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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Destra47

#101 Jul 25, 2020, 01:28 PM Source

bohutang said:
Does anyone know how to disable the character and face functions on the map, I just want to use the features in combat
I know this post is 2 years old, but I commented out those sections because it was super buggy on the field and it works fine. So just comment out:
Rexal.ImageManager.loadCharacterPart (in ImageManager)
Rexal.ImageManager.loadFacePart (in Image Manager)
Sprite_Character
Sprite_Part
Window_Base
Sprite_WindowPart
However for whatever reason now the face doesn't load initially. After opening/closing the menu one time it's fine. But that first time there's no face.

I've tried preloading the face image, but that doesn't seem to fix it.

EDIT: Disregard, I just fixed the image loading. I added a filler variable in Visual Equipment's "Various Functions" section that's just:
var nameItWhatever = ImageManager.loadBitmap('img/faces/','x' , 0, false);
With x being the face file for your character.
VirgilArts

#102 Oct 4, 2021, 10:49 AM Source

is it possible to disable to face image ??
KeitaNeko

#103 Nov 7, 2021, 02:29 AM Source

VirgilArts said:
is it possible to disable to face image ??
I don't know if it's possible to turn it off and back on at will, but what I did to get around using it was in img/parts/face I made a blank sprite for every piece of body equipment I didn't want to show up on the face. The plugin still looks for it and tries to draw it, but as long as the image is blank it doesn't matter. You can use the default MV face system as-is if you want this way.

This plugin has some interesting quirks as well that make it far more useful than it appears. There's a "bug" that draws layers on all images with the same name, so this works wonderfully for any game in which you transfer members in and out of your party - as long as the event and the actor have the same base image, they'll look exactly the same, so all the equipment the actor has equipped will show up on both the actor and the NPC. It's awesome. Heck, you could even hack a mirror into your game this way if you wanted.
Mr_Von_Grimmsy

#104 Sep 18, 2022, 03:14 PM Source
Apologies for bringing this thread back from the dead, but I believe I have found a solution for the problem that several users had, of damage pop-ups supposedly not occurring; they actually do pop-up, just in the upper lefthand corner of the screen, where most people wouldn't think to look.

I honestly only discovered this by accident while playing around with SRD's damage pop-up plugin.

So, after some digging around, I found out that Rexal's Visual Equipment plugin is not the culprit for this issue. Apparently, Yanfly's Battle Engine Core is. After turning it off, the damage pop-ups worked fine, if a bit offset to one side.

Yet knowing how integral and useful Yanfly's plugin is to most user's projects (as well as my own), I did a bit of fiddling around with the plugin, and through trial and error found a solution.

Now... full disclosure after this long-winded discourse: I am not a plugin creator, nor a programmer of any stripe. I am just a guy who tinkers with things, (usually) breaks them, and sometimes - such as in this case - actually gets them working correctly. So if my proposed 'fix' causes problems down the road, you were forewarned. On to the solution:
- Find your YEP_BattleEngineCore.js plugin and open it with a program suitable to editing .js files; I'm partial to Notepad++ myself.
- Now scroll down, down, down to lines 2925~2939, highlight them, right-click and select 'Block Comment' (in Notepad++ that is). You could probably just delete them, but commenting things out seems to be the safer route, just in case.
And that's all there is to it. I ran a few test battles, and everything seemed to be working fine, so - again - I can't make any promises if this will cause future problems. Hopefully this helps some of my fellow users get some more usage and enjoyment out of this otherwise awesome plugin. :rhappy:
Nightshade

#105 Aug 8, 2023, 06:03 PM Source

is this still getting support....
Trihan

#106 Aug 8, 2023, 06:08 PM Source

Nightshade said:
is this still getting support....
The original poster hasn't been here since 2017 so I'd put smart money on no.
Nightshade

#107 Aug 8, 2023, 06:16 PM Source

thats not good cause this is only plug in i know of that would be easy to set up.... the one i do want costs 40$ D :
xabileug

#108 Aug 9, 2023, 01:01 PM Source

Nightshade said:
thats not good cause this is only plug in i know of that would be easy to set up.... the one i do want costs 40$ D :
check the japanese community or forums
Nightshade

#109 Aug 9, 2023, 01:29 PM Source

xabileug said:
check the japanese community or forums
never been to one of those before. got any advice which one would be good
xabileug

#110 Aug 9, 2023, 05:56 PM Source

Jupiter penguin mpp visual equip
Nightshade

#111 Aug 9, 2023, 06:36 PM Source

xabileug said:
Jupiter penguin mpp visual equip
thank you