Tips and Tricks Tutorial Ver.

This topic is to teach people some nifty Tips and Tricks that helps speed up development in a Quality of Life kind of way. You can add your own as well. I'll start with a few examples. All discussions go here.

Saving Memory A

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Do you have too many facesets and preloading too much into memory and sometimes they still get delayed? You can stack them like this and still be usable in the editor. Just try to keep it under the height of 1024 to avoid loading issues:

Saving Memory B

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If you have a lot of animations, I recommend using this. It will save you a lot of space. Or use @KanaX 's Spriter Plugin.

How to Setup Teleport/Transfer Locations with just One Event

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Normally, you copy and paste numerous events that teleport to different locations or use a parallel process to check regions to know when and where to teleport/transfer your player. Here's a more effective way to do it:

- Use a Plugin that can modify Event Hitboxes. Event Hitbox Resize by @Yanfly, Big Events by @Shaz or Orange Event Hitboxes by @Hudell will do the trick.

- Create a single event and give it the event notetag property based on which Plugin you are using. If you have a map with 5 tiles long to teleport to another location, then give your event either:

Shaz's Plugin:

Code:

<bigEvent: 5x1>

Hudell's Plugin:

Code:

<hitboxWidth:5>

- Grab the x,y based of the tiles you are interested in.


- Add a conditional branch inside that event using the Script Function. We'll be using the following Script Call:

Code:

($gamePlayer.pos(x, y))

It should end up looking like this:


This tutorial doesn't just apply to Teleport/Transfer. It has multiple uses depending on your needs!

My game runs at 120FPS! (Works only in RMMV 1.6.1)

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Go and open your project folder/package.json
Make it look like this:

Code:

{
    "name": "",
    "main": "index.html",
    "js-flags": "--expose-gc ",
    "window": {
        "title": "",
        "toolbar": false,
        "width": 816,
        "height": 624,
        "icon": "icon/icon.png"
    },
    "chromium-args": "--limit-fps=60"
}

Disable Window Resizing
Add the propery resizable in package.json.

Code:

{
    "name": "",
    "main": "index.html",
    "js-flags": "--expose-gc ",
    "window": {
        "title": "",
        "toolbar": false,
        "width": 816,
        "height": 624,
        "icon": "icon/icon.png",
        "resizable": false
    }
}

 

Spend less time searching for events tip
So, this is just a simple QoL I did for myself while game devving. Sometimes, just putting all your initialize code on the top left isn't enough. Maybe you have to use an empty map for reasons unknown and have 0 visual cues on what's going on. Or even when you do, you have a lot of events that you transform via code or whatsoever with no pictures on them strewn across the map and you don't remember what they're for. There can be a lot of reasons!

Here's a template of what I do to workaround this and how they will appear in editor.

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Dedicate the first page for the label. The 2nd page is the real start of your content. It's rare that you should need all 20 pages, so the QoL helps a lot!

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