CROSS ENGINE: Combining Chrono Engine with Altimit Movement

Restart · 2020-06-09T14:38:33+0900

Latest Version: Cross Engine Alpha 0.20.06.26 Demo Project What is Cross Engine? Over the course of the last few months I've been working on my game, and I decided I wanted to combine Altimit Movement and Mog's Chrono Engine. Cross Engine is what I call the big pile of functions that makes both of them work together, giving both pixel movement and ABS mode. It also includes bugfixes, and QoL features that came up when I was doing things (most of my notes to self thread is included). Basically, this is all stuff I found useful, and hope that other people will find useful as well. Why's it called Cross Engine? Partially because it's a Cross-Compatible Engine for making games, but mostly because it's a followup to a beloved classic which killed off Chrono. Compatibility Patches Cross Engine now works with yanfly's itemcore, altimit movement, yanfly's item spawner, yanfly's doodads, and galv's camera plugin (the last of which is actually essential to avoiding event/doodad jitter). Also, Ultra Mode 7. Spoiler: Other New Features: 8-directional, 2 directional, and 1-directional Spritesheets: Sure, a lot of people have 8-directional spritesheets (and I support all the major formats), but how many people have ONE-directional spritesheets? With Cross Engine, you can take any old image, give it a filename, and put it in. Save it as $Angel(f1)(d1).png, and BAM, it's usable as an event. No mucking around in photoshop making a spritesheet with four versions of the same sprite. But that's not all! I also added intelligent sprite flipping, as well. If you named that angel $Angel(f1)(d-1).png instead, it will flip to face left if it moves left, and flip to face right if it moves right. Split poses and actions One of the things really dragging down the pace of a chrono engine game is that characters were locked in place while they animated. I have changed the engine so now you have a separate 'pose duration' and 'act duration'. Pose duration means your character is playing an animation, act duration means they can't move or cast anything. I've also added a 'cooldown duration', which lets you move, but doesn't let you cast any abilities. Intelligent Tag Parsing 1) Tags parse from right-to-left, instead of left-to-right. This seems super minor, but it means that if your base character sprite is $Harold(f4)(d8), and he has a casting pose "_casting(f8)(d1)", then the new spritesheet sizes will take precedence! 2) Filename Completion: Let's say your idle sprite for harold is "$Harold(f4)(d8)_idle(f1)(d1)". In base Chrono engine this would cause rpgmaker to screech to a halt, because it can't find "$Harold(f4)(d8)_idle". However, upon starting up the game, Cross Engine makes a list of every file in your characters folder. When it checks for poses, it will first check for an exact match. If it doesn't get it, it will check to see if there's any longer versions of that filename. If it checks for "$Harold(f4)(d8)_idle", and can't find it, it will return "$Harold(f4)(d8)_idle(f1)(d1)". What if there's no match at all? The event keeps its base sprite. In playtesting, it will whine about it in the console. No crashing. 3) Negative values are now allowed for x and y offsets. Walking actions You know how in megaman you can shoot your little gun and megaman keeps on walking? Using the tag (walking) will keep your character in the same part of the animation cycle when transitioning into the new pose. Practically speaking, that means you can do the megaman things. If the character isn't moving, it will fall back onto a _static pose, so you don't run in place whenever you shoot. Standing Pose One of the big constraints on having fluid animation in rmmv is that your walking frames have to include a static pose used for standing. If you define a 'standing' pose, your character will use that instead when they aren't moving. While you can technically do this with an idle pose, I wanted to have both in my project. Faint Poses Mog was going to implement faint/death poses distinct from damage poses, but didn't end up finishing it. I have an implementation of this, so you can have a robot get banged up a bit when it gets hit, then violently explode into a miserable pile of circuits when it dies. Basic Preloader Function One thing you'll notice using chrono engine is that whenever creatures change poses for the first time, you'll sometimes see a flicker as the file loads. I have added a function which preloads all poses for a creature. If you enter ImageManager.preloadPoses('Ralph'), it will find 'Ralph_attack', 'Ralph_defense', 'Ralph_is_unstoppable(F4)(d8)(s2)(x4)', et cetera, and preload them. This doesn't happen automatically - you have to invoke it each time you're worried about preloading. New plugin command: disable_idleposes Turns off idle poses. Good for cutscenes where characters mugging at the camera is unwanted. Turn them back on with enable_idleposes Intelligent Rotations Do you want a magic circle of spinning runes? I've got you covered…

