The StatusMenuCore (v 1.1.1)

JahwsUF · 2015-10-31T14:06:09+0900

StatusMenuCore - v1.1.1 by JahwsUF (Change in version syntax: the old v 1.03 was meant as 1.0.3.) Tired of the plain, vanilla Status menu that came with the game? Wish you could show more parameters to your game's players, or provide a little lore? Well, wish no longer, for a solution is here - the StatusMenuCore. Sit down and buckle up for a moment, 'cause we're in for a ride - this thing's got a lot of content and flexibility. Want a quick and dirty intro / sales pitch? Start here! Spoiler [IMG]http://imgur.com/2Mt47Jj.png[/IMG] As they say, a picture is worth a 1000 words - this is only a part of the power of this plugin. A few other tastes: [IMG]http://imgur.com/vo9WOre.png[/IMG] Don't worry - that giant picture you saw on the side is optional. This plugin autodetects a lot of things and restructures its windows accordingly for near-optimal design. [IMG]http://imgur.com/YIoeWfh.png[/IMG] Scared you'll need a high-resolution mod for this plugin? Don't worry; it auto-scales all the output data based on your resolution settings or lack thereof! However, it does check for limitations. Too much output on the parameter page causes it to drop the equipment listing. [IMG]http://imgur.com/Wdor8Ww.png[/IMG] You might have noticed a minor menu at the top with some other options. How about some character backstory? Wait, is that a scroll indicator at the bottom? There's even more flexibility than these four images might indicate - more details are mentioned in the other spoiler section. The nickname detail is one of those editable options. If you want a detailed guide into the belly of the beast, this path may be the better option. Seriously though, buckle in and take a deep breath. There's a lot to explain. Spoiler OK. Let's start from the basics and focus on one feature at a time. The original motivation for this plugin came from the lack of customization on the Status page's parameters. We all know that there are a lot of parameters behind the scenes... why not show 'em? [IMG]http://imgur.com/YIoeWfh.png[/IMG] You'll note that in this screenshot, I've kept the original 6 parameters, but also listed 8 that were never seen before! There's even a space in the left column! With this plugin, you have full control over which parameters are and are not shown to the player... and the power to arrange them in up to 3 columns. Obviously, 3 columns isn't the best on the game's original resolution. But before we go down that rabbit hole, how do we set this? [IMG]http://imgur.com/XovzN2G.png[/IMG] Above you can see a screenshot of me editing the parameter listings that correspond to the image above. Specify the parameter abbrevation, and the plugin can grab it. If someone makes additional parameters, this plugin can still grab them provided they are given such an abbreviation. Not all parameters have in-database text, so you'll need to provide some text, like you see there for "target rate." Last, the majority of hidden parameters are percent-based. There are parameters later on that control how many parameters are in each of the three columns. If the third column has no stats, it never appears, leaving two columns. Blank entries (as seen above) provide spaces in the parameter page for visual organization. There's a lot of flexibility provided to customize this page; you just have to tinker with it. OK. So back to that thing about "at this resolution." That was one of the other motivating factors for this plugin - a lot of the built-in menus... don't scale well if you boost the game resolution. This plugin makes sure that's never a worry on the Status screens. (Oh gosh, that's plural, and you've probably noticed the top of the previous images... don't worry, we'll get there.) [IMG]http://imgur.com/eWI1YpV.png[/IMG] Even if you leave the old parameter settings exactly the same, note how the old status window is arranged - things are spaced out, rather than being all on the left. This is Good . And you already saw the earlier images - the much more informative screen looks pretty well balanced, right? With more screen real estate, we can do a lot more and show more. OK, so a few tweaks that you've probably noticed compared to the "vanilla" status page. There's a menu now where the name, nickname, and class used to be. I had to reclaim that space for the menu, so they got moved down beside the profile image... which triggered some other reorganization. To save space, by default I've put the name and nickname together on one line and condensed all the EXP information into a single bar. The one thing you lose with this plugin (in its present form, at least) is access to your total, cumulative EXP totals. That EXP bar there shows you how much you've progressed to the next level, as well as how much EXP you'll need to do so, but nothing about your sum total EXP. However, dropping that makes everything else fit. And I mean everything. So, I think it's worth it. Oh yeah! There's that menu thing up there! Let's hop to it! [IMG]http://…

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Silent Darkness

#21 Oct 31, 2015, 12:59 PM Source

Oh.....................my................

This is what I wanted Yanfly's plugins to do! Thanks!

But yeah, do you think you could make it compatible with the word wrapping plugin Yami made?
JahwsUF

#22 Oct 31, 2015, 01:04 PM Source

Silent Darkness said:
Oh.....................my................

