OcRam - Layers plugin (for MV)

OcRam · 2019-04-16T03:21:25+0900

Introduction: I have tried to make this plugin as light-weighted as possible. You have 3 layers to play around with auto-fading, transparency and possibility to scroll (horizontal/vertical/both) and/or bind layer to map or screen. In addition you get possibility to add sprites to 3 different map bound layers! Why not more layers? To have more layers on screen might get really messy (some times even these layers are too much!). In addition small fixed size of layer array gives more processing speed to other tasks. This plugin is not new one and I have used it only for my own projects (made some commenting and re-typed some plugin parameters). I thought that it's time to kick-off this plugin to the big big world. I hope you enjoy it as I have! Here's what you need: 1. This plugin 2. Add graphics to correct folders (specified in plugin params) 3. Use plugin commands / JS to show layers in game! Spoiler: Layers tutorial video Spoiler: Setting up parallax tileset IMPORTANT! Disable any layers that you do not want to inherit to battle scene! But you might want to inherit for example your fog/sunray layers to battle screen. You also might to want set ON parameter "Use only parallax mapping", if tile mapping is not used. Just add BACKGROUND parallax as you would normally (!file_name): Spoiler: Tileset (free-to-use for any use) Add new tileset and load above tileset image to A5 section Type to tileset note -field (this will force parallax optimization if it is not in use for all tilesets). Define passabilities, bushes, ladders, counters, damage floors etc... Save tileset and start using it! Example: Closer look at 4-dir passabilities: All OcRam -plugins now available at ocram-codes.net Please read: Terms of Use Latest version: Download from here All my plugins: Check 'em out!

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OcRam

#21 Sep 10, 2019, 06:34 PM Source

Leon_Artmann said:
OcRam, fantastic work as always. I feel like everytime I have an idea for my project and I start searching for how to do it, my searches always bring me back to you :wub.

I've never done parallax and have 0 coding knowledge, but I'm trying to use this for something very simple so perhaps a small help should suffice. I'm trying to make it so that when the player enters a house, the roof disappears. I'm just not sure on what code I should use it, as there are several examples in the plugin and as I say, I'm a newbie to this stuff. I just tried having a parallel event with the plugin command "sprite roof1 8 11 2 1 5" , it showed the roof and everything, but it's still bound to camera (I've set "default fixed to map" to TRUE in the parameters, but I guess that wasn't it). So, how can I make it so that the image stays in the same x, y?

Thanks for all the help, always
Thank you for the message,

Command syntax seems to be valid for what you are trying to do... What other plugins are you using?
Leon_Artmann

#22 Sep 10, 2019, 07:03 PM Source

OcRam said:
Thank you for the message,

Command syntax seems to be valid for what you are trying to do... What other plugins are you using?

So that command should create a fixed image? I thought I missed something. Here it is:
plugin list
BazSupport

#23 Sep 10, 2019, 08:03 PM Source

Leon_Artmann said:
So that command should create a fixed image? I thought I missed something. Here it is:
plugin list
View attachment 123281

Whoa, at first glance your yanfly plugins are out of order! Make sure all YEP plugins follow the same order shown on this page of his site http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Category:Yanfly_Engine_Plugins

Also it's been recommended to get rid of that community basic plugin, especially if you use a core plugin like yep engine core
Leon_Artmann

#24 Sep 11, 2019, 12:44 PM Source

bazrat said:
Whoa, at first glance your yanfly plugins are out of order! Make sure all YEP plugins follow the same order shown on this page of his site http://www.yanfly.moe/wiki/Category:Yanfly_Engine_Plugins

Also it's been recommended to get rid of that community basic plugin, especially if you use a core plugin like yep engine core

Thanks! I didn't know that. I've changed the order of the plugins and that didn't fix the issue, buuut I've decided to try to update my project to 1.6.2 (before I was just using Yanfly's Core updates and desktop otimization) and while doing it I realized that the problem all along was rhyme's Smooth Scrolling plugin. I'm not really using that right now so I'll just delete for now.

Thanks both for the help!
ex0rc1sm

#25 Sep 21, 2019, 08:46 AM Source

Hi! I seem to be having a problem where the layers will not fix to map, they only fix to screen.
"Default fixed to map" in the plugin settings is set to true, and the plugin command is: layer 1 layername * * 1 true 1 none
I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong :LZYdizzy:
OcRam

#26 Sep 21, 2019, 06:08 PM Source

RitualTeeth said:
Hi! I seem to be having a problem where the layers will not fix to map, they only fix to screen.
"Default fixed to map" in the plugin settings is set to true, and the plugin command is: layer 1 layername * * 1 true 1 none
I can't seem to figure out what I am doing wrong :LZYdizzy:
Hi and thank you for the message!

