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In my opinion one of the hardest parts of scripting for RPG Maker isn't the syntax or the logic behind it, but rather understanding what RPG Maker's base scripts are doing and what methods it uses to produce certain behavior.  While MV's code seems fairly well-written and searchable, the sheer quantity of different methods that it bounces between, and the sparse commenting, make understanding the game's behavior a painful guess-and-check process and until we've spent hundreds of hours working around the different parts of the code base, it can be difficult to make changes that are really simple from a pure JavaScript standpoint, largely like trying to edit someone else's plugin.


I remember HBGames had a pretty good (though incomplete) walkthrough of what each page and method was doing for the RMXP base (default) scripts, but I couldn't find anything like that for Ace (where it took me months for the scripts' behavior to become second nature), nor for MV (where I'm still not even close yet).  An explanation of what each method is doing (and what other methods and properties that this method use and why), as well as a long-form walkthrough on common processes (like Skill Selection and Opening/Drawing of the Main Pause Menu), would be immensely helpful for scripters who haven't spent 300 hours searching through the code base yet but want to create stuff!


So I'm posting this in the hope that it will inspire someone who has put in that time and figured out how everything works to share that knowledge in a way that lots of people will find it.  If you make a website, it's something I would visit a ton and promote it like crazy whenever people have questions.  If you want to write a paid guide, it's something I would gladly pay $10+ for a digital copy of.  I really think it would be the single most useful resource there is for MV's other scripters.