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  The Weekly Gazette 03-03-2024
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 03-04-2024, 05:59 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(February 26 to March 3, 2024)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
General Chat
For the U.S. backlash over Laken Riley's murder by an Illegal Alien hit the News of the Word[/Highlght], President Biden refusing to speak of her at his visit to the Southern Border while vowing to use her death for gun bans despite her death not gun related. The Biden name appears to be hitting more hot water, $40K oc Chinese funds going to President Biden through his brother James, former Hunter associates confirming phone calls with Russian Oligarchs, and Biden's son claiming the inability to remember questions of text messages and eMails during his closed-door deposition this week. Towards former Preident Trump, the appeal against the New York Civil Case was filed, legal scholars calling the $355 Million fine extreme and abusive. And while news comes out about the Georgia AG going after Trump and her staff, and that Illinois filed to ban Trump as a candidate, the Supreme Court stated it would make a ruling if Trump was Immune for prosecution. In other elecoral news, Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gets slammed for Doxxing rival candidates, admitting he didn't care if laws were even broken. Hundreds die and thousands become violently ill in Indonesia from stress related medical conditions working the 2024 elections. And the Ayatollas vow to eliminate elections in Iran for national security. The Iran-backed Houthis stepped up their game, actively sabotaging and cutting vital underwater communication cables and sinking a cargo ship in the Red Sea, celebrating their ability to disrupt the seas. But that is one factor in the world-wide issues with terrorists, Hamas calling for Terror during Ramadan. While Arab states apparently want Hamas and Hizbulla destroyed, and as reports of a shootout occuring in Russia with ISIS terrorists, US President Biden plans aid relief drops in Gaza in which a New York Times admits would likely be stolen by Hamas alone. Towards Ukraine and its war against invading Russia, President Zelensky made claim that Ukraine received only 30% of the munitions recently promised. And after references of French, UK and German Troops in Ukraine, Moscow hinted to war with Nato and the use of nukes. Documents proving China illegally arming criminals in the US with machine pistols and illegal Chinese Fishing Fleets stripping South American resoures,Politico blasted for calling Christians believing in god-given rights 'Extremists',China-Led BRICS Coalition crumbling under expectations of a second Trump Presidency,the UK's loss of farming land and 'Food Security' to Green Energy policies,South Korea seeks criminal charges against nearly 9000 doctors on strike, Argentina's war against woke changes to the language, and another historic record snowfall in California hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
Issues with Artificial Intelligence continued to hit the [Highlight]News of the Cyber World[/Highlght], with more flak hitting Google over its AI's apparent bias and its team leader Jack Krawczyk 's predisposition. Worse yet, Gemini AI could not even criticize offences such as pedophelia. But recently, it was found that Meta's own AI has its own issues with AI Image generator. Despite this, the The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) plans to use AI to form news headlines, and the UK use AI to eliminate 66,000 Civil Servant jobs. And while nations such as the U.S. have considered the use of China-Owned TikTok as a national security threat, China is citing that US President Biden's use of the platform reflects a double standard. Lawsuits against OpenAI over its abandonment of its non-profit mission, and news organizations lawsuit over OpenAI and ChatGPT's use of copyrighted content without renumerations, and more hit this week's cybernews.



Games Development
Development Discussion
The inability to release the upcoming demo for Fantasia was [Highlight]What's up with the RMer[/Highlght] known as Remi-chan. However, she made mention the upcoming release of a new Junked demo, Junked being one of her earlier ventures. And she stated that Flight would too be receiving some new game content.



Material Development
Scripts Database
For those wanting enhanced flexibility with the fog system, DerVVulfman presented the [Highlight]Unlimited Fogs[/Highlght] script for RPGMaker XP. Originally by game_guy, this script lets one add additional fogs to the system while the original fog system remains intact. He added some protective features, mainly preventing the system crashing if fog textures are missing and allowing the main feature that adds fogs function in parallel processes with no issues.

Venturing back to 2019, kyonides looked into his [Highlight]KScenario XP & Gosu[/Highlght] scriptset, mainly reworking constants for RPGMaker XP usage and the inclusion of graphic resources. He later returned after adding lighting and face-image options and repaired directory errors.

A while ago, kyonides released [Highlight]KPrankster XP[/Highlght], a script that lets enemies prank the heroes in battle by stealing/swapping out the heroes items. Now, enemies may now inflict a random state upon their targets.

Over a year ago, kyondes wrote a script that could deliver repercussions if a hero used a skill in combat too powerful to maintain. But now, [Highlight]KBackFire[/Highlght] now allows the player to wear special gear to protect the user if their skills go out of control.

The recent updates that kyonides made to [Highlight]FancyChoices[/Highlght] allows one to have up to 8 choices shown on the screen, first for RPGMaker XP and then for RPGMaker VX.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
For those working on world-spanning games and have need of music to play within island vistas, then you will love that Eric Matyas continues [Highlight]Sharing His Original Music[/Highlght]. His latest piece, "Windle Pixel's Seaside Adventure", is a lively piece for music along the beach shore.


