+++ DYNRPG - THE RM2K3 PLUGIN SDK +++

right click and save link as, or save target as.

usually there is an option for doing a certain action for a certain file type, it must be set on open by default. usually you want it to ask you what to do.

what browser are you using? have you tried a different one?

author=dragonheartman
DynRPG allows you to make "custom" event commands with the onComment callback. You could do something like this in your standard 2k3 comment:

@getMonsterID 123 4

Could someone make a list of the built in callbacks? I only know the ones from plugins, and even then, the only one I've regularly used is the Pathfinder event (mainly to get characters to exit the screen with stuff in the way, although I did manage a follow hero event).

Saw that before. It did give alot of info on how this stuff is put together, but if you're a non-coder, basically all I wanna know about is onComment stuff, which isn't directly mentioned (I saw nothing at all about getMonsterID, for instance).


This might be helpful, I dunno how to put the syntax. For instance, I might wanna use getItemName (int id) to copy the name of the item ID stored in a variable into a name (I've currently got an easier method, but it takes a zillion lines) and then display it as something like "You got a (Potion/Elixir/Whatever)!" Or maybe have spells target random characters as if they are normal attacks, and not get reflected (again, doable, but the system I've got doesn't have an easy method of displaying missed attacks).

author=Kazesui
If you want to use it, the minimum requirement is that you're able to write a few lines of code in C++ and manage to compile it properly into a dll.

Yes (barely, my C++ is rusty). No (I never learned to make .dll in programming class, and haven't the right compiler anyway).

Damn!

I generally just rely on others to make plugins, because while I can line-edit most programming codes (I mean geez, I got my prog calculator programmed to do trig problems for me since I didn't feel like studying one year) not being able to compile it sorta puts a damper on it.

Someone (hint, Cherry) should build several of these into DynRpg so they can be readily called without an extra plugin.

Yeah, he does.

I think I'll pass. Code::Blocks is a working program, even if it didn't do what I'd like. MinGW is bullcrap.

Nonworking installation and fragmented resources.

You know, if you want a program that has a bunch of parts to be user friendly? You put all the crap but the installation software into one package, and if that can't be done, you make a freaking shortcut. You design it to be installable from anywhere and to work standalone (one of these two was probably the error, either not in the right spot, or it was expecting me to have already installed Code::Blocks on this new computer). Wtf, my InstallCreator game.exe worked better, even when it had a glitch.

...Look, I know how to do stuff with what I know of coding.

But there's this gap of knowledge beyond which it's like "Am I missing something here?" DLL and header working is one of them. Even if the code is there, and works, I have no idea what I'm typing in C++ means, or why it's called what it is. C++ in general is shaky because it was 10+ years since I last worked with it, and a different version than what I can get my hands on.

Cherry doesn't have free time, but you seem to. Let's say I do get the thing to work, as it obviously isn't doing so far. Let's say I give you a sample CPP code. Would you correct any errors that will crop up? And give me back something in actual DLL format?

(I did in fact copy the MinGW file. What do I do now to make a dll?)

Okay then, new question. If it's totally hopeless (very likely given a ten-year gap), if you haven't time to compile, have you time to tell me what's hopeless?

...Yay. I made are_you_sure.dll

Don't even know where to start. I've got a few ideas what I want to do, but much of it is way out of my league since I've only worked some with straight CPP, and some with rpgmaker, but as for how they interact with each other... no idea.

(stores the item number as a name inside a string variable. Easy enough, if I were working with cpp, it'd be a simple cin>>NameOfVariable followed by some code to locate the number. But yea, I dunno. It should support variables for the last number. "ItemNum" for instance, Item, 1 (which stores the name "potion"). The NameOfVariable might be defined through DynRpg.ini, and there may be a way to make more than one.)

(Basically, works like a glorified cout. It should use the message
box, (since @text seemed to need a picture, which disqualified it from effective use because battles don't allow pictures)

(basically, it would be exactly like what you could do going to variable edit, except you could draw from places like Conditions and stuff. For instance, Condition, 2-12, 232 stores random number between 2 and 12 from the condition list. It could also work for skills or items used on the subject in question)

(this may not be necessary. The basic idea was in battle of some such, it checks whether Monster 11 has for instance condition 2, or Elf is poisoned. There is currently NO way to do this effectively. Also, it's probably supposed to run through hero/monster battlers rather than hero/monsters)

(Basically, the equivalent of all this code, although I can already do so within the code, being able to cut down on some lines of code would be nice, as would having a quick and dirty bite attack that dealt petrify on damage)

(Healing hurts, damage hurts too/heals? until status removed).

Although strictly speaking, I have a feeling the zombie one is kinda hard, and I could do without the random targetting, since I can already do it. So, mainly just being able to make a message that is essentially "The item you just stole was Phoenix Down."

...Something like RPG::Monster or RPG::Actor getName (), then RPG::getItemName, getSkillName, and getConditionName too. But stored in some kind of container, that can be used later.

Comments in blue.

author=Kazesui

@GetName  "NameOfVariable", Hero/Monster/Item/Attribute/Condition, number or Variable

Storing a string like this into another string in the dll isn't that hard. The problem arises when you want to display this string somehow. The easiest solution would probably to have an extra hero as temporary string storage, so that you can access it by \n. "NameOfVariable" is by this probably better changed to ID of the hero used as a string storage.

