Could you post some screenies?

WooshaQ said, November 24, 2011, 10:20:49 am

Could you post some screenies?

or a video, please

I get this when mugen story mode launches the mugen.exe program. Mugen is not centered correctly on the screen.

don't know if this is happening to everyone else, but for me it destroys my computer.  I tried to start it up and it intantly closes  but stays open in the background where even in the task manager I am unable to close it and says it cant read the system def.  it also changes all my icons and crashed my computer, which is usually a virus :/

It still happens with the patch. But I noticed it always happens if in mugen.cfg fullscreen = 1.
So I have to leave it at 0 and it does not happen.

EDIT: I found a fix. Instead of using fullscreen = 1
Under [Video] in mugen.cfg you have it like so:

[Video]
 ;The video resolution defaults to the same as the game resolution.
 ;You can force an alternate resolution by uncommenting the lines
 ;below.
Width  = 1280
Height = 720

or whatever your screenpack resolution is.

then how are you suppose to use mugen with your story mode if you're not suppose to use the mugen.exe... btw the was no readme in the main folder

this program is an ADDON, this programs LAUNCH mugen.exe with certain commands and then mugen.exe uses system.def and that files, but "MugenStoryMode.exe" never use "system.def", the launched mugen.exe uses it, so it's impossible to get a "system.def" not found message from "MugenStoryMode.exe", the only way you can get a message like that (from mugen.exe) is when this program launch mugen.exe for a story battle, if you code a story with the system.def option pointing to a unexisting or bad syntax system.def file in the (Motif (Screenpack) used : ) option in mugen story creator.

I'd also like a more in depth tutorial on how to setup the character unlocking. I'm not sure what I have to do with the triggerselect.sdef or if I have to edit my regular select.def

And thanks for your quick responses. I want to make sure this program is bug free and easy to use for everyone!

so if I launch mugen through msm, and have this in my triggerselect.sdef, I should only see kfm and kfm720 in my select screen until i have passed a chapter correct?

;Insert your characters below.

NULL
NULL
kfm
kfm720
;BEGINTRIGGERSELECT
;1
kfm
squall
;ENDTRIGGERSELECT
kfm
kfm720
NULL
NULL

I want squall to be hidden until I pass a chapter.

okay I'm starting to understand. But I still see squall without having passed a chapter through msm in my select screen. This is what I have in triggerselect.sdef

randomselect
randomselect
kfm
kfm720
;BEGINTRIGGERSELECT
;1
NULL
squall
;ENDTRIGGERSELECT
kfm
kfm720
randomselect
randomselect

This is what I have on the story mode creator:

kamiloxnumetal said, November 25, 2011, 01:58:11 am

pobably the trigger 1 is activated yet, for that squall appears, you have to deactivate the triggers

go to "MSMConfigurator.exe" and press "RESET ALL TRIGGERS TO ZERO", with that all the triggers will be set to OFF

success!

Alright now I'm getting the hang of it. Just takes a while to learn this "new" style of mugen.
I noticed you mention a save and load option, will you complete that later?

and  24 bit bitmaps don't work??? but the default images are 24 bit bitmaps xd, you can use it, but there will be static for the moment the only way to put something animated is with animated gifs but if you want to use static bitmaps you can do it, thanks for the suggestion i will think in that for the next version


pd: in the images you can use gif, bmp, jpg, png, pcx, tiff, tga etc just test any format you want

kamiloxnumetal said, November 25, 2011, 03:17:31 am

and  24 bit bitmaps don't work??? but the default images are 24 bit bitmaps xd, you can use it, but there will be static for the moment the only way to put something animated is with animated gifs but if you want to use static bitmaps you can do it, thanks for the suggestion i will think in that for the next version


pd: in the images you can use gif, bmp, jpg, png, pcx, tiff, tga etc just test any format you want

Maybe you can add the .apng  format next time.
It's a format that can be animated with way less colorloss than gif.
apng is basically animated png.

kamiloxnumetal

You want to introduce other languages in software? Maybe Portuguese, for example. Thank you

You could use "VLC" to read video than "Windows Media Player" ... no need of codex anf it reads all formats.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

About the wmv an unsupported video formats, this programs takes your system codecs to play videos
so the supported formats depend of your system standard codecs, personally i use this codecs

http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm   (K lite codec pack, recommended the mega version)

and at the moment i don't have problems with any format...

In the next version, you must place a configuration to fit the screen size, in the story mode screen: 640 x 480, 800x510, ...
i.e., accompanying the resolution of mugen ...
Thank you

kamiloxnumetal... please

adriano gt said, November 26, 2011, 02:12:51 pm

In the next version, you must place a configuration to fit the screen size, in the story mode screen: 640 x 480, 800x510, ...
i.e., accompanying the resolution of mugen ...
Thank you

kamiloxnumetal said, November 25, 2011, 04:58:13 am

Kratos said, November 25, 2011, 04:52:50 am

yea I have the 2.0a patch and I still got the same video problem. I'm on Windows 7.
24 bitmaps do work, but I notice a lot of color loss with them for some reason.

ok i try to fix all that

Kratos said, November 25, 2011, 02:24:59 am

I see. Well this 2.0 version is very functional!

