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I have this sprite sheet, and I'm trying to add in an image from it.  Here's what I tried:

graphics_musket

[OBJECT:GRAPHICS]

[WEAPON_GRAPHICS:ITEM_WEAPON_MUSKET]
[WEAPON_GRAPHICS_DEFAULT:MUSKETS:0:0]
[WEAPON_GRAPHICS_MATERIAL:MUSKETS:0:0]
[WEAPON_GRAPHICS_WOOD_GROWN:MUSKETS:0:0]
[WEAPON_GRAPHICS_WOOD:MUSKETS:0:0]
This is for the tile page muskets:

tile_page_muskets

[OBJECT:TILE_PAGE]

[TILE_PAGE:MUSKETS]
[FILE:images/muskets.png]
[TILE_DIM:32:32]
[PAGE_DIM_PIXELS:167:167]
Now I have no idea what any of that does, I just copied off vanilla to no avail.  I've tried both 32 and 167 in tile dim.  I'm gonna try a couple things, and if I figure it out, I'll tell you. 

NOTE.  This is not a release thread.  That will come latter. 

I'm making a gundam mod.  I'll post things here for people to look at intermittently. 

Here's how the mod will work.  Each race will have a creature named, say FEDERATION.  Then I'll make a ton of different mobile suit castes for it.  This mod will include no small scale characters, and be entirely mobile suit based. 

The factions planned include the Earth Federation, Zeon, and possibly latter the Titans and AEUG, and then more future stuff, up to unicorn.  I never saw gundam seed, gundam wing, or any of the other gundam alternate timelines, and so do not plan on adding them. 

If I do add anything past the one year war, I'll keep the files separate so it is easy playing with just Zeta gundam or just the one year war. 

The weapons will include everything from heat axes to beam naginatas.  If anyone has a suggested weapon, I will probably add it. 

Melee will be set to have a normal, heat, and beam version of almost every weapon. 

Heat weapons will be weapons that have higher velocity than the normal weapon, while at the same time

Beam weapons will either be higher tier heat weapons or be made out of a plasma material. 

Ranged weapons will be split into categories:
Armor will include armor for various mobile suits. 

Materials will be completely redone, and I'll probably change around the biomes and other stuff as well.  A lot of the vanilla materials are made redundant with the development of high tech super materials. 

There will be such materials as titanium, which can be made into an alloy of luna titanium, gundarium, so on and so forth. 

Zeon will have high tensile steel and variations of that. 

Higher tier alloys will require more material and produce less. 

Special weapons, such as funnels, will not be used, especially because this will be taking place on the ground.  I have no idea how I'll do the Guncannon, which has shoulder mounted cannons.  It will be in the game though, possibly using syndromes. 

Transforming a creature into another creature is possible, and I am considering it for changing mobile suits, but it will definitely not be in the first few releases. 

First thing I'll post is the standard body I set up, although I have a bunch more stuff, this is the part I'm working on ATM.  I know I could probably do it differently, but I just did it the way I know how. 

[BODY:BASICMOBILESUITBODY]

[BP:HEAD:head:heads][CATEGORY:HEAD][CON:NECK]
[BP:MC:monocular:monoculars][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][CON:HEAD]
#The monocular is a common thing on Zeon mobile suits. 

[BP:NECK:Neck:Necks][CON:UB][THROAT][CONNECTOR]

[BP:NECKAC:neck actuator:neck actuators][INTERNAL][CON:NECK]

[BP:UB:upper body]
[BP:REACT:reactor:reactors][CON:UP][INTERNAL]CATEGORY:REACT]

[BP:TS:torso:torsos]
[BP:CP:cockpit:cockpits][THOUGHT][CON:TS][INTERNAL][CAT:COCKPIT]

[BP:LB:lower body:lower bodies][CATEGORY:LB][CON:TS]

