Event 'call script' to change the panorama.

[Cruelty]

what i'm trying to do is make a simple day/night effect, but i need to change between several panoramas for the different times of day (i dont want to tint the screen). however, there is no basic way to do this via eventing. i planned to make an event process to change the panorama of each map (theres only like 8 of them) in intervals (with a timer), but i wouldn't know the rgss to perform this action!

so what i'm asking for is an rgss code i could use to change the panorama image of a map.

thanks in advance to anyone who can help me here :}

 

[Zekallinos]

Why can't you do it with events? Page 2 > Change Map Settings > Panorama Graphics?

Anyway, this is found in Interpreter 5 (along with most events)

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Change Map Settings
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def command_204
    case @parameters[0]
    when 0  # panorama
      $game_map.panorama_name = @parameters[1]
      $game_map.panorama_hue = @parameters[2]
    when 1  # fog
      $game_map.fog_name = @parameters[1]
      $game_map.fog_hue = @parameters[2]
      $game_map.fog_opacity = @parameters[3]
      $game_map.fog_blend_type = @parameters[4]
      $game_map.fog_zoom = @parameters[5]
      $game_map.fog_sx = @parameters[6]
      $game_map.fog_sy = @parameters[7]
    when 2  # battleback
      $game_map.battleback_name = @parameters[1]
      $game_temp.battleback_name = @parameters[1]
    end
    # Continue
    return true
  end

So I'd guess (haven't tried) all you need is call script -> $game_map.panorama_name = typeyourgraphicnamehere

If you have sets of panorama (mountains but different tints, for instance), the best would be to name it like Mountains_X (x = 1 to 8) then create a method above main

class Interpreter
    def change_pano(number)
        $game_map.panorama_name = "Mountains_" + number.to_s
    end
end

And you call it via call script "change_pano(x)" so the filename loaded is the "ID Number" of the current time of the day (saves you from doing conditionals).

 

[Cruelty]

bah, i forgot to mention i'm using RMVX, and they decided it would be convenient to dismiss that feature.
I'd assume this changes the rules? :\

 

[Zekallinos]

It's called parallax in VX right? It's pretty much the same thing, I think, as there's an "  attr_reader  :parallax_name" in Game_Map. So probably (if RGSS2 isn't that different from RGSS) you would call it the same way :

$game_map.parallax_name = something