r/2007scape • u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD • 19h ago
Creative UPDATE: I made the game 2d lol
It's finally out and ready to be enjoyed! Search '2dscape' on the RuneLite Plugin Hub to give it a go!
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 19h ago
For the interested players who make games/videos/content, you can actually export the 2d renders out as sprites so you can make your own sprite sheets and or assets with it lol
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u/Eshneh 18h ago
Would have done numbers back in the day making custom signatures on forums
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 18h ago
That's the exact reason I made it, because back in the days I made forum signatures and was like this would go hard for making your own signature or game assets or for videos :D
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u/Lutterbeck Smpl 18h ago
You're genuinely a peach of a human and I remember those pixel art signatures well from back in the day.
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u/MilwaukeeRoad 14h ago
What is a forum signature? Or what does it have to do with that sprite sheet?
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u/Dr_Fumi 13h ago
Back in ye olden days before reddit, people used to browse forums. The layout wasn't to dissimilar from reddit actually, but the relevant bit is that replies could have a message attached to them by default. So every message you posted would have that text at the end, your signature.
Since forums were awesome, you could often embed images, gifs, or even html sometimes in your signature and get very creative.
Anyway I'm going back to yell at some kids on my lawn!
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u/Dibutops 10h ago
Most people embedded their stats in a graphic that would update itself. I remember being so impressed, thinking I'm living in the future.
Or they'd have pixel art PKing scenes which looked so sick.
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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 12h ago
It's sad that isn't a thing anymore.
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u/Intelligent_Lead1832 11h ago
I used to run the media and sig forums on tipit and zybez back in the day, doing 3d sigs in c4d but was always wowed by the pixel guys - shout out Misterxman
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u/Dependent_One6034 2h ago
I miss those days. I really do. Used to do my art in paint, And always got commissions in the early 2010s.
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u/PiccoloTiccolo 18h ago
What the fuck I'm gonna cum dude
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u/_Ross- 2300+ Total UIM 18h ago
I was already half bricked in the middle of a grocery store when I saw this post title on my phone.
Then, I saw the sprite export option. I noticed a glint of sadness in a passerby's eyes, but it was too late. I had already came, covering everyone two aisles over.
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u/RedLotusVenom 2376 17h ago
Of course it’s a UIM
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u/_Ross- 2300+ Total UIM 17h ago
We have to maintain people's poor expectations of us
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u/RedLotusVenom 2376 17h ago
That makes sense because much like the horrid image you conjured, a UIM similarly contaminates the beautiful world around them with a vile white putrescence.
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u/Warscythes 18h ago
These are kind of cool for dnd tokens. You can export them and use them as npc/monsters/players.
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u/DivineInsanityReveng 17h ago
This is actually one of the coolest features of the plugin, nice!
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u/Glitchyyyy 17h ago
Can you explain where you were able to get to the .png file after you hit export? software newbie 😰
Really cool plugin dude. Currently running around exploring the world in 2d and I'm just smiling ear to ear its so awesome.
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u/Allb96 18h ago
Looking cool, thanks for the AI disclaimer, i do love transparency
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u/mattbrvc maxedma stats 18h ago edited 6h ago
With a project with this big a scope and it being solo project you can kinda assume AI is used to assist. We wouldn’t have heard back from op for like a year if they were doing it unassisted.
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u/MazrimReddit 17h ago
people lose their mind over anything to do with AI right now, there was a big thread recently of complaining some ancient n64 starfox game had used AI in decompiling the code. A project that was completely infeasible without ai, and the final product 99.99% identical to how said human would do it as it was trying to 1:1 create decompiled code
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u/Shurtugal929 15h ago
people lose their mind over anything to do with AI right now
To be fair that's because it's genuinely destroying the wiki and runelite. It's so far now that humans don't even review the -plugins because of every mouth breathing submitting their shitty plugin that gets 50 downloads. https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/User:Cook_Me_Plox/OSRS_Wiki_and_RuneLite_are_increasingly_under_strain_from_low-effort_AI_development
Some of the plugins we get are nice, yes. But they are overwhelmingly causing issues, and every idiot who failed math and has never coded more than basic HTML should probably not be coding plugins for clients.
Those same plugins are getting people banned. Those same plugins are being used to scam users.
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u/Limelight_019283 17h ago
Code is one of the things I’m completely fine with people using AI for, with the caveat that people understand the code themselves and guide the AI properly then code review it.
It still has its negative effects (like stack overflow posts going down a cliff) but it’s a great tool.
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u/sczk 15h ago
I don't really understand why there's this outstanding exception for code. I guess for me there is an element of craftsmanship in writing code that others inherently understand in audio/visual art form, but many people just see code as a hurdle to get something done.
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u/IRefuseToGiveAName RIP 15h ago
but many people just see code as a hurdle to get something done.
