Visual Equipment!

Rexal · 2015-11-12T15:17:13+0900

Visual Equipment v1.1bRexal Intro - Want your equipment to actually show up on your actors? Now you can! The Plugin(v1.1a) - Here Demo - Here Github Repository - Here Due to its complexities, I highly recommend downloading the demo. I even tried reducing the file size as much as possible Features - Able to have equipment be visual by applying "parts" to a sprite. - Can have multiple parts per equipment. - Can have actors have default parts. - Have quite a bit of control on how the parts are colored. - Can have equipment hide default parts - And more! Plugin Commands Spoiler UpdateActors - Forces the game to update the actors, for any reason that you need the game to do so. SetVEPose ActorId pose - Sets the actor with the ActorId specified to search for sprites with _pose at the end of them. For example you set pose to "dead", "body" becomes "body_dead". This effects characters on the map only. ClearVEPose ActorId - Restores the actor's pose to the default one. Parameters Spoiler Debug - Will write to the console if true. THIS SENDS A WHOLE LOT OF LOGS WHICH CAN LAG THE GAME, SO ONLY TURN THIS ON IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES One Sprite Per Layer - By default, you can have an infinite amount of parts per layer. However, making this parameter true will cause only one sprite to show per defined layer, which saves performance. This can be rather difficult to use however, so I recommend using this only if you really need it. Show Fadeout - If true, this will fade out the screen until the actors are done loading. It's up to you whether you want to use this or not. Note tags Spoiler VE Prefix: prefix This can be set to actors and equipment both. Basically, when you define a prefix, instead of searching for "hat" when you use VE Image, it'll search for "prefixHat". When used with equipment, prefixes are determined by the equipment's slot order, but they will always override the actor's settings. [VE Actor] This is, of course, Actor's notes only. Using this tag will make the actor's sprites(and any instance of them) invisible. This is so you can create an actor entirely from parts. Make sure that you have a blank sprite in parts/battlers named "blank", otherwise it'll soft-lock in battle for some reason. VE Image name,layer,hue,saturation,value,ignore prefix This can be used for Actors, Weapons, and Armor. If used for actors, they will always have those parts no matter what...unless you use the One Sprite Per Layer parameter, of course. First, ensure that you have a folder named parts, and inside that folder are three others named character,face, and battler. When you use this tag, the plugin will search the folder relevant to the situation for the sprite with the name you've specified, For example, if the actor's face pops up, it'll look in the "face" folder. The layer tells the plugin what order the part should be created in. It goes lowest to highest, and by default is 0. hue is the color of the part. saturation is how colorful the part is. 255 is completely colorless. value is how bright the part is. 0 is the normal value, -255 is black, and 255 is white. note: everything but name can be set to an eval formula. Keep in mind though that right now it only sets these values the moment the parts are created. VE Image Neutral: name,layer,hue,saturation,value Exactly the same as VE Image except that it always ignores prefixes. VE Hide: layer When set to equipment, it'll hide the actor's default parts on the layer specified. Think of it as One Sprite Per Layer lite version. VE Color: layer,hue,saturation,value This will color all parts in the specified layer unless said part already has color settings. Future Plans - - More notes for more control- More things that can take advantage of the notes (classes, states, events, etc.) - Somehow make this constantly update the parts without killing the frame rate. - A guide or something on how to use this thing. Terms of Use - Free for commercial and non-commercial use. Change Log Spoiler v1 - Initial Version 1.1a - - Added VE Prefix, which lets you have different images per VE Image. - Added VE Image Neutral, which ignores all prefix settings. - Added another variable to VE Image, which allows you to ignore all prefix settings. - Added Show Fadeout parameter, which will fade out the screen whenever the actors are updated. - Added VE Color, which allows you to change the colors settings of parts, as long as those parts don't have color settings themselves. - Added VE Hide, which is an equipment tag that lets you hide an actor's default parts. - Save file now properly updates with the character. - It no longer crashes when it can't find a part. It'll still send an error to the console, though. - IF YOU USE [VE ACTOR] YOU MUST NOW HAVE A BLANK SPRITE NAMED "BLANK" IN PARTS/BATTLERS OTHERWISE IT WILL SOFT-LOCK IN BATTLE. - General Improvements. - Added SetVEPose, which lets you set the pose for the sprites to use. - Added ClearVEPose, which restores the spri…

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Rexal

#41 Mar 17, 2016, 07:23 AM Source

@DaniAngione

1 - Easily? Not yet, but that's on the to-do list for when I'm able to work on plugins again. But right now it's possible to do by equipping cosmetic armor to them and hiding the equipment slots, or by setting the "name" portion of VE Image to a variable( i.e. $gameVariables.value(3) ) and then assigning a string to that variable. The easiest way to do that is to use the Control Variables event command, setting the operand to Script, then writing out the word you want inside quotation marks.

