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ORMS : Old RPG Maker Style v1.1.4

Make a RM2K(3)-like game with RMVXAce!

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Installation

orms holds in one script and two resources (Font.png and Font_color.png) Check-out the lastest release!

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Configuration

OLD_RM_STYLE is really versatile, see the first module ORMS_CONFIG in the script to configure it! All the features are optional, just activate the features you want, deactivate the features you don't, and... enjoy!

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Features

BITMAP_FONT

Use the bitmaps Font and Font_color to draw texts

Image name	Example
Font.png
Font_color.png

BITMAP_FONT OPTIONS:

Option	Description	Default value
FONT_WIDTH FONT HEIGHT	The character size of your font bitmap	6 x 14
DOUBLE_FONT_SIZE	Double the size of the bitmap font/text	true
LINE_HEIGHT	Change the line height	32
PADDING	Change the padding of the message and battle windows	16
SHADOW	Draw text shadow using the last color in "Font_color.png"	true
REWRITE_ALL_TEXTS	Rewrite Bitmap.draw_text instead of Window_Base.draw_text	true

BOX_FEATURES:

Feature	Description	Default value
OPAQUE_BOX	Opaque text box if true	false
STOP_CURSOR_BLINKING	Stop cursor blinking if true	true
OLDSCHOOL_CHOICE_LIST	RM2K(3)-like choice list like if true	true

SCREEN_FEATURES:

Feature	Description	Default value
OLD_RESOLUTION	Just set game resolution to 640480 (to simulate RM2k(3)'s 320240)	false
[NEW!] TOGGLE_FULLSCREEN	The shortcut (:F3..:F11) to toggle the fullscreen mode like RM2k(3). Set the shortcut to 0 if you want none.	:F4
[NEW!] TOGGLE_WINDOW_MODE	The shortcut (:F3..:F11) to toggle to TINY 1x WINDOW MODE like RM2k(3). Set the shortcut to 0 if you want none.	:F5
PIXELATE_SCREEN	If you want fat pixels everywhere! This feature is a bit greedy, but it tries to optimize itself with a custom frame skipping method. This feature activate a custom FPS display (F2) that shows the real FPS, counting the frame skipping.	false
[NEW!] PIXELATION_SHORTCUT	The shortcut (:F3..:F11) to activate/deactivate pixelation ingame. Set the shortcut to 0 if you want none. Don't forget to tell the player he can use this shortcut! An alternative is to use the Orms.set(:pixelate_screen, false) method.	:F6

NOTE:

TOGGLE_FULLSCREEN and TOGGLE_WINDOW_MODE re-define also the Fullscreen++ shortcuts if you use it too. If you use Fullscreen++, place Fullscreen++ right before orms!

Get Fullscreen++

RESSOURCES_FEATURES:

Use these features if you want to directly use RM2k(3) ressources!

Feature	Description	Default value
USE_OLD_RM_BACKDROP	Battlebacks1/2 auto-resized by two	false
USE_OLD_RM_MONSTER	Battlers auto-resized by two	false
USE_OLD_RM_PANORAMA	Parallaxes auto-resized by two	false
USE_OLD_RM_PICTURE	Pictures auto-resized by two	false
USE_OLD_RM_TITLE	Titles1/2 auto-resized by two	false
USE_OLD_RM_CHARSET	Characters auto-resized by two	false
[NEW!] BACKDROP_ALIGN_TOP	Align Battlebacks to top instead of center (for RM2K backdrops)	false
KILL_CHARSET_SHIFT_Y	Does as if all "Characters" had "!" in their name	false
OLD_CHARSET_DIRECTION	In VXAce's ressources, directions are "DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, UP" but in RM2k(3)'s ressources, it's "UP, RIGHT, DOWN, LEFT" this fix allows you to use directly charsets from 2k(3)!	false

DESTROY_NEW_RM_FEATURE:

Feature	Description	Default value
DEACTIVATE_DASH	No dash when you press shift if true	false

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[NEW!] Ingame methods for users

Method	Description
Orms.set(feature, false)	Change the features ingame! Example: Orms.set(:bitmap_font, false)
Orms.deactivate	Deactivate all the features
Orms.activate	Activate all the features

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Examples

Example of the OLDSCHOOL_CHOICE_LIST and TOGGLE_WINDOW_MODE features

Example of the DOUBLE_FONT_SIZE feature (false)

Example of the default menu displayed with the BITMAP_FONT feature

Examples of a game using orms and Luna Engine (by JosephSeraph)

Example of a beautiful customized bitmap font (by JosephSeraph)

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HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN AWESOME BITMAP FONT

The Font.png is generated by the awesome tool Fony

For example :

1. load "Bilou2k3.fon" with Fony

2. Use Edit > resize to make a smaller font in height

3. Use Edit > Boldify... why not?

After that you need to have all the bottom line transparent for all the characters, to render the text shadow without trouble after

4. Select all the characters in the right pannel

5. Then press the "up" button

NOTE : You also need to have all the right column transparent for all the characters, to render the text shadow without trouble!