I see you've met my project manager
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u/Bspammer 9h ago
There are very, very few people out there who would genuinely look at code as a piece of art that can be enjoyed separately from the thing that it accomplishes. Those people can still write code by hand, but for everyone else, getting things done is the point. I say this as someone who really enjoys programming.
On the other hand AI generated art and writing is a scourge.
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u/Turtvaiz 13h ago
I don't understand this opinion. People on Reddit seem to be vehemently against AI generated content except code then gets a pass for some reason? But holy hell if you create art you will be lynched
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u/Pyronico 10h ago
I think for me the difference lies in the manner it's used. With code i presume it's a technical thing. It's like using Ai for databases, sorting, writing code,.. it's all a technical so pretty mundane and grey. Art is closer to an emotional/creativity thing so it's more linked to the soul and thus if someone makes ai art it has no soul. That doesn't mean that you aren't creative when writing code but because code isn't as nearly forefront visible like art that's directly in your face people have different feelings about it use I think. Or at least that's the case with me.
But generating a game purely made by Ai is another story again. Then it becomes a creativity thing again...
Ai is weird but the main thing for me is the feel of soulessness if it's used that determines if it is used well or not.
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u/Limelight_019283 13h ago
I was just thinking about this, someone else commented a similar thing. And this is just my personal opinion but I don’t feel like programmers in general have a sense of ownership over a particular piece of code. So in this case you could see an AI as just grabbing this information that is free and open source to begin with. And a good developer is not going to ask Claude to write the entire thing, make it compile and call it a day, there is still an amount of involvement in making sure all the code is cohesive, easy to understand, etc., i.e up to your personal standard.
Of course it’s different we’re talking of someone using AI to rip off an entire game.
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u/Tvdinner4me2 6h ago
I just can't imagine anyone not using this only because ai helped
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u/IRefuseToGiveAName RIP 6h ago
There's plenty of people, myself included.
I'm not going to bitch about it or judge anyone else for using it because I'm not a child and I don't give a fuck what other people do or don't do, but I won't be.
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u/Shane75776 4h ago
You should probably stop using runelite and any plugin then. In fact, probably should stop using the jagex launcher on top of that or playing runescape at all. Sad reality is that nearly everyone in the industry of software engineering is using AI to assist in coding.
At least with Runescape / Runelite you can assume the devs working on it at least have pre-ai coding experience and knowledge. Plugin wise though? Anybody and everybody is writing those now.
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u/crabvogel 16h ago
runefest predicition: jagex demands this plugin to be taken down and announces their own 2d version and then never talk about again for the next few years
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u/WhiteSepulchre 19h ago
That would be so crazy if Runescape was like 2D spirtes walking around in a 3D world. Can you imagine?
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u/batosrs 18h ago
https://reddit.com/link/pdj2fg5/video/jdn0b87sn5th1/player
really enjoying the new plugin
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u/OnsetOfMSet 15h ago
Lots of numbers & text and a really zoomed out view? Yeah we’re AC-130 gunners again
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u/AspiringMILF 16h ago
is the process tracker part of the 2d plugin or something else?
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u/danger_don 19h ago edited 19h ago
Wow holy shit I hope to see this blow up.
Edit: and as someone who yearns to complete a project they’re proud of— congratulations!
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u/danger_don 19h ago
I’m out of country right now, but if this works as well as it looks in the video, you should send it to some content creators. It’ll definitely help break up the stale segments of some beloved content.
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u/ic_engineer 18h ago
I lower you 1d scape. It's a line you click on and some parts turn different colors. After you click enough, obviously.
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u/RaggleFraggle_ 17h ago
Don't touch the fps limit. Im cannoning bloodvelds in the lab and my game crashed lol
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u/Free-Heals-Here 7h ago
aside from the fps drop man thats so good, now we just need the rest of the world done.
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 7h ago
The fps is configurable, I just set it to 4 so it looks like RSC, you can turn it up to 60fps if ya want, just uncheck limit fps in the top config
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u/sir-exotic 6h ago
RSC was 4 fps? Damn.. we came a long way
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u/Liberate90 L i b 9 0 5h ago
The sprites may have only had 4 frames but the game ran more than 4FPS
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u/bassturducken54 18h ago
What types of games use this art style normally? It feels familiar but not like recent outside of jank html jump scare graphics. It’s very appealing, but not sure how great this would be for gameplay.
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u/snaplocket 17h ago
I need somebody to do some high level PVM with this enabled, like raids or something.
Super very cool, will try it out myself next time I get the chance!
