Quick Time Events (R2 26/11)

Astfgl66 · 2016-11-21T23:00:30+0900

QTE Window Hi everyone! This plugins aims to allow you to create QTE's on the map scene or on the battle scene. Inately via events but using other plugins such as action sequences, as a condition to skill cast. Version RC2: Some code modification transparent to the user, a small bug fix. You can also now choose whether to display messages on the battle log window or not via parameters. Features: Create and display QTEs on the map scene or on the battle scene. Three QTE modes: Normal (you have a time frame to complete all inputs), Free (records player input) and Rythm (the player must complete each input in it's own time frame). Ocarina mode: reminiscent from Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time. Each input will make a sound, also allows the display of each input like on a music sheet. Notes are pre set to be the ocarina ones, but you can change the sounds themselves or where each icon is placed in the parameters. With yanfly's core engine and battle engine core: a set of functions aimed at using QTEs as a condition for skill cast, or to match player input to a skill notetag and to cast the skill if the inputs match. 6 Recognized inputs (made with keyboard and controller in mind): Up, Down, Left, Right, Ok, Cancel. Screenshots and examples: Spoiler The examples below all use yanfly's action sequences plugin. 1 : Setting up a skill requiring a QTE as a skill cost: Spoiler Skill Notetag eval: $gameMap.QTE(["normal"],300,["ok","up","down","left"],true) if eval:$gameMap.getQTEResult() === "failure" break action end /* line 1: creating the QTE line 2: get the result line 3: if QTE failed abort action */ Result: Rythmic QTE call and looks: Spoiler Example: a use of a rythmic QTE to make a spell deal a critical hit if you complete it. Spoiler This example requires yanfly's damage core and critical core. Skill notetag: if (user instanceof Game_Actor) eval: $gameMap.QTE(["rythm",2],0,[["no",Math.floor(Math.random()*50)+20],["ok",50]],true) if ($gameMap.getQTEResult() === "success") force critical end end /* line 1: if the user is an actor line 2: create the rythmic QTE line 3: if the QTE is a success line 4: force a critical hit */ Result: Setting up a skill that will ask for player input, and then will cast the spell that matches the sequence: Spoiler Skill notetag: eval: $gameMap.QTE(["free",4,"cancel"],300,[],true) eval: $gameMap.castSkillMatch(user,target,7) My suggestion is to make a QTE casting skill that targets allies and another that targets enemies, and tell the player to use either one depending on what target type he wants. Because if you try and target enemy n*1 in your troop with a spell that targets allies only, you'll end up healing the first party member instead. You'll have to define the sequence to check in each spell notebox that you want to be able to cast this way. Example: If spark's notetag is: And the sequence entered in the above free mode QTE is ok ok down down, it will make the user cast spark. Ocarina mode example: Spoiler To replicate those effects: first you have to set up an actor with the skills themselves (so in that case, create the skills, make them into a class and set an actor to that class). In my case I created a dummy actor (n*5) that will only serve the purpose of holding the songs as skills. Then I inside those new skills I created the notetages, for example saria's song notetag is . Line by line explanation: Spoiler Create the QTE arguments detail: Hide contents Free input QTE, maximum input number = 6, cancel key = menu, duration = 500 frames, sequence doesn't matter for free mode QTEs so I set it to [], visible = true, x = 0, y = 100, opacity = 255, width = 4 but this doesn't matter in the case of free input QTEs. I put it here to show that for those QTEs it will automatically set it to the number of maximum inputs. Set the ocarina mode. If you want to activate the new ocarina display the call has to be $gameMap.setOcarina(true,true). Create the skills possibilty window (SPW) referencing actor 5, max inputs = 6, no minimum inputs. Set the SPW coordinates Set the SPW width and height (set it to 500 width and 4 lines height) Set how much space for the text and how much for the icons (200 for the text, 300 for the icons) New script block. This is imperative or else you won't be able to get the QTE result Get the skills matchs from the sequence entered (it gives their id) Get the skill name from the skill match, and set it inside variable 3 Remove SPW Display variable 3 that will contain the name of the skill that matched the player input, or nothing if there was no match. This will play the ocarina sound as you input commands, and display the song name if you input properly. With some additional conditionals you can make it play a failure sound (by checking if $gameMap.getSkillMatch(5) === "no match…

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Solaria

#101 Aug 10, 2024, 08:19 AM Source

Hi! Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work in this plugin. I have been wishing to do something like this for a long time, so you've become a life saver.
wolfcoffee

#102 Aug 11, 2024, 03:55 AM Source

Great plugin! I'm trying to use it in a somewhat unusual way and am 90% of the way there, but can't quite get it to work.
I'm using the "free" mode, taking a four button sequence and then running a skill based on what the user inputs. If I do this the normal way (user uses a skill to pull up qte, enters it correctly, triggers secondary skill that the user uses), all that works fine.

