Peer pressured badly to switch engines?
01-26-2023, 12:57 PM
You're one of the fellas I understand Steel. You love the map editor. I don't blame you for that. Especially if you never really plan to release a game.
I mean XP does have a lot of issues that MV doesn't, But VX was worse without much contest.
Rpg Maker XP
Pros:
- Good Mapping
- Nice Tilesets
- Tall sprites
Cons:
- The earliest and buggiest version of RGSS.
- Maximum 640x480 resolution.
- Ratio locked at 4:3.
- No support for faces.
- While the RTP is nice, its nice painterly style is then harshly contrasted by 1990's pop art looking battlers. This is only a problem if you're using the RTP, but it is worth mentioning as VX and onwards (until MZ) don't share in this problem.
- The least optimized of the rpgmaker engines, with just 20 events on a map being able to cause memory leaks on low-end PCs. Doing anything like am evented bullet hell is basically impossible.
-Parallaxes not visible in editor.
- No support for playing movies.
There might be other things I forgot about. But that's a pretty big list.
Rpg Maker MV
Pros:
- Capable of many variable resolutions.
- Tilesize can be altered. meaning you can make a 16px tile grid, a 32px tilegrid, or larger and any size in between.
- Can play movies in WEBM format.
- Has facial support.
- Ratio isn't locked.
- Can see parallaxes while in the editor.
- One of if not the best run-time packages ever. With a veritable dearth of free DLC to expand it even more.
- Huge sweeping upgrades to optimization. Bullet-hells more than possible.
- Uses javascript, which is basically a more intermediate system that takes more knowledge to work with, but the upside is it can do so much more, espeically with the addition of the pixi.js functionality.
Cons:
- Chibi sprites
- Map Editor not as advanced as XP
- Tilesets have less room. Or rather, they are somewhat limited. That said, parralax mapping is far easier due to being able to see parralaxes in editor.
So you see these lists which basically diametrically oppose the other, and you'll probably notice its no... not for any silly reason I like MV. It just outside of a few small things, is blatantly better.
it's kinda hard not to see people who cling to a program so outdated as XP in the kind of light I do. it makes no sense for anyone to still use it.
I mean XP does have a lot of issues that MV doesn't, But VX was worse without much contest.
Rpg Maker XP
Pros:
- Good Mapping
- Nice Tilesets
- Tall sprites
Cons:
- The earliest and buggiest version of RGSS.
- Maximum 640x480 resolution.
- Ratio locked at 4:3.
- No support for faces.
- While the RTP is nice, its nice painterly style is then harshly contrasted by 1990's pop art looking battlers. This is only a problem if you're using the RTP, but it is worth mentioning as VX and onwards (until MZ) don't share in this problem.
- The least optimized of the rpgmaker engines, with just 20 events on a map being able to cause memory leaks on low-end PCs. Doing anything like am evented bullet hell is basically impossible.
-Parallaxes not visible in editor.
- No support for playing movies.
There might be other things I forgot about. But that's a pretty big list.
Rpg Maker MV
Pros:
- Capable of many variable resolutions.
- Tilesize can be altered. meaning you can make a 16px tile grid, a 32px tilegrid, or larger and any size in between.
- Can play movies in WEBM format.
- Has facial support.
- Ratio isn't locked.
- Can see parallaxes while in the editor.
- One of if not the best run-time packages ever. With a veritable dearth of free DLC to expand it even more.
- Huge sweeping upgrades to optimization. Bullet-hells more than possible.
- Uses javascript, which is basically a more intermediate system that takes more knowledge to work with, but the upside is it can do so much more, espeically with the addition of the pixi.js functionality.
Cons:
- Chibi sprites
- Map Editor not as advanced as XP
- Tilesets have less room. Or rather, they are somewhat limited. That said, parralax mapping is far easier due to being able to see parralaxes in editor.
So you see these lists which basically diametrically oppose the other, and you'll probably notice its no... not for any silly reason I like MV. It just outside of a few small things, is blatantly better.
it's kinda hard not to see people who cling to a program so outdated as XP in the kind of light I do. it makes no sense for anyone to still use it.