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AquaEcho

#121 Sep 20, 2023, 06:41 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
It goes faster, but still break and walk.
Edit: maybe there's something we can modify this event id 73, but I don't know how.
Could you show your other event page, event 74? According to the help file if the tool_act_duration is 0 you can walk and fire.
Ancient_Eagle

#122 Sep 20, 2023, 06:43 PM Source

ID 73 is like a gun, but when hold attack button like charge shot, it goes ID 74.
AquaEcho

#123 Sep 20, 2023, 07:00 PM Source

I can't reproduce the issue. If I set cooldown to 0 I can rapidfire spam bullets. What does the move route look like?
Ancient_Eagle

#124 Sep 20, 2023, 07:08 PM Source

this.locate(this.user().x+Math.sign(this.user()._zoomData[0])*0.8,this.user().y-0.6); this._direction=5+Math.sign(this.user()._zoomData[0]);this.rLoc(20*this.user()._zoomData[0],0)
Ancient_Eagle

#125 Sep 20, 2023, 07:42 PM Source

Anything that involves splitting apart the shooting animation from being stuck in place is going to require rewriting large portions of the act code
Automatic Firearms. Chrono Engine ABS
AquaEcho

#126 Sep 20, 2023, 07:46 PM Source

Oh, you're using the gun from Restart's demo project. To be honest I never tried that demo until now. That gun is designed that way, why don't you use the other guns in that project (the freerunner's machine bow or the megamachine gun)?
Ancient_Eagle

#127 Sep 20, 2023, 07:48 PM Source

I test them, same issue still break-walk break-walk
It will need a few things to fix it a code, or maybe modify the events
AquaEcho

#128 Sep 20, 2023, 08:32 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
I test them, same issue still break-walk break-walk
It will need a few things to fix it a code, or maybe modify the events
What you're actually asking is how to make a tool event stay on the map permanently (or as long as you're holding down a button) as they're designed to be spawned and unspawned. I have some ideas but I'll need to test it out. I'll get back to you later today.
Ancient_Eagle

#129 Sep 20, 2023, 08:39 PM Source

See the video, this is what I want when player shoot the guns while walking without break
Edit: I didn't make it, I just record it to play
AquaEcho

#130 Sep 20, 2023, 08:48 PM Source

Use the machine bow. The third number in autofireweapon() is the max number of bullets you can fire so set in to something really high.
Ancient_Eagle

#131 Sep 20, 2023, 09:22 PM Source

Ok cool! but the problem when I am shooting while walk, it's only 1 frame sprite, and it's good one there's no break
AquaEcho

#132 Sep 20, 2023, 09:50 PM Source

Yes, as stated in the other thread, to change poses while firing an automatic weapon you need to put commands to update the player sprite in the weapon move route. You could probably do it with a parallel common event too that runs if the player is using a certain weapon
Automatic Firearms. Chrono Engine ABS
Ancient_Eagle

#133 Sep 27, 2023, 07:25 PM Source

Hello everyone!

AquaEcho said:
Yes, as stated in the other thread, to change poses while firing an automatic weapon you need to put commands to update the player sprite in the weapon move route. You could probably do it with a parallel common event too that runs if the player is using a certain weapon
Automatic Firearms. Chrono Engine ABS
Thanks for wonderful tutorial, it's working now!