Art and Design
For ten years, Eric Matyas had crafted his SoundImage website. And as a celebration, his [Highlight]Massive Library of Free Images[/Highlght] now boasts two new wood textures of a light tan grain within his Tileable wood texture page. And while he still shares his music in MP3 format for free, he released a Gumroad Audio link for his paid Ogg music.


Literature Section
While other demos are in the works, [Therad=8405][Highlight]Remi-chan's Writing Snippets[/Thread] reveals a heart-to-heart with the once-feared architect and the three heroic systers fighting for their imperfect future. Though fated to fight and not hold back, the demon with triangle eyes admits to herself and the three her doubts, her feelings and her life.


Filmography
Though Fantasia isn't being released on March 14th this year, Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre presents battles within the game, both new and already present. After that, some artwork of characters within the game had followed as well as an apology for not making the 3/14 deadline for which she strives to always reach.



Well, that's it for this week.

"This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it." - Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974)


PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  Unlimited Fogs
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-27-2024, 05:55 AM - Forum: Scripts Database - Replies (1)

Unlimited Fogs
Version: 1.5
Based on version 1.2 by game_guy



Introduction

Ever need more than one fog for a map? Maybe more than two fogs? With this unique script, you can have unlimited fogs on one map! And with a few easy script calls, you can customize every aspect of a fog at anytime!

Do be aware, the fogs applied with this script only appear after the field map(s) have been entered. As fast as it may be, only those fogs that are attached to tileets are created simultaneously. Fortunately,this script is only a supplement, able to work in tandem with the default system.



Features
  • Unlimited Fogs on Any Map
  • Change Fog's properties at any time
  • Easy to use script calls
  • Does not replace the existing fog system
  • Fog addition system functional with parallel processes (new v 1.4)
  • Missing fog files no longer crash the game (new v 1.3)
  • Fogs restore when exiting menu or loading saves (new v 1.5)



Script

Enjoy



Instructions

Paste below Scene_Debug and above main. If used with any other script that alters the environment, place Unlimited Maps below them in order to take advantage of its custom script calls.

As there isn't anything to configure, let's get onto the script calls!



Compatibility

Designed for RPGMaker XP. Compatible with the default scripts and scripts that do not adversely alter the fog system.



Credits and Thanks

Initial version by game_guy
LiTTleDRAgo for the original idea
Heretic for the Fog-Backup system



Terms and Conditions

Free for use, even in commercial scripts. Due credit to all involved is the only requirement.

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  The Weekly Gazette 02-25-2024
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-26-2024, 06:03 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(February 19 to February 25, 2024)
Late Edition

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Occasions
This week, MrsDebauchery joined the forum as she's been on the search for RPGMaker XP scripts. Not unfamiliar with RPGMaker, she endeavors to work on an open-world styled game. She was greeted by DerVVulfman who let her know that not all RPGMaker XP scripts were old.


General Chat
The migrant crisis was one of many topics in this week's News of the World as violence from illegal migrants continues to erupt, attacking more NYC police officers and organized crime from illegal aliens surges in Pennsylvania. Along with this, its been revealed that un-vetted teens released by HHS (Health and Human Services) have violently attacked foster homes. Combating this, Texas's governor is now suing to shut down a non-profit group that is assisting in this illegal human trafficking practice. And the Mayorkas Impeachment may soon hit the U.S. Senate. But terrorism is abroad, as the migrant who performed a Chemical Attack in the U.K. on New Year's Eve had just been discovered, washed up in the Thames. And in Quebec, 100 officers have been deployed over a war over drugs between drug dealers and rival biker gangs. The judgment against former President Trump to pay half a billion before he can appeal has sparked criticism, a court case that many see criminalizes the every day practice of real estate valuations. And now revealed, the judge in the Fulton county case donated to AG Fani Willis, and Nathan Wade was revealed to have likely appointed WIllis as D.A. And despite rules of full disclosure, more filings by Jack Smith enrage Trump Lawyers who want to prepare for the trial. Photographs taken reveal that medicine meant for Israeli hostages taken by Hamas were never delivered, discovered in the Nasser Hospital at Khan Yunis. This after Hamas moved the hostages to Rafah. And despite the repeated counts of violence, the U.N. attempted to vote for a permanent ceasefire between Hamas and Israel. Despite China ignoring U.S.'s President Biden, Canada's Trudeau now pleads with China to ask Iran and the Houthis to cease activity. And as U.K's Prince william also pleads for the hostages to be freed and an end of hostilities, U.K's House Speaker had blamed terror threats to be at the heart of political threats to Parliament. The war between Russia and Ukraine continues, Russia jailing another U.S. citizen as a possible hostage while threatening nuclear attacks on the U.S. and U.K if they lose. This while the U.S. issues 500 more sanctions against Russia while Ukraine has now eliminated 21 naval ships, 102 aircraft, 2700 tanks, and more. Of course, the death of Putin's rival Alexei Navalny is still looked upon as suspicious, only China accepting the story of his sudden death. China is in a bit of economic peril now, their top diplomat claiming to pull out of China is a mistake. This as Volkswagon considers moving operations over the Uyghur slave labor, and 83 household products made have now been define as such. And North Koreans under slave wages occupied a Chinese Factory that produced clothing, food and medicines (Really? All three?) and beat the manager to death over unpaid wages. San Francisco police chief's refusal to charge Activists who assaulted Riley Gaines despite police witnesses, farm tractor protests in Spain and Greece over Green policies strangling farmer's livelihoods, recovered eMails showing Canada Officials deleted reports of dangerous COVID-19 vaccine impurities, more plagiarism scandals hit Harvard, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
Early this week, it was revealed within the News of the Cyber World just how biased Google's AI had become, its chatbox generating historically innacurate renders such as a female pope, black vikings and gender-swapped versions of famous paintings. Also in the middle of the week, Nvidia's revenue had soared as it has become a standout developer in GPUs capable of handling AI workloads. It isn't a good week for Electric Vehicles as Mercedes Benz now drops the EV initiative, and the US commerce secretary now warns against China's EV power. China's become a large global threat as they acquired US firewalls and routers in the early 2000s to see how to break through their protections. This, and more hit this week's cybernews.

