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[LinktheMaster]

Welcome to the latest random scripting project by LTM! But just to warn you, it's not done with yet, and may not be for quite some time. And that's assuming I'll finish it. But here we go anyway!

I started this project today because I wanted a challenge. Something that would be fairly neat and very uncommon in the ZC world. And, since I'm a big Tales fan, this was the most obvious choice.

So I started to work, and I've made a bit of progress. Take a look at these two videos:

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RisNfObpPhk

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=FMxwilF3oig


Things I've gotten to work:
1. Movement
2. Different poses
3. Scrolling background

Things I plan on doing: (In this order.)
1. Running
2. Attacking (just slashes)
3. Enemies (very simple ones, mind you)
4. Menu and health screen
5. Special abilities


Obviously there's a lot more things that have to be done before this is finished, but I just wanted to share with you all something that I've been working on. I'll use this topic for other videos as well as releasing the code if I decide to do so.

Opinions? Suggestions?

Edited by LinktheMaster, 03 August 2008 - 03:20 PM.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

This is way awesome...
Perfect work! I REALLY can't wait to see this finished.
A good friend of me once said "scripting will be the death of ZeldaClassic"
I agreed... NOW, I can say that I, and he, where SO wrong.
Scripting has proven to be the FUTURE... it's all for the greater good!!

[Plissken]

Wouldn't stuff like this and Grik...uh...yeah that thing (gah, **** you gleeok I can never remember that name) prove that it is killing Zelda Classic.

Nah, I'm just playing but this is very impressive so far. Looking very much like the SNES classic.

Edited by Plissken, 03 August 2008 - 04:07 PM.

[LinktheMaster]

Thanks for the support. Hopefully it won't fail to meet your expectations!

[Sacred Nym]

Dude... this is ZC not RPG Maker... but even still... Oh my god...

[Naldrag]

That looks quite nice... I want the scrolling part of that script. (I'd be good for a 2D project I'd really want to do.) X:

[Joe123]

This is pretty fancy.
I'm guessing it's not that complicated a script either, just locks Link's inputs inside a box in the middle of the screen, and has a drawtile which scrolls along and wraps around when he is moving against the edges of that locked area?
I like the character spirte too.
Much better than having Z1 Link there.

Does Tales of Phantasia have enemy encounters (like Final Fantasy or Tales of Symphonia or something) or is it always in this kind of view?

it is killing Zelda Classic.

Hell yeah, Kirby's not helping that either =P


And who said that anyway Migo?

[LinktheMaster]

This is pretty fancy.
I'm guessing it's not that complicated a script either, just locks Link's inputs inside a box in the middle of the screen, and has a drawtile which scrolls along and wraps around when he is moving against the edges of that locked area?
I like the character spirte too.
Much better than having Z1 Link there.

Does Tales of Phantasia have enemy encounters (like Final Fantasy or Tales of Symphonia or something) or is it always in this kind of view?

It's not really that much of a script at the moment. There's about 10 variables to keep up with and several if statements, but it's not that hard or long at all. The hard part won't come until I get into attacks and precise collision detection. Then again, that won't be so much hard as it will be tedious.

And it's random battles, but I'm not sure if I'll do that part. I'm doubt I'll be making this into an actual quest. It's more of just a concept demo to show off what exactly can be done with ZC. If you completely write up your own engine, then you can do quite a bit. But, then again, when you get up to that level, you might as well just work with allegro or another game making library. It would be a lot more efficient that way.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

This is pretty fancy.
I'm guessing it's not that complicated a script either, just locks Link's inputs inside a box in the middle of the screen, and has a drawtile which scrolls along and wraps around when he is moving against the edges of that locked area?
I like the character spirte too.
Much better than having Z1 Link there.

Does Tales of Phantasia have enemy encounters (like Final Fantasy or Tales of Symphonia or something) or is it always in this kind of view?
Hell yeah, Kirby's not helping that either =P
And who said that anyway Migo?

Matthew Broderick, if I recall correctly
(While he was running from godzilla)
I believe this is his exact quote:

Holy ****, this is KILLING Zelda Classic!!!

Now, in all seriosity, I think it was MatthewPZC who said so...

[Adem]

OMG!!!! YES!!!! But...OMG!!! NOO!!!! Okay...
I REALLY WANT THIS, Like, REALLY bad, but I can't see what It looks like cause I have a stupid filter on my computer that blocks youtube. T_T Noooooo....Can you post screens? Or something? I'm a huge Tales nerd. >.<

[LinktheMaster]

I'll try to get some out once I get Cless's attacks worked out.

[Adem]

Yaaay! I never really played ToP, but I want to play it REALLY bad! O.O *looks on ebay* I'm gonna assume that the battle system is simillar to ToS, ToA, or ToW or something similar. I can't wait to see it!

[LinktheMaster]

That looks quite nice... I want the scrolling part of that script. (I'd be good for a 2D project I'd really want to do.) X:

The scrolling part isn't as nice as you may think, unfortunately. It's just DrawTiles, so there's no solidity.

Anyway, I've gotten a bit further. As I said in the video comments, I'm not sure exactly how much more all do since this is mostly just a concept demo. I have no plans to make a full quest out of this due to the lack of time.

But, I've added one attack for Cless, the basics of an enemy (lul, Aquamentus) and running. Don't worry, I'll get away from the Aquamentus, I just needed something for a place holder.

Pictures:


Video:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=gLFGGZ_iyr4

And yeah, at the moment I have a Twilight Princess Link sound effects for the slash.

[Aslion]

Have my babies.
What special moves do you plan on doing?

Edited by gray0x, 04 August 2008 - 11:14 PM.