SumRndmDde's Character Creator-EX plugin: F.A.Q's

Rhino · 2017-12-22T05:01:19+0900

Disclaimer: I am not the creator of this plugin. I don't understand javascript and I can't help you with complex issues. This is just a list I've put together to answer some commonly asked questions! This plugin is NOT recommended for beginners to the software. Unfortunately I don't have time to answer questions that amount to ‘how to use MV/explain this basic term’, please ask that in the relevant support forum. If your question isn’t here, chances are I don’t know the solution... But you can still ask! However you might be better off posting in Sumdrndmdde’s old thread for CC or Javascript/Plugin Support so your question will be more visible to others. You can also try contacting the creator directly via his blog. You can download the plugin >Here< NOTE: All links and answers are related to the EX version of this plugin. Make sure that you’re downloading files for this as opposed to the original CC version. FEATURES Q) What is this plugin? How do I use it? Spoiler I’d recommend that you watch this video. It’ll help you A LOT if you watch this the whole way through instead of skipping. It answers most of the questions that are commonly brought up. You can also read a written help file by viewing the plugin in the plugin manager (inside MV.) Q) How do I open the correct section for the character creator in the SuperTools engine? Spoiler You open SuperTools by pressing F12. Click on Database Ex, then find Custom Editors in the top bar and you’ll see the Character Creator Editor. Q) How can I make ‘visual equipment’? (Having the character image change depending on what the actor has equipped.) Spoiler You’re going to need the dynamic actors extension plugin. Watch the video on the blog for an explanation of how to use it. Q) How can I make a faceset based off of the custom created character? (To change the expression during dialogue.) Spoiler You need the message faces extension plugin. Watch the video on the blog for an explanation of how to use it. Q) How can I use my custom character in cutscenes? Spoiler You should really have watched this video. But to go straight to the point; You can show your custom character’s dead sprite by using the plugin command Code: SetDeadCustomCharacter (actorI) (true/false) This will work for followers. If you want an event to have the same image as your custom character use the notetag Code: You can also make an event show the character’s dead sprite by using. Code: Q) How can I make it so there’s default pieces that appear when the player opens the character creator? Spoiler Firstly open the plugin parameters and change “Print to Console” to be true. Then playtest your game and SAVE your character. Open up the console log (F8), and copy the text that appears in there. (Yes, the whole thing.) Then paste that into your event using a script call command. (Above the plugin command opening CCEX.) In your script, edit the beginning part var id = 0 to have the Actor ID that you want to use. (It should be the same number that you’ve used in the plugin command.) Q) Can I make the colour choices automatic as they are in the generator? E.g. the skin colour should change the nose and mouth colour too? Spoiler It sucks but there’s no way to do this as far as I know. You’d need to know how to edit the javascript or figure out a workaround that works for you. (For example, having a normal choice list before CCEX and using the print to console method to load in the skintones. See Q above if you don’t understand how to do that.) Q) Why is there no option to change the colour for a certain section? Spoiler In order to have the Hue Window selection, you need to make sure you have some custom colours set up first. This is all done via the SuperTools engine. You can copy over colours from another piece to get you started. To set up your own colours, read the plugin help file for an explanation. If you’re having trouble getting your changes to register in the supertools engine, please see the ‘troubleshooting’ section below. Q) Does this save the custom character to a .png? Can I import a character from a .png? Spoiler Nope, it’s not that kind of generator. Q) Can I make hidden sections that unlock during the game? Spoiler You can create conditions that will show or hide sections by using javascript EVALs. You do this in SuperTools under the part where it says ‘condition’. Default is true. A simple example: Code: $gameSwitches.value(1) == true Sets the section to appear when Switch 1 is turned ON. You can also set it to variable values and lots of other things using EVALs, but I'm not the one to ask about how to write those. Q) Can I make a response based on the pieces the player has chosen? E.g. To find their gender? Spoiler Taking gender as the example, here's what to do. This tutorial assumes that you've got the default set up where "Body (1)" is female, and "Body (2)" is male. I.e. Don't use this along with my Face Shape piece tu…

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SmashArtist

#21 Aug 30, 2018, 08:24 PM Source

Zayriel said:
I followed both the install and troubleshooting instructions for CCEX, and can't seem to get it to work. I'm currently using the latest build version of MV, and also have the Super Tools Engine plugin installed, which seems to not recognize that CCEX is installed and active. Can anybody please help me with this issue?