I just do need something like a beam (kamehameha, galick gun, masenko, etc...)
Do you now how I can make it? I am trying to find answers, but no one did that
KAMEHAMEHA
jackass__

#134 Oct 3, 2023, 12:43 AM Source

Hi everyone,
I use the Cross Engine on MZ with Fossil and I'm trying to change the move speed of the player but when I do, I get different speed depending of the direction, like normal increase speed to the right and down, and laggy slower speed to the up and left.
Seems to bug with decimals, if I put 5 as speed it works, but I need 4.1 (same I used on MV) and
I doesn't work (tried also 4.5 and more, same problem)

I use this command to change speed $gamePlayer.setMoveSpeed(4.1)
and on the MV version of my project with altimit it worked great but not on MZ.
Any idea how to fix this ? I tried move speed plugins also, like SpeedManager, but same issue as the code up there.
AquaEcho

#135 Oct 3, 2023, 04:09 PM Source

jackass__ said:
Hi everyone,
I use the Cross Engine on MZ with Fossil and I'm trying to change the move speed of the player but when I do, I get different speed depending of the direction, like normal increase speed to the right and down, and laggy slower speed to the up and left.
Seems to bug with decimals, if I put 5 as speed it works, but I need 4.1 (same I used on MV) and
I doesn't work (tried also 4.5 and more, same problem)

I use this command to change speed $gamePlayer.setMoveSpeed(4.1)
and on the MV version of my project with altimit it worked great but not on MZ.
Any idea how to fix this ? I tried move speed plugins also, like SpeedManager, but same issue as the code up there.
I don't have MZ so I can't look into it but I would try to isolate the issue by turning on and off plugins. Once youve figured out what plugin is causing it, look through its code. I suspect it has to do with rounding in the math of diagonal vectors or how the player's position is determined.
jackass__

#136 Oct 3, 2023, 11:43 PM Source

Thanks for your answer, I did isolate the issue I made a clean project with only altimit mz version as plugin and I have the same problem.

I use the Tyruswoo_AltimitMovement version for mz here (dual choice dialogue box fixed on it), but the same problem occurs on this original portage of altimit for mz.

And I didn't had it on mv with standard cross engine altimit version so it might be the mz adaptation but I can't find where is the problem.
It was to do with decimals cause I can put move speed to 5 or 6 but not 4.2 or 5.3 without glitch in upwards and left direction.
AquaEcho

#137 Oct 4, 2023, 12:37 AM Source

Since it's affecting up-left diagonal it most likely has to do with the player position being read as the top left pixel of the tile he is on. Even when the player is in the middle of the tile, the game places him at the whole number coordinates rounded down
jackass__

#138 Oct 4, 2023, 01:07 AM Source

AquaEcho said:
Since it's affecting up-left diagonal it most likely has to do with the player position being read as the top left pixel of the tile he is on. Even when the player is in the middle of the tile, the game places him at the whole number coordinates rounded down
All four diagonals are fine, it's really a problem with upwards or left direction.

I tried something, If I set 'player_circular_movement' to true, I get the same glitch problem with diagonal mouvement except with down+right diagonal (the two directions who already works) and if I set it back to false, all 4 diagonals works.

Think I got it, it was some updates Restart made in the original altimit who were missing in the Mz update, so this part solved it (line 1094 to 1128)
Ancient_Eagle

#139 Oct 14, 2023, 03:10 PM Source

Is there way to make reloading for any guns? for example, I have 60 ammos for pistol, 16 shots, when I reloading, it should be 44 ammos left, and so on...
Any weapons I can use it.
AquaEcho

#140 Oct 14, 2023, 03:29 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
Is there way to make reloading for any guns? for example, I have 60 ammos for pistol, 16 shots, when I reloading, it should be 44 ammos left, and so on...
Any weapons I can use it.
You would probably have to combine the properties of the regular bow and arrow that has consumable bullets and the machine bow. I'll look at it later if you haven't figured it out yourself but I won't be online much today.