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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.
Complete Chapters
- Keyboard Conventions
- Getting Started
- Making Maptiles
- Making Walkabout Graphics
- Importing BMP graphics
- Moving on to Map Construction
- Making a Hero
- Battles
- How to use NPCs and Tags
- Adding, Removing, Swapping, Heroes
- Animating Maptiles
- Vehicle Use
Appendicies
In-progress Chapters
Suggested New Chapters
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- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Text Boxes, But Were Afraid To Ask
- Choosing Between Multiple Heroes
- Stun, Regen, and Poison
FAQ
Alphabetical List of Frequently Asked Questions
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- Are you Dead?
- Are you Really Dead?
- Are you going to make a Windows version?
- Are you going to make a version that supports hi-res graphics, 3D, etc...?
- Can a hero timer activate tiles preprogrammed with time windows to start battles when the hero encounters them?
- Can I make my own version of Wandering Hamster?
- Can I sell RPGs I make with the OHRRPGCE?
- Did you really make this with QuickBasic?
- Error: "Out of memory in module GAME at address XXXX:XXXX"
- Even if I disable the minimap, I can still display it with F1
- Every time a battle starts, the enemies die instantly and I win without doing anything. Why?
- Expected number but found ___
- Expected top-level declaration but found ___
- How can I move my graphics between RPG files?
- How can I run a script instead of/before/after the menu comes up?
- How can I set or remove animating maptiles with plotscripting?
- How come you are making it for DOS? I thought DOS was dead
- How does level MP increase when levelling up?
- How do I add heroes to my party?
- How do I animate maptiles?
- How do I avoid script buffer overflows?
- How do I call one script directly from another script?
- How do I change my starting location?
- How do I change the resources Windows assigns to my soundcard?
- How do I convert MIDI music into BAM music?
- How do I convert WAV or MP3 music to BAM music?
- How do I end the game?
- How do I get more Conventional DOS memory?
- How do I give my hero spells?
- How do I have one enemy target one specific other enemy?
- How do I learn to draw better graphics?
- How do I link script files together?
- How do I make Vehicles?
- How do I make a "Save Point"
- How do I make a NPCs say something different later?
- How do I make a battle start after talking to an NPC?
- How do I make a boss battle that the player cannot run away from?
- How do I make a different song play when you ride a vehicle?
- How do I make a fighting game?
- How do I make a healing item?
- How do I make a hero learn spells from items?
- How do I make a hero learn spells from level-ups?
- How do I make a key-locked Door?
- How do I make a poisoning or stunning attack?
- How do I make a stat-boosting spell/attack
- How do I make a treasure chest?
- How do I make a treasure chest that contains many items or more than $32750?
- How do I make a teleporter that transports you to an "HQ" thoughout the whole game?
- How do I make an intro story thing? (text boxes with backgrounds)
- How do I make an item or spell that revives dead heroes?
- How do I make an item that shows a text box?
- How do I make an NPC look like it's jumping?
- How do I make choices in a dialogue box?
- How do I make it so that an enemy spawns only when multiple other enemies are killed?
- How do I make maptiles that hurt you?
- How do I make my imported backgrounds look better?
- How do I make my vehicle remember where I parked it?
- How do I make the story continue after you die in battle?
- How do I place shops?
- How do I restore my hero's stats during a plotscript?
- How do I start?
- How do I take Screen Shots of...?
- How do I use MIDI2BAM to make BAM music?
- How do I use NOTATE.EXE to make BAM music?
- How do I use scancodes?
- How do I use Stephanie's PC Piano to make BAM music?
- How does script-debug mode work?
- How is damage calculated?
- How is the attack dodge rate calculated?
- How long is a game tick?
- How many _______ can I make?
- HssEd keeps asking for HSPEAK
- I am using the Paintbrush program that comes with windows...
- I can't figure out how to download the OHRRPGCE, Help!
- I can't figure out how to install and run the OHRRPGCE, Help!
- I can't read the HSPEAK error screen!
- I click the program and nothing at all happens
- I click the program and my computer crashes
- I click the program and see an error message
- I click the program and the screen goes blank
- I forgot my password! What do I do?
- I get an error message about AUTOEXEC.NT
- I get an error message about CONFIG.NT
- I get an error message about the 16-bit MS-DOS Subsystem
- I get an error message saying: The system is not suitable for running MS-DOS and microsoft Windows applications
- I made enemies and formations, why can't I fight them when I walk around my map?
- I made backgrounds, but now I can't import them!
- I want a new feature!
- I want more items, NPCs, elements, spells, etc...
- Is Bob a dog?
- It doesn't work!
- My battles don't work! What is wrong?
- My enemies never move or attack, why?
- My mouse cursor is missing in the graphics editor!
- My Script compiles, but I can't find the .HS file!
- My scripts won't compile! Why?
- No data to compile
- So when will it be finished?
- The OHRRPGCE doesn't work on my computer! Why?
- The program runs, but doesn't work like I expect it to
- The program used to work just fine, but now it doesn't!
- Unrecognised name ___. It has not been defined as script, constant, variable, or anything else
- What are scancodes?
- What are Tags for?
- What are the Debugging keys?
- What are the correct sizes for each type of graphics?
- What are the limits on various things?
- What do each of the attack motions do?
- What do the run-time script errors mean?
- What files do I need to give people so they can play my RPG?
- What is a variable?
- What is file X in WORKING.TMP?
- What is MP~ ?
- What is MP Idiot?
- What is so special about the number 32767?
- What is the 3rd Party HSI?
- What is the difference between the "Own Item" tag and the "is in Inventory" tag?
- What is the formula for how much experience it takes for a levelup?
- When is the next update?
- When exactly will an enemy drop its 'rare item' on death?
- When should I run RPGFIX.EXE?
- Where can I find games?
- Where can I find other RPG makers, or makers for other types of games?
- Where can I go for help?
- Why did you choose BAM music over other formats?
- Why did you pick an acronym that is so hard to pronounce?
- Why do all my heroes have the same attack?
- Why do my scripts lock up on the "Wait for NPC" command?
- Why do my spawned enemys all appear in the top left corner?
- Why does BAM music sound worse than MIDI music?
- Why doesn't BAM music work on my computer?
- Why doesn't my Game-Over plotscript work?
- Why doesn't my Load-Game plotscript work?
- Why don't my pushable NPCs move?
- Why don't my special plotscripts work?
- Will there ever be sound effects?
- Will you ever add more animation frames?
- Will you ever make a Linux version? Macintosh? BeOS?
- Will you ever make import movies?
- Will you ever support MIDI music?
- Will you ever support MOD music?
- Will you ever support MP3 music?
- Will you ever support WAV files?
- Will you raise the limit on number of NPCs?
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