Rainbow-Editor/README.md

Rainbow RPG Editor is a free-software editor for the MIT-licensed RPG Maker MV CoreScript engine. It is written in Object Pascal using Lazarus, and currently supports GNU/Linux and Windows.

Currently it is incomplete. You cannot create a game with it (yet).

The goal of Rainbow RPG Editor is to provide a cross-platform, open-source game constructor that will empower people to tell their stories. It is intended as a drop-in replacement for RPG Maker MV, but with better license, no cost, and support for languages overlooked by RMMV (notably Ukrainian).

Rainbow RPG Editor is double-licensed under either The Hippocratic License 2.1 (or newer) or GNU AGPL 3 (or newer).

Compiling

You need Lazarus IDE to build this project. The most basic way to get it is to use your package manager on Linux or download a package from https://www.lazarus-ide.org on Windows. These will normally install bare-bones versions that should be enough for Rainbow Editor.

Alternative options include https://www.getlazarus.org/ (which provides precompiled binaries with customizations and cross-compilers) and FPCUPdeluxe (which will compile the required version from sources and allows for very detailed configuration; available from https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/releases/tag/v2.2.0c).

Compiling using graphical interface

• Download the project, extract it into its own directory.
• In the Lazarus IDE, choose Project > Open Project (Ctrl+F11), choose rainboweditor.lpi from the rainbow-editor folder.

If you haven't installed BGRABitmap before, you'll have to do it now:

• If you open rainboweditor.lpi without BGRABitmap library installed, you'll see an error message about BGRABitmapPack missing
• Download a BGRABitmap release from https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/releases
• Unpack it somewhere
• Use Package > Open Package File (.lpk) to open bgrabitmappack.lpk, then use Use > Add to Project.

Compiling from command-line

• Download a BGRABitmap release from https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/releases and unpack it somewhere.

Add it to Lazarus like this:

    lazbuild --add-package-link /path-to-bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmappack.lpk

Then, run the following (in the directory of the Rainbow Editor):

    lazbuild rainboweditor.lpr

Running projects

To run a game, you would need nwjs. Place it in either of the folders:

• <program folder>/nwjs
• <program folder>/share/rainbow-editor/nwjs
• <program folder>/share/nwjs
• <parent folder>/nwjs
• <parent folder>/share/rainbow-editor/nwjs
• <parent folder>/share/nwjs
• /nwjs
• /share/rainbow-editor/nwjs
• /share/nwjs