A cache of recently leaked document found on GitHub by Chinese Hackers containing manuals, employee lists, and details about foreign infiltration. Said information from a Chinese cyber-security company known as I-Soon. A victim list is included in the leaked documents, showing that I-Soon has targeted telecommunications companies, hospitals, universities, organizations, and government entities from all around the world. And Senator Marco Rubio warned that the outage that affected AT&T on Feb. 22 would be much smaller in scope than what China could now accomplish.



Games Development
Development Discussion
If you wondered What's up among fellow RMers, Remi-chan decided to focus upon releasing a new demo for "Junked" on the 14th of March, an earlier side-view game under her belt since resources for Fantasia have not yet arrived. A new character, a working crafting system, and new enemies visible within a youtube video are present for viewing.



Material Development
Scripts Database
A new update to kyonides' KDirtyShop now allows you to now eliminate specific items, weapons and/or pieces of armor from the system that lets shopkeepers overcharge.

The KMustSurvive scirpt by kyonides allows you to try to keep some helpless targets alive while fighting enemies was now upgraded. And along with that, two more ports were made to it so all three Ruby-Script versions of RPGMaker are covered, and not just for RPGMaker XP.

The Choices Change Events scriptette created by kyondes allows map events to be immediately changed or updated as the player cycles through options within any Show Choice menu. It didn't take long before he made this system work for all three Ruby-script versions of the RPGMaker series.

For both RPGMaker XP and RPGMaker VXAce, kyonides crafted the Tileset ID Checker. This simple script allows you to acquire the ID of the tileset in which your heroes are currently wandering.



Creativity Section
Art and Design
Caution is highly advised when approaching Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing as she presents her latest work based upon one of her most malicious and brutal incarnations. However the pale-skinned of Remi-chan's subject is being depicted in a different art style than her norm, using bold lines and sharply defined and distinct solid colors rather than soft blends and lighting effects. After that, Remi-chan presented four renders of a character for a game she's had in the works with characters inspired by Cartoon Network's "Codename: Kids Next Door". This was then followed by photos of Remi-chan at an art exhibition which presents her in front of a display of some of her more recent works.


Literature Section
A terrifying glimps of the future awaits one of the three heroines within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets. Unable to wake up from a nightmare controlled by evil incarnate, the fifteen-year old sees her world being decimated, the lands upheaved my meteor showers as deathly black entities appear through tears in reality. And all the while, a lithesome form approaches radiating malice.


Filmography
While it is within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre, the recent posting is a youtube music video. Based upon the fantasy sci-fi universe of hers, the piece entitled "Be There for Me" is a duet as sung by two of her principle characters whom are both voiced by Remi-chan herself. However, Remi-chan could not give a full range of vocals as the microphone she is currently using doesn't have an adequate enough decible threshhold.



Well, that's it for this week.

“My fans have designated themselves the, uh, 'Pine Nuts.' They're a nutty bunch.” - Chris Pine


PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  Tileset ID Checker
Posted by: kyonides - 02-21-2024, 09:27 PM - Forum: Scripts Database - No Replies

Tileset ID Checker

by Kyonides

Introduction

Do you need to check if the current tileset is good for your heroes?
Or perhaps you need to make sure it is as dangerous as possible after the heroes messed up with some poor Witch witches?

Well, now you can do that via a script call! Grinning

The Script

Code:
# * Tileset ID Checker XP & ACE * #
#  Scripter : Kyonides Arkanthes
#  2024-02-21

# * Script Call * #
# $game_map.tileset?(TilesetID)

class Game_Map
  def tileset?(t_id)
    @map.tileset_id == t_id
  end
end


NAQ

Q: Why isn't there a VX port as well? Thinking 
A: Because VX only has a single tileset for the entire game! Tongue sticking out

Terms & Conditions

Free for use in ANY game.
Due credit is optional in this case. Happy with a sweat
That's it! Tongue sticking out

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  Choices Change Events
Posted by: kyonides - 02-21-2024, 05:43 AM - Forum: Scripts Database - Replies (1)

Choices Change Events
XP + VX + ACE

by Kyonides

Introduction

You only need to paste my scriptlet in a new slot in the script editor, pick a game variable to hold the event ID.


For RMXP

Then the scriplet will look for the corresponding choice's Move Route and a Change Graphic command to retrieve the current character spritesheet.

