Pet Summon Plugin

Aerosys · 2023-01-29T19:17:32+0900

Pet Summon Plugin Non-RTP sprites by Hidden One Inspired by RPGs such as „Pokemon“, „Nights of Azure,“ and other MMORPGs, I made a Plugin to enable summoning of Pets in battle. Available for free, compatible with both MV & MZ Features Any Actor from the Database can be converted into a Pet by using Note Tags. A Pet can be added to and removed from the Party just like any other Actor. Pets are not ready when the battle starts - they must be summoned first. Therefore, all your Pets are visible and manageable on the menus (if you wish) The Plugin will automatically add Dummy Skills to summon Pets (as seen in the screenshot) (if you wish) You have multiple options to define who can summon which Pets By default, any Actor with access to a dedicated Summon Skill Type can summon every Pet the Party owns. Alternatively, you may use Notetags to manage who can summon whom at which time. As you can put these note tags on Actors, Classes, Equipment, States, Skills, & Items, it makes it fairly easy and flexible to create, e.g., Summoner Classes that can summon only subsets of Pets. Alternatively, you may disable the automatic addition of Summon Skills through the Plugin, define individual Skills or Items in the Database, and use the Notetag. Pets' levels will be synchronized automatically with their summoner (optional) Pets can retreat on command when it is their turn. When a Pet is knocked out, it automatically disappears from the battle. You can set how many turns a Pet stays active until it expires (optional). Once summoned, every Pet is affected with a "summoned" State. Using 3rd Party Plugins that display the remaining State turns, you can display how long a Pet stays active until it expires. Animations when a Pet is summoned a Pet disappears a Pet is knocked out You can call Common Events when a Pet is summoned a Pet disappears a Pet is knocked out With the Notetag, you can prepare a Pet for the battle, i.e., the Pet will be ready on battle start. You can use this Notetag on Actors, Classes, Equips, & States. E.g., you can make a special Accessory or Skill that applies such State on a Pet to prepare this Pet before the battle starts. Pets may not use Items (optional). Pets may not be equipped (optional). When all Actors are knocked out, and Pets are the only active battlers, the battle is treated as a defeat (optional). Pets cannot be swapped in the "Formation" menu. You can limit how many Pets can be active simultaneously (optional). Featured Plugins Summon Deck Addon Menu Addon for Summon System Exp Potions Item Restrictions Quickstart, Download, & More available here: https://aerosys.blog/pet-summon Wishlist To summon "Giants" that substitute the entire Party until it expires or is knocked out. To replace/substitute/swap with the Summoner while the Pet is active When a summoner is knocked-out or leaves the Party during battle, all their pets should disappear as well

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Started by Aerosys Jan 29, 2023, 10:17 AM 273 posts Page 13 of 14 View original ↗

MTPlayer

#241 May 13, 2025, 06:52 PM Source

Aerosys said:
According to the information I have, it looks like one of your actors has no class assigned.
All of my actors have a class assigned to them, I still get this error. It only appears when I enable this plugin

Edit: I made sure that no gaps in anything one by one to see if anything changed. I removed empty skill types that I had prepared for other things, removed empty Actors, and only after I added zeros to the beginning of the <Summon: x> note tag did the playtest load properly (e.g. <Summon: 0016>)
My issue is resolved now, so thank you very much for your suggestion.
Shikaraptor

#242 May 21, 2025, 09:42 AM Source

Hi ! @Aerosys I use your plugin to summon actor but when I used the skill, nothing appear...
I made all that it's explicated.

Sorry for my english ^^'
Aerosys

#243 May 21, 2025, 11:02 AM Source

Shikaraptor said:
Hi ! @Aerosys I use your plugin to summon actor but when I used the skill, nothing appear...
I made all that it's explicated.

Sorry for my english ^^'
Well, that could be anything?

- Is your party already full?
- Have you tried with all other plugins switched off?
rhaw757

#244 Jun 7, 2025, 03:03 PM Source

Out of curiosity, is it possible with the Deck Addon that if the player has an empty deck, they will have their active deck auto-filled as they add new pets? Sort of like how Pokemon does it where any new Pokemon caught are automatically added to the active party until the active party is full, then they move into the reserves. So by default they go into the active deck if there's any available empty slots.

When testing it in my game right now, by default, they go into the reserve slots and the player has to manually remember to add them to the active deck otherwise they go into battle empty-handed.
Guardinthena

#245 Jun 9, 2025, 04:24 PM Source

I would like to second @rhaw757's request. Was just testing out this plugin over the weekend and it's lovely two addon additions - the Deck and Menu addon- when I noticed that I had to manually add the new pets gained to the Deck roster first. Having them autofill the deck if it isn't yet filled would be a welcome ease of life fix.