This is what I wanted Yanfly's plugins to do! Thanks!

But yeah, do you think you could make it compatible with the word wrapping plugin Yami made?
Point me at it, and I'll take a look. It shouldn't be too crazy to throw in a variable to enable or disable it within my plug-in while not making it mandatory.
Silent Darkness

#23 Oct 31, 2015, 01:13 PM Source

Sure.

https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fyed.yami.moe%2Fyed-word-wrapping%2F&redir_token=wabs6UuqqJNf5Wq0cimmmFLN7z98MTQ0NjM4MzUxOUAxNDQ2Mjk3MTE5
JahwsUF

#24 Oct 31, 2015, 02:01 PM Source

Silent Darkness said:
Sure.

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https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fyed.yami.moe%2Fyed-word-wrapping%2F&redir_token=wabs6UuqqJNf5Wq0cimmmFLN7z98MTQ0NjM4MzUxOUAxNDQ2Mjk3MTE5
Hmm... this looks pretty tricky to incorporate properly. It doesn't seem to provide any sort of feedback about how many lines of text it produces for original input; without that, the scrolling feature of the Profile is going to break, and it's likely to break very badly. I'd need the plugin author to include an alternate implementation of the function Window_Base.prototype.calcTextHeight in order to work effectively with that plugin, and it doesn't look like an easy thing to pull off. (The original version just counts direct, manual line breaks and calls it a day. Yami completely overlooked this function in that plugin.)

If I start supporting escape sequences or specialized codes within profile text, it'll be even harder to effectively integrate with that plugin. Especially if I start supporting those codes, without additional support from Yami, it'd require me personally re-implementing much of that plugin's functionality myself within this plugin if we don't want to give up scrolling.

On a few additional looks, it gets even worse - Yami autodetects a window's width and doesn't allow any way to specify an alternate word boundary; the word wrap would immediately run over onto a profile portrait before any wrapping occurred. I have to be able to specify a maximum text width that varies independently of the window width if we don't want this issue. I'll be adding this to the list of "incompatible" plugins for now.
Silent Darkness

#25 Oct 31, 2015, 02:05 PM Source

Mmm. I see. Perhaps you should PM Yami about it, then?
DavidFoxfire

#26 Oct 31, 2015, 02:33 PM Source

JahwsUF said:
The only escape code at present is <hr>. I'm totally willing to add more, as long as they're not too crazy to implement. They kind of require deliberate processing on my end in the Profile page code, you see. Let me know what you'd like and I'll see if it's reasonable to implement.
I'm thinking having it work with your standard escape codes and eventually Yanfly's message core. But if you want to keep things simple, I can make do :)
JahwsUF

#27 Oct 31, 2015, 02:35 PM Source

DavidFoxfire said:
I'm thinking having it work with your standard escape codes and eventually Yanfly's message core. But if you want to keep things simple, I can make do :)
Nah, it's more that you shouldn't expect tables or images embedded there... at least for a while.

Things like minor text adjustments, font color changes... those shouldn't be nearly as bad to implement. As long as you're not looking to overly enlarge the font past the norm, that is.
JahwsUF

#28 Oct 31, 2015, 02:53 PM Source

wrigty12 said:
I really want to use this plugin! It looks amazing!!

However, there is one conflict with another plugin I have found.

I am using DMV Param Distribute (Link Here). It displays a small window over the status window that allows you to add points to parameters, upgrading them as sorts. However, when I go to add a point to a parameter, it gives me a "TypeError: Cannot read property 'refresh' of undefined". According to the console, the errors are appearing in the DMV script at 688:40 and 660:14. I have a feeling your plugin doesn't allow for the parameters to refresh in the status window?

If you can fix this compatibility in your script, that would be amazing :D
This issue is resolved as of v1.01.
Kes

#29 Oct 31, 2015, 02:57 PM Source

JahwsUF, please avoid double posting, as it is against the forum rules. You can review our forum rules here. Thank you.

If you want to quote more than one person in a single post, use the MultiQuote button (bottom right)

And nice plugin, btw. Looking forward to using it.
Bobstah

#30 Oct 31, 2015, 03:42 PM Source

Had a few PMs asking if this was compatible with my Custom Stats plugin. I can confirm that it works just fine, as all of my custom stats are added as symbols.

I added a new stat called bat using my plugin, then added it to JahwsUF's plugin like so:

Here is what it looks like in-game:

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Lunawolfcomics

#31 Oct 31, 2015, 03:59 PM Source

Thank you, this plug-in is very nice and beautifully laid out. I have a question though, is there a way for the status screen to show party members' TP bars?
laaghisce

#32 Oct 31, 2015, 04:50 PM Source

I'm worried I'm missing the obvious, but I've looked at the 'help' button and this thread for my answer and I haven't found it. ;c
For some reason, the parameters or resistances do not appear.