For RMVX and ACE

The scriplet will use the current event page's graphic (a single character spritesheet) but with a different character index based on your current choice. It will be reset if you choose to cancel.

Warning: You have to set 1 Move Route and 1 Change Graphic commands per choice.



Screenshots

3 Snapshots


Terms & Conditions

Free for use in ANY Gamer game.
Due credit is mandatory! Serious
That's it! Grinning



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  The Weekly Gazette 02-18-2024
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-19-2024, 06:02 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

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(February 12 to February 18, 2024)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Announcements and Updates
DerVVulfman made a report that The Year of the Spammers continues, new tools now put to use to confirm suspicious activity and altered security questions that he said could confuse AI bot services. In fact, most of those whom he found suspicious revealed themselves with off-site spam activity with hundreds of reported malicious activity. However, he added that a new influx of members includes those that discovered RPGMaker XP available on steam for free.


Occasions
Having now acquired RPGMaker XP for free on Steam this week entered Canvance. An aspiring game developer, he admits to be an amatuer in pixelwork, music and coding. However, he plans to persevere in making his first game. He thanked both kyonides and DerVVulfman for the scripts they had posted, later greeted by both scripters.


General Chat
Last week's News of the World was hit by the Special Council's revelation no charges would be levied against U.S. President Biden due to his age and failing memory. But now, it was released that Top Secret material vanished under Biden's care during a recent vacation. Democrats are very much worried about his age while Biden's lawyers push to have criticism of his age squashed. The recent death of Alexi Navaldi, jailed by Putin after having survived poisoning years earlier hit this week's news. Over 400 who attended a memorial for Navalny were arrested by Putin's forces, such may be why Ukraine President Zelensky suggests regime change in Russia is coming. And while U.S. Democrats use this to push spending aid to Ukraine, their Republican counterparts say that the U.S.'s own security must come first and blasted the proposed spending package for legislation designed to target Trump were he to win the next election. Of U.S. security, migrant crime hit the news with Meth and Fentanyl trafficking, sanctuary cities cutting funds to citizens, MS-13 joining Venezuelan gangs, and drug cartels placing landmines along the southern border. To combat this, Texas set up a military base to combat illegal human and drug trafficking. But despite this and the impeachment of DHS Mayorkas, U.S. President Biden has the DHS draft plans to release even more migrants. Turmoil in the Middle East continues as Houthis attack more ships in the Red Sea while Israel retaliates against Hezbollah rockets strikes. While China demands Israel to cease fire, support for Netanyahu rises with Netanyahu demanding the release of all hostages by Ramadan or they would attack Rafah. But Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas have one thing in common; Iran who is now claiming they are now fully capable to make a nuclear bomb. For former President Trump, bad news and good news. He was fined $354 Million by Judge Engoron and barred from NY business practices for 3 years, though he plans to appeal. But the Fulton AG prosecuting him in Georgia may very well be disqualified, hearing how she paid for her vacation time with her lover. And despite Trump's statements over 'delinquent' NATO members, the NATO Secretary General reiterated that the 2% dues are a minimum and Trump's actions have forced those nations to stop cutting back. Election rigging both in Michigan with graves of still-eligible dead voters and during protests in Pakistan, protests by farmers in Belgium over strangling EU Green regulations and farmers tear-gassed in India arrested over poverty from free trade deals, China's blacklisting of writers like Neil Gaimon from the 2023 Hugo Awards confusing the Sci-Fi community, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
China's work ethics hit the News of the Cyber World, such as the evidence of a test track meant for Volkswagon built by Uyghur slave labor, the lawmakers furious about loopholes China exploits to keep slave-labor products selling, and a China-owned fashion company involved in slave-labor practices seeking to be put on the stock exchange. In southern France, a warehouse filled with 900 Tons of recycled lithium car batteries exploded. Cisco plans to lay off 4000 employees to concentrate on AI, the refunds of Apple's VisionPro headsets, the U.K. successfully tested a high-powered laser weapon, and more hit this week's cybernews. A U.K. Lazer cannon?

Recent reports from Microsoft show that Chinese Hackers are now using AI to increase their effectiveness in cyberattacks, such state-sponsored groups from china including Salmon Typhoon, Chromium, as well as state-sanctioned agents from other countries like Forest Blizzard from Russia.



Games Development
Development Discussion
If you're curious What's up among your fellow RMers, kyonides discovered that one is now able to acquire RPGMaker XP for free on Steam. But something caught Melana's eye, a screenshot from Degica's RPGMaker XP advert examples that used graphics not a part of XP's own Run Time Package. A picture around for a while, DerVVulfman thought it might have been part of a separate DLC. And nothing within his recent upload of salvaged tileset resources did Melana find anything that matched. After that, Remi-chan released the 4th track of music from one of her games, and revealed teh second pose of her pigtailed, knife-using demoness.


Complete Projects
During the 2024 RPGMaker Festival, you can now find Starmage's Rave Heart available at Steam for half-price!



Material Development
Scripts Database
This week, kyonides crafted KTroopStates for all three Ruby-Script editions of RPGMaker, allowing you to apply status effects upon enemies when combat begins.

