Change Name / Graphic or Zoom Character Graphic XP VX

kyonides · Mar 3, 2010

Change or Zoom Character Graphic XP VX
Version: 0.1.0
By Kyonides-Arkanthos alias Kyonides, Shadowball

Introduction

A collection of scriptlets!

Change any hero's graphic and keep it saved in a variable so he or she can go back to normal (script call based).

You can also change any character sprite's current zoom.

Screenshots

Do you really need one?

Demo

None needed.

Script

[rgss]=begin
 * Change Name / Graphic or Zoom Character Graphic - XP VX
 by Kyonides-Arkanthos alias Kyonides, Shadowball
 03.07.2010

 Script Calls:

 $game_party.actors[0].change_graphic(2) # Aluxes is now Basil

 $game_party.actors[0].old_graphic # The same old (stupid) Aluxes

 $game_party.actors[0].old_name # Falls back to hero's old name if any

 $game_player.zoom_xy(2.0,2.0) # Player gets double sized... Fat is bad!

 $game_map.events[1].zoom(1.5,1.5) # Event 1 is 50% bigger
=end
module DBASE
ACTORS = load_data('Data/Actors.rxdata')
end

class Game_Actor
def name=(name)
@old_name = @name # It stores your hero's old name
@name = name # Changes hero's name as always
end

def old_name
return if @old_name.nil?
@name = @old_name # Falls back to the old name
end

def change_graphic(graphic, value=0)
if File.exist?('Data/Actors.rxdata')
@old_graphic = [@character_name, @battler_name, value]
else
@old_graphic = [@character_name, @battler_name, @face_index]
end
# XP - Pass Character Graphic, Hue, Battler Graphic, Hue values
# VX -Pass Character Graphic, Index, Face Graphic, Index values
graphic = DBASE::ACTORS[graphic].character_name
self.set_graphic(graphic, value, graphic, value) # Change graphic
$game_player.refresh # Refresh player
end

def old_graphic
return if @old_graphic.nil?
# XP - Pass Character Graphic, Hue, Battler Graphic, Hue values
# VX -Pass Character Graphic, Index, Face Graphic, Index values
self.set_graphic(@old_graphic[0], @old_graphic[2],
@old_graphic[1], @old_graphic[2])
$game_player.refresh
end
end

class Game_Character
attr_reader :zooms
alias kyon_gm_char_ini initialize
def initialize
@zooms = [1.0, 1.0]
kyon_gm_char_ini
end

def zoom_xy(x,y); @zooms = [x, y]; end
alias :zoom :zoom_xy
end

class Sprite_Character
alias character_zoom_update update
def update
character_zoom_update
if self.zoom_x != @character.zooms[0] or self.zoom_y != @character.zooms[1]
self.zoom_x, self.zoom_y = @character.zooms
end
end
end
[/rgss]

Instructions

Script Calls

$game_party.actors[0].change_graphic(2) # Aluxes is now Basil
$game_party.actors[0].old_graphic # The same old (stupid) Aluxes
$game_party.actors[0].old_name # Falls back to hero's old name if any

FAQ

You tell me...

Compatibility

It should be compatible with anything that does not modify Game_Actor or Game_Character classes.

Credits and Thanks

Well, thanks to Falcao that gave me an idea of how to change a character's x and y zoom by looking at his script. I didn't like the way he dealt with it so I made my own scriptlet because of that.

Author's Notes

Nothing yet.

Terms and Conditions

Not intended for Commercial Use and must include my name (Kyonides-Arkanthos).

BlueScope · Mar 7, 2010

In spite of the fact I'll rant about a few things here and there in a few seconds, I think the ideas of saving your previous actor graphic and a short snippet for changing the scaling factor aren't too off at all and definately worth scripting. There are a few questions that are arising while reading through your post, though...

- why wouldn't you do the previous graphic storage as an update of the already built-in graphic change in Interpreter class, and only the old graphic call as a Call Script command?
- why isn't the scaling an independent script, so people who need the previous graphics only don't have to have this in their project, and vice versa?
- doesn't this more belong in here?

Other than that, you have a inconsistent coding style, which you might wanna work on considering I can tell that in a sub-100-lines script (then again, I'm picky on that...). For example, you have your commenting sometimes above, sometimes in the same line, and even below (!) the commented code.

Also, your terms and conditions are rather disencouraging. First, you ask to include your name, while providing four different nicknames in here - kyonides, Kyonides-Arkanthos, Kyonides and Shadowball. That equals to a Burger King clerk, telling you you get the cap for your drink if you solve a mathematical question... aka is totally consumer-unfriendly (and no, that never happened to me

).
The URL part is completely mysterious to me. At first, I thought you want people to include this threads URL in their game (which would be completely pointless... have you ever seen a commercial game spamming you with the webpage adress of it's engine components?), which I ruled out for the reasons in brackets, as well as because you wrote "if theres any URL at all" (are there occasions where you can get this script without actually browsing for it on the internets? If so, what would keep me from just not including the URL?). I can't possibly imagine any other URL you'd want people to include though, so you might wanna work on that part a bit.
Sorry I'm bragging mostly about that, but if you want people to take your conditions seriously, make sure they aren't skyhigh.

kyonides · Mar 8, 2010

- why wouldn't you do the previous graphic storage as an update of the already built-in graphic change in Interpreter class, and only the old graphic call as a Call Script command?

Actually I've been thinking about that, but didn't do it, yet, because I'm busy with my gosu project.

Well, this kind of snippet was there at first, but I posted it just in case someone needed that for some reason. The main purpose of this post was to include all my snippets in a single post... but yeah, I can divide the original post in two parts to achieve the same goal in a more liberal fashion.

I do have a website... but it looks terrible and I should definitely revamp it... if I get some free time to do it... Anyway, I deleted that part of the end notes and make sure it let the reader know which name they should use in order to comply with my single condition.

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