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Hi mate,

Been looking into character sprite manipulation like offsets for player vehicle and event vehicles and this plugin may solve some issues i've been running into concerning the graphics side of things, I was reading through the help document and I was wondering if parameters can be made to automatically change all relative sprite sheets that have a character command or name type in there file? For example "$" and "!" image codes.

Do you think this would be suitable for mass vehicle eventing?

If you are curious to look into the matter I made a topic on the forums concerning this venture.

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/character-sheet-anchoring-issue...

Hakuen Studio221 days ago

Hi there!

Yeah, I can think of some ways of doing this! But first, just for me to be sure(I saw your thread), try to change the offset of the car sprite with my plugin. Make it with just one sprite, and one vehicle, and see what kind of configuration will make it work. If that did not solve, I just saw that on my plugin, although you can change offset, you cannot change anchors, I don't remember why I did that. But maybe, changing the character sprite anchor according to the character's direction could solve your issue.

Or even, if you could provide me the sprite sheet, I could try something here. As I understand, you want the car to fit on that spot when facing up/down, the same way it fits when facing left/right, is that it?

Skurge221 days ago

The offset mechanic works really good graphically, I set the Y offset to 48 so visually it's aligned more central, so sprite offset I think is viable still, though if there was preset parameters options in the plugin itself that would add alot of quality of life to the plugin, namely also if there was options for parameters sprite offsets dependent on characters that use a global name or something that would be essential for mass vehicle eventing which I intend to have in my project.

If you wish to experiment with my sprite sheet I can provide it to you :)

I use the grid lines to help me see which spaces are occupied during play tests and the saturation changes dependent on the step animation for testing.

Thank you for helping me out!

Skurge221 days ago

I hate to double post but I forgot to mention the overlapping part, I realize there is a mechanic for overlapping graphics but I am not so sure about overlapping graphics when it comes to offsets, if you see this screen shot demonstration you may notice where I am coming from.

Hakuen Studio221 days ago

I understood!

I will try to make a patch to help you with this. It seems a thing that I will also need for my project!

About the overlapping, what my plugin does is give an extra value for the z index. By default, RPG Maker decides that index with the character priority. So just for example:

Below Characters → Index = 0
Same as Characters → Index = 1
Above Characters → Index = 2

My plugin adds an extra z index value, that by default, is 0. So you can change that to increase or decrease a character index:

Below Characters → Index + extraZindex
Same as Characters → Index + extraZindex
Above Characters → Index + extraZindex

If you have an event set as Same as Characters, with the extra z index as -2, the real index will be -1. So they will appear below a character that has the priority Below Characters.

Is that your doubt?

Skurge221 days ago

Ah I've been testing that with the limited time I have today, setting the Z value to -1 definitely makes the event (boat) in question behind the player but I have noticed that when walking above the graphic (above the actual event place of origin) the player sprites+shadow are overlapping the boat -so at this point I am unsure how to adapt to it because any given time any other character or graphic of some sort comes by above the event with it's offset settings enabled there may be some visual confusion. Still I am extremely fascinated with this plugin and I wish to learn more about it, excited still to see where you updates take you.

Skurge218 days ago

Thought i'd give you a visual update regarding the Z value with some larger characters in a theoretical situation where you can see them above a graphic for this instance.

Hakuen Studio212 days ago

Hi there!

I released an update of this plugin that I believe can help you achieve your results. It has a new plugin parameter that lets you play common events every time a character changes its image file and that image filename contains specific text on it.

You can decide what kind of text will trigger the common event. So you can create a configuration that when the character filename has the text "car" on it, it will trigger a common event.

And on that common event, you can change the character's settings you want. Please take a look and let me know!

Skurge210 days ago (1 edit)

I am testing this update out!

Do you know if this works within sub folders inside the char folder?

In case you hadn't seen my previous post, but I showed an image of a large character overlapping the altered z value on an image.

Had a crash, not entirely sure what the plugin is addressing

Hakuen Studio210 days ago

You need the latest Eli Book to fix the crash.

I guess I miss your last post about the z index. But let's try take one thing at the time.

Let me know if you manage to fix the crash and test the new feature.

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