Can I make my game only played sideways?

[Naiselv]

I don't know if this has been asked before, but is there anyway I could make the whole gaming go sideways? So that like the character can't go up and it would instead of it jump. If there is a way please tell me.

 

[Evgenij]

You could use this script:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/4916-arc-engine-realistic-platform-system/

 

[whitesphere]

You could set all of the tiles except ones you use for sideways so they can't be passed.  Or so they can only be passed in sideways directions.   That option is under the Database (press F9) and look at the Tilesets tab.

 

[Naiselv]

Okay, thank you both!

 

[iRonan]

You took my question , was about to ask it too. I found the one Eugene222 gave you and it works great as I already tried it.

 

[Milennin]

It has been done in RPG Maker 2000. Surely there would be ways to make it work in the newer versions.

 

[Zoltor]

It has been done in RPG Maker 2000. Surely there would be ways to make it work in the newer versions.

Making a side scroller is easy, but I have to wonder how they created the air combos, that also triggers the jump proc as well, with no scripting at all.

Hime has a script that allows you to add custom conditions to events, if added to a common event(hit button), you could do this, but I wonder how it was done long before scripting was a option to fix the flaws, and oversights of the editor/engine?

 

[Milennin]

Making a side scroller is easy, but I have to wonder how they created the air combos, that also triggers the jump proc as well, with no scripting at all.

Hime has a script that allows you to add custom conditions to events, if added to a common event(hit button), you could do this, but I wonder how it was done long before scripting was a option to fix the flaws, and oversights of the editor/engine?

No idea. There's supposedly a link to the download in the video's description that could help finding out in how's it's done if you have RM2K. I haven't tried the link myself, dunno if it's save to click.xD

 

[Tai_MT]

If you just mean the "multiple attacks in midair" in the video, it wouldn't be hard to event.  Just event it so that anytime you pushed the "Attack" Button, you would freeze in place for a split second and do the attack.  You can see it in action while she's attacking things on the ground too.  Aside from a slight amount of "momentum", she stops in place each time the blade swings.

It'd be fairly easy to event that without a script.  Blows my mind that people didn't know you could do a lot of really impressive and basic programming WITHOUT scripts.

 

[Zoltor]

If you just mean the "multiple attacks in midair" in the video, it wouldn't be hard to event.  Just event it so that anytime you pushed the "Attack" Button, you would freeze in place for a split second and do the attack.  You can see it in action while she's attacking things on the ground too.  Aside from a slight amount of "momentum", she stops in place each time the blade swings.

It'd be fairly easy to event that without a script.  Blows my mind that people didn't know you could do a lot of really impressive and basic programming WITHOUT scripts.

But even so, wouldn't that require every cell on the map to be a event, that game runs very smooth/fast for so many map events being packed in like you seem to be implying?

 

[Tai_MT]

With RPG Maker 2000, not necessarily.  You could have a Common event that was "Jump" so that you could execute it anywhere.  It wouldn't be hard to make the attack move be a Common Event either.  With only two Common Events running in Parallel Process, it wouldn't lag the game or the program at all.

In fact, the hardest part about coding that game at all would likely be the "move on pixels" instead of "move on tiles", as well as the mid-air collision detection.

The Jumping and Attacking themselves are easy enough to create.  In fact, there are still resources out on the internet that tell you how to do it if you still own RPGMaker2000.  I can't even imagine they would be that hard to execute in VX Ace either, if the program still handles those things the same way.

 

[Tsukihime]

Jumping just looks like a matter of moving the character up and changing its graphics appropriately.


I can't imagine how people did pixel-perfect hit collision though, timing things like the graphics and stuff.


After all, if you have a monster with a long tail and it's whipping it at you, you don't want the player to get hit before the tail actually touches you.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Well, if you're handling the animations manually, inserting a check every frame for collision becomes easier... though of course, I think it's still a lot of computations and checks