User:Andrusi

Andrusi is a well-meaning OHR fan who really wishes he could manage to follow the source code for more than 4 consecutive lines and therefore figure out whether any of the ideas he sometimes has are actually feasible.

And apparently as of 2025 I'm also on a quest to clean up wiki articles? I don't know how this happened.

Operation: Documentation

An attempt to nail down existing documentation of OHRRPGCE features that are provided (directly) through CUSTOM, as a potential step towards having a proper "user's manual." This section is organized according to CUSTOM's main menu. I don't think that's necessarily the best way to organize this information in terms of actual usability but it works for my purposes here.

Edit Graphics

• tilesets
  • Making Maptiles, Part 1 - Maptiles
• sprites
  • Making Walkabout Graphics, Making a Hero, Part 2 - Walkabouts, Part 3 - Hero Sprites, Part 4 - Enemy Sprites, Importing Graphics, Community Graphics Resources, How do I add new colors to my palette?, How do I copy and paste a palette?, How do I make a blank/ all transparent sprite?, How do I make heroes and npcs invisible?, What are the correct sizes for each type of graphics?
• backdrops
  • Battles#Importing Fullscreen Battle Backdrops, How do I import a title screen?, How do I make my imported backgrounds look better?
• UI colors
  • How do you customize the in-battle Pause screen?, What color-combos do the different textbox border colors use?
• box styles
  • this is a relatively new feature (only 400 years old) and I'm not surprised to not have found proper documentation
• master palettes
  • I would like to make my game all in black and white. How can I fill the master palette with various shades of grey?
• fonts
  • Fonts, Where can I find fonts?, How do I make dialogues with letter that has accents or in a foreign language?

Edit Maps

• Map Construction, Chapter 4 - Map Construction, Moving on to Map Construction, What are the particularities of a world map and how can I make one?
• map settings
  • How do I display map names?, How do I run a plotscript after a battle?, How do I run a plotscript before a battle?
  • minimap
• map editing: resize, tilemap, layers, wallmap, door placement, npc placement, foemap, zones, editor settings
  • Part 1 - Using Map Layers, How can I delete an accidentally placed NPC?, How do I make a wall that both heroes & NPCs can't pass?, How do I make a wall that heroes can't pass, but NPCs can?, How do I make maptiles that hurt you?, How do I move or reorder a map layer?, Zones
• door logic
  • How do I make buildings?, Conditional Door Links, How do I make a key-locked Door?
• NPCs
  • NPCs, Chapter 5 - NPCs, How do I make a treasure chest?

Edit Heroes

• Making a Hero
• appearance and misc: graphical stuff, base level, experience, default weapon
  • How do I make a battle where the heroes attack automatically?, How do I use precise weapon placement?, What is the formula for how much experience it takes for a levelup? (obsolete), Why do all my heroes have the same attack?
• stats
  • What do each of the stats (HP, MP, etc...) do?, How do I get rid of the Ctr (counter) stat?, How do stats increase at level up?
• spell lists
  • How do I give my hero spells?, How do I make a hero learn spells from level-ups?, I added new spells to my hero's spell list, why aren't they there when I play?/When I give my heroes spells, the lists aren't coming up in the Spells menu or in battle, and I did name the spell lists! Why?, What are Level MP based/FF1 Style spells?, How does level MP increase when levelling up?
• battle menu
• bitsets
• elemental resistances
• hero tags
• equipment
• counterattacks

Edit Enemies

• Battles
• appearance
  • Dissolves
• rewards
  • When exactly will an enemy drop its 'rare item' on death?
• stats
  • Every time a battle starts, the enemies die instantly and I win without doing anything. Why?, My enemies never move or attack, why?, My enemy's turn takes forever, why?, When I attack my enemies they don't die, Why?
• bitsets
  • How do I make a battle end only by killing a specific enemy while other enemies remain alive?, How do I make a boss battle that the player cannot run away from?, I gave the my enemies HP, but they still die instantly. Why?, What is MP Idiot?
• elemental resistances
• spawning
  • How do I make a boss with multiple forms?
• attacks
  • How do I give an enemy a "Counter-attack"?, When exactly will an enemy use its "Desperation" attacks?
• usage

