#ruby tutorials

[strayagain]

RPG Maker VX Ace Tutorials, References and Resources Mastpost

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/14727-a-starting-point-for-new-users-v08/?hl=+import%20+sprites#entry147337

-Begginers' tutorials. Also has a list of other tutorials as well as some nice advice.

http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/support/products/tutorials

-Official tutorial

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/1249-beginnergeneral-beginners-guide-to-rpg-maker-vx-ace/

-Begginers' guide

http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=56682

-Masterlist of resources, portraits and facesets. Many of the authors want some form of credit or payment for use of their resources, make sure to check any conditions of resources you use.

http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=34516

-A sprite generator, lets you layer them. I only use this as a reference, since I don't know the copyright information of this generator.

http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=8685

-Masterlist of character creators. Respect the conditions of use from each author.

http://www.rpgmakervx.net/index.php?showtopic=5704

-Rpg maker vx school. Tutorial stuff.

Learn Ruby:

Learning any form of coding or programming takes a decent amount of time, and you don't have to know any to make games with RPG Maker VX Ace, but take just a little bit of time to cover the basics of Ruby, and you'll find you save a lot of time working on your game when you would otherwise be looking up any creative commands you may think of. 

http://www.codecademy.com/courses/ruby-beginner-en-d1Ylq/0/1?curriculum_id=5059f8619189a5000201fbcb

-Introductions to Ruby. Definitely go through the first bit. Every bit you know helps make your games that much better.

http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/tutorial.html

-Another site to teach you Ruby basics, this site is less interesting than the other one but still very good for beginners.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fjunkhunt.net%2Fvx%2Fcharachip.shtml&act=url

-A very good sprite generator, might be a little confusing at first since it's in Japanese(or even if it wasn't), but very good.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.famitsu.com%2Ffreegame%2Ftool%2Fchibi%2Findex1.html&act=url

-Another Japanese sprite generator.

http://www.geocities.jp/kurororo4/looseleaf/

-And yet another Japanese sprite generator. This sprite generator makes good sprites, but be warned that the size is not the default size of sprites in RPG Maker VX Ace. I only listed it because I'm thinking of using this for mini games.

http://lovelymoro.web.fc2.com/moromagalabo.html

-A Japanese face generator, it only has girls but it's pretty cute and expansive. If you use this one, make sure to credit MOROMAGA and link to the site(the link above).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob-arzU5UT4 -Ruby tutorial directly showing how scripts affect games.

http://galvs-scripts.com/category/rmvxa-scripts/

-Some good scripts are here, such as an interface HUD, new item icons, and even a pet battle system. Credit the scripts used from here. Currently there are only 2 scripts that are not free for commercial use. Just make sure you credit what you use and use what you are allowed. 

http://www.freesound.org

-This is a website full of sound effect, music, voices, etc etc. You can post your own sounds as well as download others'. If you make a free account, you can bookmark sounds you list or think you might use. When using sounds and music from this site, make sure you read all of the sounds' descriptions to see if they are available for free commercial or non commercial use. Make sure to give credit when asked. It's polite to always give credit, but you are breaking agreement terms when not crediting a source that asks for credit.

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/13801-napoleons-minimap/

-Mini map script. Asks for credit, read the license agreement.

http://rmvxace.wikia.com/wiki/RPG_Maker_VX_Ace_Master_Script_List

-RPG Maker VX Ace scripts master list. You know the drill. Credit. Pay. Etc.

And possibly the MOST IMPORTANT THING ON HERE(aside from crediting of course, always credit), letting people play your games! To let people who do not have RPG MAKER VX Ace on their computer play your finished product, you must open up your game in RPG Maker VX Ace, go to file, and then click 'Compress game data...'. When the pop up box appears, click the box that says 'Include RTP data' and then press ok. 

And that's it, you're done! Great job! All that's left is uploading and sharing your game.

[remelehane]

GSwR VI: Stay Classy with Ruby

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GSwR VI: Stay Classy with Ruby

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Getting Started with RubyWelcome to the last post in the Getting Started with Ruby series. In the previous post, we covered writing our own methods. In this post, we’ll learn all about how classes work: How to create them, how to create methods for ...

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[demetriusmichael]

Hello World

I'm not too sure why every programmer has this crap convention before diving into the deep blue sea. 

puts 'Hello world'

Program complete. // I expect you to type this stuff in, and realize via deducation what things do. You see hello world on your term, therefore, puts is like print in most languages... Try print out instead of puts.

print 'hello again world' 

there's no difference.

print 'hell'

puts 'o'

print 'world'

Maybe there was.

Honestly this stuff is boring in Ruby... This public static void 'hello world' stuff is for the Java junkies... A Hello World for Rubyists would be creating program that programs a machine that eats java programs and shits out rainbows.

Typically, in tutorials, they would be like "well lets just do that" (Acting like it was totally spontaneous in the first place)... Also typically they wouldn't swear, considering that they want a demographic that's appealing to Christians as well. I'm a hacker, so I'm going to teach you nothing and waste your time.

Swearing has a eqv. in programming universe. They call it bad code. To know evil, you must first really know what good code looks like:

=begin

Good code has comments like this one. Great code has variables that are self explanatory. 

=end 

greatVaribleNameThatExplainsEverythingAboutTheFunctionButEndsUpBeingAsLongAsWhatIt'sTryingToDescribeAndIsMostOfTheTimePurposeDefeating= 'this is a string talking about how great this variable name is' 

puts greatVaribleNameThatExplainsEverythingAboutTheFunctionButEndsUpBeingAsLongAsWhatIt'sTryingToDescribeAndIsMostOfTheTimePurposeDefeating

But that'll be a tutorial in how to be a good little programmer. Hackers typically don't care about what your code looks like - they care about results. Results are frowned upon everywhere outside of your parents basement. Bad code looks like this

a = 'whyyyyyyyyyyy'

print a + '!?@#?!?@#!'

I'm going to skip the niggly bits, and get straight into code. But before I do that, here's your slogan of the day: 

puts 'I want to solve problems, not spoonfeed compiler'

You chose it because you wanted to get things done fast. You didn't choose it because you wanted a job. 

shithead = "I'm sorry, you're sorry, we're all sorry."

puts shithead

That's the sound of your interviewer telling you didn't get the job because you care about productivity.

def doucheGenerator(name)

puts "#{name}: I love the machine"

end

doucheGenerator('jimmy')

That's the kind of programmer who'll get hired. GJ Jimmy!

def threaten(name)

puts "You're a sell out #{name}. I'm telling you #{name}, the next time I see you, I'm going to take your lunch money'."

2.times{puts 'you\'re not my friend anymore!!'}

end

threaten('jimmy')

threaten('frank')

You get the point. Now for the fun stuff:

javaProgrammers = %w( tony jim katey mary harry stapler )

javaProgrammers.each {|hater| threaten(hater)}

Post complete.

Or in Ruby syntax:

Post.complete

Or in Java:

#endPost.java

public static void (main args[]) {

 ...

<<50>>

...

}

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compile endPost.java

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Java endPost