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

Ummmm, I don't think you understand. Most of these files were 320x240 screenshots. As in, pictures. GameJolt has a resize function so converting them there to 75x75 was not, as you said, a hardship. Full-sized picture into a trophy? No sweat. On the other hand, 32x32 with most methods I personally try leaves a blob of color, or I have to crop stuff I don't wanna crop (that's a 2x2 square of sprites, using my actual picture though, that's a 1/10 by 1/7.5 or so reduction/crop).

Please please please allow it to be flexible. I know you want standardized for your game, but I'm not you. I have 27 trophies, many of which the actual picture I used was "borrowed" from the internet (my bounty hunt completed picture was Han Solo in a room with his kills mounted on a wall). At the very least allow it to default to trophy_blank and have a blank 32x32 image as a placeholder. If I later want to make 32x32 images, I can, but if I have to do it all at once or ERROR, then I would not use this at all. I usually do projects piecemeal, adding stuff later. Having a default image is no big deal for you, and it crash-protects anyone who has a missing picture. They have the time to figure out which ones are missing versus it crashing individually, and having to repair one only to have ALSO MISSING error, when maybe 15 or so pictures are there but wrong format or wrong size, or missing.

Also, having this buys me time to work at these a few at a time, leaving out the ones that would just be some generic trophy anyway.

This may help.

http://www.pic2icon.com/format_conversion.php

But still.

Thanks for the DynRPG upgrade! :D I'm hoping I can figure out a way to change the monster types at the start of a battle using it, instead of the hacky transforming method I'm currently using that requires every battle to start with a "Back Attack".

Learn Photoshop.

Edit: And write your own damn Achievement plugin

Well done for v30 ! :) Thank you.


Sorry to ask again, but is there anyone that can help ?

author=AlexRE
I wonder whether it exists a DynRPG plug-in that can manipulate Faceset from a specific hero.

I just want to display the Faceset of all the 4 heroes of the team, but as the game contains more than 130 heroes, it can be complicated without a plug-in. (I thought the only parameter could be the variable with the hero number, and then use the image like we would do it with "Show Picture"/"Move Picture" commands.)

Long story short : I want something like "Show Picture" but the picture would be the faceset of a hero. The plug-in would just need the hero ID.


I think I may program this myself, but I have no idea where to begin, which Class to use (Picture ? Image ? Canvas ?). If you can just indicate me some tips, I would be very grateful !

Fantastic ! Thank you, I will try this real soon. :)

I think using onComment with parameters HeroID, XImage, YImage will be enough for me !

I guess, in order to display just one face out of the 16 on the faceset, I have to deal with the 4 last parameters of canvas->draw ?

This is where I am currently :

author=Me
int heroId = (int)parsedData->parameters[0].number;
int xDestination = (int)parsedData->parameters[1].number;
int yDestination = (int)parsedData->parameters[2].number;

std::string facesetFile = RPG::dbActors[heroId]->facesetFilename;

int faceUsed = RPG::dbActors[heroId]->facesetId;

int xFace = (faceUsed%4)*48;
int yface = floor(faceUsed/4)*48;

RPG::Image *imgPtr= RPG::Image::create();
imgPtr->useMaskColor = true;
imgPtr->loadFromFile(facesetFile , false);

RPG::Screen::canvas->draw(xDestination, yDestination, imgPtr, xFace, yface, 48, 48);

(Inside an onComment function, I don't show everything here.)

I now have to learn how to create a DLL file, haha ! *noob*

Oh, damn. This is obvious now that you say it... I need to use the onFrame-Callback then ? I'm going to look into other plug-ins' cpp files.

I've been meaning to reply to that post! I wrote a little plugin similar to that a while ago, but it just changes the faceset command to a hero in your party, and inserts their name into a message box. Below, I explain how to basically do that, but inserting the image into a picture command instead.

A couple other notes:

Yes, RPG::Screen::canvas->draw needs to be onFrame, unless you're piggy-backing another event command (explained below)...

Also, it might be RPG::screen->canvas->... instead.

You could also take advantage of onComment's "nextScriptLine," so you could do something like throw in a comment command before a show picture command, check to make sure it is a show picture command, then alter its stringParameter to the filename of your choosing. But... since we're dealing with facesets, it's a little more tricky. You would sill need getFacesetId() to find out which face to use in a particular faceset, and then use that to crop the image. Since you're injecting the image into a show picture, you'd need to do the following:


Try commenting out the image2 line too. You might not need that.

nextScriptLine->parameters(0) should be the ID of the picture.

...image->applyPalette() is necessary because you're copying one image into another.

You'll need srcX and srcY before that as well, but I can't remember off the top of my head how to get the row/column. I think row is just modulus:

and then I think srcY needs to be a bitwise "AND"

Put those before the image stuff. The operations inside the parentheses gets 0-3, and then you need to multiply that by 48 since you're dealing with pixels.

If you do this right, you can still use pictures instead of needing to draw onFrame.

Another practice you might want to get used to is safeguarding your Image creation, especially if you are not destroying the image right away. It's pretty simple:

Otherwise, if that is called a second time while the image already exists, you'll get a nice little crash. Additionally, when you are drawing Images onFrame, you'll want to do the same thing, but checking to make sure the image exists:

Yeah, it becomes a matter of "do I want to define the picture ID as a parameter, or use the show image?" I don't think you need the merge() though, because pictures should do that automatically... which reminds me... instead of drawing to "image", I think you can just draw to "image2." You may not even need applyPalette() because of that... Play around with it if you want. I'll try to confirm that stuff when I'm at my home computer.

Another tip for dealing with images: You'll notice there's both "clear()" and free()." Never use those functions back-to-back. It might appear to work, but I guarantee it will crash if you try to redraw to that image. When I was fucking around with all of the image creation functions (not understanding them fully), I tried this and saw some strange behavior. Sometimes it would crash with a memory error, other times I got a divide by zero error (probably because the image's size was 0). 9 times out of 10, you'll just need clear().