[BP:RARM:right arm:right arms][RIGHT][CATEGORY:ARM][CON_CAT:ARM]
[BP:LARM:left arm:left arms][LEFT][CATEGORY:ARM][CON_CAT:ARM]

[BP:RUARM:right upper arm:right upper arms][RIGHT][CAT:RUARM]
[BP:LUARM:left upper arm:left upper arms][LEFT][CAT:LUARM
[BP:RLARM:right lower arm:right lower arms][RIGHT][CAT:RLARM]
[BP:LLARM:left lower arm:left lower arms][LEFT][CAT:LLARM]
[BP:RHAND:right hand:right hands][CAT:RHAND][CON:RLARM]
[BP:LHAND:left hand:left hands][CAT:LHAND][CON:LLARM]

[BP:LL:left leg:left legs][LEFT][STANCE][CATEGORY:LEG]
[BP:RL:right leg:left legs][RIGHT][STANCE][CATEGORY:LEG]

[BP:ULL:upper left leg:STP][LEFT][STANCE]
[BP:LLL:lower left leg:STP][LEFT][STANCE]

[BP:URL:upper right leg:STP][RIGHT][STANCE]
[BP:LRL:lower right leg:STP][RIGHT][STANCE]

[BP:RK:right knee:STP][RIGHT][STANCE]
[BP:LK:left knee:STP][LEFT][STANCE]

[BP:LF:left foot:STP][LEFT][STANCE]
[BP:RF:right foot:STP][LEFT][STANCE]

After this is finished, two things, first the material, second figuring out how to put these on creatures I have made, and get them into the game. 

Any help is greatly appreciated.  I'll probably have other forums for help with syndromes. 

I've attempted numerous times to make a form of nation RPG in the other games forum.  I've found that it is a lot of work doing the GM work for 8+ players who each have their nonsensical plans on how to dominate the world.  As such, I decided to write down a strict set of rules of play that will make things less nonsensical, and allow for an easier time GMing the games. 

Manual will be in second post, including variants that make the game simpler and easier to manage.  Feel free to create your own variants given that I may attempt to add them in a monetized computer game latter. 

Currently, I have a playable combat demo with some crude economic rules that I half-like. Anyways, I ended up with a system that is pretty much Sim City + Kriegspiel with a abstracted version of those armament designing games that used to pop up in forum games. 

The game now no longer requires a GM at all, diplomacy works by written agreement. 

The game is not finished at all.  I'd like to have a system for rebellion, new player formation, and exploration that generates  but that will come latter.  AI is not a priority until I get all of that in. 

The main downfalls of the system is twofold:

1. The players must conduct dice rolls for every combat with every unit encompassing a front that gets exponentially larger as you play. 

2.  There are a lot of numbers to go through for unit design.  I have variants that reduce the amount of numbers, but I've posted the complete version.  Things can be taken out as needed.

The solution I came up with was to create a program to automate certain parts of the game, but I don't know code, and my friend who knows code does not know it well enough to help me. I am learning, however. 

I'm back with my next game. 

The premise is that, in the future, a crazy and insane dictator has conquered the world.  He is now dead.  Now, it is up to you for what happens next.  A council of important business, military, and political magnates must now direct the future.  The first step is deciding who gets to lead next, and what powers he or they have.  There are no rules as to what your political alignment is, but do be warned, the ruling party may be able to make the weak disappear.  I will be using a roll to die format for such actions, but for now, in this council, it is a voting based system.  Do know that you can choose to not attend the council.  That would be sacrificing your opportunity, though.   

Character sheets are as followed:

Name:
Association: (The group you "represent", such as a union, company, or an otherwise important entity.  I'd prefer an organisation, such as a union, a branch of the military, or a company you represent.)
Description:

I will start after at least 5 people show up, although I'd prefer more, around twenty max.  The formation of parties is encouraged to make my life easier. 

I will not allow for coups until after the council has adjourned.   

Right now, you are arriving, and are in a hotel.  Banter is welcomed. 

