HiddenChest RGSS Player Executable

[kyonides]

Not Really a Hidden BUMP!

Well, after hours looking for available names and compiling stuff like crazy, I have come back to announce the latest release of this engine! By the way, it is now known as hiddenchest or HiddenChest if you prefer.

There are few extra features this time. One of them is the resolution increase, now you can play a game at 1280 * 768.
(Still, I do not know if I should recommend it )

Another one would be the hidden module Backdrop that will hold the Graphics.snap_to_bitmap Bitmap in a temporary container for you.

How to use Graphics.snap_to_bitmap and Backdrop?

First of all you should be playing a RGSS1 (XP) game and wish to get a frozen snapshot of the current map. Then you got to pay a visit to Scene_Map and look for the:

Graphics.freeze

...line found in main method. Below add a new line that should say:

Backdrop.keep_bitmap
or...
Backdrop.blur_bitmap

Then add an instance variable with any valid name to the target Scene script, i.e. Scene_Menu or Scene_Item, like this:

Code:

class Scene_TestScene
  def main
    @sprite = Sprite.new
    @sprite.bitmap = Backdrop.bitmap
    # rest of the Scene code goes here
    @sprite.dispose
    Backdrop.clear_bitmap
  end
# more code goes here

This way, you will not need to use Graphics.snap_to_bitmap directly and you still get a convenient container for your bitmap.

You see, bitmaps, viewports, and a few others got to be disposed, it is mandatory to prevent memory leaks.

For girls that strangely love wyverns and especially some Spyro, that means RAM (the computer's temporary memory) might get full of unneeded data and that might even get out of control in some cases. Consequences could be as ridiculous as watching how an old bitmap that looks like a cat you have deleted or disposed is still visible sometimes, or they can get as serious as freezing your game or getting out of memory for any application that was running at the time like firefox or notepad or word. I do not know if that could even force you to reset your computer, I have never been there