I am having the same issue. :kaoeh:
iMaster1923

#22 Sep 12, 2018, 12:04 AM Source

My game is really good open world, and a character creator would help me.
I know how to install SRDude EX plugin, but idk how to add your part to the creator. Can you help me? plz its urgent
Pamster

#23 Nov 2, 2018, 11:57 AM Source

Hey fellas,

everything works except for one thing and I dont know how to fix it.
Somehow the text doesn't get the shoving in the right spot and is written right over the custom avatar.
I'm using the following code in the text box.

<CC Face:1>
Blabla!
\N<\P[1]>

Somebody has an idea? Didn't get the click..
Zayriel

#24 Nov 2, 2018, 01:51 PM Source

Pamster said:
Hey fellas,

everything works except for one thing and I dont know how to fix it.
Somehow the text doesn't get the shoving in the right spot and is written right over the custom avatar.
I'm using the following code in the text box.

<CC Face:1>
Blabla!
\N<\P[1]>

Somebody has an idea? Didn't get the click..

Pamster, how were you able to get it to work?
Pamster

#25 Nov 2, 2018, 02:53 PM Source

I've downloaded the sample.zip on the site as a preset. I was too lazy to create every folder manually. :D

I also fixed my problem. Reading is the key. As explained in the help.doc, just place a random avatar in the text box. It will be overwritten with the <cc face:x> command.
Zayriel

#26 Nov 2, 2018, 03:55 PM Source

Pamster said:
I've downloaded the sample.zip on the site as a preset. I was too lazy to create every folder manually. :D

I also fixed my problem. Reading is the key. As explained in the help.doc, just place a random avatar in the text box. It will be overwritten with the <cc face:x> command.

Can you please tell me where you downloaded the sample zip from?
Pamster

#27 Nov 3, 2018, 09:17 AM Source

Just click on the Link Rhino posted where you can download the plugin. Scroll down a bit and click on [Sample Images]. You can find Rhinos' Ressource Pack there too.
Zayriel

#28 Nov 7, 2018, 03:41 PM Source

Oh snap, that actually worked! Thanks a lot, Pamster! :thumbsup-left::thumbsup-right:
Onism

#29 Dec 17, 2018, 09:55 PM Source

Okay, so.. I've tried everything I think of, and I don't know why it isn't working? I've tried reading up on it but I just.. I just can't get it to work, and I know it'll be for some silly little reason, but, if anyone could help that would be really appreciated.

Apologies for the large images, but I figured it was best to just show you everything at once.

Here's the coding of the event. (It's set to autorun, and the text beforehand appears fine so the event is definitely starting, but it just skips over the OpenCharacterCreator instruction)

Here's my plugins, the supertools engine is above all others, and both that and the character creator were installed today so I do have the most up to date versions of everything.

Here you can see the folder format I have in the game, I downloaded the exact zip folder with the sample images provided (though changed the background to plain black).

And finally, my version of RPG maker MV: looking at your troubleshooting FAQ this was another potential problem, but it shouldn't be seeing it is after the 1.3 version. I deleted and recreated the entire project today so I know this game/project is also 1.3+
Zayriel

#30 Dec 18, 2018, 02:27 PM Source

Hey @Onism. Did you try setting things up with an "Action Button" trigger?
Onism

#31 Dec 18, 2018, 06:49 PM Source

Zayriel said:
Hey @Onism. Did you try setting things up with an "Action Button" trigger?

I tested it just now, and this doesn't seem to effect the results. Like when it autoruns, the text shows before, and the text shows after, but for some reason the charactercreator doesn't open... :/
Zayriel

#32 Dec 18, 2018, 08:53 PM Source

Weird...I was having the same issue until I followed Pamster's advice by replacing my manual folder format of CCEX with the "sample images" folder download (no changes).