The FancyChoices just received an update, now receiving an RPGMaker VX port. And simultaneously, an RPGMaker VXAce port of ACE HP or SP Recovery Rate was added.

Maintenance was performed by kyonides upon demo for RPGMaker XP port of Falkoner, and upon the RPGMaker XP and VX ports for RealEkuipment. The demos should now operate properly.

An update was made to the RandomSkillKost script, kyonides now preventing a player exploint. Before, you could exit back to the initial Party Command stage and return to combat to reset and generate new random SP costs. But now, that exploit has been removed.

And just before the week expired (and the gazette posted), kyonides released KMustSurvive a script for RPGMaker XP for those that set up battles where the player had to consider some fighting against the party were unwilling combatants, and able to make judgements in relation.



Creativity Section
Music and Audio
For those needing music for their game, do remember that Eric Matyas is Sharing His Original Music and Sound. Early this week, he was able to find time to craft a piece entitled "Cybertropolis" which would be fine for those scenes when one is entering a city of technological marvels. And near the end of the week, a lighter tune entitled "Of Legends and Fables 3" would do well for a game filled with woodland mysteries and magicks.

Now at long last, the Jake Gamelin Suite now includes "Glitch of Shadows", a track for Remi-chan's game Fantasia that features vocals by Emily Goemon.


Art and Design
Just in time for the week of Valentine's, Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thingy now includes a full color render of the two most evil entities in her game universe spending time together arm in arm. But not only that, but Remi-chan also presented its speed-draw video, the 143rd speed draw she's made over the years.


Literature Section
Before it is even available, you will now find within Remi-chan's Writing Snippets the meeting of the three heroic sisters from Fantasia put to the test of combat against the universe's most enigmatic and devious entities.


Filmography
The latest video available within Remi-chan's Cinematic Theatre is a little dated, made as an invitation to an art exhibition days ago. Forced within a McDonald's parking lot, she is made to answer her own Ego about her ambitious work ethic.



Well, that's it for this week.

"He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet." - Michelle Obama


PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  KMustSurvive
Posted by: kyonides - 02-19-2024, 05:55 AM - Forum: Scripts Database - Replies (1)

KMustSurvive
XP + VX + ACE

by Kyonides

Introduction

When I played Breath of Fire II back in the days, I noticed that there was a village where fights were a bit different. There you had to rescue the villagers by not killing them but just the scorpions that controlled them. You were still able to kill the people but it was not recommended.

This scriptlet would let the battle Editor script Judge judge the end result of the battle without any external interference. This means that you will not be in a dire need to keep checking your enemies' current HP every single turn via event commands! Grinning

Script Calls

Code:
$game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%)
$game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%, MaximumHP%)

There no MaxHP% is just the same as 100% of its HP.

XP Script

Code:
# * KMustSurvive XP * #
#   Scripter : Kyonides Arkanthes
#   v1.0.0 - 2024-02-19

# This scriptlet allows you to set any enemy as some sort of victim that should
# be rescued during battle by NOT KILLING the victim!
# No event command will be needed during battle!

# This is a very simplistic approach to a feature in Breath of Fire II where
# you were supposed to kill the scorpion but not the villager.

# * Script Call * #
# - Warning: Both HP% parameters should be Integers.
#            If no maximum percent is entered, it will be equal to 100%
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%)
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%, MaximumHP%)

class Game_Actor
  def alive?
    @hp > 0
  end
end

class Game_Enemy
  def alive?
    @hp > 0
  end
end

class Game_Party
  def alive?
    @actors.any? {|a| a.alive? }
  end
end

class Game_Troop
  alias :kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init :initialize
  attr_reader :survivors
  def initialize
    kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init
    @survivors = {}
  end

  def alive?
    @enemies.any? {|a| a.alive? }
  end

  def must_survive(enemy_index, min_percent, max_percent=100)
    @survivors[enemy_index - 1] = [min_percent.to_i, max_percent.to_i]
  end

  def enemies_alive
    @enemies.select {|e| e.alive? }
  end

  def few_survivors?
    enemies_alive.size < @survivors.size
  end

  def only_survivors?
    list = enemies_alive.map {|e| e.index }
    list.sort == @survivors.keys.sort
  end

  def survivors_with_enough_hp?
    enemies_alive.each do |e|
      percent = e.hp * 100 / e.maxhp
      return false unless percent.between?(*@survivors[e.index])
    end
    true
  end
end

class Scene_Battle
  alias :kyon_must_survive_scn_btl_judge :judge
  def judge
    if $game_troop.survivors.empty?
      kyon_must_survive_scn_btl_judge
    else
      judge_enemy_survivors
    end
  end

  def lose_scenario
    if $game_temp.battle_can_lose
      $game_system.bgm_play($game_temp.map_bgm)
      battle_end(2)
      return
    end
    $game_temp.gameover = true
  end

  def judge_enemy_survivors
    if $game_party.alive?
      if $game_troop.few_survivors?
        lose_scenario
        return true
      end
      return false unless $game_troop.only_survivors?
      if $game_troop.survivors_with_enough_hp?
        start_phase5
        return true
      end
      return false
    else
      lose_scenario
    end
  end
end

VX Script

Code:
# * KMustSurvive VX * #
#   Scripter : Kyonides Arkanthes
#   v1.0.0 - 2024-02-19

# This scriptlet allows you to set any enemy as some sort of victim that should
# be rescued during battle by NOT KILLING the victim!
# No event command will be needed during battle!

