Category:FAQ

A

• Are the music and sound effects that come with the OHRRPGCE protected by copyright laws?
• Are you going to add costumes for characters?
• Are you going to make a version that supports hi-res graphics, 3D, etc...?

C

• CUSTOM.exe froze up while I was working on a game! Is there any way I can unfreeze CUSTOM or retrieve the files I modified?
• Can I have a copy of the plotscripting tutorial that I don't have to be on the internet to use?
• Can I make a game with speaking hamsters? (and if so can I include Bob in it)?
• Can I make my own version of Wandering Hamster?
• Can I make my own version of the OHRRPGCE?
• Can I play and make games installing game.exe and custom.exe on a Usb key?
• Can I run CUSTOM.exe or GAME.exe in a fullscreen instead of in a small window?
• Can I run CUSTOM.exe or GAME.exe in a small window instead of fullscreen?
• Can I sell RPGs I make with the OHRRPGCE?
• Can I turn my game into a mmorpg?
• Can I use plotscripting to allow people to change my maps when playing my game?
• Can you add different animations in battle for a hero's different attacks?
• Can you host resources that I make for the OHRRPGCE such as Sprites, Sound Effects, Backgrounds, Fonts etc?
• Can you make heroes appear during a battle?
• Can you modify a hero's stats, enemy's stats, money, etc. by a percentage rather than by a whole number with plotscripting?
• Can you modify experience outside of battle with plotscripting?
• Can you retrieve an enemy's attack IDs with plotscripting?
• Custom usually freezes when importing music!

D

• Does Bob the Hamster exist in real life?

E

• ERROR: File plotscr.hsd not found. What should I do?
• ERROR:In line X of dummyplotscripts.hss Song:I'll Wander the World. This isn't a variable, constant, or anything else. It exists in my hsi file, but it says it isn't. What should I do?
• ERROR:in line 746 of plotscr.hsd define trigger,begin expected top-level declaration but found definetrigger. Why does this error occur?
• 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 name but defineoperator block ended
• Expected number but found
• Expected top-level declaration but found

F

• FAQ

G

• Gigantor List Of Questions

H

• How about a OHRRPGCE hall of fame, for all the best games made with it, or does one already exist?
• How are weapon pictures used?
• How can I allow the player to rename someone before they join their team?
• How can I allow the player to rename someone who never joins their team?
• How can I compile my plotscripts in Linux?
• How can I compile my plotscripts without using hssed.exe?
• How can I delete an accidentally placed NPC?
• How can I implement weather on a map?
• How can I make a combination lock using multiple digits?
• How can I make a world map where the player just presses a key and the hero walks to another place on the map?
• How can I make an attack do an exact amount of damage each time?
• How can I make copies of NPCs do distinct things?
• How can I make copies of NPCs do the same thing?
• How can I make it so that an event will happen, when an NPC is pushed onto a certain tile?
• How can I make it so that an inn restores HP, but not MP?
• How can I make more than two choices in a text box?
• 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 can I talk to NPCs with some other key besides the space bar?
• How can I trick the Npc limit?
• How come you are making it for DOS? I thought DOS was dead
• How did you get the bright idea to use a wiki message board to host game makers' questions?
• How do I add a question?
• How do I add a timer?
• How do I add arguments to my script and how do I use them?
• How do I add heroes to my party in the order I want?
• How do I add heroes to my party?
• How do I add monsters to my game?
• How do I add new colors to my palette?
• How do I add screens before my title game screen?
• How do I advance a text box without pressing the space bar?
• How do I advance backdrops pressing the space bar?
• How do I allow players to rename characters?

H cont.

