the project or play the game:

I also tried uninstalling and re-installing VX Ace, but the weird thing was that the desktop icon didn't disappear and neither did the app's local files, so I deleted them manually. When I re-installed VX Ace, my projects folder came back unchanged. VX Ace also isn't appearing in the windows search bar as an official app! Nothing changes if I enable/disable cloud saves on Steam!

So my question is, is there any way I can recover literally any previous version of my project or patch-up the rvdata2 corrupted files? These data files are 5 years worth of work, and my project is practically blank at this point. Any help and advice is appreciated.

What I would like to inquire about is how would one go about this process, and whether or not I could do it in engine by default or if I would have to make a plugin specifically for this. If the latter is the case, if someone could get me on my way with the syntax on that, I would much appreciate it. I've taken Java, Python, Visual Basic, and C++ courses, so I have at least a decent wealth of knowledge in those, however I've come nowhere near mastering any, and JS is a new beast to me in that right.

tl;dr The process: Player Has Passive Skill of Acid Resist(covering poison related DoT spells or attacks)---> Enemy Casts Venom, doing flat damage and applying a poison DoT state->Acid Resist procs fully and reduces the incoming tick damage from the Poisoned state by 40%. The formula I would like to have applied is this--> PoisonDamageFormula*(1.0-AcidResistNumber) = final damage. This would equate to Math.floor(PoisonDamage*0.6) overall. How should/would I apply this?

I have been thinking I would love to use the notetag system in engine to do this, however with the way it works, I don't know of a way to plug in the tick damage from the poison state in tandem with an Acid Resistance state to get a final state of damage. I've thought about the potential of using a common event with a trigger based upon if the target in question is poisoned? However, I noticed when fiddling with it that I do not know how to use a blanket argument when it comes to characters, and I would have to choose a specific one. I could be wrong of course, as I am new to all this, so please correct me if so.

The reason I want it to pull a variable is because the variable will be determined by their acid resist tier. Scaling from tier 1 to tier 3, gaining 20% more resistance with each tier. Each tier would be harder to obtain than the last, of course, and it's not a needed thing, just something for the grinders out there who want to fully complete something they play.

Poison DoT is working like Final Fantasy and Pokemon, where it persists unless otherwise cleansed, which, I know, annoying. Thank you for your time, I look forward to hearing from the lovely people on this forum regarding this. 

Can you guys let me know how large your maps are generally speaking, and what the largest map you've created is?

My map editor can currently handle 120 x 120, but it's started to get a bit laggy. I have some ideas for optimization and final size will be larger than that, but I may have to apply a limit on map sizes. Personally, I don't think I've ever made a map as large as 120 x 120 in RPG Maker, and maybe 150 x 150 would be sufficient.

What do you guys think?

Anyway, I am looking for ideas for puzzles in my RMMV project. I keep using the same old "find switches, move the rock, etc" puzzles and they're getting old fast, but I don't have any other ideas. What are some puzzles you guys like to use?

I find myself having a really annoying problem.  I have designed the first battle for my new game which is effectively a quick intro to the character.  The bad guy throws out an insult, the character states that he'll use his "quickdraw" skill to get the first attack and put down the enemy with a single shot.  Seems simple, right?

Apparently not.  This text displays, but the event never ends.  It loops indefinitely!  I know it's possible to have speech in these games without an infinite loop, but I can't figure out how to end the speech event!  Usually when I make an event that "speaks" it ends when the speech ends.  I've tried switches and the "exit event processing" so far, but I'm at a loss for what else to do.  If you know what I'm doing wrong, please tell me.  I've included  a screenshot of the event.  The switch is SUPPOSED to activate a black event page the same way I would if I wanted to have a one time event like a treasure chest.  I've tried changing the span to all three options.  So far, nothing works.

I'm hoping that some of the more experienced developers have some insight into what works best in terms of damage rates to HP and defense and such.

If it's relevant, the game I'm making has four main archetypes:  The gunslinger who is fast, with medium damage, the Marshal who specializes in shotguns that fire for weak damage that hit all enemies, The sniper who is slow, but has a high crit rate and high damage against single targets, and the caster who is the mage archetype.

Any ideas on making a consistent battle system would be appreciated.  I'll try my best, but since I've only ever made one game and it was only middling successful, I feel I'm a long way from being sure of myself.

I'm having a problem where my tiles from set C don't show up in game at all (everything else shows up fine). Is there some special way to use these tilesets?

The battle started when at L5 and ended at L7. The skills were acquired at L6. Do they skip if your level goes beyond the needed level for the skills?

Thanks.

I've got it to go down:
>Set Move Route: This event (Wait)
:$>Turn Down
:$>Turn Left
:$>Turn Right
:$>Turn Up

It then stays down. How do I get the event to store the players location and the event's location, compare them and then go back up if the two aren't the same?

(I'm slowly working towards making a puzzle where the character or a boulder can stand on a button to open a door.)

Thanks very much for your help!

I've implemented a custom font into my RPG Maker VX Ace game (Bahnschrift font) using Yanfly Engine Ace. Additionally, I've set my game's resolution to be 928x512 (resulting in a game window size of 29x16 tiles). I'm using Zeus81's fullscreen++ script for better full-screen optimization. One of the features of full-screen++ is how it aliases the game's graphics, keeping the pixelated graphics of events sharp and clear. The event windows remain clean and sharp as well. In other words, going full screen expands the game window without any interpolation.

However, whenever the game is in full-screen mode, the text gets blurry. For some reason, only the text is affected by VX Ace's anti-aliasing process in full-screen mode, whether I have a custom font or not. I tried changing the size of the font, the font itself, and the customizable settings in Yanfly's script, but no matter what it still looks blurry and ugly. I want the text to remain jagged when it generates in full-screen mode (giving it a pixelated style). Alternatively, it would work to have the color pallet remain completely white (making the gray edges white).

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

2. I found out I can sell my creations, but do I have to credit rpg maker in my game to distribute it legally?

3. Is it possible to make a monster join your team through use of item? I want to make a Dragon taming game where you battle dragons, and even hatch your own, building up your team for the final fight. Keyword here is hatch. I want it so you can use an item to get a dragon.

Hello everyone. I've been having a little problem about the options texts, like, the normal texts appears but not the ones on the options window. I already tried checking out the custom scripts but I don't have any script that chances anything about the options not even texts.

Maybe I accidentally changed something on the default scripts but dunno how to fix it nor even wich script may be...

I already tried searching trough the web to see what script creates these windows; but I only found scripts that overwrites the options, creates effects and stuff like that... so like...
 

I'm very confused...