There were many times, even today, where after working on a sprite, I would convert something down to 256, and a color would be missing and I'll have to spend a few minutes fixing up my mistakes.īut yeah, don't get discouraged or feel embarrassed, this is normal with rpgmaker2003 haha. Find games tagged 3D and RPG Maker like Disillusion ST, Beary the Hatchet, The RPG Engine, Nizhniy Novgorod Subway Simulator ( ), RPG Plus - Anywhere Anytime Virtual Tabletop on itch.io, the indie game hosting. On the downside the website is full of rips from commercial games so you always are taking on a certain amount of risk if making a serious project when using resources from this site. The isolated continent of Annakova remains untouched by this war. This often fixes it for some reason.īut yeah, make sure to back up your work, constantly. Charas Project: Easily the most comprehensive collection of 2k3 resources left on the internet. Pretext: With the world of humans consumed in a war, the troops of the empire have been spread thin, and many have seen this as an opportunity to overthrow the organized government.
What I often do, to fix it, is bring it into MSpaint XP and I just paint the assigned transparency color black and then save it. Just as long as you have a legal copy of RPG Maker and with permission from the creators. You can also sell your game made with the default resources as well. If you run into this "blackscreen" problem again. Just look at things like To The Moon, which - while having been made using RPG Maker XP - is using RM2k (3)-style low-res graphics in most places. Irfanview a really old, but free program, that makes converting images down to 256 colors, for use in rpgmaker2003 very easy.Īll you have to do is open up your tileset in IrfanView and select Image>Decrease Color Depth>Custom:256 and then hit save (but make sure to make up a backup copy of your tileset, before you do this incase you run into any problems with the conversion. If you’re feeling especially creative, RPG Maker 2003 allows you to import custom 16-bit graphics, including character sprites, tilesets for your environments, battle animations, backgrounds, and more The engine is also loaded with a variety of catchy midi tracks and sound effects for your game custom MP3/WAV/MIDI tracks can be added as well. Its just black, I cant even see my character. Ive been trying to make a game with rpgmaker 2k3 resolutions and sprite size on rpgmaker mv and so far I managed to get the font size relatively right and shrink the tile size and the screen size. But for some strange reason the map with my new tileset shows up dim in the editor, more so than it should be, and when I start the game to play test the map nothing is visible at all. Don't feel silly, Do not feel silly at all, hahaha! ❤Ĭonverting images to work in rpgmaker 2003 is one of the many reasons why rpgmaker2003 is so hard to work with! Find Survival games made with RPG Maker like Sinathir, Listhère, Unobelisk, Mutiny Island, Scarred Stars on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace. Im kind of new to RPG Maker 2k3 and Ive made tilesets and the sort.