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More pictures:

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Lunawolfcomics

#33 Oct 31, 2015, 05:20 PM Source

Bobstah said:
Had a few PMs asking if this was compatible with my Custom Stats plugin. I can confirm that it works just fine, as all of my custom stats are added as symbols.

I added a new stat called bat using my plugin, then added it to JahwsUF's plugin like so:

Here is what it looks like in-game:

Spoiler

How did you get your equips to show on the 3rd column on the right. I have all three columns set in the parameters, yet when I load the game, only the first two will show. The equips don't show
Bobstah

#34 Oct 31, 2015, 05:43 PM Source

@JAD94, I'm using default settings for all columns except column 2, which I changed to match column 1's settings. I also have my resolution set to 1280x720.
JahwsUF

#35 Oct 31, 2015, 08:01 PM Source

laaghisce said:
I'm worried I'm missing the obvious, but I've looked at the 'help' button and this thread for my answer and I haven't found it. ;c

For some reason, the parameters or resistances do not appear.

Spoiler

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More pictures:

Interesting, I'll have to look into that. My first question - could you go down to the bottom of the plugin options and look for something like the following?

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Of particular note are the "Column _ Height" parameters - if you happened to zero out those parameters, that'd immediately explain the images you posted. There's a similar set below those options for the Resistances page. I'd like to see what you have there before proceeding.

JAD94 said:
Thank you, this plug-in is very nice and beautifully laid out. I have a question though, is there a way for the status screen to show party members' TP bars?
I didn't end up putting in that bar, partly for anti-clutter reasons, and partly because other plugins that showed TP still hid it on the status screen. There's totally space for it between MP and EXP though, so I may as well throw that in to the next release.

JAD94 said:
How did you get your equips to show on the 3rd column on the right. I have all three columns set in the parameters, yet when I load the game, only the first two will show. The equips don't show
Make sure that your window has enough space to show everything. The pages automatically hide the equipment column if there's not enough space to show it. (That space includes a bit of visual padding to prevent a super-cluttered look.)

You can adjust how big each column looks with these settings:

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Column Text Width = the width allotted to each parameter's name.

Column Value Width = the space allotted to the values.

Shortly below these, there's also "Equip Column Width", which is pretty high by default in case you like long item names. Definitely shrink that to taste as well.

Changing these values to something smaller will give the page more space to work with. Also, the parameter page can scroll if you need it to do so. Past that, you may want a higher resolution setting, or something that globally shrinks the system's font size so that you need less width.
Lunawolfcomics

#36 Oct 31, 2015, 08:05 PM Source

Thank you! It worked, now the equips are shown!

All that's left is for the TP to be in the menu as well :)
laaghisce

#37 Oct 31, 2015, 08:28 PM Source

JahwsUF said:
Interesting, I'll have to look into that. My first question - could you go down to the bottom of the plugin options and look for something like the following?

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Oh gosh, that might be why; just looked at those settings.

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Well I just tried your settings (specifically: 'Column 2 Height' = 6 'Text Width', and 'Value Width'.) but it's still blank on a new file.
JahwsUF

#38 Oct 31, 2015, 08:34 PM Source

laaghisce said:
Oh gosh, that might be why; just looked at those settings.

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Well I just tried your settings (specifically: 'Column 2 Height' = 6 'Text Width', and 'Value Width'.) but it's still blank on a new file.
OK, so it's not the simple solution. The original settings should have displayed the parameters. I'll PM you with some other questions and details to get this worked out.
residntevl

#39 Oct 31, 2015, 09:05 PM Source

I'm not very familiar with JS myself right now, but I'm looking to implement a menu choice (So players don't have to use the buttons) that switches the window to the next actor in the party. How would I go about doing that?
JahwsUF

#40 Oct 31, 2015, 09:09 PM Source

residntevl said:
I'm not very familiar with JS myself right now, but I'm looking to implement a menu choice (So players don't have to use the buttons) that switches the window to the next actor in the party. How would I go about doing that?
Implementing a menu option that takes the function of Page Down and Page Up? (I actually didn't know about those two hotkeys until I started developing this plugin, btw. They change the actor for you.)

If you wanted to make a visible menu option for it, that might be a little involved, but probably nothing too prohibitive. You'd want to look at the JAH_Window_Status_PageSelect class, as that defines the Status screen's menu. It has active control anyway, so it shouldn't stretch the system too much if you want to tweak it in the manner you're mentioning here.