HOWTO

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Important Note The HowTo is currently undergoing a rewrite and therefore there are currently two versions of it!

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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.

A number of HOWTO chapters are out of date. You might like to check whether the corresponding article in the new HOWTO has been written.

The first part of this HowTo is designed to be read in order, as you create a game from scratch. Later chapters are independent of each other.

HOWTO: Main Chapters

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

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Ah! That is the end of the HOWTO. Do you feel enlightened? Next, see the Extra Tutorials below on specific topics you're interested in.

Anyone who is interested in helping by writing new chapters for the HOWTO can do so by adding a link in the In-progress Chapters section and filling in an article. You can also suggest a new topic by adding a link to the Suggested New Chapters section or leaving a note on the Talk:HOWTO page.

Extra Tutorials

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

The new HowTo is a work in progress and most chapters are still blank. In the meantime see the existing HowTo above

Outline Of Proposed New Howto

Pixel-Art Tutorials

• Lospec's Pixel Tutorial List - The biggest collection of pixel art tutorials on the net!
• So You Want To Be A Pixel Artist? Website (hamster republic mirror) (gas13 mirror) (pete's qb site mirror)
• Pixel Tutorials on Deviantart
• Despain's pixel tutorials (highly suitable for beginners)
• MiniBoss pixel art tutorials (mainly advanced, with a focus on animation)
• shakeyair's The stuff they don't tell you about making good graphics
• Graphics Wizardry - NeoTA's tips for using graphics software like GIMP
• Moogle1's article in HamsterSpeak issue 6
• Gnostic Kathar-sys's Pixel Art Tutorial
• BMR's Beginning Pixels - All About Colors
• BMR's Beginning Pixels - Color Ramps
• BMR's Portrait Tutorial
• BMR's Step-by-Step Cyclops
• BMR's Step-by-Step Balrog
• Pixel Tutorials on Deviantart
• Mark's Pixel Art Tutorial
• Cure's Pixel Art tutorial (covers most major concepts)
• RPG Perspective guide. plus plenty of other perspective related goodies. A lot of content and still in progress :)
• Arne's general 'art-ing' guide. Reviews many important general art practices and concepts. Brief, concise, well illustrated.
• Arne's pixel art technique tutorial. Explores a lot of common pixel art problems.
• See How do I learn to draw better graphics?
• See also Graphics Utilities

In-progress Chapters

• Choosing Between Multiple Heroes
• Zones
• Temporarily Fusing Heros
• Transforming Heroes In Battles
• Achievements
• Creating Chests
• Interesting Fights and Combat Situations
• How to make a Class System
• Turn-based battles compared to Active-time battles

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

• Creating Minigames
• Creating and utilizing music properly
• Customizing Menus

See Also

• F.A.Q. - Frequently Asked Questions
• Plotscripting - What plotscripting is and how to learn it