Syntax for the plugin command seems valid. Can you replicate this issue in new project?
ex0rc1sm

#27 Sep 21, 2019, 10:07 PM Source

OcRam said:
Hi and thank you for the message!

Syntax for the plugin command seems valid. Can you replicate this issue in new project?

Really weird, tried it in a new project, no idea if it is fixed to the map or screen, because the entire screen turns a solid colour?
Tried pasting an example plugin script from the help file but then nothing appeared at all. It is most likely an error on my end, I think I must have made an obvious mistake somewhere but I can't figure out what it is
OcRam

#28 Sep 22, 2019, 03:34 AM Source

RitualTeeth said:
Really weird, tried it in a new project, no idea if it is fixed to the map or screen, because the entire screen turns a solid colour?
Tried pasting an example plugin script from the help file but then nothing appeared at all. It is most likely an error on my end, I think I must have made an obvious mistake somewhere but I can't figure out what it is
opacity seems to be 1 If there is no transparency in layer Image itself it can turn screen to solid color. Also plugin order matters a lot.
Liandra Aura

#29 Sep 25, 2019, 07:04 PM Source

I don't know if I am stupid or not but I can't get water to animate. The pictures are binding to screen, not the map. I don't know what I am doing wrong and it's making me want to throw my laptop lol.
OcRam

#30 Oct 2, 2019, 03:24 PM Source

Barchetta3223 said:
I don't know if I am stupid or not but I can't get water to animate. The pictures are binding to screen, not the map. I don't know what I am doing wrong and it's making me want to throw my laptop lol.
Hi, and sorry for late response.

Plugin command syntax is: layer z img_name scrlx scrly opacity fix_to_map fade repeat
Example for fixed layer: layer 2 shadows 0 0 1 true 0 repeat:x,y

And layer animations must be done manually at the moment. I will take a look if I can add support to animated layers in next version.
Peter_Snayde

#31 Oct 23, 2019, 07:14 AM Source

Hi! Nice Plugin! Really great performance!
I have 1 Question:
Is there a way not to use a static filenames in plugin commands, but use something like: mapname_[some word]?
It will help co create parallel process, that will works for every map, instead of doing it for every map separately.
Peter_Snayde

#32 Oct 23, 2019, 08:36 AM Source

And it's binding to screen position instead of map. Even if I'm setting: layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:x,y - it bind's picture to map at position of screen.

I've tried:
layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:none - result were same. Even on clear new project.

All, that I changed from basic parameters - is screen resolution (I've set 1920x1080)
OcRam

#33 Oct 23, 2019, 04:42 PM Source

Peter_Snayde said:
Hi! Nice Plugin! Really great performance!
I have 1 Question:
Is there a way not to use a static filenames in plugin commands, but use something like: mapname_[some word]?
It will help co create parallel process, that will works for every map, instead of doing it for every map separately.
Thank you for the messages,

Can you be more specific for example how [some word] is supposed to work? Should it be replaced by mapId or maybe some meta tag in map note field?

Peter_Snayde said:
And it's binding to screen position instead of map. Even if I'm setting: layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:x,y - it bind's picture to map at position of screen.

I've tried:
layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:none - result were same. Even on clear new project.

All, that I changed from basic parameters - is screen resolution (I've set 1920x1080)
Layer params are: z filename scrlx scrly opacity fix_to_map fade repeat
So value '255' won't fix layer to map it must be 'true'.

I'm planning to add layer templates to next version for easier configuration.
Peter_Snayde

#34 Oct 23, 2019, 06:51 PM Source

OcRam said:
Thank you for the messages,

Can you be more specific for example how [some word] is supposed to work? Should it be replaced by mapId or maybe some meta tag in map note field?
For example: I'll store map name to variable(var1), then I'll create conditional branch were in one case by plugin command I want to use var1_A picture, and in other var1_B picture by plugin command.

Also this plugin command doesn't work, if I'll try to run it with parallel process.

OcRam said:
Thank you for the messages,
Layer params are: z filename scrlx scrly opacity fix_to_map fade repeat
So value '255' won't fix layer to map it must be 'true'.

