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 7 of 14 View original ↗

Puppet Knight

#121 Aug 12, 2023, 01:25 PM Source

Aerosys said:
You can now choose "Custom Equipment Slots" for Pets, e.g., Pets should be allowed to wear "Accessories" only
This is awesome!!!
rhaw757

#122 Sep 22, 2023, 05:39 PM Source

What a beautiful plugin!

Is there any way to make an item summon only specific pets? I have elemental type actors and I want to make the player use a thunder orb to summon an electric type pet, so if the player wants to summon an electric type pet, they will need to the thunder orb to do so.
ATT_Turan

#123 Sep 22, 2023, 05:44 PM Source

rhaw757 said:
Is there any way to make an item summon only specific pets?
From the instructions:
Aerosys

#124 Sep 22, 2023, 05:45 PM Source

rhaw757 said:
What a beautiful plugin!

Is there any way to make an item summon only specific pets? I have elemental type actors and I want to make the player use a thunder orb to summon an electric type pet, so if the player wants to summon an electric type pet, they will need to the thunder orb to do so.
That's how summoning with items works. An item is bound to exactly one Pet by using the Notetag <Summon: 1>

If you want to bind summon abilities to equipment, you should check out the Notetag: <Add Summons: 1, 2, 3>
rhaw757

#125 Sep 23, 2023, 12:27 AM Source

Hmmm, so is it possible to, let's say have an item called a thunder amulet. Then, when in battle, the player can use the thunder amulet and select from a list of pets that I've defined for the thunder amulet to be able to summon (in my case, all thunder type pets the player has in their party). I'm able to assign a thunder amulet to summon a single thunder type pet the player has, but not able to select all thunder type pets in their party.

It could be very well that you two are explaining it to me very clearly, but I just missed it in which case, I apologize! I'm fairly new to RPG Maker in general.
Aerosys

#126 Sep 23, 2023, 07:02 AM Source

rhaw757 said:
Hmmm, so is it possible to, let's say have an item called a thunder amulet. Then, when in battle, the player can use the thunder amulet and select from a list of pets that I've defined for the thunder amulet to be able to summon (in my case, all thunder type pets the player has in their party). I'm able to assign a thunder amulet to summon a single thunder type pet the player has, but not able to select all thunder type pets in their party.

It could be very well that you two are explaining it to me very clearly, but I just missed it in which case, I apologize! I'm fairly new to RPG Maker in general.
I guess there's some confusion in terminology here.

In RPG Maker, "Items" are usable items such as potions, quest items, ... Objects to equip on actors are called "weapons" or "armors".

I suggest to
1. Go into Plugin Manager and set "Summoner can summon X if…" to "It is a member of the Party and traits enable the Pet"
2. Go to database -> armors, and create your thunder amulet
3. Here, you can put either <Allow Summons: 1, 2, 3> or <Add Summons: 1, 2, 3> as already described in post 123.

Any actor wearing this amulet now can select available pets from their skill list.
Plueschkatze

#127 Sep 23, 2023, 08:00 AM Source

Oh this sounds like such a fun plugin! I might need to play around with it.
rhaw757

#128 Sep 23, 2023, 12:58 PM Source

Aerosys said:
I guess there's some confusion in terminology here.

In RPG Maker, "Items" are usable items such as potions, quest items, ... Objects to equip on actors are called "weapons" or "armors".

I suggest to
1. Go into Plugin Manager and set "Summoner can summon X if…" to "It is a member of the Party and traits enable the Pet"
2. Go to database -> armors, and create your thunder amulet
3. Here, you can put either <Allow Summons: 1, 2, 3> or <Add Summons: 1, 2, 3> as already described in post 123.

Any actor wearing this amulet now can select available pets from their skill list.

Oh amulet was a bad example on my part. Yeah, I mean items as in the initial category you mentioned. Like potions and stuff. I just haven’t decided on what to call my summoning item. But I do want it to where the player can select “items” in the battle menu, select the specific elemental item, then choose one of their elemental pets they have obtained. Not from an equipped or wearable piece. I tried making an item using <Summon:X> with X being the actor id of the pet I wanted to summon, and that worked as I was able to use the item to summon that pet. I couldn’t get it to work to where I could add multiple options of specific pets that the player could choose to summon with the item which is what I was wondering if it was possible. The instructions state that it’s possible with actors, classes, equipments, or states as ATT_Turan posted about, but was curious about items in the items category of the database.

