3d rpg makers series#

It certainly would have helped decrease the learning curve since you could essentially 'mess up' and the game would prompt you to fill in the blanks. It would be nice, and definitely helpful, to be able to create a class or some such when you need one if you hadn't already. There aren't cascading menus that let you create a sub-type if you haven't already done so you can only load up what you've already created.

Likewise, you might need to have created a piece of a dungeon or trap type before you can use them somewhere else. One piece of character creation may require another, but it might take you a while to learn this. Part of the problem is that it takes a while before you learn the order that things must be created if you're starting from scratch. It throws menu after menu after menu at you, and while this is great in terms of how much control you have over every nook and cranny of your world and the rule set and creatures therein, you're still working against the incredibly long learning curve in order to craft your vision. The game has a very steep learning curve. One problem has to do with accessibility.

3d rpg makers series#

The theory behind the series is great, and while it does some of it well, there are still many aspects of the series that aren't quite 'there' yet. You can create the world, the character classes, weapon types, characters, dungeons, monsters. The point here is that you can create whatever you want, within the confines of the assets that you're given at least. RPG Maker isn't a game as much as it is a toolset. Err, you could have used RPG Maker 1 or 2 as well, but now the series has made its move to glorious 3D on the PlayStation 2. rmwforums.s3./emoticons/default_wink.Have you ever wanted to make your own game? The obvious answer to this is yes, and we have proof in 1,426,725 daily emails where someone wants to see their 'brilliant idea' implemented into a game. So if anyone is a programmer, likes to play around with scripts I'll do the graphics. I think you could even put the shadow cast by the light source into the tileset, making it look very much like a 3d game. The tileset would be very easy to render out, you just put a camera at a certain angle facing the ground and place all your models right under it, 3d graphics makes it possible for the tiles to receive realistic light, so all objects in the tileset would be realistically lit from a single light source, the sun. First thing would be to render out a 3d character sprite that can face 8 directions and move pixel by pixel around the map. But the pixelated graphics look terrible, anyone wanna team up and try to make a small 3D rpg maker game. The rpg maker has most of the difficult stuff already done, the menus, the messages, the battles, the stats. Me and an internet programmer made this about a year ago, I did the camera work and the graphics, looking pretty bad especially the menus. It should be possible with a bit of work to create something that looks nearly identical to final fantasy 7, 8 or 9. It would be easy to fake 3d in battles, you just render out frames from a 3d character who walks into the picture towards the sprites that are lined up in the distance.Īnyway if someone is good at scripting I could help you out with the 3d graphics. Render out a special sprite from a 3d character and you would end up with something that look very much 3d right. You use the second layer to add sprites that the character could walk behind. I think it could be possible to have this work. At the squares at the bottom the sprite would be big and at the squares at the top the sprite would be small.Ĭould the character walk in 8 directions with pixel movement, so he isn't restricted to stand in one of the squares. Then somehow make the character sprite change size as he moves towards the horizon or up the 2d grid.

What if you put a panorama image as a background, this would be the landscape that the player would walk through. Remember the old final fantasy games with the pre rendered backgrounds.

I'm trying to think of how you would achieve the illusion of 3d in the rpg maker.