Edit Attacks

• Battles, Making Complex Attacks
• appearance: attack graphic and animation, attacker animation, delays, captions
  • What do each of the attack motions do?, How do I make enemies speak in battle?, How do I use attack captions to make dialogue in battles?
• sounds
• target and aiming settings: aim math, targeting types
  • How is the attack dodge rate calculated?
• damage settings inc. damage bitsets
  • How can I make an attack do an exact amount of damage each time?, How do I give stun and poison to the enemy so that they can use it on the heroes?, How do I make a drain or leech spell that steals HP?, How do I make a hero attack several times during a battle turn?, How do I prevent a hero from attacking several times during a battle turn?, How do I make a poisoning or stunning attack?, Stun, Regen, Poison, and Mute, How do I make a stat-boosting spell/attack?, How do I make a stat-weakening spell/attack?, How does the "Absorb Damage" bitset work?, How is damage calculated?, What does the 'mute' attack option do?
• cost
  • How do I make a weapon that requires ammunition?
• chaining and counterattacks
• bitsets
  • How do I make enemies have specific targets?, What does the "Automatically choose target" bitset do, and how does it work?
• additional effects: control, turncoat, defector, sprite flip, spawning
• elemental bits and elemental failure conditions
  • Is there any way to add captions to an attack when the target is "Weak to" or "Strong to" the attack?, Is there any way to adjust how much the "Weak to" and "Strong to" will add or remove from the damage?
• tags
• transmogrification

Edit Battle Formations

• Battles yet again
• enemy formations
  • Why do my spawned enemies all appear in the top left corner?
• formation sets
  • I made enemies and formations, why can't I fight them when I walk around my map?, How do I make certain enemy formations rarer than others in the same formation set?
• hero formations

Edit Items

• Items
• equipment
  • How are weapon pictures used?
• use item in battle
• use item outside of battle (oob attacks, teach spells)
  • How do I make a healing item?, Permanent Stat-Boosters, How do I make an item or spell that revives dead heroes?, Out-of-battle attacks
• item tags

Edit Shops

• Shops, How do I make a save point?, How do I make an inn where you can hire heroes?

Edit Text Boxes

• How do I change the borders of the text boxes?, I am using a hero that can be renamed several times by the player. What name should I use for him when I write in the text boxes?
• conditionals
  • How do I make an Inn?, How do I add heroes to my party?, How do I prevent a hero in the reserve party from appearing in the team menu?, How do I make a battle start after talking to an NPC?, How do I make a battle start when you bump into an NPC?, How do I make it so that when you talk to a NPC then it shows a different screen?, Adding, Removing and Swapping Heroes
• choices
  • How do I make choices in a dialog box?
• box linking
  • How do I make an NPC say something different later?, How do I make an NPC that gives you hints all along the game?, How do I make an intro story thing? (text boxes with backgrounds)

Edit Tag Names

• Tags

Edit Slice Collections

• Slices FAQ, Slice Collection Editor Tutorial

Edit Vehicles

• Vehicles, How do I make Vehicles?, How do I make my vehicle remember where I parked it?, How do I make a vehicle the player is riding carry over to the next map when the vehicle uses a door?

Import Music

• How do I make music?, How do I import music?, Where can I find music?

Import Sound Effects

• Sound Effects, Where can I find sound effects?

Edit Global Text Strings

• How do I change the money symbol?

Edit General Game Settings

• How do I change my starting location?, How do I make a save slot load automatically instead of the load menu when the game launches?, How do I make the heroes of my team appear behind the main hero?, How do I prevent a monster from attacking when the heros are choosing their attack?, How long is a game tick?, Why don't my special plotscripts work?

Script Management

• Plotscripting Dictionary, How do I make a HS file?, How do I make a HSI file?, How do I make a HSS file?, What is a script/plotscript and how do I write them?, My Script compiles, but CUSTOM won't show the latest scripts I added!, My scripts won't compile! Why?, Why can't I have more than one script at a time?