Sorry for causing a mix up. Amulet was a bad example.
Aerosys

#129 Sep 23, 2023, 02:33 PM Source

rhaw757 said:
Oh amulet was a bad example on my part. Yeah, I mean items as in the initial category you mentioned. Like potions and stuff. I just haven’t decided on what to call my summoning item. But I do want it to where the player can select “items” in the battle menu, select the specific elemental item, then choose one of their elemental pets they have obtained. Not from an equipped or wearable piece. I tried making an item using <Summon:X> with X being the actor id of the pet I wanted to summon, and that worked as I was able to use the item to summon that pet. I couldn’t get it to work to where I could add multiple options of specific pets that the player could choose to summon with the item which is what I was wondering if it was possible. The instructions state that it’s possible with actors, classes, equipments, or states as ATT_Turan posted about, but was curious about items in the items category of the database.

Sorry for causing a mix up. Amulet was a bad example.
That's not supported in this plugin. This plugin does not add a new window where you can select something. What you can see in some screenshots is that it simply forges dummy skills and injects them at runtime. When binding a pet to a skill or item, then this pet is instantly summoned when using this skill or item.

So you would have to add multiple amulets, one for each pet, or you bind pets on weapons/armor. It's unlikely that new rules will be added anytime soon.
rhaw757

#130 Sep 23, 2023, 02:50 PM Source

Got it, that's what I was curious about. I can still work with what's there ultimately! It's a phenomenal plugin that you've done a beautiful job with.
Aerosys

#131 Oct 4, 2023, 06:59 PM Source

Small update available.

As there was some confusion with the notetags, I decided to update the rules.

If you upgrade to the newest version and use notetags, you may need to update them!

The notetags <Add Summons> and <Allow Summons> are now combined into <Summons: 1, 2, 3, ...>. In the Plugin Manager, you can now choose from these 4 rules:

Pet X is available if
- it exists in the Party
- the summoner has the <Summons: 1, 2, 3, ...> tag somewhere on their inidividual, their class, their equipment, or their states notetag box. It's not required for the Pet to be in the Party
- both, rule 1 & 2 must apply
- Database Skills & Items only

Option 4 is independent of the others, so you can always put <Summon: X> to an ordinary Skill or Item in the Database. This hasn't been changed - I just added this option here.
Panforever

#132 Oct 19, 2023, 06:02 PM Source

This plugin is amazing! Thank you Aerosys for making it available and providing so many updates.

Just one question, I'm a bit confused on making the pets part of the main party. I want to only be able to ONLY summon the 3 other pets in my main party, but when adding the <Pet> tag all the pets register as reserve members with all the other monsters I've ever caught. Is there a better way to differentiate between my main party members and reserve members? Since the formation tab doesn't work on pets it makes it a bit confusing. Any suggestions on how I can best organize this? Not sure if I'm missing something.

Thank you!
Aerosys

#133 Oct 19, 2023, 06:38 PM Source

Panforever said:
This plugin is amazing! Thank you Aerosys for making it available and providing so many updates.

Just one question, I'm a bit confused on making the pets part of the main party. I want to only be able to ONLY summon the 3 other pets in my main party, but when adding the <Pet> tag all the pets register as reserve members with all the other monsters I've ever caught. Is there a better way to differentiate between my main party members and reserve members? Since the formation tab doesn't work on pets it makes it a bit confusing. Any suggestions on how I can best organize this? Not sure if I'm missing something.

Thank you!
Thanks for your feedback!

I see; I think this goes in the same direction as Nights of Azure, where you prepare a deck of 3-4 pets in advance, and during battle, you can choose only from this deck. Right now, there's no such feature implemented, but maybe I will add something like this in the future.
Panforever

#134 Oct 19, 2023, 08:37 PM Source

Aerosys said:
Thanks for your feedback!

