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Music volume shouldn't* depend on the backend ... with the possible exception of MIDI volume, which is quirky (and I can't remember the quirks anymore). But yes, because the player can adjust the volume you should fade to/from whatever the initial volume level is. Which is exactly what the scripts p...

Your mistake is moving map layer 1 (scrollslice) instead of moving the player. What is on layer 1? Nothing? Anything on that layer wouldn't move relative to the camera. Note that the slice edge x/y commands give the slice offset relative to its parent. Since the player is currently fixed relative to...

Are you talking about HamsterTools? Have you moved off GitHub? The (increasingly misnamed) OHRRPGCE Source Ports page only links to the Github page. Of course, new file formats means that utilities need to be updated or stop working, and the graphics formats are under the gun now. Backdrops file for...

I could easily post snippets of source code as well; I didn't think anyone would be interested. My intention wasn't to provide an introduction to working on the OHR. There is a category on the wiki with a few useful articles, though. That would be cool! I'd like learn about how to design/structure a...

A prosperous new year! :) Oh, was xterm not installed? Yes, now I remember that the download won't work then. And also, that was the reason I added the better error checking in the first place, to figure out why downloads weren't working for someone. We ought to check whether xterm is installed and ...

What better way to start a view into the excitement of engine development than with more code cleanup? (Unfinished work like the 'run game' command shall wait.) (I meant to post this soon after the intro post, but predictably got badly distracted by even more code cleanup and bugfixing when I went t...

(Boring introduction) I didn't want to intrude in Harlock's Finish Your Damn Game contest thread with posts not part of his contest (although I should be there, later!), but I do want to join in the spirit of open development and providing some activity by talking about work I'm doing on the OHRRPGC...

Could you post your g_debug.txt file for when the crash occurred? If you've played the game again since it crashed (or another game in the same directory) then you should post g_debug_archive.txt instead. At what point in the game did it crash? Does it happen again? And if you can you provide a save...

This might be the most commonly asked question of all. For a long time I've been meaning to make Custom itself preview what arguments will be passed to all triggered scripts. And of course, the Plotscripting Tutorial is a terrible place to document it; a dedicated plotdict section would be a good id...

Gah! From reading that debug log, I have no idea what is wrong, because it doesn't include the actual error messages. A few months ago I improved it so that it would print the error messages to the debug log, so could you please download a recent nightly build and try again? However, lately I have b...

You used the 'Export Linux Tarball' option, which currently doesn't include the needed libraries (mainly SDL 1.2 and SDL-mixer 1.2). This is a known problem; if I find the time I would fix it. If your friends have Debian, Ubuntu, or one of the many GNU/Linux distros that are based on Debian or Ubunt...

Text slices should be made to parse those codes automatically, just like textboxes and menu items do. I've been meaning to do it for a while, and it would actually be really quick for me to implement that, if you're willing to use a nightly. Otherwise, you could write a script to scan a slice tree f...

Things never seem to work out according to plan, especially with everyone going out of their way to distract you at this time of year! I haven't even started on our game yet, but RMZ did, briefly drawing a bunch of graphics. We agreed to start on the game after the new year, although actually I'm ru...

Yes, use the delete save command.

You can easily replace all the wait() commands with your scripts with calls to a wait18() or similar script that calculates and performs the correct number of wait ticks. Some other commands like slice velocity commands can also be dealt with similarly, but of course many other things can't. Last ti...