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grimmrobegames108 days ago

Thanks for your comment!

Drawing the minimap does NOT edit the 3D view. The 3D view and the minimap are both created from scene data in the ROM and are rendered separately.

There is currently no way to edit the map data, which is a limitation of GB Studio, and would require some extra tricks to achieve, including keeping track of the tiles that were changed so they don’t just change back.

There are two ways I can think of for doing a one-way door though:

1. You can make a door “lock” when you step through using a trigger by activating an actor over the door tile to block the player. I did this after the tutorial section of Abducted. Turning back and trying to step through the door activates the actor instead saying “it’s locked”.

2. You can place wall in the space after the door and a trigger on the door tile. When the player steps on the door tile, the trigger changes the player’s position to the other side of the wall. Kind of like a teleporter but only one extra tile ahead. If the player turns around they see a wall instead of the door they passed through.

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A Novel Approach108 days ago

Thank you for input on how to do door. I guess once i buy the asset i'll see more how rooms are set up. Maybe a vid tutorial? can i try to sell a commercal game with this plugin? also would this work in gameboy color mode gbstudio has?  thanks!

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grimmrobegames107 days ago

You can see the details of setting up the plugin and how the pieces work in the docs which are free to access. That will give you a better understanding of how it works and can help you decide if you want to purchase :)


Besides not distributing the source code, you can use the plugin for any project, commercial or otherwise. Credit is appreciated but also not required.

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A Novel Approach106 days ago

sounds great thanks. For a suggestion what about an inventory panel (showing collected loot and what not?!) ok thanks!

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grimmrobegames106 days ago

Inventory screens and whatnot are no small task in GB Studio and definitely goes outside the scope of what I can provide here.

As a suggestion, in Abducted I simply used a dialog box with inline variables for items. For a new project I’m replacing unused characters from the font file with item icons and using those for key items.

Just note that the graphics for rendering the view uses most of the tiles allocated in GB Studio so you’ll need to account for that if you plan on incorporating such a thing into the background tiles.


Also to answer an earlier question, GB Color mode is not supported by the plugin. You could maybe use a single palette for the view without trouble but that’s only a guess and not tested. 

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A Novel Approach106 days ago

ok thank you for the info!! Keep up the nice work!

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A Novel Approach71 days ago

hi, the empty black area on the bottom could be used for additional interaction? how about over the 3d view (pink area) or is there a way to make the 3d view less tall? thanks


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grimmrobegames71 days ago

As I mentioned in a previous comment, changing the dimensions of the viewport is not trivial and not something I’ll be supporting officially.

The goal of the plugin is to be a very niche thing: a “letterbox” first person view for classic grid-based dungeon crawl games like Wizardry or SMT. The most those very visually limited games have on the screen other than the view is usually text representing characters or player stats and other simplified things, which you can do using dialog boxes. That I managed to get a minimap in there is more than those classics usually offer. Doing more than that goes outside the scope (and spirit) of the plugin. 

If you have the plugin, you’re more than welcome to change the code yourself!

If you do, keep in mind that reducing the size of the view does not necessarily free up many background tiles for other things. The example background uses the maximum amount of tiles for a GB Studio background already and it’s not very complex art. You’ll have to determine which tiles are not going to be used after the changes and remove them from the image to calculate the new tile count. The number of tiles you can reclaim may or may not be worth rewriting the plugin.

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A Novel Approach71 days ago

ah ok thank you

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