In addition, and please forgive me if I missed this somewhere, is there a way to remove the pet actors permanently from the Deck addon menu, or the main player menu that I am not yet aware of, other than manually through events? I personally was working on a beast capture project over the weekend for my son and playtesting out your plugins with some others, and very quickly discovered that it was not possible to permanently remove the pets from the deck addon or the main menu.
Aerosys

#246 Jun 10, 2025, 07:57 AM Source
rhaw757 said:
Out of curiosity, is it possible with the Deck Addon that if the player has an empty deck, they will have their active deck auto-filled as they add new pets? Sort of like how Pokemon does it where any new Pokemon caught are automatically added to the active party until the active party is full, then they move into the reserves. So by default they go into the active deck if there's any available empty slots.

When testing it in my game right now, by default, they go into the reserve slots and the player has to manually remember to add them to the active deck otherwise they go into battle empty-handed.

Guardinthena said:
I would like to second @rhaw757's request. Was just testing out this plugin over the weekend and it's lovely two addon additions - the Deck and Menu addon- when I noticed that I had to manually add the new pets gained to the Deck roster first. Having them autofill the deck if it isn't yet filled would be a welcome ease of life fix.
Yeah, that idea is fantastic! I just implemented it and pushed it to the server. Can you please test it and tell me that everything works fine?

Guardinthena said:
In addition, and please forgive me if I missed this somewhere, is there a way to remove the pet actors permanently from the Deck addon menu, or the main player menu that I am not yet aware of, other than manually through events? I personally was working on a beast capture project over the weekend for my son and playtesting out your plugins with some others, and very quickly discovered that it was not possible to permanently remove the pets from the deck addon or the main menu.
Both addons simply read which pets you have in your party, so removing a pet works by removing the actor through the event command, just as you already did. I cannot think of an even simpler way to do so.

If you need code, then you can just use the regular script call, that is
Code:
$gameParty.removeActor(12)
.
rhaw757

#247 Jun 10, 2025, 05:05 PM Source
Aerosys said:
Yeah, that idea is fantastic! I just implemented it and pushed it to the server. Can you please test it and tell me that everything works fine?

Both addons simply read which pets you have in your party, so removing a pet works by removing the actor through the event command, just as you already did. I cannot think of an even simpler way to do so.

If you need code, then you can just use the regular script call, that is
Code:
$gameParty.removeActor(12)
.
Beautiful! I downloaded it and tested it by adding party members from empty and they automatically went to the active deck. I also tested it by filling up the active party, then moving one to reserve and then adding another party member and seeing if it automatically went into the open slot and it sure did. It does exactly what I was hoping. I appreciate it tremendously!
Guardinthena

#248 Jun 10, 2025, 06:53 PM Source

Got to download and test it out too. The new update works flawlessly! The new pet summons were automatically uploaded to the roster once picked up. Thank you so much for all your hard work! My son was so excited when I told him the news.

Aerosys said:
Both addons simply read which pets you have in your party, so removing a pet works by removing the actor through the event command, just as you already did. I cannot think of an even simpler way to do so.
I was testing out how your plugin worked with DreamX's Capture Enemy plugin over the weekend (and by extension Yanfly's Battle Engine Core which is required for DreamX's to work). On the surface, the three plugins seemed to be working flawlessly together but as I kept test playing two issues arose. The first was that the Capture Enemy plugin creates instance actors of the monsters caught and that therein was the problem I was having. I wasn't, and still am, not sure how I can remove instance actors from the Deck list when they are not showing up in the main menu but the Deck reserve box. That might be more a me thing to figure a work out for though.

The second and major issue I had getting Pet Summoning, DreamX Capture Enemy and Yanfly's Battle Engine Core working together was that Yanfly's Battle Engine Core plugin crashes when the pets are summoned into combat, retreat, or die. As a side note, I remember having similar issues with the Battle Engine Core and Sumrndmdud'es Summon Core plugin years back as well. It just does not like it when summon actors appear mid combat.

In addition for anyone that may be trying to combine monster capture mechanics, I also tried to get Synrec's Monster Capture Core to work with Pet Summoning and there was immediate incompatibility issues with those two plugins as well.
Aerosys

#249 Jun 15, 2025, 03:49 PM Source

Patched the Summon Deck addon to support RPG Maker Core Script version 1.9!
rhaw757

#250 Jun 15, 2025, 07:45 PM Source

Anyone else have issues with the deck taking a while to open with lots of pets? I have about 120 available the player can add to their party and had just recently started testing it with all possible ones in the deck. Whenever I click to load the Deck with all 120, it takes a good 5-10 seconds after clicking the button before it opens the deck. I'm sure it's possible I've done something wrong (I've tweaked a few things with some custom code in the parameters), a plugin conflict, or just an unrealistic scope of pets I'm including, but just wanted to rule out as many things as I can. It's not game-breaking as 5-10 seconds, while inconvenient for the player, surely won't ruin the experience.