I'm going to need some more players for the various rebel movements in my game here

I'll start a waitlist here.  If I need you, I'll tell you what to do in PMs.  I'll probably only need 5 or 6 players, but if I decide to do democracy in the way I plan, I'll need a bunch more latter.  So if you want to join, then here will be the wait list.  Alternatively, you could request to be a certain faction, like the wobblies. 

Wait List:
I'll check on this latter, and update it periodically. 

I'm going to make a game.  I know only the basics of java script.  I made rock, paper, scissors shoot by following a guide I found on the internet.  As such, I'll put up the , but no promises at all. 

I already have an idea of what the game will be like.  First things first, I'm going to make it pen and paper.  This pen and paper version will be quite literally how the game will play out minus the computer's processing power.  Unfortunately that means turns will be on the scale of EU the board game slow, due to the scope of the game. 

So, now onto the game.  I hope to make a massive conflict simulator.  A rogue-like that takes place on the open plains of   fantasy Europe.  The premise is that you would be a captain of one of the block regiments of Eurasian warfare from 1000-1900.  I'll start with medieval weapons, from swords to spears, and then eventually add in guns, which will start as a thing you need to lean against boxes, and cannot reload, and cannons, which are area of effect weapons and go from there to later periods of war.  As for armor, I'll start with cloth armor, then move on to heavier armor

I guess I'll start with the scope of the game. 

A regiment is formed of 20-50 men. Each man is one character, and there is one character per space, as is typical of a rogue-like.  A soldier is one of the 26 letters of the alphabet.  A captain/standard bearer/chaplain is the same letter, except uppercase.  Depending if I need more, I'll add more. 

Each regiment has a standard load out.  Every item added slows down a soldier based upon the weight of the stuff.  This includes both attacking and parrying with weapons. 

Because of the scale of the game, I'm going to make combat as simplistic as possible. 

Soldiers are going to have three types of items, the weapon in their front hand, the weapon in their off hand, and their armor.  A unit dies when a weapon successfully bypasses armor. 

A unit also has five levels of training. 
Conscript
Militia
Soldier
Knight/Veteran
Legendary Fighter

Combat works as so, turns are simultaneous, with one sides defense happening as another side attacks.  Then the turns switch.  There are different ranges to combat that will modify chance to hit based on weapon length. 

The Green Knight, attacks The Legendary Black Knight with a steel longsword.  The Black Knight parries with his shield (Shields count as weapons).  The Black Knight attacks the Green Knight with his mace.  The mace hits the Green Knight in the wooden shield.  The Black Knight has a close range weapon made for destroying armor, and so the shield is cracked.  This stuns the Green Knight, and The Black Knight is able to finish off the Green Knight with ease, as the Green Knight only has chain mail to protect him.  This is what I want combat to be like, however, without the details being so detailed, and with more numbers.  This battle took place at close range, in medium ranges and more, it is not as quick, and the Green Knight would have the advantage with his longer sword.  This will be gone over when I talk about formations. 

The Math
Here is where you guys can help me.  I'll probably get the math out tonight, if not tomorrow for a basic Green Knight vs Black Knight skirmish.  I'm torn between having a deterministic way of seeing who wins vs a random die roll.  I'm leaning towards the former, however, then balance will be more crucial to gameplay.  The latter seems kind of lazy to me, but might have to be considered with ranged attacks such as archery, unless I use range as the determining factor for victory (Which seems a good idea!). 

There are probably numerous things I omitted, and need to discuss eventually.  I'll make a list of such here. 

Longer ranged melee attacks (spears)
Medium Ranged Attacks
Mounts
Archery
Formations (This one is KEY)
Morale
Campaign 
Armor and Weapons Stats.  (Also Important)
Anything else someone thinks I should discuss.
I'm going to head up to bed, and probably read this, hate it, and rewrite a bunch.  (Guess what!  I already did!)  Although the Green Knight vs the Black Knight was cool.   

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.....GB.....
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