Tile Changer (Copy Tiles and Change Tiles)

Shaz · 2018-01-26T12:57:12+0900

Tile Changer 2018.03.24 by Shaz Introduction This plugin allows you to copy a block of tiles from another map to the current map, copy a block of tiles from one spot on the current map to another, or to change individual tiles to a specific tile Id. How to use Add to your plugin folder (call it Shaz_TileChanger.js) and enable in the plugin manager. Set up the notes on the current map only if you want to copy tiles from other maps. Use the plugin commands to copy or change tiles. Map notes must be in the following format - one name/map pair for each map you want to copy tiles from: Code: I suggest doing this in a text editor, as the line won't fit in the map note window, so it's hard to see and can be easy to make mistakes. When using the CopyTiles command to copy from another map, use the 'name' from the map note box rather than the map id. This does not need to be the same as the display name or the editor name of the map. Plugin Commands CopyTiles dx dy 'source' sx1 sy1 sx2 sy2 z-list Copies tiles from another (or the same) map, where dx is the x-coordinate of the top left destination area dy is the y-coordinate of the top left destination area source is the 'name' of the source map in the map note or 'self' if you want to copy a section of the current map - you need to put quotes around this name. sx1 is the x-coordinate of the top left source area sy1 is the y-coordinate of the top left source area sx2 is the x-coordinate of the bottom right source area sy2 is the y-coordinate of the bottom right source area z-list is an optional series of z values indicating which layers to copy; if more than one, just use spaces between; if omitted, all layers will be copied ChangeTile x y z tileId Changes the tile at the specified coordinates and layer to the tileId indicated. Note - no auto-formatting of autotiles happens here. Z-layers 0 - ground layer (most A tiles) 1 - ground cover layer (A1 tiles with transparent areas, and right 4 columns of A2 tiles) 2 - upper layer 1 3 - upper layer 2 4 - shadow layer 5 - region layer All arguments can be script commands that will be evaluated - make sure there are no spaces anywhere within the individual arguments/script commands. Example CopyTiles 3 3 'destroyed' 5 8 9 12 copies the area between 5,8 and 9,12 from the 'destroyed' map to the current map, with the upper left at 3,3. All layers are copied CopyTiles 3 3 'wilted' 5 8 9 12 2 3 copies layers 2 and 3 (the upper layers) between 5,8 and 9,12 from the 'wilted' map to the current map, with the upper left at 3,3 ChangeTile 3 3 2 0 replaces the tile at coordinate 3,3 on layer 0 (upper layer 1) with tile 0 (which is the 'erase' tile - so this is removing whatever tile may have previously been there) Plugin Download from pastebin make sure to save it as Shaz_TileChanger.js Credit - Shaz Terms - free for use in commercial games - do not post elsewhere - link back to this page Notes This plugin changes/copies the tile Id, not the image. So your other maps should use the same tileset, or at least have the the tiles that you want to copy in the same position on both tilesets. Otherwise you could be trying to copy a vase with flowers from one map, and have it turn into a teddy bear on the other. [introduced 2018.03.24] This plugin now saves the tile changes. If you leave the map (to another map, the battle screen or a menu) and return, the tile changes will still be there. You do not need to add a parallel process event to re-run the tile changes anymore. I have only done basic testing with this plugin. If you have issues, please provide me with a copy/paste, or screenshots of 1. Your plugin command 2. Your map note box if you're using the CopyTiles command (copy/paste that one) 3. The console log, showing the error message and the script name and line number Change Log 2018.03.24 1.10 - tile changes are now saved. Solves issue of tiles reverting when returning from the menu or battle, and an event to re-change the tiles when coming from another map are no longer required.

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Started by Shaz Jan 26, 2018, 03:57 AM 112 posts Page 5 of 6 View original ↗

Alador

#81 May 12, 2021, 03:36 AM Source
JavaScript:
CopyTiles 1 1 'layout' $gameVariables.value(6) 1 ($gameVariables.value(6) += 15) 11
returns the error "Invalid or unexpected token." How can I get this to use the incremented variable without returning an error message?
Restart

#82 May 12, 2021, 03:51 AM Source
Alador said:

JavaScript:
CopyTiles 1 1 'layout' $gameVariables.value(6) 1 ($gameVariables.value(6) += 15) 11
returns the error "Invalid or unexpected token." How can I get this to use the incremented variable without returning an error message?
use a script call instead of a plugin command - plugin commands don't evaluate inputs (so it is trying to read the text string '$gameVariables.value(6)' instead of the value of game variable 6.)
Code:
changeTile(1,1,'layout', $gameVariables.value(6), 1, ($gameVariables.value(6) += 15), 11)
should probably work
Shaz

#83 May 12, 2021, 08:17 AM Source
Restart said:
plugin commands don't evaluate inputs

this one does, but

Alador said:
($gameVariables.value(6) += 15)
this isn't valid. The plugin uses spaces to delimit terms, not parentheses. And what is the += for? That's an assignment operator and shouldn't be used here at all. If you want to increment the value, do it either before or after the plugin command. If you just want that value plus 15, get rid of the =.

