[RGSS] Creating a new graphics folder

[Ellie]

Creating a new graphics folder

If you're anything like me, your pictures folder will be full of junk by now. Well, with this tutorial you can create a new folder to store them in!

First, open the game folder, and go to \Graphics.

Right click > New folder. Rename this folder to anything you want. For this example I will call it "Faces".

Now go to the script editor, and create a new blank entry.

We are going to use Module RPG::Cache for this, as this is what the game uses to access such folders. The game already has some built-in, but to add more we must do it ourselves.

module RPG
  module Cache
    def self.faces(filename)
      self.load_bitmap("Graphics/Faces/", filename)
    end
  end
end

Now, to call such images, we just need to put the filename as "RPG::Cache.faces('filename')" as we would normally do with the image folders in the game maker already.

So to change a sprite's bitmap to that of the face "arshes.png" we would do the following:

@sprite = Sprite.new
@sprite.bitmap = RPG::Cache.faces("arshes.png")

You don't need to add the .png, but I find it helps in case you have the same filename used for different file types (i.e. JPG).

 

[XP Learner]

This can be useful. Will this also work for the icon folder. Since it's overwhelming especially is you use like 200 icons in a game.

 

[Ellie]

Yes, but unfortunately the extra folders wont work in the editor, only in scrpting. (So you can't view the extra icon folders in the editor).

You'd do it like so:

1. Create a new folder within Graphics\Icons
2. Add this:

module RPG
  module Cache
    def self.icon_2(filename)
      self.load_bitmap("Graphics/Icons/Folder2", filename)
    end
  end
end

Where Folder2 is the name of the icon.

Then to add them to a script, something like:

@sprite = Sprite.new
@sprite.bitmap = RPG::Cache.icon_2(image_name)

A way this can be used for items in the database though, is using the Virtual Database by (I think) Trickster.