adding characters’ walking sprites to the front view battle system?

Hello all,

I’m looking for a way to display the party’s walking sprites (so you see the backs of the characters) on top of the front view battle system. So basically, a 3rd person version of the front view battle system.

I have searched and found screenshots where people have accomplished this, but they all seem to use discontinued plugins or plugins exclusive to VX Ace.

If there is a way to do this without a plugin, that would be ideal, but if there is an existing plugin that already accomplishes this in MV, I’d be open to that, too.

Example:


Any help would be appreciated!

There is a way to do it w/o a plugin; you'll be alternating three Show picture commands in a troop event. I am not sure if it freezes your game, but I don't think it does.

Thanks for your reply.

I’m trying to follow - so the characters would actually just be pictures in this case? That does seem like it could work, but then the characters wouldn’t be able to move around or walk, would they?

Forgive me if I’m misunderstanding.

Yes.
That is why you loop through three pictures - to make the walking animation. Moving would have had to be made via move picture.

Thanks again - I would like to explore this further, but I am having trouble putting the pieces together. If there is any further information you can provide me as far as the steps a process like this might require, I would very much appreciate it.

Bump, because I'm still lost.