Yanfly Shop/Core Request

I really don't know if Yanfly looks at these boards. But if they do, there is a sort of mini request - more like a suggestion- that i would like to ask of them.

How about an option to put the Sprites (or SV Sprites) of actors into the Weapons/Equip Stats when looking at weapons either in shop Menus or on the Equip menu. The Actor's Sprite would do a happy dance if it improves his/her stats, just stand there if it doesn't change anything, or look Koed if it actually made his Stats worse.

Well who knows, I think that would be a cool feature anyway.

There are numerous stats. What if it improves one, but decreases another?

I have been wishing that I had a similar change to the shop menu plugin that was created by Yanfly. My thought was to have any characters who are currently in the party show up as a static sprites(4 Characters at the most for me), but to begin their stepping animation if they were able to equip the weapon. The sprites would show up below the stats which are displayed in the lower right hand window which appears just above the Gold window. This would allow a player to immediately see the characters who could equip a certain item and then use the left and right arrows to go directly to that character to see the difference in the stats between the new item and what they are currently equipped with.

Shaz, I had a similar idea as the one posted above, and the only answer that I could come up with for your question is to utilize the code that determines whether a weapon or armour piece would be equipped by the code behind the optimize command. If this command's calculations would equip an item then it would be considered better and trigger the sprite to animate.

In the end I figured that it would be easier to just determine if a character can simply equip the item because that code (I assume) is already part of the Shop Menu plugin since it is used to determine whether to light up the stats if a person can equip a weapon of armour piece.