Distribute Game

• Category:Game Distribution
• Distributing a Game, Chapter 17 - Distributing a Game, How do I give my game an icon?

Test Game

• probably documentation for GAME?

Miscellaneous (doesn't correspond to any menu)

• How do I start?, How do I make screenshots?, I am running under Linux. Can I use the OHRRPGCE? and if so what version of the Custom.exe and Game.exe shall I download?, What are the command-line arguments that the OHRRPGCE accepts?, What are the limits on various things?
• stats in general
  • What do each of the stats (HP, MP, etc...) do?, What is Hits?, What is MP~ ?, What is the Ctr stat and what does it do?

Cool Tricks

A collection of wiki pages that go something like "OHRRPGCE doesn't explicitly have support for this specific feature you probably know from commercial RPGs, but here's how you can replicated it with plotscripting/slices/cleverly designed enemies/etc."

The power of the skip title screen bitset

• How do I add screens before my title game screen?
• How do I implement a "suspend save" feature?
• How do I make an animated title screen?
• How do I make title options like Start Game, Continue Game, etc.?

Battle flourishes

• Can you make heroes appear during a battle?
• How do I make a boss with multiple forms?
• Is there any way to add captions to an attack when the target is "Weak to" or "Strong to" the attack?
• Interesting Fights and Combat Situations

Stylish maps

• How can I implement weather on a map?
  • How do I make weather effects?
• How can I make a world map where the player just presses a key and the hero walks to another place on the map? (needs fixing)
• How do I make a different song play when you ride a vehicle?
• How do I make the screen scroll like a Zelda game?
• What are the particularities of a world map and how can I make one?
• Scripts:Diagonal walking
• Scripts:Stairs

I need a hero

• Choosing Between Multiple Heroes
• How can I allow the player to rename someone before they join their team?
• How can I allow the player to rename someone who never joins their team?
• How do I change the main hero during a cutscene so that the player can't notice it?

Stat stuff

• Permanent Stat-Boosters
• Can you modify a hero's stats, enemy's stats, money, etc. by a percentage rather than by a whole number with plotscripting?
• Healing
  • How can I make it so that an inn restores HP, but not MP?
  • How do I prevent a dead hero from reviving at the Inn?
  • How do I make a church?
  • How do I make an item or spell that revives dead heroes?
• How do I level up my hero using plotscripting?
• How do I restore my hero's stats during a plotscript?

Saving and loading

• How do I implement autosave?
• How do I make a save point?
  • How do I make an inn in which you can also save the game?
• How do I make a save slot load automatically instead of the load menu when the game launches?

User input

• How can I make more than two choices in a text box?
• How do I make more than two choices in a text box using figures?
• How do I implement new keys for the player with hero jumps as an example?
• How do I implement pause outside battles/ in my battle system?
• Scripts:Radial Menus

Cool story event effects

• How can I draw a circle of light around the hero?
• How do I give the screen little and/or big shake?
• How do I make a "fake" movie using backdrops?
• How do I make one, two, or three NPCs follow the hero?
• Scripts:Line of sight

Puzzles and progression

• How do I script a wait that the player can skip by pressing a key?
• How do I make an intro story thing? (text boxes with backgrounds)
• How can I make a combination lock using multiple digits?
• How do I make a key-locked Door?
• How do I update shop items?
• How do I make an NPC have a "line of sight" or an area in which it can detect a hero and how do I make it act upon it?
• How do I make an NPC that gives you hints all along the game?
• How do I make the player lose all their money and give it back later?
• How do I make the story continue after you die in battle?
• How do I save a hero's equipment when removing them?

Toys for the player

• How do I make a Bank where you can store money/items?
  • How do I make a safe-deposit box locked with a password?
• How do I make a Teleport to town item?
• How do I make a teleporter that transports you to an "HQ" thoughout the whole game?
• How do I make a treasure chest that contains many items and/or more than $32767?
• How do I make an "enemy-repelling" item?
• Scripts:Dash

Miscellaneous

• I would like to make my game all in black and white. How can I fill the master palette with various shades of grey?