# This is a very simplistic approach to a feature in Breath of Fire II where
# you were supposed to kill the scorpion but not the villager.

# * Script Call * #
# - Warning: Both HP% parameters should be Integers.
#            If no maximum percent is entered, it will be equal to 100%
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%)
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%, MaximumHP%)

class Game_Actor
  def alive?
    @hp > 0
  end
end

class Game_Enemy
  def alive?
    @hp > 0
  end
end

class Game_Party
  def alive?
    members.any? {|m| m.alive? }
  end
end

class Game_Troop
  alias :kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init :initialize
  attr_reader :survivors
  def initialize
    kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init
    @survivors = {}
  end

  def alive?
    @enemies.any? {|a| a.alive? }
  end

  def must_survive(enemy_index, min_percent, max_percent=100)
    @survivors[enemy_index - 1] = [min_percent.to_i, max_percent.to_i]
  end

  def enemies_alive
    @enemies.select {|e| e.alive? }
  end

  def few_survivors?
    enemies_alive.size < @survivors.size
  end

  def only_survivors?
    list = enemies_alive.map {|e| e.index }
    list.sort == @survivors.keys.sort
  end

  def survivors_with_enough_hp?
    enemies_alive.each do |e|
      percent = e.hp * 100 / e.maxhp
      return false unless percent.between?(*@survivors[e.index])
    end
    true
  end
end

class Scene_Battle
  alias :kyon_must_survive_scn_btl_judge :judge_win_loss
  def judge_win_loss
    if $game_troop.survivors.empty?
      kyon_must_survive_scn_btl_judge
    else
      judge_enemy_survivors
    end
  end

  def judge_enemy_survivors
    return true unless $game_temp.in_battle
    if $game_party.alive?
      if $game_troop.few_survivors?
        process_defeat
        return true
      end
      return false unless $game_troop.only_survivors?
      if $game_troop.survivors_with_enough_hp?
        process_victory
        return true
      end
      return false
    else
      process_defeat
      return true
    end
  end
end

VX ACE Script

Code:
# * KMustSurvive ACE * #
#  Scripter : Kyonides Arkanthes
#  v1.0.0 - 2024-02-19

# This scriptlet allows you to set any enemy as some sort of victim that should
# be rescued during battle by NOT KILLING the victim!
# No event command will be needed during battle!

# This is a very simplistic approach to a feature in Breath of Fire II where
# you were supposed to kill the scorpion but not the villager.

# * Script Call * #
# - Warning: Both HP% parameters should be Integers.
#            If no maximum percent is entered, it will be equal to 100%
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%)
# $game_troop.must_survive(EnemyIndex, MinimumHP%, MaximumHP%)

class Game_Unit
  def alive?
    members.any? {|m| m.alive? }
  end
end

class Game_Troop
  alias :kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init :initialize
  attr_reader :survivors
  def initialize
    kyon_must_survive_gm_trp_init
    @survivors = {}
  end

  def must_survive(enemy_index, min_percent, max_percent=100)
    @survivors[enemy_index - 1] = [min_percent.to_i, max_percent.to_i]
  end

  def enemies_alive
    @enemies.select {|e| e.alive? }
  end

  def few_survivors?
    enemies_alive.size < @survivors.size
  end

  def only_survivors?
    list = enemies_alive.map {|e| e.index }
    list.sort == @survivors.keys.sort
  end

  def survivors_with_enough_hp?
    enemies_alive.each do |e|
      percent = e.hp * 100 / e.mhp
      return false unless percent.between?(*@survivors[e.index])
    end
    true
  end
end

class << BattleManager
  alias :kyon_must_survive_btlman_judge :judge_win_loss
  def judge_win_loss
    if $game_troop.survivors.empty?
      kyon_must_survive_btlman_judge
    else
      judge_enemy_survivors
    end
  end

  def judge_enemy_survivors
    return false unless @phase
    return process_abort if $game_party.members.empty? or aborting?
    return process_defeat if $game_party.all_dead?
    return process_defeat if $game_troop.few_survivors?
    return false unless $game_troop.only_survivors?
    if $game_troop.survivors_with_enough_hp?
      return process_victory
    else
      return process_defeat
    end
  end
end

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  KTroopStates
Posted by: kyonides - 02-15-2024, 02:52 AM - Forum: Scripts Database - No Replies

KTroopStates
XP + VX + ACE

by Kyonides

Introduction

Do you need to inflict a certain state to your Witch Golem Dalek enemies from the very beginning?
Then this script is perfect for Confused confusing or even Angry enraging them! Shocked

2 Script Calls Are Available!

Set an Enemy's New State - EnemyIndex starts at 1.

