News Mugen: Visual Select Screen Editor by tunglashor released

News Mugen is a great site. I just saw an announcement of a tool that allows you to visually make your own Select screen for mugen



News Mugen: Visual Select Screen Editor by tunglashor released

Mugen-Infantry: 3D Stage Def Generator

Here is  a great tool for generating 3D stages. 


Mugen-Infantry: 3D Stage Def Generator

Mugen Code

Image via Wikipedia

I found a web site that has sample codes for Mugen Characters. Some of the actions include:

Flying
Homing Projectile
Long Jump
Meter Bar
Resurrection
Parry
Disperse/Perse/Particle Gathering Effect
Morph
Rotating Projectiles
V-ISM mode (SFA3)
Basic AI Programming
Dizzy Code
Damage Display
Mirror Warp

Go to this link for more information

Mugen Tools - Ultimate Installer

"With this program you can install Chars, stages and Screen Packs [SP] in your Mugen folder, only select the winrar supported files or Drop into the program, select the type file [char,stage or SP] and install into mugen.
You can change folder's name to unrar"

This tool is more like what I imagined when I wrote my own tool to manage mugen files. This program is great and interactive, mine is a bit more on the autonomous side - set it up and forget it. Another difference is mine requires a more careful set up and strategy to setting up your archived files. The Ultimate Installer is great even if you don't have a coherent filing system to bingwith.


Source

Mugen Tools: Ultimate Character Tester

"Program to test chars in a winrar supported file [rar,zip,lzh,etc], the program extract the files in chars/test folder and run a Quick VS test" Source Link

Mugen Tools: Mugen Bound Calculator

I just found out about this too. It makes creating stages a little easier. Here is the information given:

With Mugen Bound Calculator You can calculate the "bound" for the stages of the mugen and besides the complete code can be gotten for the file def.

All it takes is inserting the width and the height of your stage and all is done.
Besides I want that you notice that if your stage is composed from an only image with this tool you can do a complete stage in minutes considering that it also suggests the positioning of the axis.

For instance if you have an image (in indexd color obviously eheh) of 640 for 480 pixels my tool it will tell you in that axis needs to line up it in your file sff (what you must compile byeyourself) and the bound....
In the site you will also find the old version offline of the bound (I must update it but works corretly).

Now go to make all the stages that want.

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Mugen Tools - Select Manager

The Select Manager is a cool tool. If you have a lot of characters and stages for MUGEN and you need to make smaller games on the fly containing several different combinations this tool is for you. You drop it into your mugen main folder for the game you are making. You put the characters, stages, and sounds in their respective folders. The Select Manager is then used to to generate a new "Select.def" file so you can put it into your Data folder and use it. It even allows you to tweak many of the options you set in the Select folder. My only complaint about it is that it doesn't seem to allow you to select out specific charcter/stages in the Mugen Directory. Instead it takes everything in the directory. My other peeve is that it doesn't seem to work for the Everything Vs Everything screenpack. I think that this tool is worth your time.



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Stage Viewer for MUGEN

There is a great tool that I have not mentioned on this blog before: Mugen Stage Viewer. It's a little program that you put into the same directory of your Mugen executable. IT's asks you to click on the directory where your Mugen files are and then it will display all your stages included in your Mugen. You can see all the stages and hear the music. If you have a stage that is broken or has something wrong with it, this tool can tell you so that you don't inadvertently crash your MUGEN in the middle of game play (which I hate). Here is a video of me using the stage viewer with a Mugen game containing most of my collected characters. You can download this wonderful tool here. If you know of any other versions please leave a comment.

Fighter Factory Ultimate Released

Whats new:
General
- Improved Interface
- Performance is incredibly superior
- Less memory consumption
- Possibility of opening up to 12 chars in the same window
- Almost all functions accessible via shortcut keys
- The Esc key closes a window
- Customizable (possibility to enable or disable some recursor, usually messages of confirmation)
- Possibility to hide the panel of the editor to increase the space
- Format of the programs for chars (all except in a single file with compression - average 50% reduction)
- Zoom up to 8X
- New system of languages, much lighter and faster
- Test of char in MUGEN improved
- New organizer
- Confirmation of overwrite in all operations to save

DEF
- Possibility to comment a line, unchecking a check box (for snd valley, st, intro, ending, states and palettes)

SFF
- Customizable background image
- Movement of the image according to the zoom
- Buttons to go to the next or previous group
- Option palette of the image does not change the previous image
- Function optimize for DOS and Win Mugen
- Cut and optimize all the images 1000x faster than the previous version
- Axis-shaped buttons on adding sprites
- Ruler on one side to increase the space
- Export and import a whole SFF (own format and SprMaker)
- Possibility to save the current image, all, a group of images, range images of a group
- Image Editor

ACT
- Inclusion of the editor of pallets in the main window
- Increased floor area
- All functions apply to both the image and the char palette, chosen by the user
- Possibility to choose whether he will replace the palette or the image to adapt it
- Enhanced Function mask
- Just click on the image he selects the color without the need to activate an additional button
- Effects RGB Hue and improved, with the option of applying or permanently reset and ignore the changes
- RGB Effect will not work for value and dragging the Barrinha
- Option to replace a color by clicking it twice
- Function that puts gradient in the range of selected colors
- Removal of duplicate colors in the palette
- Generate optimized palette for the image
- Inserts in palette images with option to use the Clean PCX
- Generate optimized palette from multiple images
- Movement of the image according to the zoom