The only bug is that I still have the same video playing problem.

EDIT HERE ARE SOME SUGGESTIONS:
It would be great if we could use 24bit color bitmaps for the menu images so there is no color loss.
There should be two options after you select story mode: "Continue" or "Start New Game" (this would reset all triggers to zero).

Try this build of the exe, in all video modes and in fullscreen and windowed , and tell me your results please

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OHGF92HB

i don't have windows 7 so you help me so much testing the program there

and did you try another picture formats? all have the color loss?

This fixed my video problems.

I tested the version 2.1 c ....
I found 2 problems:
1 - when the screen of mugenstorymode will go to the screen of mugen, occurs a empty range (this was not the case in earlier versions; the screen was continuing ...
2 - the mugenstorymode screen does not align with the screen of mugen (see image below):

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Very happy to report 2.2 is compatible with Wine, with no errors at all (so far).

Playing around with it a bit more, I can't get the videos to work, same black screen as the older versions used to have all the time (tested in WMP, Direct Show and MCI). However I will mess around with the config with the players themselves to see if that can fix this.

Also, music for menus doesn't seem to play, but SFX work just fine.

The sagas/stories system seems to work fine, as does the MUGEN itself.

A reminder to any Linux users: if you use a file name remember: Capitalization counts; eg. in the saga list if you want to add 'example.MHX' make sure it is not written 'Example.MHX' or 'example.mhx', etc.

Mugen then be filled with people with little creativity?.

I prefer to make a storyboard to make a video, you can make high quality storyboards, which in a very heavy video.
;----------------------------------------------
Entonces mugen se llenará de gente con poca creatividad?.

Prefiero hacer un storyboards que hacer un video,se pueden hacer storyboards de muy buena calidad , que  un video muy pesado.

Okay, after working on a sort of test story, I have a few minor suggestions:

For files (like preview pictures, HTMLs, music for example) you could add a "Browse..." button to find the file, so we don't have to type out "Bitmaps/SagaFolder/Image.bmp" for each time.

Another is the ability to edit the info on the Stories in the Saga Configurator. For example if you want to change the story's picture (or  name), at the moment it seems you must delete the story from the list and then re-insert it again.

Just really minor things, although the first one would help quite a bit.

It could also be nice if the user could configure the sagas' selector to look like a regular character select screen, to make it more similar to actual fighting games.

Just my two cents.

kamilox...
You have some new?
thank you, man

I don't plan to actually distribute my custom story, but this seems like a fun activity to see where I am with the customization part of M.U.G.E.N.

I will test this out.

Just a quicky: If I ever wanted to pass on my story, I could do it via the file, right?

kamiloxnumetal said, January 24, 2012, 01:23:41 am

mmm sorry i don't understand what you say on english at 100% xd jajaja "wanted to pass on my story" anybody can tell me what that means xd,  but if that means something like "i want to distribute my story" or "i want to share my story", distribute it, with the full program if you want, i got no problem with that

creo que se refiere a que si despues de crear su historia, podria pasarle al archivo guardado de su historia a alguien mas y esa otra persona seria capaz de reproducir la misma historia utilizando ese archivo en su MugenStoryMode propio

algo asi como un savefile creo

Man, this is great addon to mugen 
But, I don't now why, triggers don't work good. For example, sometimes when I close StoryMode and again play, then it doesn't save my progress. Or some sagas which should be locked is unlocked. I don't now why it's happen. It not always but sometimes. I use 2.2 version your StoryMode and 1.00 Mugen RC8. Do you have any idea, why it doesn't good?

So, I use Hex Editor and probably I find problem.
All triggers are saving in file 'triggers" and it works well.
But when I play saga 2 times, then, if i  think, this triggers are double. And than your program can't read them correctly.
For example: I play saga first time and after in Hex Editor, trigger value is 'e3'. All is well. But when i play saga second time trigger value changes to 'e4'. And StoryMode don't see it.
I hope you know what I mean
Do you know, how repair it?

Hey, great tool and all. But I've got a question - how to remove a picture showing between the battles
(that it doesn't appear at all - in my Mugen i replaced it with loading screen)
Any ideas ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPcwLLfvISc&feature=youtu.be

Ps. My result of playing with this program.

Hi

kamilioxnumetal, do you have to modify the story file to make your own one? At the first try, I wasn't able to do that, because I made a new file and the program didn't save the progress; but then I modified the story file in the folder and it saved progress. Is there a way to do the first thing I said, with progress saved and all that?
I also have the same problem as tomur111.