2 - Other than the above method, not really. Modifying the notes themselves will permanently change the actor, so unless you're using a single save file a la Pokémon, it would cause quite a few problems.

3 - Prefix for items is more so you can change the prefix of the Actor when they equip it, like if a male actor put on a certain magic ring they'd become female. Something like that. I'll have this effect for things like classes and states when I'm able to as well.
Jhin

#42 Mar 17, 2016, 09:08 AM Source

Hi Rexal,

I think this plugin should be a must have on every project. My project is possible thanks to it.

Is anyway to make states capable of change layers?

Thanks for your work!!!
Rexal

#43 Mar 17, 2016, 09:13 AM Source

@Jhin

Not yet. I haven't been able to update this for a while, but that's one of the things I'm going to put in once I can.
Jhin

#44 Mar 17, 2016, 09:18 AM Source

Ok, thank you.

I will check this topic periodically expecting for that update.

Another time, thanks for your work.
DaniAngione

#45 Mar 17, 2016, 08:28 PM Source

Rexal said:
Answers 1 & 2

Oh, thank you very much. This will indeed be useful, I didn't think about cosmetic slots/hiding them. I think I can achieve what I want with that :)

Might not be the fanciest solution... but if it works, :D it works. Thank you very much!

Answer 3

Right, that makes much more sense. Duh, I should've figured that out with the demo, lol. Anyway, thank you for the reply.

As everyone else already said - this is an awesome plugin! Keep it up and thank you very much for your time and effort :3
DarkEssance

#46 Apr 28, 2016, 07:08 PM Source

Rexal said:
@DaniAngione

1 - Easily? Not yet, but that's on the to-do list for when I'm able to work on plugins again. But right now it's possible to do by equipping cosmetic armor to them and hiding the equipment slots, or by setting the "name" portion of VE Image to a variable( i.e. $gameVariables.value(3) ) and then assigning a string to that variable. The easiest way to do that is to use the Control Variables event command, setting the operand to Script, then writing out the word you want inside quotation marks.

this is generally a good idea on how to have changeable hair styles but...

I was just wondering how I would go about hiding the equipment slot? ;3
QuirkiDigital11

#47 May 11, 2016, 09:39 PM Source

Hi Rexal! Made an account just to comment here. Thanks so much for creating this wonderful plugin! It took me a while to learn how to use it properly (I'm probably not utilizing it in the most efficient manner though), and actually managed to make the character customization menu I wanted to do :D

It's still rough, but I'm heading somewhere I think! It wouldn't have been possible without your plugin. Hopefully I don't bump into too many problems as I continue forth haha.

I also made a gif demonstrating the in game customization options.
mimi-min

#48 May 14, 2016, 05:01 AM Source

This seems really useful! I tried out the demo, but got killed in the fight against yourself thingy, :( Pretty funny though overall!

I'm wondering if you managed to fix the delay when updating the faces. It seems like you're pretty busy, though. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help!
Rexal

#49 May 15, 2016, 03:43 PM Source

@DarkEssance Basically you'd have to either have a plugin that can do that or edit the equip window itself and just not reference the slot.

@QuirkiDigital11 Looking good!

@mimi-min Yeah, it's kinda difficult. I'm not sure why as it's been a while since I've worked on this, but their stats are pretty unbalanced. Way to go, past me.

I haven't been able to do any work on this, unfortunately. After I turned 22 I suddenly and inexplicably got a life, and have had to deal with all sorts of things that have taken up most of my time. I'm hoping that things will settle down in a month or two, but...who knows.
esziaprez

#50 May 27, 2016, 02:00 AM Source

Can you write the filesize for the demo cause it is not allow to see the total weight with Edge and github. It's useless for me know but maybe useful for somebody later. Especialy when you have a very low bandwidth and you want to estimate the download time. I really like this work, your plugin is really cool. The poses can be use to make actions command too. So nice ;-)
agm1393

#51 Jun 20, 2016, 02:07 PM Source

Hi! I'm trying to mix this script with some of Yanfly's ones. It works perfect, but once in combat, the damage dealt by the enemies doesn't appear. Does anyone have the same problem or tried to find a solution?

