On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:53 AM, James Paige <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob@hamsterrepublic.com" target="_blank">Bob@hamsterrepublic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 04:33:23AM -0600, Kizul Emeraldfire wrote:<br>
> What exactly are they for, and what is/will it be possible to do with them<br>
> (both currently, and after they're fully implemented)? >.><br>
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Well, right now all you can do with them is play with them in the "Edit<br>
Screen Layouts" menu in nightly wip builds of custom.<br>
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In the future, they will be used for a lot of things, including:<br>
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* Customizing previously uncustomizable screens like equip, shops, and<br>
others.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Neat. That'll be nice.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
* Getting scriptable access to things you couldn't before, like map<br>
layers (think paralax scrolling)<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Sweet! :D That's a feature I've been wanting for ages, after alpha transparency (and MODE7-fakery, but that'd be more difficult)!<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Providing a unified scripting interface for plotstrings, plotsprites,<br>
menus, and even NPCs.<br>
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There is more information at<br>
<a href="http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/wiki/ohrrpgce/index.php/Plan_for_slice_tree" target="_blank">http://gilgamesh.hamsterrepublic.com/wiki/ohrrpgce/index.php/Plan_for_slice_tree</a><br>
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James</blockquote><div><br>Thanks. :)<br><br>Say, while I'm thinking of it — though it's a bit off-topic for the e-mail — when (if ever) might the O.H.R.RPG.C.E. allow a choice between tile-based and pixel-based movement? Just, y'know, so that people don't have to script up hacky workarounds to have their heroes/NPCs move a pixel at a time instead of a tile at a time. ;)<br>
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