AIR
- Display of real-time transparency in the editor
- New alignment system, equal to the SFF in order to standardize and facilitate the use
- Movement of the image according to the zoom
- New system for generating animated GIF (positions and scales the image correctly, not cutting the feet or the head like before)
- Preview of sprites on thumbnail for rapid creation of animations
- Resizing and repositioning of CLSN 1px directional buttons at once by

SND
- Allows you to set the group and add sound
- Conversion of bitrate and number of channels made by the program
- System for enhanced Resample using the library LibSampleRate
- Display information on the correct sound WAVE
- Find sound
- Delete Group
- Possibility of individual sounds Resampler
- Possibility to save the current sound, all, a group of sounds, range of sounds of a group

CMD
- Display list of states with number and name
- Allows to navigate the state by double-clicking an item from the list
- New syntax coloring
- New editing system (standard in the text editors)

CNS
- System auto complete with support for functions with parameters (shows possible options or monitoring the switch current)
- System auto complete with the addition of SCtrls from a shortcut key
- Templates for SCtrls
- List of StateDefs
- Editor of PalFX
- Viewer Offset
- List of Vars

Get it at:
http://virtualltek.mgbr.net/

Getting Started With Mugen

I've gotten a couple of requests on my YouTube channel for information on how to get started in Mugen. I have been studying Mugen for the past 19 months. I've learned a lot. Everything you need is on the Internet even tutorials. In my research I have found some rumors that Mugen is dead and no one is doing anything new with it. This is not true in the slightest. One of the things that I like the most about Mugen is that it's truly international. You have development of characters, stages, and tools going on all over the planet: United States, France, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, and many other countries. And the work being done is truely exceptional! So here are some sites that I would suggest newbies would visit to learn how to put mugen games together, pre-made games to downloads, and great places to find characters.

Resources
http://mugen.en.softonic.com/ - is where you need to go to find the mugen game engine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.G.E.N - is where you need to go for general information.
Fighter Factory - is where you need to download a great program for designing your own mugen characters, very visual, and more like an Integrated Development Environment
Mugen Editing Ensemble - is another software suite for making mugen characters
Mugen.cfg File Editor for Windows - cfg files are configuration files for mugen games, this tool allows easy editing of that file.
Open Mugen 1.1 - Another version of the Mugen version with open source code.

Tutorials
Mugen Tutorials
HOW TO INSTALL A NEW SCREENPACK FOR MUGEN???
Installing Mugen and Characters
Tutorial for Newbies - Mugen Fury
How to Program M.U.G.EN. the fighting engine
Character Creation Walkthru
AI Auto-Guard Code
How to Create A Character - there are so many good tutorials on YouTube


Ripping and Using Sprites
Mugen Basics
Mugen Tutorial - Part 1

Games
Dragonball Mugen Edition
Naruto MUGEN
Star Wars Wars for Mugen
Dragonball vs Street Fighter
Marvel vs DC
Eternity of Heroes
Transformers Mugen
MUGEN DBZ Dream
Marvel Mugen

Sites and Forums
Exterminator's Mugen Site
Fanatic Mugen
DC vs Marvel: Ultimate Battle
M.U.G.E.N. for the Masses
M.U.G.E.N. INSTITUTE
Maximum MUGEN
MUGENATION
Erradicator's PRESSTART
Richie's MUGEN Miscellany
SAMUS's MUGEN Page
Scruffy Dragon
Infinity Mugen Team
Sunny World
Gundam Mugen
Mugen Comics Characters
Mugen Boss
This is Where I found Bolt Gundam
Naruto Mugen
Kevin's Mugen
The Unlimited
Arque Art
Loganir Mugen Projects
Lethal Mugen
Jor El's Place
Kain the Supreme
Sonix X & Team Spoiler
Mugen Marauder
The Lair: Buyog2099's Mugen Creations

If you think I'm missing something important just let me know!

Pre-Made Mugen Games

The Infinity Mugen Team has a pre-made mugen game that you can download and play if you don't want to build your own. I'm downloading it from their website now: http://www.infintymugenteam.com; I've download previous versions of the game before and have been quite satisfied. One of the members of Infinity Mugen Team, DarkTalbain,has posted a video showing the game's select screen. It's amazing.

Mugen on other Platforms

I play MUGEN on Windows. But you can play it on several different platforms.

PSP

PSP InfinityCat Mugen
Open Mugen for PSP Released

XBOX

XBOX for Mugen
XMugen-linux Beta v0.1
XBOX Mugen

Xmugen - Mugen on Xbox

A Mugen Tool

I have about 1000 mugen characters and sometimes I like to mix up and change my rosters. It's not easy to unzip the engine, character, screenpacks, and stages by hand, and then make the hand edits to the files for my preferences. I could not find a tool to do it for me so I wrote one in VB.Net. It allows a user to build instances of Mugen in lots of customizable ways:

1. You can choose the screenpack from a directory called "ScreenPacks".
2. Just place all the stages you want into a directory called stages.
3. Characters into a directory called "Characters".
4. Each of these directories must be in the same directory.
5. The content may be compressed into Winzip or WinRAR files....does not matter.
6. When the Program is done, a fully usable game is available.

Here is a video of the program in action building a game using the "Fighting Jam" screen pack and just my Marvel and DC Characters. The video also shows the file structure of the source material. On my main blog I will make a post later with a detailed user's guide. If anyone is interested in the software or has a suggestion of features or questions of any kind, just let me know.