However, what I want to be able to do is this:

1. Enemy uses skill
2. skill triggers common event, which uses ForceAction to force user party member to use the qte skill
3. user successfully enters a correct combo and triggers the appropriate secondary skill

1 and 2 work fine, but when I finish the qte the secondary skill is never triggered. If I do:

<whole action>
eval: $gameMap.QTE(["free",4,"cancel"],300,[],true)
eval: $gameMap.castSkillMatch(user,target,0)
</whole action>

in the note tags for the qte-starting event, the appropriate skill is never triggered. If I do:

<whole action>
eval: $gameMap.QTE(["free",4,"cancel"],300,[],true)
eval: alert($gameMap.getQTEResult())
common event: 274
</whole action>

The alert gives me the correct sequence (down, down, down, down), but if in the common event I set a variable to $gameMap.getQTEResult() and read it back, I get "pending" for the state. This is probably what's preventing "eval: $gameMap.castSkillMatch(user,target,0)" from triggering the secondary skill. Any idea how I can fix this, or rework it? Thanks.
Yuuzal

#103 Aug 13, 2024, 03:01 AM Source

wolfcoffee said:
The alert gives me the correct sequence (down, down, down, down), but if in the common event I set a variable to $gameMap.getQTEResult() and read it back, I get "pending" for the state. This is probably what's preventing "eval: $gameMap.castSkillMatch(user,target,0)" from triggering the secondary skill. Any idea how I can fix this, or rework it? Thanks.
Force action prevents common events from
running until the very end of the action sequence. So, you’ll have to work around that by using evals or other things instead within the action sequence.

From Yanfly’s page:

Plays common event X at that point in the action sequence. Nothing else
will continue until the common event is finished (unless it is a forced
action, in which case, it will wait until the action is complete first).
wolfcoffee

#104 Aug 13, 2024, 11:06 PM Source

Yuuzal said:
Force action prevents common events from running until the very end of the action sequence.
That could very well be the case, but I'm not sure why that would be the issue here. To clarify, there are two common event involved here: the primary one, the one that fires via the enemy's skill to force the player party member to use one of THEIR skills, and a secondary (274) that is called after and is just being used for diagnostics atm. The first fires correctly, and when it should, and the player party member DOES use their skill, which pulls up the QTE. The problem is that the result of the QTE is never processed. I know from past experience that common events can be very persnickety in terms of when they will and won't fire correctly, but in this case, again unless I'm missing something, that part of the chain seems to be working fine.

If you're simply saying that this is why I'm not able to read the finished state of the QTE in the second common event, fair enough, except...why is the alert able to read it then, when it's running prior?

Alternatively, how would you approach this, given the desired scenario outlined: the QTE needs to be triggered by the enemy, but as far as I can tell this plugin's QTEs can only be pulled up in battle if they're triggered via a party skill, not an enemy one. I tried forcing action directly from the note tags on the enemy skill, but I was never able to figure out the right syntax for this. I think that may actually be what yanfly is referring to, whereas what I actually did was to call a common event, and force an action from inside that, which seemed to work (as far as it got).
juansimoes

#105 Sep 20, 2024, 02:06 PM Source

Hi!! Thank you so much for the plugin!! It helped me a lot with my project. I have a quick question tho, if anyone can help me: Is there a way to change the looks of the gauge bar?
Solaria

#106 Mar 9, 2025, 08:01 PM Source

Hi! I don't know if there is someone who has tried to use this plugin along with Yanfly's CBT, but... I would really appreciate a hand there. QTE works normally with every other Yanfly pluging, but it just doesn't cast any spell after the inputs when CBT is on.
JakeMSG

#107 Apr 14, 2025, 06:21 PM Source

Just made a small modification to the Plugin, to add the functionality of Tips to the player about the current QTE, and an initial Tip Duration, in which the QTE is frozen, to give time to the player to read the Tip.