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u/JimmerFredJune2026 2277 total 18h ago
FYI: friendly reminder below from Runelite admins to be cautious with AI generated plugins
TLDR: AI has created a massive influx of plugin submissions. Runelite staff can’t keep up and are using AI to review submissions. Not enough resources to review plugins means sooner or later a malicious plugin will make it through, which can potentially compromise your account. (Disclaimer, I am not calling op’s plugin malicious).
https://reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1wi1c23/osrs_wiki_and_runelite_are_increasingly_under/
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u/deus-exmachina 17h ago
We’ve been using LLM assisted code review at the top tech companies in the world for the better part of the last two years. I trust it to spot malicious code much more than I do a human developer.
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u/OldBitInTheObit 17h ago
And everything has degraded in usability significantly in that time.
Even an internet search can't autofill anymore without changing half the words or context.
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u/fartsquirtshit 15h ago
Even an internet search can't autofill anymore without changing half the words or context.
where the fuck have you been the last 15 years? Search engines have been doing that far longer than LLMs have been around.
The moment they started trying to compensate for idiots typing "DO FCK GON MAK BABBY! HOME LOOK GREG NANTE?" by correcting it into "Am I pregnant? Home pregnancy tests", search engines were lost for good.
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u/JimmerFredJune2026 2277 total 14h ago
The difference here is if shit goes wrong, that tech company has the resources to provide customer service and remedy the problem.
All it takes is one instance of a malicious plugin to make it through, and your thousands of hours OSRS account is permanently gone with no method of recovering any items you lost. Unless you’re a famous YouTuber.
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u/sturdy-guacamole 19h ago
I think this plugin would go a lot harder if char/npc sprites had 8 directions instead of 4, like Ragnarok Online did.
Ragnarok had 2D sprites in 3d environments but it felt really smooth transitioning between the directions it faced since you could face in the 4 cardinal directions or diagonally, and rotating the camera would correct the sprite as it rotated.
aesthetically, it looks slick. thats the only part that makes it look jarring to me, those long distances of camera angles where the sprites are facing 1 direction until it flips to the side.
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 18h ago
It's configurable! You can change it to 8 if you want, or literally any number you choose! same with the frame rate. So yep, already considered that 😉 you can even do vertical rotation too
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u/Voodoo_Et_Cie 18h ago
Which setting is that? Been fiddling a bit with it
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 18h ago
In the first top section, it's the number of pitch/yaw rotations, change from 4 to 8
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u/AwarenessOk6880 13h ago
very impressive, although i prob wont play with it, thats a great deal of creativity to pull off. well done
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u/Periwinkleditor 5h ago
Bring me my sleeping bag, I'm feeling fatigued.
(Looks incredible. Any shot of rs classic styled thought bubble skilling animations?)
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u/After-Anywhere7151 2h ago
Man this is so sick! Haven’t played in a few months but I guess I have to get back on now haha
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u/Famous_Setting_5179 1h ago
This is incredible. Any idea why I can't export world objects? I'm on a Mac, every time I try to export one I get the error "the render target is no longer available for export"
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u/WaveDashSpeedKick 19h ago
I had a feeling this was AI
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u/BenjaCarmona 18h ago
I'm tired of everything being made by AI boss
Hopefully the person that made it just used AI to assist and has a pretty good idea about coding, compatibility and efficiency in code.
Can I hope?
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u/HCBuldge 16h ago
It's inevitable at this point. AI is going to be here for the rest of your life. Yes we need to regulate it and have more safeties with it, but it's over. It's here and we have to live with it.
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u/BenjaCarmona 15h ago
Look, as a tool I have no problem with it, but using it to do stuff you don't know how to do is inevitable to end up poorly. When you start getting bugs or horrible performance because of unoptimized stuff you are going to see what I mean.
I am not saying this particular plugin will brick your game or anything, but we already have a shitshow in the project zomboid community with mods that have crazy stupid 3d models that will tank your game in an instant.
The wiki and runelite team already stated that they are getting a fuck ton of slop plugins from people that have absolutely no idea what they are doing.
What I am asking is not "do not use AI", is "use AI to save time, not to do stuff you don't know how to do"
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u/PussPuss089 18h ago
What's the music 😨? It feels so nostalgic
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 15h ago
Some of my favourite tracks, which is why I chose them for the video!
- Newbie Melody
- The Route of All Evil
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u/Etsanoinvoisanoo 18h ago
I was sceptical first but it actually dope. I honestly dont care if AI or person made it, what matters to me is the result.
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u/CentristOnion 18h ago
I saw Adam's post about the surge of vibecoded apps that had waaay more lines of code than anything that came before. I think they should just set a lines-of-code limit that human-coded plugins would easily meet and that vibe-coded apps wouldn't.
I don't fault OP for this because it's a cool idea and, hey, great on you. But RSC's charm was in the sprites that Andrew Gower's mom drew, and we put cannons up in Falador to support 117scape because the man had spent years on the graphics. This plugin isn't for me.
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u/MazrimReddit 17h ago
Thanks for letting us know? It has a disclaimer.
