~Screenshot Central~

[Ben]

google it.

[Prpl_Mage]

Btw, irfanview can do the same as ultimate paint and all those other programs mentioned. It makes it pretty easy as well without any screw-ups.

[zuhane]

Wow, Gemini and Felix really have it in for each other!

P.S. Nice to see you've sitll got that amazing sig I made you, Gemini!

[Felix-0]

I'll bother to Google it on a computer where I can DL stuff.

Prpl. which is better? Irfanview or Ultimate Paint.

[Felix-0]

I can't use photoshop for working with pixels.
I can do so with Fireworks though. I wish I had a pirated version of it....

[Felix-0]

...What? I do all my pixel art on photoshop. They have a pencil tool, you know.

Yea, I just like the simplicity of Fireworks. At vocational school, we didn't use Photoshop until the last project. So I'm more familiar with fireworks.

[Prpl_Mage]

Prpl. which is better? Irfanview or Ultimate Paint.

To be honest; never tried ultimate paint.

What I like is the simplicity of irfanview. No fancypants, no special options or such.
It's mainly to decrease colour depth, rotate things, swap colours and such. More like a picture editing program than an actual "make the picture" program like photoshop. On the note of photoshop. I've never managed to make it give me a transparent background to sprites and such without screwing them up somehow.

[Legacy of Elecrusher]

On the note of photoshop. I've never managed to make it give me a transparent background to sprites and such without screwing them up somehow.

I only learned how to make it not mess them up like two days ago.

[Desimodontidae]

So I've been playing around with RPG Maker lately, and I found some old resources I had made long ago for an abandoned game that I'm sure no one remembers, for it was long before I even made a new username... anyway, I decided to pick up on the game again, only this time with all kinds of crazy re-vamped systems.

This game is still in the very early development stage, however the HUD system is pretty much finished and working good. Here is a screenshot of it:


*Note that the map and monsters have nothing to do with the game, they're only there because I wanted to show the HUD relative to the full game screen and I have yet to create some maps of my own. Everything will be more "RTP-cartoon-ish", like the guy you see standing there in blood-splattered clothes...

Here is a breakdown of what is going on in that HUD (it might seem a little confusing at first, all will be explained through gameplay, however):

You are able to change weapons by pressing the 1 number key (non-keypad), and fire with the "Shift" key. Shown there are all 5 acquirable weapons; you will also get a few melee weapons, but those have nothing to do with the HUD.

Let me know what you think of this HUD, aesthetically or otherwise. I am open to suggestions or improvements.

[MissingName]

Cool HUD... I briefly tinkered with the idea before and gave up.

It probably doesn't matter to someone who is already playing... but I can't really tell what the weapon icons are supposed to represent.  I see what looks like a shotgun (highlighted) and some sort of machine pistol.  I found simplified drawings are better than resizing a high-def picture.

Other than that, it looks good.  Possibly get rid of the hatched HUD background and make it a solid color...

Just how I might clean it up somewhat...

[fruckert]

I'd also move the MAX next to the current ammo, just so there isn't all of that space that seems empty for no reason.
Better yet, you could just use a Ammo=#/MAX format, so you can just look up at a glance and see if you need to reload any time soon.

[Felix-0]

Alright, I know alot of my maps looked blocky.
But I realised, I can only make my maps as good as the Tileset lets me.

Here's my old cave tileset
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Here's the new one.
[spoiler][/spoiler]

Here's a map made with the new one. Still WIP

[spoiler][/spoiler]

[ThexXtremeXx]

Some things look a bit out of place, and personally I think you should add a vignette or some sort of effect to the map to improve the atmosphere. Other than that, its needs a bit more detail.

EDIT: After writing all that, I realized you said it was a WIP. Dammit.

[Felix-0]

errr. whats a vignette

[ThexXtremeXx]

Its a bad example but, notice the edges? Its something like that.