I see; I think this goes in the same direction as Nights of Azure, where you prepare a deck of 3-4 pets in advance, and during battle, you can choose only from this deck. Right now, there's no such feature implemented, but maybe I will add something like this in the future.

Thank you for the quick reply and answer! No worries, I think I will try playing Nights of Azure. Will probably be a big help for brainstorming great ideas and coming up with my own logic. Thanks again! :)
jedite1000

#135 Oct 22, 2023, 09:06 AM Source

Yeah I downloaded the visustella party system and i can't use this plugin with visustella party system, the mk_summons takes priority over the party system though so ill probably get rid of the party system plugin, i just need an alternate plugin that allows for the first actor in the party to never change positions and never go into reserves

Aerosys

#136 Oct 22, 2023, 09:22 AM Source

@jedite1000 Okay!

Code:

(function() {

const _isFormationChangeOk = Game_Actor.prototype.isFormationChangeOk;
Game_Actor.prototype.isFormationChangeOk = function() {
  return _isFormationChangeOk.call(this) && this.index() > 0;
};
})();

Give this plugin any name and put it to the bottom.

Puppet Knight

#137 Nov 10, 2023, 04:40 AM Source

SO coming back here after a while. For the life of me I can't get a Pet to summon using a skill.

I have your plugin last to maximize its priority

Originally the skill was greyed out and I realized it was because the party was at its limit so I chagnged the party size to 5 to make an empty slot available in the party :

Summon not joining

Skill is now available!

However after selecting

Skill is no longer usable, and the Pet didn't join the party

Ran a script in console in the off chance they were just being drawn off screen (lol) but alas no

Note tag setup
The Summon Skill:

The Pets Notetag

At a bit of a loss, especially cause this used to work for me just fine =(

Scratch all this ^. It was VS Party System blocking it. I'm just gonna not use it and manually channge party size before battle when needed.
Puppet Knight

#138 Nov 10, 2023, 05:18 AM Source

Separate, actual question now.

When setting the SV Battler Position of the Pets in "Relocate: JS" , is there a variable we can use to reference the Summoner rather than using pure screen positioning?

For example, I want my pets to appear in front of their Summoners, so I'd want to just do something like:

this.setHome(Summoner X - 40, Summoner Y)

I assume something exists in the plugin since Relocate (Actor's Line) sets the Y position automatically, I just haven't been isolate it when I look.

Thanks in advance!

ADDITIONAL:

The Plugin Command to unsummon all pets doesnt seem to work outside of battle? Nor does force removing the Pet from the party so they aren't there at the beginning of the next battle. How would i sort that?

makes it all screwy like this
Aerosys

#139 Nov 10, 2023, 10:09 AM Source

Puppet Knight said:
Scratch all this ^. It was VS Party System blocking it. I'm just gonna not use it and manually channge party size before battle when needed.
Okay.

Puppet Knight said:
When setting the SV Battler Position of the Pets in "Relocate: JS" , is there a variable we can use to reference the Summoner rather than using pure screen positioning?
I rejected this request until now because this plugin has been originally designed to support multiple pets at the same time, and when you have pets A and B both belonging to summoner S, where should they be positioned? On the other hand, I can add another rule where the pet is positioned in front of their summoner but that will only work when the maximum number of pets is set to 1.

Puppet Knight said:
The Plugin Command to unsummon all pets doesnt seem to work outside of battle? Nor does force removing the Pet from the party so they aren't there at the beginning of the next battle. How would i sort that?
I removed the feature of pets being active outside of battle. While I see some use cases, it increased the complexity too much. All pets are deactivated after battle.

You can try to use the Auto Summon feature on e.g. a State to make a pet ready on battle start.
Puppet Knight

#140 Nov 10, 2023, 11:10 AM Source

Aerosys said:
On the other hand, I can add another rule where the pet is positioned in front of their summoner but that will only work when the maximum number of pets is set to 1
Id say don't bother then. That's too niche of a circumstance to design for.

Aerosys said:
All pets are deactivated after battle.
This is what I'm not experiencing. I have that tiny guy summoned in one battle and he shows up where I set his home Point to be properly. But the next battle he is already in the party as t the start of the next battle, even after manually removing him from the party using plugin commands as well as doing the unsummon All command.