UncannyBoots

Pretty sure no one here is a lawyer, a real lawyer probably wouldn't give free legal advice to a stranger anyway, and  even if I did the answer would probably be a long winded version  of "it's complicated".

Here is my likely ignorant rule of thumb though: It's always gonna be a gamble.

How so? Well let's imagine a game. So you want to use this music... You got to make a bet! If you win you keep your money and get to use the music, if you lose you lose all the money. But there is a trick! Not only is it a bet, it's a blind bet. You have no idea how much you bet unless you lose.

Okay let's look at your hand. Oh so you own 2k3, okay add some points. Oooh, but you aren't actually using the music in 2k3, that may cost you some points. Oh but you aren't actually using the music it's self, okay add some points... but it is a remix so take some away. Uh oh, you are using the original midi? My my that might cost you some points! And so on.

Now to your opponent. They only get to play if they pay attention. If they don't notice you use the song at all you might win by default! But not so fast! They can play any time they want so it might be years before they make a move and you won't know!

So you have your hand and your opponent has theirs. What kind of hand could they have? Now if they play they may or may not have a better hand then you, but that's not the end of the game! Oh no no no. If your opponent plays they can use money counter bet by hiring a good team of lawyers. Now you have an opportunity to counter counter bet, but I bet you have far less money then they do don't you?

Now I donno about you, but that all kinda sounds sus to me. I think I rather not play that game and just use free stuff or make my own when I can. :3

Hmmm...

If you're thinking about it, just go for it. At this point, no one is really going to care.

It's probably impossible to get a seamless loop due to frame rate fluctuations, though you could probably get closer if you edited the sound to be exactly the right length in frames. Either way, you might need to add a fade out/fade in and just let it overlap a bit. Or another option might be having shorter motor/revving sounds that are designed to play intermittently rather then loop.

I know you don't like the FMOD script but I'm not wrong when I say it does indeed allow for multiple BGS (audio channels), right? If that's the case then I guess I'll look into getting it to work because that's the only good solution here, it seems.

...The only problem is, I literally can't find any clear cut documentation for how to play another audio channel. The documentation that comes with the script focuses only on getting DSP effects to work, which I have no interest in.

This is the only thing that seems related to specifying a channel that I can find:

pos = APU::CURRENT_CHANNEL_VARIABLE
v = $game_variables[pos]

And I have no clue on how to make use of that

It's not so much that I dislike the script and more that I have run into problems trying to use it. I think it has trouble working on some computers for some reason. Anyway APU::CURRENT_CHANNEL_VARIABLE should be set to a number near the start of the script shouldn't it? I think you just need to set that variable before you play a sound and it will play on that channel... I think?

I think it is a mixture of both.

I believe that there are some plugin makers that are porting some of their RGSS scripts to MZ...

That's really cool, are they scripts that didn't really have an MV port?

@Tsukihime mentioned in one of her status posts that she'd be having to port her Tag Manager script to MV from VX Ace for a grid battle feature she's developing for MZ. I'm certain that there are other examples of MZ plugins that are being ported in from XP/VX/VX Ace...

Well, Wolf RPG allows tile size selection, among other things, but it's definitely different.

XP, it's still amazing as far as mapping goes. Why else would I have it?

Last time I checked Wolf RPG, it didn't have many english tutorials and community support. Has that gotten better?

Not sure about better, but there is a game project that is entirely in english that acts as a tutorial.

Yeah, 3D environment is way more difficult than 2D. Making decent looking 3D models is a challenge itself. Making great 3D games would be really nice indeed, but one does not simply make one.

The number of solo devs that have done fully 3D games is less than a hundred I think.

Nadeo is one example, but only for the first Trackmania game. A lot went into that game, and it's definitely not bug-free or even the best polished, but it was done by one person, in less than a year I believe it was.

Having every solution you find for a problem coming up with 3 more issues sounds like game development in general really. Even in RPG Maker that seems to be the case more often then not if you try doing anything beyond a bog standard RPG. It can be frustrating, but I think most of the time if you really look at what is going on you might realize something important:

Though you will keep finding more and more issues, they aren't actually endless. Some new issues you will find are really the same as or closely related to issues you have seen before. Most of them follow a predictable pattern, and if you figure out that pattern eventually you will start solving issues before they even become issues. If you really examine the problems involved, you can become good at anything if you stick with it long enough.

It's never that easy or simple, but I think the really tricky part is finding the determination to stick with it long enough to get better.