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You should start by replacing every occurrence of "sli:something" in your script with "lookup slice(sli:something)". However, it would be pointless (though completely correct) to write "if (slice is valid (lookup slice (sli:itemcontainer)))". You should just write "...

I admit I haven't really tried to use The GIMP for pixel work aside from minor image touchups, so don't know how good it is for that. But regardless of how good it can be, I would never recommend it, because it's just an incredibly huge and complex program that seems difficult to learn to use. I'm n...

Hello! It's always cool to hear from people coming back. Actually, Bagne himself turned up for the first time in years just a couple months ago. Interesting to learn that link. I remember the name 'Eagtile' but nothing else. I do however, remember that tech-demo Remi and the Pastel Sword. Catacombs ...

FUABMX v1.1 is from early 1998; it has the distinction of being the third oldest OHR .rpg still around (that I've managed to find), after a Wandering Hamster demo and Heart of Riva Lite. You can't play it with the latest engine version; there are too many things broken. I asked Rya, since he's the e...

I made some small changes to the documentation for those commands. The reason it was vague is because those commands can return either a slice handle or false or a count of slices. By the way, about that screenshot you posted in the other thread: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rdhsq9g5irn5vxn/h...

Yes, that was the new-lines problem I posted a screenshot of. But my script to just remove all the hard new lines isn't going to work for your situation because you do have some newlines (paragraph breaks) that you want to keep.

A perfect vision of what you want the final product to be would be ideal, and would mean you would never have to make changes or experiment. That's surely impossible for any non-trivial game. It's art, not science, and experimentation is part of the fun. But it can't hurt to plan things out beforeha...

Jolly good.

Spoon, you put Master K in the list of sign-ups instead of me!

A heads up: I'm probably not going to have too much time for the first few days of the contest. But it's two weeks, so nothing to worry about.

You can also have a look at the wiki: Graphics Utilities . Feel free to add your own commentary section to that page if you can write a comparison of programs. I'd just like to point out that Inlandfool is using RPG Maker, not the OHR, so some of that's not relevant to them. Also, there's a whole se...

Right at the bottom of the page is a better example of selective outlining; I can't agree that the gator example looks better. But yes, very misplaced on that page. On the topic of getting shapes right, moving some part (like an arm or the top of the head) of a sprite by 1 pixel and seeing whether i...

I gotta admit though, I don't get the point of the gator example either. It's like he's using the word 'bad' with some other meaning.

I hadn't seen that tutorial before (I usually don't follow these sorts of threads). I can see why you're upset by that skull example -- whoever can draw such a great outline of a skull sure ain't going to pillow-shade it. Someone took a great piece of pixel art and pillow shaded it to make it look b...

OK, so I actually went and played your demo this time. This is looking very nice! I really like the hand-drawn screens and the bits of polish like the music toggling. Looking through the scripts (which I think are pretty well written), I noticed: else if(clicked on slice(sli:...

I notice now that Fred's hair is brown on the mousepad rather than the red in that drawing. Was that intentional?

My advice: buy two!

OK, several things... In the second script snippet, you're right that you can't change the width of the slice because it's set to fill its parent. The solution is to use "fill parent(sl, false)" to turn off filling before you set the width. In the first example you're trying to resize a re...