Just checking in case it's something on my end I can adjust easily or if I should just let it be.
Aerosys

#251 Jun 15, 2025, 08:13 PM Source

rhaw757 said:
Anyone else have issues with the deck taking a while to open with lots of pets? I have about 120 available the player can add to their party and had just recently started testing it with all possible ones in the deck. Whenever I click to load the Deck with all 120, it takes a good 5-10 seconds after clicking the button before it opens the deck. I'm sure it's possible I've done something wrong (I've tweaked a few things with some custom code in the parameters), a plugin conflict, or just an unrealistic scope of pets I'm including, but just wanted to rule out as many things as I can. It's not game-breaking as 5-10 seconds, while inconvenient for the player, surely won't ruin the experience.

Just checking in case it's something on my end I can adjust easily or if I should just let it be.
I suggest looking for a preloader plugin that loads all pets' face and battler images.
rhaw757

#252 Jun 15, 2025, 09:10 PM Source

Good idea!

Unfortunately I gave it a shot, using the Visustella CoreEngine image loader and also Synrec's Preloader to load both faces and battler images and neither seemed to fix it. The Menu Addon doesn't seem to have an issue. There is a brief second delay for that one, but the deck takes a good 5-10 seconds every time.
orgint

#253 Jun 16, 2025, 08:09 PM Source

Aerosys said:
Patched the Summon Deck addon to support RPG Maker Core Script version 1.9!
EDIT: Nevermind. I solved my issue.

Btw, this might seem like a small/inconsequential request but, it seems the *only* way to escape the UI for the Summon Deck is to hit the escape button, right? Perhaps some sort of "Confirm" button with a positive indicator sound might help! Whenever I hit the ESC button to exit the summon deck scene, it makes the "boop" sound like I cancelled an action, even though it saved. But I'm wondering if I'm missing some obvious button or something to confirm? Or maybe an option in the plugin parameters I'm not setting right?

And, as always, thanks for this amazing work! It's really such an important system implementation!

Hi @Aerosys -- I have another question. Whenever I level up, with any sort of Auto add summons, I always get a "Player learned Summon X" for the summons I have added to my Deck. It happens only with those summons that are currently in deck, and happens on every level up. Any tips to remove that?

Hi @Aerosys ! I noticed another error with the new update. Whenever the player is defeated (with only summons left), the battle is lost but it is no longer triggering the Game Over effect. When I remove the MK_Summon plugin, the game over works properly, but when the new version is included, the battle loss via the summoner death is no longer triggering Game Over. In the old version, the loss of a battle triggered Game Over like normal! PS -- after some testing, I discover this happens ONLY if there are still summons alive when the player is killed. If the summons are all defeated and the player dies, the Game Over triggers properly.

orgint

#254 Jun 21, 2025, 04:01 PM Source

Hi @Aerosys I think I found the culprit for the Game Over bug, or at least I tacked on a fix that seems to work..

I changed this:

Code:

if ($gameParty.onlyPetsAlive()) {
    this.processDefeat();
    return true;
}

to this:

Code:

if ($gameParty.onlyPetsAlive()) {
    this.processDefeat();
    if (this._canLose) {
        this._phase = 'battleEnd';
    } else {
        SceneManager.goto(Scene_Gameover);
    }
    return true;
}

Shikaraptor

#255 Aug 24, 2025, 02:00 PM Source

Aerosys said:
Well, that could be anything?

- Is your party already full?
- Have you tried with all other plugins switched off?
Sorry for the delay...
No, I only have one hero in my team, and I'm testing the plugin with and without plugins.
Without any other plugins, it works fine, but as soon as I add Yanfly plugins, it stops working.
Aerosys

#256 Aug 24, 2025, 02:53 PM Source

Shikaraptor said:
Sorry for the delay...
No, I only have one hero in my team, and I'm testing the plugin with and without plugins.
Without any other plugins, it works fine, but as soon as I add Yanfly plugins, it stops working.
Can you identify which YEP plugin(s) exactly don't work with mine?
Th3r4v3n

#257 Sep 10, 2025, 08:45 PM Source

So, I must be doing something wrong. Everything works fine in test battles, but in the actual game the summon ability is there, but no skills. This is the same setup on one character and with only the one plugin active. Any ideas?
Puppet Knight

#258 Sep 11, 2025, 08:51 PM Source

Th3r4v3n said:
So, I must be doing something wrong. Everything works fine in test battles, but in the actual game the summon ability is there, but no skills. This is the same setup on one character and with only the one plugin active. Any ideas?
Does that actor know the summon skills And do they have access to the Skill Type you set for summoning?
ValentinaSama67

#259 Sep 11, 2025, 10:50 PM Source

This is a crazy good plugin! How come I never came a across it?? So many possibilities.

Another great Aerosys win :kaohi:
orgint

#260 Nov 11, 2025, 04:31 AM Source

Hi @Aerosys ! Quick question, when using the Menu Addon for your summoning system, I'm getting an error where the game is not properly reading the HP of the various units. So it'll usually defer to the lowest unit's health in the index, no matter which pet's screen I am on. Any ideas how I might fix this?

Also, does the level syncing *only* occur when you head into battle? So when I'm in the Deck comparing stats, some of the summons display lower level than the summoner, despite syncing being on. But the sync happens once a battle starts only, right? There's no way to refresh the sync before that or during the Deck scene?