RM Data Checker

[Archeia]

Hello guys,

I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in making an RPG Maker VXAce version of this. I tried contacting the maker (Yeyinde) a while back but haven't heard anything. I know that ExHydra was working on one but we haven't heard back either. Here's the original post from RMRK.net and the Source Code is available.

This program scans through your RMXP or RMVX project for unused or missing graphics and audio, and tells you what database elements are used. I'm sure that this program will be of great assistance to those developing your games, and I hope you will use it to check all of your games.

 

Screenshot:

 

Download link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/337225/Data%20Checker.exe

Source link

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/337225/Data%20Checker.zip

 

[Zalerinian]

I may get around to this, if I get time to. I am a bit busy at the moment, but I think this'd be useful.

 

[Bonkers]

I'd definitely be interested in an ACE version of this.  Looks like it could save me a lot of time and guess work with icons and tile sets.  

 

[Andar]

I agree, that would be helpfull...

 

[Zeriab]

Please do note that if you have any scripts requiring custom resources such a utility might not consider those. (Yup, one of those literally impossible problems)

 

[Tsukihime]

How did they get a 2.7 MB executable with ruby-only source?


My executables using rubyscript2exe for example always resulted in 20 MB files since it includes the entire ruby library.

 

[Solistra]

This is absolutely possible -- I'd even call it an easy project to do. Personally, I'd be inclined to provide both a Windows executable and a portable Java .jar file so the tool can be used on any OS that has a Java VM (I primarily use Mac OS X, personally, despite my use of RMVX Ace).


I'd be inclined to completely gut the source code and rewrite the entire thing, so if I were to do this, it would probably be a little while before a full version was available.

 

[Kaelan]

I'd love having something like this. I probably would still have to do a bunch of manual checking for script-based resources, but this would still be extremely helpful for identifying animations, sprites and audio files that aren't in use.

 

[Solistra]

I'm about to start working on an RGSS3 version today, Kaelan. The only problem is that the source code is an absolute mess, so I'll be wading through that for a little while before anything really usable comes out of it. From taking a few glances at it, though, the core should be easy enough to adjust to RGSS3.


I'm also going to provide a Windows executable as well as a Java .jar file so the tool can be used on Linux or OS X as well (as long as the user has a relatively recent JVM).

 

[Zalerinian]

I'm about to start working on an RGSS3 version today. . .

I had made one a while back, but it was only an event checker, as I never finished it. It was tedious to do, and probably a bit too buggy, so I recommend you get a solid way to store the matched data, or you'll probably end up hitting issues later on when you have data from multiple sources. Perhaps I'll redo mine and we'll see who did it better?

 

[Solistra]

I am currently writing the data verifier in an extremely modular way, and the first essential component of it is, in my opinion, feature-complete. This component simply handles the loading of RGSS, RGSS2, and RGSS3 data structures into an external Ruby implementation and allows dynamic creation and destruction of them at the developer's discretion.


Considering the versatility of it, I decided to release this component as a Ruby gem. The source is stored in the SES GitHub repository.


Now that this portion has been completed, I'll begin working on the backend for the data scanner and verifier. This portion will likely be completed by sometime next week.

 

[Archeia]

Can't wait to see it all done Solistra

 

[Solistra]

Can't wait to see it all done Solistra

Well, just so you know, I'm still working on the backend for the scanner / verifier -- it's just taking a little bit longer than I expected (mostly due to the fact that I'm easily distracted).


Also, I don't currently have a copy of RPG Maker XP or RPG Maker VX that I can use, so I'm flying blind with those in terms of the scanning and verifying. I know that the backend is working for VX Ace, but I can't be positive about the other two unless I have some test data that I can use.


Yes, that was a plea for unencrypted XP and VX projects which contain intentionally missing and unused graphics and audio. Both missing and unused assets in the same project would be magnificent. (If anyone is reading this and would like to help, please send me a private message.)

 

[Archeia]

Hey there, I can send some if you still haven't gotten any yet!

 

[Mouser]

This would be very cool. As it is my program includes all the graphics data when it compresses because I did the simple thing and just installed everything where I thought it should go - in the RPGVXACE under RGSS3 instead of the main RPGVXACE or somewhere else entirely (so the engine doesn't know the difference between RTP and non-RTP stuff). Makes building the game much easier because everything is right there. Downside is it adds a bit to the end filesize (not a whole lot, but noticeable).

That would let me make a copy of the project and 'cull' it before wrapping it up to distribute. Sure, I'll still have to check for custom resources, but I already know about those (or I should anyway).

 

[Solistra]

Hey there, I can send some if you still haven't gotten any yet!

That would be fantastic. As it is, I'm just testing with the RGSS3 data that I've been able to come up with. The scanner is almost done, though, as I had a friend send me the compiled help files for XP and VX, so I was at least able to create the needed methods to extract information from them.


I just have no way at the moment to see if they're actually working, which seems... slightly important, but what do I know?