Modified plugin is here:
icbmPlain

#108 Apr 24, 2025, 07:11 AM Source

Hello! Sorry to bother you, but I encountered 404 when trying to download the plugin. I failed to find any portal to the plugin elsewhere, so may I ask if there is a possible way to have a new link for the file? Thank you very much!
JakeMSG

#109 Apr 24, 2025, 11:23 AM Source

icbmPlain said:
Hello! Sorry to bother you, but I encountered 404 when trying to download the plugin. I failed to find any portal to the plugin elsewhere, so may I ask if there is a possible way to have a new link for the file? Thank you very much!
In the meanwhile, you can get my version of this plugin from the comment above yours (I haven't modified the base script calls of the plugin, so you can even ignore my additions if you wish).
icbmPlain

#110 Apr 25, 2025, 05:59 AM Source

JakeMSG said:
In the meanwhile, you can get my version of this plugin from the comment above yours (I haven't modified the base script calls of the plugin, so you can even ignore my additions if you wish).
Thank you very much! I checked it... And it worked great! And the additions are also useful. The work is gorgeous.
ChascoPower

#111 Jul 15, 2025, 04:10 AM Source

I've been wondering... Can this be used for enemy attacks?
Like, if you do the QTE that happens when the enemy attacks, and do it correctly, you won't receive any damage. Otherwise, you receive full damage.
JakeMSG

#112 Jul 15, 2025, 07:30 AM Source

ChascoPower said:
I've been wondering... Can this be used for enemy attacks?
Like, if you do the QTE that happens when the enemy attacks, and do it correctly, you won't receive any damage. Otherwise, you receive full damage.
You can relatively-easily improvise, using this Plugin, to use it for enemy attacks too, or any other Common Event that happens during a Battle. You'd want to use "ForceAction" script command to call the specific "QTE-only skill", set the skill to do no dmg and save the value used by the Plugin to determine the QTE's value (in the damage calculation area) into another variable, that you then use outside of the skill.

For more details on how to do this, check it out from my previous post (I wrote in a text file the exact steps on how to do this, even with just the original Plugin):

JakeMSG said:
Just made a small modification to the Plugin, to add the functionality of Tips to the player about the current QTE, and an initial Tip Duration, in which the QTE is frozen, to give time to the player to read the Tip.

Modified plugin is here:
Ricepigeon

#113 Sep 2, 2025, 03:40 AM Source

Just curious if it was possible that, when using free QTEs, if it was possible to exclude certain skills if they don't meet a certain requirement? For example, say I have two skills each with 6 input sequences, but one costs 50 TP while the other costs 100 TP. Is there a way to exclude these from being selected if the sequence matches? In addition, is there also a way to exclude these skills from the skill list window as well?

By the way, for anyone who is having compatibility issues with Yanfly's CTB plugin, I think I found a workaround. In the plugin's code, you'll have to edit each instance of user.forceAction to BattleManager.queueForceAction. For instance, on line 1208,

user.forceAction(match, targetIndex);
should be replaced with

BattleManager.queueForceAction(user,match,-2);

This isn't the only instance but I found that doing this seems to resolve any compatibility issues with Yanfly's CTB plugin.
peakey

#114 Sep 23, 2025, 12:31 AM Source

where is the plugin download?
Arteemis

#115 Nov 27, 2025, 03:17 AM Source

Can't download the plugin anymore! It says "

404 Not Found
nginx"
N0tM0jo

#116 Dec 27, 2025, 10:41 PM Source

Hi!
I'm starting to use RPGM, so I don't know much about how to read and modify plugins. Is there any way to change the background of the gauge to a color we'd like? I managed to change the bar, but I'd love to change the blue to another color. I tried messing around with the code, but it immediately gave me an error message. :kaodes:
Thanks!
Brauerli

#117 Dec 31, 2025, 08:59 AM Source

I really would like to try the plugin. WIll it be uploaded again?
Serpent_Lord

#118 Feb 13, 2026, 07:45 PM Source

I recently tried it after updating NW.js to the latest version available (10-ish if I'm not mistaken), It wasn't able to produce the UI's at all (The Box, The Gauge, The Button, The Time)<The function still works perfectly, chef's kiss>, I tried on fresh project to confirm this. I will try on other versions on Nw.js and see which version the latest it can display the UI's when I had a time.

Anyway, Great Plugin. Love it

EDIT:
turns out it won't appear because of the hide battle UI sequence on the YEP battle sequence, it all works perfectly. (I am using another battle hud plugin that weren't affected by hide battle UI)

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