Move Route Script

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Started by celebrus Aug 17, 2012, 08:37 PM 11 posts View original ↗

celebrus

#1 Aug 17, 2012, 08:37 PM Source

Hi everyone!

I am getting a bit sick of the way Move Routes appear in the Event box and how cumbersome it can be to make them.

I'd really like to be able to, within the Move Route, put something in the "Script..." box like "ROUTE_MOVE_UP = 10" and that would take the place of:

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

Move Up

It would be dynamite if someone could make that possible. Thanks!!
Victor Sant

#2 Aug 17, 2012, 08:54 PM Source

http://www.rpgmakerv...fp-move-routes/
Tsukihime

#3 Aug 17, 2012, 09:46 PM Source
Be aware that the script may have bugs. For example, it doesn't repeat properly, so if you were to say something like
Code:
moves("4R4U4L4D")
Which is basically moving in a square, you can't say "repeat forever" and expect the event to repeat forever.

I have not figured out a way to deal with it.

However, for cut-scene purposes, it should be fine...
celebrus

#4 Aug 17, 2012, 10:09 PM Source

I actually found that one... It didn't work for me. After the movement is complete, the player is stuck. I have an event, which when triggered sets a move route for the player. The player moves but then gets frozen at the destination. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
Tsukihime

#5 Aug 17, 2012, 10:18 PM Source

Probably a bug. Maybe someone else can post a proper move route script.
celebrus

#6 Aug 17, 2012, 10:26 PM Source

Actually, I haven't been able to use the moves("...") command successfully in anything I've tried. I have been playing with it for awhile. I've tried asking other events to move, reduced it to one step at a time... a lot of things. It always freezes when it reaches the end of the first moves("") command. I think it must be that I'm doing something wrong...
Tsukihime

#7 Aug 17, 2012, 10:44 PM Source
Well, I found one problem.

It's set to repeat forever because I didn't explicitly set it to false.

Kind of stupid.

So if you just add the three lines
Code:
def moves(string) move_route = RPG::MoveRoute.new move_route.repeat = false move_route.skippable = true move_route.wait = true ...
You should not have the freezing issue.

However, the fact that I'm creating a new move route is of concern.

I'm going to try to copy the custom move route into the original list, so that these custom scripts are sort of like a macro.
celebrus

#8 Aug 17, 2012, 10:50 PM Source

Thanks! It's an awesome idea for a script! Are you saying I should use those new lines or that you are going to post something different though?
Tsukihime

#9 Aug 17, 2012, 10:54 PM Source
Download a new copy of the script. I just updated it to be a little better.

The idea is simple: if the game sees one of my custom move commands, it will build a new list of move commands and then REPLACE my command with the actual instructions.

Haven't really thought about any issues that might come out of this, but it means the list is no different from what the default engine provides.

eg:
Code:
move up moves("DLR") move down
Will be translated to
Code:
move up move down # replace my command with the actual instructions move left # move right # move down
when the event starts running. You can use "repeat" and it should work fine because there's nothing surprising about the list.
celebrus

#10 Aug 17, 2012, 11:09 PM Source

Sweet! Works great. Looks great.
Archeia

#11 Aug 30, 2012, 10:53 AM Source

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