Though, I did notice that after making some changes to a duplicate version of the "sample" folder, and replacing the working version with the duplicate, the plugin stopped working for me. All I had to do to get it working again was swap it out for the "sample" folder.
Onism

#33 Dec 18, 2018, 10:07 PM Source

Zayriel said:
Weird...I was having the same issue until I followed Pamster's advice by replacing my manual folder format of CCEX with the "sample images" folder download (no changes).

Though, I did notice that after making some changes to a duplicate version of of the "sample" folder, and replacing the working version with the duplicate, the plugin stopped working for me. All I had to do to get it working again was swap it out for the "sample" folder.

Interesting, this worked! Clearly I had entered everything correctly, but even attempting to change the background resulted in the code not working- as when I replaced the character creator folder with just the downloaded sample files version with no alterations, it worked fine!

Thank you Zayriel <3 <3 <3
Zayriel

#34 Dec 18, 2018, 10:23 PM Source

Sweet! So glad that I could help! :)
Biestmann

#35 Jan 3, 2019, 04:53 AM Source

http://yanfly.moe/2015/12/11/yep-42-battle-status-window/
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/yep-battle-status-window-extension.65531/

I have started using the two plugins above, however, noticed that the image of the actor created with this character creator does not follow the changes made to the layout of the window through the latter. Does anyone know a solution?

Thank you!
mazzy-elf

#36 Mar 22, 2019, 03:00 PM Source

I am wondering if you can set a custom character without going into the creation screen as I just wanted this for the dynamic actors to show different accessories equipped, or is there a way for me to use dynamic actors without a custom character I cant get it to work if its not a custom character.
mathmaster74

#37 Jun 5, 2019, 02:44 AM Source
Rhino said:
To get the plugin to work with encrypted images, you need to edit it. Find the lines 527 – 528 that state

Code:
if(!stat.isDirectory() && _.isImageFile(files)) { const f = files.replace(‘.png’, ”); and _.isImageFile = function(filename) { return !!(filename.match(/\.png/i));
And change ‘.png’ to ‘.rpgmvp’
Two things to add with this note: 1) The lines of code before the word "and" now read:

Code
if(!stat.isDirectory() && _.isImageFile(files)) {
const f = files.replace('.png', '');

2) The lines of code that follow the word "and" are a tad further down the script on lines 570 - 571. This omission was no fault of Rhino. I found the post on SRDude's blog which she quoted this from directly.
darkmatter404

#38 Oct 1, 2019, 10:36 PM Source

hey guys. how on earth does the custom color funciton work? I've been trying to change the default colors in the super tools engine for a few hours and I've made no progress. Changing the hue literally does nothing to the colors, changing saturation from -1 to 0 makes them totally gray and from 0 to 1 inverts the color to the opposite of -1, which makes no sense.

Just changing the default ["white",0] being changed to ["white",100] or ["white",200] or ["white",360] does absolutely nothing at all for skin tone. I'm trying to get the colors to go from light skin (not printer paper white) to pretty dark, but still clear on a black background.

It seems the only thing that works as intended is brightness. Changing hue from 1 to 0 changed the color from brown to blue, also, which is extremely confusing.

Please, help!
Abiciendi

#39 Nov 16, 2019, 01:43 PM Source

Is there a good way to change individual part values without opening the actual menu? For example, if I wanted to allow a player to choose a "sample" NPC which they would just copy the CustomCharacter values of. I looked through the plugin, but I am still new to JS (used to more structured languages) and couldn't find anything that looked like what I needed.
Htlaets

#40 Dec 2, 2019, 03:27 AM Source

Abiciendi said:
Is there a good way to change individual part values without opening the actual menu? For example, if I wanted to allow a player to choose a "sample" NPC which they would just copy the CustomCharacter values of. I looked through the plugin, but I am still new to JS (used to more structured languages) and couldn't find anything that looked like what I needed.
This is something I had to figure out. You can do this in the following manner:

In the plug-in's base parameters, turn the line that says output results to console on. Then make a debug event that allows you to open the character creation menu in-game. Then open playtest. Then put together the pieces that you don't want determined by your actor's class together in the character creation menu using the debug event you've created. When you finish, press F8 to go to your console, there should be a long line of output. Copy and paste this output into a script. Now you have a script that will change the base character's appearance without having to go through the character creation menu. You can create a script this way for each change you have, or you can edit the script you already made to refer to different files.