Sphere Complete Documentation Options

[Rukiri]

Event: Sphere doc
When?: The first week of may, basically when I finish my college finals.

This document will contain.

-Sites that cover sphere
- My own tutorials
- How to build a simple RPG"No battle system"
- 2D Math
- Drawing images when a map is active, and yes I know weird"If you come from another engine"
- RPG Maker like dialog boxes

Sphere is a RPG editor that allows you to create RPGs such as RPG Maker allows you, but unlike RM you're free from limitations as you write your own functions, create your own collisions, animations etc.
But it's editor is very straight foward.

[Rukiri]

Tutorial 1: Fading images in/out on the screen.

Note: If you have the map running add

CODE

if (IsMapEngineRunning())
{
   RenderMap() // Allows you to blit images to a map.
}

before you blit the image.

How to use, just add Intro(); before your game begins.
You need 5 images, 0-5, just add the number to the name of the _intro.png image.

CODE

EvaluateSystemScript("time.js");
function Delay(ms)
{
   var until = GetTime() + ms;
   while(until < GetTime());
}

function Intro()
{
   // Intro images
   var intro = []; // JS arrays can be dynamic.
    for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
    {
       intro[i] = LoadImage((i).toString() + "_intro.png");
    }

// loop le images
     var tcolor = CreateColor(255,255,255,0);
   var time = GetTime();
   var delay = 500;
     for(var i=0; i < 5; ++i)
     {
     while (tcolor.alpha < 255)
     {
       tcolor.alpha += Math.random(delay+1000*255)
       intro[i].blitMask(0,0,tcolor);
       FlipScreen();
     }
     Delay(1000);

     while (tcolor.alpha > 0)
     {
       tcolor.alpha -= Math.random(delay+1000*255)
       intro[i].blitMask(0,0,tcolor);
       FlipScreen();
     }
     Delay(1000);
   }
    
}

[Rukiri]

How to use the random function in sphere.

CODE

var ranattc = Math.floor(Math.random() * 3);
var isintown = false;
var canattc = true;
//actual coding
if isintown=false {
switch (ranattc) {
   case"0" //show attack here; break;
   case"1" //show attack here; break;
   case"2" //show attack here; break;
  }
}
if isintown=true {
   canattc=false;
}
else if isintown=false {
   canattc=true;
}
//end random code