Code:
KTroop.set_enemy_state(EnemyIndex, StateID)

Set the Enemies' New State:

Code:
KTroop.set_enemies_state(TroopID, StateID)


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  The Weekly Gazette 02-11-2024
Posted by: DerVVulfman - 02-12-2024, 06:03 AM - Forum: Announcements and Updates - No Replies

[Image: Gazette.png]

(February 5 to February 11, 2024)

Welcome dear readers to the latest issue of the Weekly Gazette! Here in the Gazette, we give you the news in brief of what occurred in the past week as well as provide any news happening in Save-Point itself

Official Area
Announcements and Updates
This week, DerVVulfman followed up his annoucement about it being the Year of the Spammer, noting how a number of accounts have been entering with clean IPs and eMails. However, he also noted that they are being regularly checked to see whether their status changes. And he asked that if any untoward PMs are received that he be informed.


General Chat
The Middle East is still one of the main focuses within the News of the World, with the Houthis Terrorists threatening global internet as well as shipping in the Red Sea, U.S. drone strikes killing three top Hezbollah leaders, evidence of Iran's direct payments to Hamas, and the discovery of Hamas tunnels directly under the UNRWA HQ in Gaza. When a Special Council's report over U.S. President Biden's handling of classified documents came out, Biden initially praised it for saying he wasn't to face charges. But the report was damning as it referenced his senility. Since the report this week, he also confused the President of Mexico for Egypts, and confused talks with Germany's Angela Merkel with the late Helmut Kohl. Since then, Biden has snapped at reporters. And former President Trump questioned how one could be mentally fit to serve if not mentally fit to stand trial. When you read, you may wonder why last week's report of a knife wielding man specifically targeting French citizens was not called a terrorist act. Let alone, the tale of an axe wielding Iranian on a Swiss subway train who took hostages was said not to be terror related. At least those who opened fired upon the police ast an Istanbul Court were defined as Left-Wing Terrorists. Issues with immigration still hits the U.S. with the failed impeachment of DHS Mayorkas, refusing to disclose full accounting of every illegal alien and claiming immigrant-caused crime shouldn't be politicized. And there is severe issues between the House and Senate with the recent Border bill, conservatives seeing it further enables unchecked crossings and funnels money to illegal immigrants. Within Venezuela, Maduro's opposition for the office of Presidency, María Corina Machado and her office was stoned and beaten. This even since Maduro cancelled any hope for free and fair elections. In Columbia, veterans found the pay in Ukraine far more lucrative and began signing up for the war. And despite the smell and taste of gasoline in Costa Rican water supplies, a probe was unable to find any suspects into the contamination. Unable to find the cause has sent shockwaves of distrust through the polulace. With the ongoing strike over green policies strangling Farmer's livelihoods, the E.U. scraps key elements of their Green Agenda. King Charles III has been diagnosed with Cancer, and is receiving out-patient treatments. Since then, estranged Prince Harry returns to Buckingham Palace upon hearing the news. And a Freedom of Information act busted the Canadian Trudeau Administration, revealing that it was the Trudeau administration that invited former Nazi Yaroslav Hunka to Parliamant and not the previous Rota adminitration. Revelations that the U.S. Treasury department and Biden Administration used banks to surveil Americans based on Private Transactions, Tucker Carlson's interview with Russia's Vladimir Putin causing shockwaves, China's Lunar New Year threat to Taiwan, the resignation of Hungary's President over a child predator's pardon, the U.S. Defense Secretary back in the hospital, and much more hit this week's news.
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Tech Talk
This week's News of the Cyber World detailed issues with AI fakery, whether it was the unauthorized use of musician's voices, or Facebook and Instagram's new policy to flag AI generated content. But AI has grown more insidious with a business losing millions over an AI generated interactive video deepfake over Zoom. But Disney has its own issues, losing millions for their 25% subscription hike and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Mandaorian star Gina Carano. Politics hit the Cyberworld as Meta finally bans Supreme Leader Ali Khameni over his anti-semetic hate speech. Meanwhile, recent news is uncovering how the U.S. Biden Administration worked with Amazon to censor books, his Executive Order bypasses Congress to censor anything considered disinformation. And while Musk has issues with Driverless cars among Apple VisionPro users, Google's own Waymo car is having issues with cyclists this week. The fury over Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, European Government backed hackers targeting Apple iPhones, the NYPD Subway Robot, and much more hit this week's cybernews.

The world has been constantly assailed by Chinese Hackers, such as the Netherlands now releasing reports of China's intrusion. And since the China-backed hacking group known as Volt Typhoon was busted by Microsoft and the FBI, and the Phillipines providing evidence of China attempted intrusions of government websites and accounts, China is now crying out that they were instead the victim. Of course, China's own Global Times refused to mention the incidents, preferring to release editorials of the American Hacking threat around the globe, and the vicitimization of China by the Phillipines..



Games Development
Development Discussion
If you're wondering What's up with some RMers, you'll be pleased to know that Remi-chan is once again active, reworking the graphics of her menus and displaying select images of her brochure pages for all to see. But on top of that, she's also presented the official art for one of her anti-heroes, a dangerous, green-eyed femme fatale donning what would not be generally permitted in public.

Within the Maps and screenshots thread this week, kyondides showed the development of his script that changes the appearance of the show choices window.


Upcoming Projects
At last released on steam is Heroes of the Seasons, the seasonal game worked on by Starmage. At a low price of $6.99 (USD), it can be yours. Or for the fruga, you can acquire a free short demo. But if unsure, you can check out the three recent Mercenary spotlights uploaded, showcasing bridal and avian sorcerers, demonic children, and nuclear wolves and sheep.



