How to load a character sprite

[atoria]

I am making a quest script and I need to know how to load a specific character sprite graphic.
For example in the Actor1 or Actor2 character sheets, how would I load only the front view of the third character?

 

[srowland98]

Are you wondering how to load this with a script or an event?

 

[atoria]

In the script.  I know that there is a Cache.character(filename) thing but each file has like 8 characters on it.  I specifically want to load one character and only one view of that character.

 

[srowland98]

In that case I am unable to answer this question. You should ask a Mod to move this to the RGSS help forum instead.

 

[khmp]

To load the image associated with a character file you would use the following:

character = RPG::Cache.character('character_filename')

Let's say you wanted to load a specific character sheet of an actor:

character = RPG::Cache.character($game_party.actors[actor_id].character_name, $game_party.actors[actor_id].character_hue)

Where "actor_id" is id of the actor you want to display.

Now the math to figure out what the first frame of the sheet would be the total width / 4 and the total_height / 4.

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Draw Graphic
  #     actor : actor
  #     x     : draw spot x-coordinate
  #     y     : draw spot y-coordinate
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def draw_actor_graphic(actor, x, y)
    bitmap = RPG::Cache.character(actor.character_name, actor.character_hue)
    cw = bitmap.width / 4
    ch = bitmap.height / 4
    src_rect = Rect.new(0, 0, cw, ch)
    self.contents.blt(x - cw / 2, y - ch, bitmap, src_rect)
  end

Here's a perfect example of its use. That method is inside Window_Base to draw a character graphic to screen.

Good luck with it atoria! :thumb:

 

[atoria]

Thank you, you were right.  It's very simple.

draw_character("filename", index, x, y)