Shaz said:
All arguments can be script commands that will be evaluated - make sure there are no spaces anywhere within the individual arguments/script commands.

Change it to
Code:
$gameVariables.value(6)+15
(with no spaces)
Restart

#84 May 12, 2021, 08:36 AM Source

I stand corrected!
patternBlue

#85 Jun 9, 2021, 02:27 PM Source

Has anyone tried to use this plugin with maps made in the Tiled Map Editor tool (this: https://thorbjorn.itch.io/tiled)?
Andar

#86 Jun 9, 2021, 02:53 PM Source

@patternBlue I doubt that would work because that editor uses a different tileset structure
patternBlue

#87 Jun 9, 2021, 03:26 PM Source

Andar said:
@patternBlue I doubt that would work because that editor uses a different tileset structure
Yeah I kinda thought so, thanks for your reply!
fizzly

#88 Jun 30, 2021, 11:27 AM Source

Hey @Shaz, is there an option to copy tile depending on player posiotion? For example you can draw a road under player while walking.
Andar

#89 Jun 30, 2021, 02:13 PM Source

@fizzly you pinged the wrong person...

@Shaz is the programmer of this plugin...
ATT_Turan

#90 Jun 30, 2021, 05:01 PM Source

fizzly said:
is there an option to copy tile depending on player posiotion? For example you can draw a road under player while walking.
You'd have a parallel process on the map that is checking for the player to have moved - do a Google for events for footstep sounds or walking, you'll get many examples you can copy.

Then, inside a conditional branch for the player position having changed, you'd make the appropriate plugin command for this to change the tile image.

Note that drawing a road is kind of complicated, because they're typically an autotile that looks different depending on the tiles around it. This plugin won't handle that, because you're choosing a specific square from the tileset to place on the map, so if you want an autotile road to look right, you're going to have a pretty complex set of nested conditionals to see what's around it and place the appropriate road image.
fizzly

#91 Jun 30, 2021, 06:35 PM Source

Andar said:
@fizzly you pinged the wrong person...

@Shaz is the programmer of this plugin...
Sorry... edited that.
Shaz

#92 Jun 30, 2021, 08:47 PM Source

What @ATT_Turan said.

The coordinates are easy enough - the plugin command will take things like $gamePlayer.x and $gamePlayer.y as arguments. It's telling it what tile to use that's going to be complicated.
RadicalRaticate

#93 Sep 27, 2021, 11:25 PM Source
Hi ! What a amazing script !

ChangeTile work perfectly ! But i just can't make CopyTiles work i just dont understand what im doing wrong :/

I want to copy 3 tile from the map 005 to the map 004

I keep getting ''build is not defined''
Code:
<load:[{"name":"build","map":5}]>
Andar

#94 Sep 28, 2021, 07:19 AM Source

RadicalRaticate said:
I keep getting ''build is not defined''
that is because you didn't give a string with the name build but tried to use build as a variable, and that of course is not defined.
look at Shaz' examples in the first post to see what your command is missing - namely the string defining '
Shaz

#95 Sep 28, 2021, 07:21 AM Source

Good pickup!

In hindsight, I sometimes wish I'd not used names at all for maps, and just made it use map ids.
space_lion

#96 Sep 20, 2022, 12:50 PM Source

I'm not sure if this is necroing, but I was wondering if this plugin works with RMMZ too? I tried setting it up, but I'm not getting access to any plugin commands. I thought I'd post a thread about this, but I don't appear to have enough privileges for that yet.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Andar

#97 Sep 20, 2022, 05:23 PM Source

space_lion said:
if this plugin works with RMMZ
unlikely - MV forces automatic layering, MZ allows for manual layer choice.
That makes the maps sufficiently different that this plugin is unlikely to be able to handle the MZ data.
space_lion

#98 Sep 20, 2022, 05:29 PM Source

Andar said:
unlikely - MV forces automatic layering, MZ allows for manual layer choice.
That makes the maps sufficiently different that this plugin is unlikely to be able to handle the MZ data.
I got it to work with the FOSSIL plugin, works nicely so far.
space_lion

#99 Sep 22, 2022, 02:55 PM Source

Hello again :)

I was wondering if it's possible to use region ID instead of the coordinates when changing tiles.
I'm currently using this plugin to change the region ID of the player tile, but when a certain variable/switch changes, I'd like to change the region ID of all these tiles at once, when the player will no longer be standing on them. So for example: change all tiles with region ID 10 to region ID 20.

Thanks.
Ninja777

#100 Nov 29, 2022, 10:57 PM Source

Edit! Went a different direction and found it was an error in a different plugin.