Will there be a Manual for MV?

[Chester]

Will there be a Manual for MV?

It would be nice to have one because when I started ACE (my very first time with RPGMaker) it was quite sad not knowing how to make a smooth event (or how do you even start an event) and I remember crying  and thinking to myself "What the heck is parallel process and why are there rainbow numbers?" I even gave up for like a month after messing around and not knowing a clue to what I'm doing. Not only that, I didn't even know the forum was actually helpful. I believe a manual would help a lot for example: when you are dealing with the monster's stats and how much does each point in the stats actually affect the damage/defense output (because I'm still not very good at that because I'm not going to lie but some of those "popup" hints are not very useful and actually adds more confusion and then there are the good ones ). A manual to tell users (ESPECIALLY New Users) how to navigate through the database and use the database, would be EXTREMELY helpful! Even I would use this manual (for MV) even though I've worked with ACE for about 3 years.

 

[Shaz]

Um ... F1?


Or if you prefer menus, Help > Contents.


XP, VX, and Ace all have manuals.

 

[Chester]

I have been enlightened...

 

[Warabeskel]

Well Ace have a manuel inside the engine only type F1

They have everything for help to understand the engine + help for coding

And we have this community for help other maker

 

[DarknessFalls]

There should be some kind of documentation

 

[Bribolox]

Um ... F1?

Or if you prefer menus, Help > Contents.

XP, VX, and Ace all have manuals.

Well, to be fair, the help contents explain what everything is, but not really how to do anything...

 

[Shaz]

There are also a lot of tutorials on the forum, including beginner tutorials that a number of us who post very actively have in our signatures.

 

[DarknessFalls]

Well, to be fair, the help contents explain what everything is, but not really how to do anything...

hence youtube

 

[Shaz]

TBH I'd be wary of Youtube though - you don't have to be qualified to put something up there, or have your tutorial quality-checked. There have been a sadly large number of people who came here for help after following youtube videos that just taught the wrong way to do things. And look at one of those recent MV previews somebody posted in the announcement thread - a whole flood of people in the thread afterwards were commenting on how bad it was and that he had no clue what he was doing.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

It actually told me how to do a lot... I've learned a lot in scripting just by reading that help file.

 

[Shaz]

True. I got more out of the scripting section of the help file, and for "how to" stuff with the database, I find the forum is the best.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

I wouldn't really expect the help file to deal with "How to make this skill" or something as that is something that is for us users to actually do...

 

[DarknessFalls]

When in doubt ask on the forums there are plenty of qualified people to help.

Remember kids were all learning too

 

[TakeHomeTheCup]

Rainbow numbers?

The help file in Ace was good.

 

[Shaz]

regions

 

[Raybrite]

It seems that many on here do not want any documentation except the help file.
Some of new people are not that good at it and some of us don't know code either. That is why we are here.
I am going to try using the manual on using VX Ace on MV and see if I can make the game I made there on MV. It so, I will let everyone know.