Thanks!
?????

#52 Aug 8, 2016, 03:48 PM Source

Can I someone how make it so states add parts as well when active?
ChampX

#53 Aug 14, 2016, 12:45 AM Source

It seems the update to RMMV 1.3 broke this plugin not allowing tiles to render or for different resolutions to be displayed correctly. The author seems to be inactive and I would prefer this plugin to function with my current project. I am more than happy to fix this issue myself, but I am not too familiar with Pixi or how RMMV renders graphics under the hood. I looked into the JS file for this plugin and nothing jumps out at me too much as to where the issue might be given it is modifying the character sprites directly and not other graphical functions (and the character sprites do work). If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
?????

#54 Aug 22, 2016, 02:49 PM Source

Hey I have a question or rather a suggestion. I'm using the VE images to make characters completely out of parts, but I want to allow the player to be able to customize his character. is there any way to change the default VE images set on a character without having to equip something? (I want the player to be able to choose skin color, hair, eyes, etc)
narome2b

#55 Aug 23, 2016, 08:00 AM Source

Hello !

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. It's a very usefull plugin !

Then, I wanted to report you a bug, and maybe someone have a solution for me.

When I enable your plugin, the balloon effect doesn't work. When I disable it, it works perfectly.

Do you have any idea ?

Regards.
ChampX

#56 Aug 26, 2016, 03:34 AM Source

narome2b said:
Hello !

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your work. It's a very usefull plugin !

Then, I wanted to report you a bug, and maybe someone have a solution for me.

When I enable your plugin, the balloon effect doesn't work. When I disable it, it works perfectly.

Do you have any idea ?

Regards.

Open the file in notepad or any text editor.

Change the following:

scub = Sprite_Character.prototype.updateBalloon;
Sprite_Character.prototype.updateBalloon = function() {
scub.call(this);
if (this._balloonSprite) {
this._balloonSprite.x = 0;
this._balloonSprite.y = -this.height;
}
};

to this:

// scub = Sprite_Character.prototype.updateBalloon;
// Sprite_Character.prototype.updateBalloon = function() {
// scub.call(this);
// if (this._balloonSprite) {
// this._balloonSprite.x = 0;
// this._balloonSprite.y = -this.height;
// }
// };

And that should fix the balloon effect.
narome2b

#57 Aug 26, 2016, 09:23 PM Source

Thanks a lot ! :)
Michael Caiola

#58 Oct 22, 2016, 01:25 AM Source

ChampX said:
It seems the update to RMMV 1.3 broke this plugin not allowing tiles to render or for different resolutions to be displayed correctly. The author seems to be inactive and I would prefer this plugin to function with my current project. I am more than happy to fix this issue myself, but I am not too familiar with Pixi or how RMMV renders graphics under the hood. I looked into the JS file for this plugin and nothing jumps out at me too much as to where the issue might be given it is modifying the character sprites directly and not other graphical functions (and the character sprites do work). If anyone can point me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Just figured this out the hard way after a half hour of frustration and headaches.

Very frustrating because this is an amazing plugin. I'll have to export a bunch of images and event the crap out of them to do what I need to do.

Tsukihime

#59 Nov 1, 2016, 06:44 PM Source

The way images are loaded has changed.

Rexal's plugin overwrites the way images are loaded, which conflicts with 1.3.x

Add this to the bottom of the JS.

Just open it in notepad or something and then paste it at the very end.

Code:

Rexal.ImageManager.isReady = function() {
  for (var key in this.cache._inner) {
        var bitmap = this.cache._inner[key].item;
        if (bitmap.isError()) {
            bitmap = this.loadEmptyBitmap();
        }
        if (!bitmap.isReady()) {
            return false;
        }
    }
    return true;
};

toasttoasttoast

#60 Nov 2, 2016, 02:12 AM Source

If you're using something like Galv's Character Frames(Diagonal, Idle, Running, Walking, etc) and extra frames for sideview, will this still work, or does it only work for images that are in the default format?