I'm planning to add layer templates to next version for easier configuration.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but:
layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:none
2 - is z param
filename - is filename
* - scrlx
* - scrly
1 - opacity
true - fix to map
255 - fade
repeat:none - as a repeat param

I did all as in your file instructions, could You please guide my, since I'm trying hard, to make it work, but my mistake is out of my sight.(((
OcRam

#35 Oct 24, 2019, 05:58 PM Source

Peter_Snayde said:
For example: I'll store map name to variable(var1), then I'll create conditional branch were in one case by plugin command I want to use var1_A picture, and in other var1_B picture by plugin command.

Also this plugin command doesn't work, if I'll try to run it with parallel process.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but:
layer 2 filename * * 1 true 255 repeat:none
2 - is z param
filename - is filename
* - scrlx
* - scrly
1 - opacity
true - fix to map
255 - fade
repeat:none - as a repeat param

I did all as in your file instructions, could You please guide my, since I'm trying hard, to make it work, but my mistake is out of my sight.(((
I have now tested this,

Issue seems to be repeat:none parameter. I will fix this to next version. Thank you for the report!

Edit: If repeat:x,y is used it will fix layer to map and I'll think about dynamic filenames to next version.
Peter_Snayde

#36 Oct 24, 2019, 09:22 PM Source

OcRam said:
I have now tested this,

Issue seems to be repeat:none parameter. I will fix this to next version. Thank you for the report!

Edit: If repeat:x,y is used it will fix layer to map and I'll think about dynamic filenames to next version.
When with exact this command I used repeat:x,y - It flooded screen with solid color.
and when changed * * to 0 0 in scrlx scrly - it fixed picture to current screen position, which is strange, but I tried on clear project too, and result were same.
Glad, that my reports helping You to make it even better, and Thank Your great work!
ShadowDragon

#37 Nov 7, 2019, 09:22 AM Source

I also saw you with some video on your plugins how they work and all, is it possible to get that demo?
I would like to see how things are setted up through the events and how they work exacly.

Because it would for me easier to understand to browse the folders and events through the map :)
this also apply for light plugin, audio, weather etc thnx :)
OcRam

#38 Nov 7, 2019, 05:27 PM Source

ShadowDragon said:
I also saw you with some video on your plugins how they work and all, is it possible to get that demo?
I would like to see how things are setted up through the events and how they work exacly.

Because it would for me easier to understand to browse the folders and events through the map :)
this also apply for light plugin, audio, weather etc thnx :)
Thank you for the message,

All of my time goes to supporting plugins (and creating new ones) so that demo is always 5 steps behind and always WIP. I have even tried to make small demos for each of my plugin, but same thing there - always something pops up and simply time runs out.

But I have NOT abandoned all hope what it comes to my "master demo". I had one schedule "this year", but I really don't know if I can manage to release it this year. I will post update to all of my plugin threads when demo is released.
ShadowDragon

#39 Nov 7, 2019, 07:05 PM Source

that would be nice (exclude the multiplayer one) which I dont need anyway, but het light plugins seems nice, but I dont know if you
have shadow thing like in khas plugin, or if it work together, if not, than I might use yours because it has some neat features
which comes in handy :)

idm if its an older version, because I think most applies to the newer version of the plugin? at least the bug fixes on them :)
but when there is amaster demo for all the plugins (through crystals or npc) than I definatly download how things works.
because I think I go with parallax so I got more ways on building houses. and some with grid as well :)

Anyway, Keep up the nice work on your plugins. :)
OcRam

#40 Nov 9, 2019, 06:15 PM Source
I have now started my next big plugin update project OcRam_Layers v2.00!

Estimated release date: End of November or early December.
(this is initial estimation and it might change - check this thread to get latest info)
- New feature: Animated layers and sprites!
  This feature has been quite wanted - Now it shall be granted!
- New feature: Scroll layer every x frame(s)
  Possibility to add really slow moving layer
- New feature: Layer templates
  Tired to call always same parameters over and over again...?
- zIndex 0 is now BELOW characters as it is ment to be
  Well... as said above
- ...or zIndex 0 can be also ABOVE characters (and yes, also under tileset)
  Because... why not?
- Totally new way to add sprites (compatibility++)
  Using base character sprite class should give much better compatibility with other plugins
- Obsoleted layer parameter: "repeat"
  (use full screen sized image and set loop x/y to 0 to prevent tiling)
- New layer parameter loop x/y
  (pixels to shift layer when player is moving on x/y directions)
- New plugin command: set_layer_param
  Now you can modify any parameter from any layer!
- Layer fade parameter 0 == 255 (0 would stay invisible forever)
  It would also eat some resources when updating opacity every frame forever...