Character Blinks when no Activity Scripty Needed.

[Fenwick]

What I'm after, is a simple script that changes the players Character Graphic when the player is not moving on the screen after a few seconds. In other words, if the player is just standing there, and 5 seconds pass with out the keyboard being pressed... The players graphic will switch to a character set where the player is blinking (eyes shut), then switch back again. This gives the game a more realistic feel.
I've got this to work great with an Common event, but would much rather have a simple script to achieve this.

My event so far looks like this:

Trigger: Parallel
Condition Switch: 230: Blink Eyes

Conditional Branch: The (Down, Left, Right, Up) button is being pressed
Do nothing
Else
Change Actor Graphic: Dave02 (Blink)
wait: 5 frame(s)
Change Actor Graphic: Dave01 (normal character set)
Wait: 200 frames(s)
Branch End

Here are the two pics so you get a better idea of what I mean:

Thanks in advance,
Fenwick

 

[baniff]

hmmm... that event looks good to me... but if you really want a script I might have something... hold on

EDIT: Here's someting. Just name the blinking animation the same as your character set and add _ANI to the end of it. (If your character is "character1" then make the blinking character "character1_ANI"

ALL CREDIT GOES TO XIDEROWG

#===============================================================================
# By Xiderowg / 桜雅 在土 
# http://xms.rdy.jp/
# http://scriptshelf.jpn.org/x/
#===============================================================================

module XRXS_BreakActs
  SUFFIX = "_ANI"
  WCOUNT = 0
  def character_name
    filename = super
    if @breakacting
      new_name = filename + SUFFIX
      filename = new_name if RPG_FileTest.character_exist?(new_name)
    end
    return filename
  end
  def breakact=(b)
    @breakacting = b
    @step_anime  = b
  end
  def update
    super
    if controllable?
      if @breakact_count.to_i > 0
        @breakact_count -= 1
      else
        self.breakact = true
      end
    else
      @breakact_count = WCOUNT
      unless self.action != nil  or $game_map.starting? or
             self.knockbacking?
      self.breakact = false
      end
    end
  end
end
class Game_Player < Game_Character
  include XRXS_BreakActs
end
class Game_Player < Game_Character
  def controllable?  
    return !(moving? or $game_system.map_interpreter.running? or
            @move_route_forcing or $game_temp.message_window_showing or 
            Input.trigger?(Input::C) or Input.press?(Input::C) or
            Input.trigger?(Input::Y) or Input.trigger?(Input::Z) or
            Input.trigger?(Input::A)) 
end
end

 

[Fenwick]

This script was exactly what I was looking for, thanks a million.

This thread can now be closed.

Fenwick

 

[baniff]

Glad to help