• How do I animate maptiles?
• How do I announce to the community that a game demo (or version) is online and ready to be tested and reviewed?
• How do I attack NPCs outside of battle?
• How do I avoid script buffer overflows?
• How do I become an OHRRPGCE developer?
• How do I call one script directly from another script?
• How do I change a hero's walkabout and battle graphic set, whether the hero is in the party or not, and regardless of what slot the hero is in, using plotscripting?
• How do I change enemies' stats with plotscripting?
• How do I change my starting location?
• How do I change the main hero during a cutscene so that the player can't notice it?
• How do I change the money symbol?
• How do I change the walkabout graphic set of an NPC using Plotscripting?
• How do I check if there is already an .sav file using plotscripting?
• How do I check if there is already an npc on the map using plotscripting?
• How do I clean a tileset in only a few clicks?
• How do I cleanly uninstall the OHRRPGCE?
• How do I convert WAV files into OGG format?
• How do I convert a TTF font into an OHF font?
• How do I copy and paste a palette?
• How do I correctly post an article on this website?
• How do I create a stat like HP or MP?
• How do I create an account on the wiki?
• How do I customize the keyboard?
• How do I customize the master palette?
• How do I delete a save file?
• How do I delete an account used to submit games to the Hamster Republic OHRRPGCE Game List?
• How do I delete game data from my RPG?
• How do I destroy more than one copy of an NPC at a time?
• How do I disable map layers?
• How do I display map names?
• How do I end the game?
• How do I enter NPC references through strings?
• How do I enter names through strings?
• How do I export graphics as BMP files?
• How do I get information about reported bugs?
• How do I get it to run a script when I level up a certain hero (me)?
• How do I get more Conventional DOS memory?
• How do I get more control over the display of map names?
• How do I get permission to use a WIP build with my game?
• How do I get rid of NPC misalignment?
• How do I get rid of the Ctr (counter) stat?
• How do I give an enemy a "Counter-attack"?
• How do I give an enemy multiple item rewards?
• How do I give my hero spells?
• How do I give stun and poison to the enemy so that they can use it on the heroes?
• How do I give the screen little and/or big shake?
• How do I have one enemy target one specific other enemy?
• How do I implement mouse input in my game?
• How do I implement new keys for the player with hero jumps as an example?
• How do I implement pause outside battles/ in my battle system?
• How do I import a title screen?
• How do I import music?
• How do I import my scripts without launching custom.exe and then going in the script managment menu?
• How do I increase Maximum HP or MP through an Item?
• How do I keep MS Paint from messing up my colors?
• How do I know I have to use more than one hss file?
• How do I learn to draw better graphics?
• How do I level up my hero using plotscripting?
• How do I limit the number of items I can carry?
• How do I link script files together?
• How do I link to my user page in discussions?
• How do I make "fake" doors?
• How do I make Vehicles?
• How do I make a "Save Point"?
• How do I make a "backdrop point"?
• How do I make a "fake inn"?
• How do I make a "fake" movie using backdrops?

H cont.

• How do I make a "vending machine?"
• How do I make a Bank where you can store money/items?
• How do I make a HS file?
• How do I make a HSI file?
• How do I make a HSS file?
• How do I make a battle end only by killing a specific enemy while other enemies remain alive?
• How do I make a battle start after talking to an NPC?
• How do I make a battle start when you bump into an NPC?
• How do I make a blank/ all transparent sprite?
• How do I make a boss battle that the player cannot run away from?
• How do I make a boss with multiple forms?
• How do I make a chest in which I can store items and get them back later?
• How do I make a copy of a maptile set?
• How do I make a different song play when you ride a vehicle?
• How do I make a drain or leech spell that steals HP?
• How do I make a fighting game?
• How do I make a healing item?
• How do I make a hero attack several times during a battle turn?
• How do I make a hero join the party in the middle of a battle?
• 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 hero look like it's jumping?
• How do I make a key-locked Door?
• How do I make a loop point in a MIDI using Anvil Studio?
• How do I make a multiplayer game?
• How do I make a poisoning or stunning attack?
• How do I make a presentation for my save point or my restore point?
• How do I make a safe-deposit box locked with a password?
• How do I make a save slot load automatically instead of the load menu when the game launches?
• How do I make a shop that can be used only one, two or three times?
• How do I make a spell that teleports you somewhere?
• How do I make a stat-boosting spell/attack?
• How do I make a stat-weakening spell/attack?
• How do I make a teleporter that transports you to an "HQ" thoughout the whole game?
• How do I make a text box that automatically shows the name of the item that I set it to give?
• How do I make a treasure chest that contains many items and/or more than $32767?
• How do I make a treasure chest?
• How do I make a vehicle the player is riding carry over to the next map when the vehicle uses a door?
• How do I make a wall that NPCs can't pass, but Heros can?
• How do I make a wall that heroes can't pass, but Npcs can?
• How do I make an "enemy-repelling" item?
• How do I make an NPC disappear after ending its plotscript by making it walk out of view?
• How do I make an NPC disappear when you talk to it but reappear when you leave and reenter the map?
• How do I make an NPC have a "line of sight" or an area in which it can detect a hero and how do I make it act upon it?
• How do I make an NPC heal the hero?
• How do I make an NPC hurt the hero?
• How do I make an NPC look like it's jumping?
• How do I make an NPC say something different later?
• How do I make an attack with a flat damage modifier instead of using damage percents?
• How do I make an automatic battle?
• How do I make an event happen when the player presses a key at a certain X and Y on a map?
• How do I make an icon for my game?
• How do I make an inn in which you can also save the party?
• How do I make an inn where you can hire heroes?
• 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 item you have to be a certain level to use/equip?
• How do I make buildings?
• How do I make certain enemy formations rarer than others in the same formation set?
• How do I make choices in a dialog box?
• How do I make emoticons?
• How do I make enemies speak in battle?
• How do I make fonts?
• How do I make gradual fade in and fade out?
• How do I make heroes and npcs invisible?