I figured that might be one of the options. Though ideally, I'd like to instead make a sort of name controlled by dynrpg.ini where it handled the string.

@ShowMessage "message", NameOfVariable/V1/whatever, "more message"

(Basically, works like a glorified cout. It should use the message
box, (since @text seemed to need a picture, which disqualified it from effective use because battles don't allow pictures)

There's a patch for adding picture support in battles.

It's not so much the pictures, as it is that I wanna work using message box anyway, since the DynText plugin didn't really work for me (I had the pixel pic open, and it showed a large blue box instead of the text it was supposed to show)

@SetInt Hero/Monster/Skill/Item/Attribute/Condition, Value/Range/Etc, VariableNum

I'm not entirely sure what you want to do here. you call it "SetInt" which would imply you want to change a given value (which is at odds with you saying "draw from"). It sounds like you want to store an entire object of type condition/item/whatever, but that only makes sense for further work on it in the dll, otherwise you'd rather extract the relevant values you're interested in.

I basically want to make it possible to extract the ID from a monster or condition or whatever, and then use it in an if statement (such as If battler is ID 128, or if item used is ID 16). Somehow. I think this is what's behind the next one too.

@CheckCondition Hero/Monster, Value1, Skill/Item/Attribute/Condition, Value2

Given how one of the tutorial patches basically draws icons above the actors showing their different Conditions, this should be fairly possible to do. Again, you'll need a way to read the answer though, requiring you to choose a switch id or something to read the return value.

This one is supposed to be more the code to read the answer. Basically, I wanted to look at the code and if the hero/monster in question has the condition (or has used the skill or item) return the event as successful (yea, maybe it turns on a switch set that gets defined in dynrpg.ini). If not, it skips the stuff below.

SkillRandomTarget = SkillNumber1, SkillNumber2, SkillNumber3, SkillNumberEtc (stored in DynRpg.ini)

If the SkillNumbers are referring to ID's of actual skills, this can prove tricky since most data of the skills have not yet implemented into the SDK. Alternatively, you might be able to somehow swap the current action of an actor with a "random one", but I don't know how to do that yet, and it would probably require quite a bit of time in terms of playing around to figure it out, if at all possible.

The basic code I was able to do outside SDK was something like this. I had a bunch of switch skills which when turned on would common event a Random Target 1-10. I then set each target with the character I wanted taking a random damage range set in the Monster Events page. If the character wasn't in the party, it'd reroll a few times using label (though sometimes it would miss due to timing out, but better than the alternative of glitching or freezing). Basically what this code I would want to do is to just look for the skill ID, and allow an override with regard to its targetting system (so it doesn't get reflected). But this isn't necessary, since I just finished an entire system that does everything from regular damage to Demi and Karma effects, to status effects.

Zombie effect = ConditionNum (stored in DynRpg.ini)

Again, I don't know exactly. It should be all means be perfectly possible, but the effort and approach required is questionable, and these kind of stuff tend to take a lot longer than anticipated once started on, so yeah..

...Something like RPG::Monster or RPG::Actor getName (), then RPG::getItemName, getSkillName, and getConditionName too. But stored in some kind of container, that can be used later.

This is essentially the same as the first one

Yea that last bit was basically me figuring out part but not all of the first one. I'd still need serious help understanding the precise syntax.

This require its own header, or will the cpp suffice? I'd be happy with the GetName, Text, CheckCondition and maybe finding out which patch allows pictures in battle (I could definitely find a use for that). But let's not cram up this thread with code, so I'll ask the rest of my annoying questions on PM.

Okay, I may have found the pictures in battle patch, holdon. Nope, didn't work. Apparently, changing to David caused it to reject it (found out when I tried to get the thing dragged to the picvarid.exe file). So yes, it definitely will have to run without pictures.

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Yay, thanks Kaze. This program (KazString) is good.

I'm curious, would there be any way to actually SHOW when MP is damaged/healed using this? It is rather annoying that default 2K3 doesn't show the numbers at all (making it extremely hard to judge when you damage the enemy's MP or how much MP you recover, especially if trying to make "0 MP = Death" viable as a battle strategy (note: I haven't tried this yet)).


I...think there WAS something that did the "O MP = Death", but last I remember it wasn't working 100% too so...the same one with the Quick status (which would be extremely nice but I already use those slots...).


EDIT - Also wondering if there's a way for anyone to adjust Cherry's status icons thing to work with characters that don't use 96x96 battle animations, and/or a way to make it so that icons scroll through the statuses so that if a character has like 8 statuses there's not a crapton of status icons on screen at once x_x;;

Firstly, I'd like to thank Cherry a lot for this work. As for me, I work in RM2k3 just because there are a lot of features, which are easy to do in it, but need scripting (and scripts, as for me, are of little trust). But people always want more - and that's the way of getting more :)
Secondly, I'd like to ask for a small help as a programmer. I tried to make the plugin configurable through using the loadConfiguration function in onStartup callback. It lookes as this:

This plugin crashes on startup. Tried to comment the loadConfiguration function - all is fine. Is something wrong with my code?