Scripting question XP

[Ark]

Hi!

I have a short question which I'd like to ask you. Please help if you can!

IS THERE A WAY (A SMALL SNIPET OF SCRIPT) TO CHANGE THE HEIGHT AND WIDTH OF THE SPRITE ON MAP?
I NEED IT FOR MY SYSTEM (FAKE 3D) TO MAKE THE PLAYER THINK THAT SOMEONE IS IN THE BACKGROUND/FOREGROUND!

Thank you in advance!

(RPG Maker XP)

 

[Bael]

JUST MAKE THE SPRITE BIGGER IN PAINT AND THEN USE THAT! YOU DON'T REALLY NEED A SCRIPT!

:O

 

[Ark]

I do need to have a script to do that.

Because I want to shrink the charsets gradually and I'd need hundreds of charsets to do that.

I use Pixelmovement script and I want to tell a paralell script to shrink charset if it goes beyond a certain x or y pixel...

So, please help me!

 

[khmp]

First let's say you want this to occur for only a few characters on Map.

The way it works is this:

-Spriteset_Map
  -Sprite_Character
    -Game_Characters

The Spriteset_Map is the nice graphical stuff you see when you're on a Map. All the events and the player on the Map are set up within Sprite_Character's. An array of Sprite_Characters are contained within Spriteset_Map. The Game_Character is the class you will need to manipulate in order for the changes to be reflected in the Sprite_Character's which are contained within Spriteset_Map. You would incorporate some things like zoom_x and y into Game_Character and use methods to manipulate them properly.

Example:

class Game_Character
  alias_method :ark_sizing_game_character_initialize, :initialize
  attr_reader :zoom_x, zoom_y
  def initialize
    ark_sizing_game_character_initialize
    @zoom_x = @zoom_y = 1.0
  end
  def resize(zoom_x, zoom_y)
    @zoom_x, @zoom_y = zoom_x, zoom_y
  end
end

class Sprite_Character < RPG::Sprite
  alias_method :ark_sizing_sprite_character_update, :update
  def update
    ark_sizing_sprite_character_update
    self.zoom_x, self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_x, @character.zoom_y
  end
end

And then you would have something like this in a script call:

$game_map.events[id].resize(
new_zoom_x, new_zoom_y)

or for just the player:

$game_player.resize(
new_zoom_x, new_zoom_y)

Alternatively you can have this occur automatically for every Sprite_Character on screen. As in this case we do not need to worry about order we would simply iterate through the Sprite_Character's of the Spriteset_Map. But I'm unsure if you want this to occur automatically which is why I didn't just do this code. Sorry if I wasted your time with the above code. :wink:

class Spriteset_Map
  alias_method :ark_sizing_spriteset_map_update, :update
  def update
    ark_sizing_spriteset_map_update
    
    @character_sprites.each { |sprite_character|
      next if sprite_character.nil?
    
      pixel_x = sprite_character.character.real_x / 4
      pixel_y = sprite_character.character.real_y / 4
      zoom_x = zoom_y = 1.0

      # Do testing to see if the zoom values should change.
      # 1.0 is normal size, 2.0 is double size, 0.5 is half normal size.
      # You need to figure out the math to properly adjust zoom here.

      sprite_character.zoom_x = zoom_x
      sprite_character.zoom_y = zoom_y
    }
  end
end

Good luck with it Ark! :thumb:

 

[Ark]

Thank you I'm going to check this out this instance!

 

[Ark]

It worked superb for me thank you very much!

With this I can create something that I wanted for a long time...

 

[khmp]

No problem Ark! It does have a variety of applications I guess. :thumb:

 

[Ark]

I have another problem.

It works quite well with the normal system. But I want to use it alongside with the Pixel movement script and it gives me an error!

About something of a float.

it was around this line

self.zoom_x, self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_x, @character.zoom_y

so I changed it to:

self.zoom_x = @character.zoom_x
self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_y

so it doesn't give me the error but when I call the size changing script it does nothing!

Can U help me?

 

[khmp]

I have another problem.

It works quite well with the normal system. But I want to use it alongside with the Pixel movement script and it gives me an error!

About something of a float.

it was around this line

self.zoom_x, self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_x, @character.zoom_y

so I changed it to:

self.zoom_x = @character.zoom_x
self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_y

so it doesn't give me the error but when I call the size changing script it does nothing!

Can U help me?

The best I can do is try, no promises. Just post a link to the script that does the pixel movement movement script.

 

[Ark]

Here's the link for the script and the demo

http://www.rpgrevolution.com/script/53/

http://www.rpgrevolution.com/script/53/ ... 2_demo.exe

 

[khmp]

Well I'm a little confused on the exact reason why it ignores that the parent's additional values. I redefined the values inside Game_Player and it resolved the problem but Game_Player derives from Game_Character and the pixel methods do not override the initialize method of Game_Character, still Game_Player doesn't for some reason know of @zoom_x or @zoom_y. Another error was that because I had typed the code in the post without testing it I left out a ":" in front of zoom_y. If you receive a message about zoom not existing again. Tell me what class comes up. Anyway the fixed code is below:

class Game_Character
  alias_method :ark_sizing_game_character_initialize, :initialize
  attr_reader :zoom_x, :zoom_y
  def initialize
    ark_sizing_game_character_initialize
    @zoom_x = @zoom_y = 1.0
  end
  def resize(zoom_x, zoom_y)
    @zoom_x, @zoom_y = zoom_x, zoom_y
  end
end

class Game_Player < Game_Character
  alias_method :ark_sizing_game_player_initialize, :initialize
  attr_reader :zoom_x, :zoom_y
  def initialize
    ark_sizing_game_player_initialize
    @zoom_x = @zoom_y = 1.0
  end
  def resize(zoom_x, zoom_y)
    @zoom_x, @zoom_y = zoom_x, zoom_y
  end
end

class Sprite_Character < RPG::Sprite
  alias_method :ark_sizing_sprite_character_update, :update
  def update
    ark_sizing_sprite_character_update
    p '@zoom_x not contained within: ' + @character.type.to_s if @character.zoom_x.nil?
    self.zoom_x, self.zoom_y = @character.zoom_x, @character.zoom_y
  end
end

Good luck with it Ark! :thumb:

 

[reasonbackkid]

?excuse me, i want to know that too but i totally can't understand because i'm a noob in scripting, so how should i do that? where should i put the script?