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Has anyone ever found it annoying to manually break up text to fit in the message boxes, especially if you start tweaking with the game resolution or the text box sizes? Well, I sure have. It's rather annoying to me that simple word wrapping is beyond the capability of the vx ace engine... but no more for I bring ye, yonder script to solve yon problem! It also adds a few new escape sequences and a optional HTML-like whitespace mode that converts linebreaks to spaces. More features (like possibly a option to get rid of leading/trailing spaces for a line) may come in the future. Edit: Now up to version SEVEN! Six is afraid of it!)

I am glad you figured it out!

Aww shucks, glad I was able to help! *sprinkles fairydust on you*

Undertale was made with Game Maker not RPG Maker. No reason RPG Maker can't do the same thing, but it would require a plugin.

I thought you could just flag tiles to not let you move certain directions in the tileset editor...

Not what I was thinking but I think that works? What files are corrupted? If they are full of nulls then yeah the data is gone. You can replace them with files from a new project but the stuff in them will be gone. If your mapinfo file is corrupted it's slightly more cumbersome to fix though. Basically you make a new project and create a whole bunch of blank maps for each of the maps in your project then save the blank project and copy that mapinfo file over.

That would probobly make things worse.

It depends. Sometimes the data is overwritten and useless. Sometimes it exists somewhere and it's not indexed properly. Like I said, run the windows error checking utility for your disk! It will be able to recognize when files are messed up and sometimes fix them! A corrupted file means it wasn't written to the disk right, the mapinfo file just lists what maps your game is using, and you can always try starting a new project and replacing files one by one to see what files are good. It's a fix for windows not properly recognizing the file type. It's useless for your issue. In fact it's pretty useless in general.

Backups are the best for sure! But if you don't have any first thing you should do is check your disk for errors! Sometimes it can recover lost files that way! Right click on your C drive (or wherever you had the game stored) select properties then click the tools tab to find the error checker. Don't wait to long or the files might get overwritten! Make sure you save any lost chains/clusters it finds as they may be missing files!

Oh, and one other thing you might want to think of is if there are any gameplay elements you should point out in the blurb.

Personally? I think the summery suffers from what I call Proper Noun Syndrome. By that I mean when something sort of throws a lot of names of people places or things out at the reader without any real context. I don't know about anyone else, but my eyes sort of glaze over when I hear stuff like the Kingdom of Somethingorother. It's kinda hard to avoid sometimes though. I think it's better to condense the blurb into something that sets up the minimal info over what kinks off the plot. Maybe something like: "Within two kingdoms torn by a past war over magical stones, two youths arrive home to find their village in ruins. Is this a sign that their nation is once again being invaded? When they journey to warn the elders of the plot, a mysterious monk using a lost art of magic also appears and it quickly becomes apparent things are not what they seem..." Okay maybe that's no good but you get the point right?

.clear comes form the Bitmap class. All windows have a bitmap called contents, so you can clear a window with .contents.clear you see.

...And if you don't want to be so cruel and ruthless maybe it will still lead to a different kind of grinding? Tee-hee. I can name a few 18+ games where the main character is a demon who goes around doing bad guy things, so it isn't as rare as you might think... But who cares? Lusty naughty demons will always be in style! But yeah art is the thing that will make or break something like this... unless it's basically all text I guess. Hey, no art is better then bad art! Though that might be better done in Twine or Quest or something.

It should be on by default, but by default it only works if you actually make a line of text that is long enough to need it. Try changing DEFAULT_WHITESPACE = false to DEFAULT_WHITESPACE = true and it will add all the lines together as one which may make word wrapping more obvious. Also: Only works for things that use draw_text_ex, such as message boxes and item descriptions.

No idea what would cause that... You sure you're using it in RPG Maker VX Ace?

Actually Scene_Map clears the scene stack when it starts so it's fine to goto right to it. Probably mostly because items that run common events need to goto the map scene before they will work.

Well you know each time the scene changes it creates a new instance of that scene right? It doesn't remember any data about a scene that isn't active. I mean you can for sure call a method on an object from another object. That much is trivial. All you have to do is keep a reference to that object around somewhere. An instance of Game_Variables is always kept around in the global variable $game_variables so you always have a handy reference to it. SceneManager.scene gives you a reference to the current scene. Also you can actually use class_variable_get and instance_variable_get if you want a sneaky peak at class and instance variables if you want.

Right, a new instance creates a new object and has it's own set of variables. But I am sort of confused, because when you say you want to call a method from another class, what object/instance do you want to run the method? I mean technically I think it may be possible to do some deep magic trickery to make one object run a method of another class as if it was it's own (therefore having it's own variables be effected), but it's something best avoided.

I am kind of not sure what you want You can always call a method in the current scene instance by using SceneManager.scene.method_name But it sound like you want to create a whatchumacallit ('static method' works but I think it's called something different in ruby) in Scene_Map for some reason? like: class A_Class def self.method_name puts "blah" end end Remember though that methods like that are for the class object it's self not it's instances so... class A_Class def self.a_static_method puts "blah" end def a_instance_method puts "blah" end end A_Class.a_static_method # blah A_Class.a_instance_method # no method found instance = A_Class.new instance.a_static_method # no method found instance.a_instance_method # blah Likewise: class A_Class def self.a_static_method a_instance_method # no method found end def a_instance_method a_static_method # no method found end end

No, you will have to set up a loop for that like this: if DataManager.save_file_exists? (0..15).each do |i| DataManager.delete_save_file(i) end end (also 0..15 is a Range not an Array, but close enough)

Well, I managed to do this in VX Ace at least! I did it by calling a custom script as part of the trap event's move route that would check to see if an event stepped on the trap event and if so start the trap event. There were all sorts of fiddly details, but that's basically how I did it. I it could be done the same way in MZ, assuming MZ still allows for calling custom move route commands. Still requires scripting/plugins though.