Use the same method as above, but with the "left" button!

6. Save your new font, and do File > Export > Bitmap, save as "Font.png" in Graphics/System/

Then you get A SHINY PERFECT NEW "FONT.PNG" YOU CAN EDIT BACK WITH FONY ULTRA QUICKLY ANYTIME!!

Instead of 6*14 like RM200(3), this one is 7*11 (just count the pixels in Fony), you can specify that in my script :

# BITMAP_FONT_FEATURE_OPTIONS:
  FONT_WIDTH            = 7     # See BMP Font character's width
  FONT_HEIGHT           = 11    # See BMP Font character's height

instead of :

# BITMAP_FONT_FEATURE_OPTIONS:
  FONT_WIDTH            = 6     # See BMP Font character's width
  FONT_HEIGHT           = 14    # See BMP Font character's height

And since the height is now smaller, you can also reduce the line height :

  LINE_HEIGHT           = 24    # Line height: VXAce: 24  2K(3): 32

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CUSTOM FONT ISSUES WITH FONY

Of course you can edit the font you want with Fony, ".fon" or not. But there is some important things to verify before the bitmap exportation!

• You must have a blank row at the bottom and a blank column at the right:

  

  If not, just select all the characters into the right pannel and use the arrow buttons.

• In Edit > Properties (Ctrl + H), you must set the First char to 0, the Last char to 255, and check Monospaced:

  

  If you get a too wide character width when you convert the font to monospaced, it's because some characters are too wide like W, w, M, m, Æ, æ. There is a very simple method to reduce the width of all characters at one time:

  

  When you have an accurate monospaced width, you can stretch manually the cropped fonts that were too wide (like W, w, M, m, Æ, æ) by redrawing them.

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COMING SOON!

TODO LIST:

• Verify/fix compatibility between PIXELATE_SCREEN and some nervous scripts
  • RME (camera commands)
  • Luna Engine
  • Theo's Sideview battle system
  • MGC's mode 7
• Fix name input
• Fix current feature status not saved in save files yet
• Fix characters direction in save/load menus (when OLD_CHARSET_DIRECTION is used)
• Add the feature NO_MAP_SHADOWS in DESTROY_NEW_RM_FEATURES to deactivate the VXA shadow display in maps ingame
• Extend OLD_CHARSET_DIRECTION behaviour: Will not change the directions of the Characters that the first character of their names is '@'.
• Implement ICONS_FOR_ALL_TEXTS feature to use the \I[id] control character for everything like RM2K(3) did with glyphs ($a..$Z)
• Implement BITMAP_FONT_FEATURE_OPTIONS:
  • Define BITMAP_FONTS = [args_1, args_2, args_3] option with args_X equal to [name, *char_width, *char_height, *color_set, *nb_color_max, *shadow], for instance, args_1 will be equal to ["Font"] (The default font name)
  • Define CURRENT_BMP_FONT, DEFAULT_COLOR_SET, DEFAULT_FONT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_FONT_HEIGHT, DEFAULT_SHADOW options (the last three will replace FONT_WIDTH, FONT_HEIGHT and SHADOW)
  • Define \F[id] control character to change the BMP_FONT in the middle of any text
  • Extend LINE_HEIGHT behaviour: will be defined by an integer (like now) or the array [top_margin, bottom_margin] instead. For instance, LINE_HEIGHT will be equal to LINE_HEIGHT[0] + font[:height] + LINE_HEIGHT[1]).
• Implement RM2k(3)-like transitions features and methods that reproduce and extend all transitions behaviours from RM2k(3)! :D
• Implement OLD_RM_CURSOR feature (use a second System/Window picture to make oldschool blink like RM2k(3) (graphical switch blinking)) - Will replace the actual STOP_CURSOR_BLINKING
• Develop orms-converter
• Sleep
• Any suggestion? ...Bug report? Feel free to create an issue or contact me on Discord!