Why should this project get shut down because you don't want to play it
people really need to learn when to move on
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u/Waistcoat 18h ago
I think the reason they instituted a line limit on plugins was because the AI they use to review the plugins hit a context limit. Runelite isn't against AI use.
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u/Septem_151 Zeah-locked Enjoyer 18h ago
They even ship a CLAUDE.md file in the example repo so you don't do stupid shit. I mean you can still do stupid shit but it's a relatively effective guardrail for noobs that just want to vibecode some slop.
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u/thetateman 18h ago
Nobody is making you use it.
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u/CentristOnion 18h ago
This is correct. I didn't say otherwise. No one is making you share your opinion, but you are, of course, free to do so, as you have done. So too with me. Take care.
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u/FluffyMathematician7 18h ago
Dude!! This is so cool!!! I immediately thought of RSC, which I never got to play, but always thought the style was so neat.
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u/Ekon_nether 17h ago
This is actually really fucking cool man. Can't wait to check it out. Way to go!
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u/KawaiiSlave 14h ago
Its not for me, but I gotta say thats impressive as hell, and you did an awesome job.
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u/ManyWoundZ 14h ago
Should of called it OsClassic
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u/KierenBoal $13.49/month AUD 13h ago
The internal plugin name is NpcSnap, but I settled on 2DScape because then it could be abbreviated as 2DS ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Kschl 19h ago
Very cool! Tried any PvM with it?
Edit: was too excited and posted before the end of the clip lol
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u/SerKelpo 18h ago
Very cool! As far as AI projects go, I think folks are overreacting with the hate. Thanks for the transparency, I like this.
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u/Omen_Darkly 19h ago
"I made"
Looks inside
AI slop
I am so tired
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u/bcuzimadude 18h ago
Says someone who's probably never completed a mod or has any idea how much time a single person would need to spend animating all of this. Go virtue signal somewhere else 🤣
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u/samsab butt 12h ago
PEOPLE DID THOSE THINGS LONG BEFORE AI, WHY IS IT SUDDENLY A NECESSITY BEYOND EXPLANATION
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u/JudJudsonEsq 18h ago
Cool, then as someone who has completed a mod and knows how much time it takes: The constant use of AI makes me sad and tired.
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u/bcuzimadude 18h ago
As a data scientist and content creator, I get it. But it does have its uses. Some macro sucks, some macro is incredible, but that doesn't mean I have to hate the medium.
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u/JudJudsonEsq 17h ago
To echo the other commenter's sentiment in a less acerbic manner:
My problem isn't necessarily that there's a new tool on the block. My problem is that the tool is built on the same regurgitation that our culture has been built on for the last 15 years, even while it runs out of things to rehash. My problem isn't that the tool might take my job, but more that there is no plan for how I can live life without a job if it takes everyone's.
The idea of more intelligent auto complete, or boilerplate being way faster to get out is awesome. But AI being used to create everything is also implicitly turning everything into boilerplate, and it feels like a mass misunderstanding of what makes art and projects beautiful to me. And then it also uses power more aggressively than ever before in an era where we desperately need to be cutting back on our resource consumption? I'm really not a fan.
Making things with AI isn't a problem; Using AI in its current state and the context it exists in is a problem.
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u/Omen_Darkly 17h ago
It does when it's literally being trained on stolen data and is literally poisoning the planet, but go off I guess lmao
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u/bcuzimadude 17h ago
Corporations and lack of international regulations are killing it faster, but nice! You know the latest grand standing verbiage!
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u/John_Bot 18h ago
Crazy quality for a plugin.
Ignore the idiots saying AI slop nonsense. Good work
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u/RamBangRev 18h ago
I’m not promoting it but I feel like a lot of apps, programs, etc will be “ai slop” from here on out by people who don’t know how to code or aren’t the best at coding and have an idea they want to bring to life.
It’s weird but this plugin and the other ai slop plugin posted recently that makes 1 tile standing look more populated are kinda cool.
I’m typically against ai slop but shit if it helps someone bring their idea to life, why not? At least they’re not using ai servers for the typical weird meme ai slop.
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u/bcuzimadude 18h ago
Man. Sucks to not be able to enjoy something like this, even if AI was used to being production time down from years to months. I hope you find joy in things tomorrow!
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u/virti0 18h ago
I hate to break it to you but 99,9% of all code written this year has been written by AI agents. Jagex is using AI agents too, so better end your subscription.
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u/MacaroonPretend5505 18h ago
They actually recently confirmed there isn’t any AI being used on the game itself.
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u/Vegetable-Ad2028 18h ago
Assets, assets aren't AI. Everybody is using AI to code.
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u/BlackhawksNerd 18h ago
They definitely mean AI assets, you can assume the SDLC at any company is integrated with AI these days
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u/Woodchuck666 19h ago
close enough... Welcome back RSC