Material Development
Scripts Database
If you want your heroes to have a little uncertainty when it comes to combat, kyonides created the RandomSkillKost collection for the Ruby-based engines of RPGMaker. With these scripts, the cost of skill use may now vary from turn to turn during combat.

For those who wish to step away from the traditional means to display a list of choices for the player, then perhaps you wish to add some flair with FancyChoices. An RPGMaker XP script by kyonides, it is a re-skinned Show Choices window .

If you wish to keep HP and SP recovery rates separate when using RPGMaker VXAce, kyonides's ACE HP or SP Recovery Rate may be what you need.



Creativity Section
Art and Design
There are many who are getting ready for Valentines day, including artists of all kinds. Even upon entering Remi-chan's Neato Arty thread thing, you will see that, even among the evil incarnate, that love is in the air. Three rough drafts had appeared, the first being the the wholesome side-by-side of the most unwholesome entities in Remi-s current game. The second a tough of affection between two friends and a simple headpat. And the third a duet between opposites who had found each other.



Well, that's it for this week.

"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair" - Sir Patrick Stewart

PROSPECTIVE GAZETEERS!

If you are the creator of a thread in Save-Point, you have the option of sending/writing your own entry into the Gazette. The Gazette accepts write-in announcements (which will be doublechecked). Likewise, the Gazette would welcome other content such as a comic-strip series, ongoing story arc, or the like.

Just PM DerVVulfman with the submissions. Submissions must be in by 10pm EST.

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  ACE HP or SP Recovery Rate
Posted by: kyonides - 02-12-2024, 04:29 AM - Forum: Scripts Database - Replies (2)

ACE HP or SP Recovery Rate
Final Version

For Actors, Enemies, Items, Skills, States

by Kyonides

Introduction

By default the VX ACE engine offers you 1 Sp-Parameter to alter the HP and the SP Recovery Rates.
This script lets you keep their increase rates separate! Winking

Just read the embedded comments in the script below to learn how to use it.

The Script

Code:
# * ACE HP or MP Recovery Rates *
#   Scripter : Kyonides Arkanthes
#   v1.0.0 - 2024-02-13

# Just leave a Note Tag in the corresponding Note Box.
# Valid for Actors, Enemies or Items or Skills or States.
# For HP or MP Only. Normally, you would only need 1 of them!
# It is applied to damage calculation whenever a recovery item is being used.
# Use the REC Sp-Parameter for the other value instead.
# - Examples:
# <hp recover 1000>
# <mp recover 1000>
# <hp recover 0.5>

module HpMpRec
  RECOVER_HP_NOTE_TAG = /<hp recover (\d+[.]?\d*)>/i
  RECOVER_MP_NOTE_TAG = /<mp recover (\d+[.]?\d*)>/i
  def find_recover_note(type)
    note_tag = type == :hp ? RECOVER_HP_NOTE_TAG : RECOVER_MP_NOTE_TAG
    @note[note_tag]
    $1.to_f
  end

  def hp_recover
    find_recover_note(:hp)
  end

  def mp_recover
    find_recover_note(:mp)
  end
end

class RPG::BaseItem
  include HpMpRec
end

class Game_Battler
  def states_hp_rec
    states.inject(0.0) {|n, s| n + s.hp_recover }
  end

  def states_mp_rec
    states.inject(0.0) {|n, s| n + s.mp_recover }
  end

  def item_effect_recover_hp(user, item, effect)
    rec_rate = db_unit.hp_recover + item.hp_recover + states_hp_rec
    rec_rate = rec if rec_rate == 0
    value = (mhp * effect.value1 + effect.value2) * rec_rate
    value *= user.pha if item.is_a?(RPG::Item)
    value = value.to_i
    @result.hp_damage -= value
    @result.success = true
    self.hp += value
  end

  def item_effect_recover_mp(user, item, effect)
    rec_rate = db_unit.mp_recover + item.mp_recover + states_mp_rec
    rec_rate = rec if rec_rate == 0
    value = (mmp * effect.value1 + effect.value2) * rec_rate
    value *= user.pha if item.is_a?(RPG::Item)
    value = value.to_i
    @result.mp_damage -= value
    @result.success = value != 0
    self.mp += value
  end

  def apply_recovery_rate(value, item)
    rate = 0
    rate += db_unit.hp_recover + item.hp_recover if item.damage.to_hp?
    rate += db_unit.mp_recover + item.mp_recover if item.damage.to_mp?
    value *= rec + rate
  end

  def make_damage_value(user, item)
    value = item.damage.eval(user, self, $game_variables)
    value *= item_element_rate(user, item)
    value *= pdr if item.physical?
    value *= mdr if item.magical?
    value = apply_recovery_rate(value, item) if item.damage.recover?
    value = apply_critical(value) if @result.critical
    value = apply_variance(value, item.damage.variance)
    value = apply_guard(value)
    @result.make_damage(value.to_i, item)
  end
end

class Game_Actor
  alias :db_unit :actor
end

class Game_Enemy
  alias :db_unit :enemy
end

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