No worries, ive figured it all out
Hows your mmf learning goin moth?

*contacts customer support*
Ok, never mind, I've figured out what I have to do.
I must really be bad at explaining things. What I wanted had nothing to do with code, only the final appearance of the stat boxes within the actual game. But thanks anyway Peter & Moth .

Hey, thanks for the help Peter. Sorry, i must have explained things badly - I already have most of that in the game, or that kind of thing, the problem I'm having is simply that the objects that the stats appear on (ie. pretty transparent blue boxes) slow the battle engine down like crazy...but not the walking around engine for some reason. This would be MMF's fault (or mine i spose). What I was after was a way of abbreviating how the stats in battle are displayed.
Still, reading thru your help, there are a number of things which I will keep in mind . Thanks!

Strange, it worked fine for me too under XP...

That's why I've been remaking the battle engine from scratch - to make it adaptable, so adding different battles wouldn't be too much of a chore.
Umm, i tried adding in my item/stats menus into the battle engine, and it slowed down like crazy...so I'm making a streamlined item system for battles, which will be fine. The problem is stats - can anyone think of a way to present them that is streamlined/abbreviated? This game already has rather stupid computer requirements, and I'd rather not make it even higher  :? ...

Higher resolution would be great...you could do a lot with that, providing you have good artwork of course .

Ah right, gotcha . Well never mind then...

This battle engine is really giving me a lot of trouble...I hate the way it springs bugs at me, whenever I try to add something new.  :evil:
Have begun the long process of adding in all stats/damage/etc. information...then maybe i'll have to tackle the bad guy AI, again...

U can draw cutscene animations? Cool, I'd love to see some!

Ah, those stickmen are brilliant! Thats it, SV is now going to be made up entirely of stick figures! It can be called Shining Stickmen...  

Why Wyndi, I thought YOU were doing the rest of the graphics!  :shock:
No, not really...I'm redrawing various stuff as i go - mountains, forest, and other tile-type things. For sprites, ive got the services of someone from the MMF community...if he gets round to it .
Which leaves a rather large gap: battle cut scene animations. Ill have to worry about this one when i get up to it...

I'm using Multimedia Fusion - it's a game-making tool. Very powerful if you know how to use it. Lots of people have been asking me this question lately...  

Cheers moth .
Yeh, sorry about the rather large system requirements - do u find it's mainly the scrolling that slows it down? Not sure what I can really do about that Im afraid.
I've remade the engine completely, so it can handle adding new stuff in.

Welcome to Ye Olde Blah, Mr.Mo7hM4n.
A combined project would be really great, wouldn't it? But I think that because everyone seems to be using different languages/programs to make their games, it isn't all that feasible. Doesn't stop me thinking that if all the Shining fan game creators got together, something awesome could be made...
I'm using Multimedia Fusion, which probably makes it easier on me than all the other guys here - they actually know a real language or two .
In any case, I hope your project goes well. I think the overall goal of any of us is to actually finish a Shining fan game - good luck!

Yeh, a lot of rpgs have exponential exp dont they. I'm not too sure if i'll put that into Shining Valour tho - while i like the idea, i also want to keep the Shining simplicity of levelling up intact .
Sure, I'll make sure Wyndigo gets your email. So would you want to help out on SV as well?  

Please release the demo Dev, if you don't, I won't have any escape from my 14 starving children and 5 domineering wives!! For the sake of my sanity, please release the demo...and so on.