HOWTO

HOW TO USE the O.H.R.RPG.C.E

Be sure to read the following important articles: An Important Note About Passwords and An important Note About Backups.

Main Chapters

1. Keyboard Conventions
2. Getting Started
3. Making Maptiles
4. Making Walkabout Graphics
5. Importing BMP graphics
6. Moving on to Map Construction
   1. Using Map Layers
7. Making a Hero
8. Battles
9. How to use NPCs and Tags
10. Adding, Removing, Swapping, Heroes
11. Animating Maptiles
12. Vehicle Use
13. Stun, Regen, Poison, and Mute
14. Sound Effects
15. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Text Boxes, But Were Afraid To Ask
    1. Portrait Boxes
16. Distributing a Game

Extra Tutorials

1. Bosses
2. Making Complex Attacks
3. Combat Dialogues
4. Ways to refer to a hero in a script
5. Creating Dungeons
6. Permanent Stat-Boosters
7. Conditional Door Links
8. Creating Cutscenes
9. Using the Mouse in the Game

Pixel-Art Tutorials

1. Gnostic Kathar-sys's Pixel Art Tutorial
2. Spriteart.com Website
3. So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? Website
4. Pixel Tutorials on Deviantart
5. Moogle1's article in HamsterSpeak issue 6
6. See How do I learn to draw better graphics?

In-progress Chapters

1. Choosing Between Multiple Heroes
2. Items
3. Temporarily Fusing Heros
4. Transforming Heroes In Battles
5. Achievements
6. Creating Chests
7. Enemies that respond in paticular to a certain attack, but not to others
8. Interesting Fights and Combat Situations
9. How to make a Class System

Suggested New Chapters

To suggest a chapter, add a link to it here. It is important to remember that the purpose of HOWTO articles is to explain how to use the standard features, not to explain complicated methods of simulating features that don't exist using plotscripting. Stuff like that probably belongs in Category:Example Scripts

1. Creating Minigames
2. Creating and utilizing music properly
3. Using Strings
4. Playing With The Menu

See Also

• F.A.Q. - Frequently Asked Questions
• Plotscripting - What plotscripting is and how to learn it
• Menu by menu guide to CUSTOM