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I come from the RPG Maker XP days where you could like... I dunno, actually create an animation. It's hard to even explain it because it was so basic, but you could like... actually add particle effects at different frame timings and... create an animation.
...what happened? I mean, RPG Maker has come so far and so much has been improved so much since the old days... HOW did this section of it go SO far backwards? I literally can't change anything about the length of an animation anymore. I simply want to make an animation (which I can't even change anything about because it's a gif now or something?) pause a little after its finished so that when a double attack weapon attacks twice, it doesn't go off in like 1/4 of a second. How can I do this? There's no way for me to change... well, anything about the animation, aside from adding a sound effect or flash effect. And even that doesn't seem to take if it goes outside of the length of the gif animation. I used to be able to add an effect at a certain frame that nobody would see just so the animation would extend to that frame. Now that doesn't work anymore, meaning... I really have no control over any of this, save some sounds and lighting effects.
Has this system really been regressed so far backwards since the XP days? The whole point, the very thing that makes RPG Maker programs fun, is that we don't have to be professionals and have special tools in order to create our own games. I wouldn't know the first thing about making a gif, man. I don't have that kind of knowledge, nor the type of program necessary to do that. The whole point used to be that I didn't need to have special outside programs; I could just load up RPG Maker and start making a game, albeit simple. But I could still do it. This is just... wow.
...what happened? I mean, RPG Maker has come so far and so much has been improved so much since the old days... HOW did this section of it go SO far backwards? I literally can't change anything about the length of an animation anymore. I simply want to make an animation (which I can't even change anything about because it's a gif now or something?) pause a little after its finished so that when a double attack weapon attacks twice, it doesn't go off in like 1/4 of a second. How can I do this? There's no way for me to change... well, anything about the animation, aside from adding a sound effect or flash effect. And even that doesn't seem to take if it goes outside of the length of the gif animation. I used to be able to add an effect at a certain frame that nobody would see just so the animation would extend to that frame. Now that doesn't work anymore, meaning... I really have no control over any of this, save some sounds and lighting effects.
Has this system really been regressed so far backwards since the XP days? The whole point, the very thing that makes RPG Maker programs fun, is that we don't have to be professionals and have special tools in order to create our own games. I wouldn't know the first thing about making a gif, man. I don't have that kind of knowledge, nor the type of program necessary to do that. The whole point used to be that I didn't need to have special outside programs; I could just load up RPG Maker and start making a game, albeit simple. But I could still do it. This is just... wow.