TOR_HEYERDAL'S PROFILE

I wish I'd taken up use of this plugin years ago, but even though most of the heavy lifting is already done the hard way, I can still make good use of this.

That said, I'm playing around with this plugin, figuring out how it works and all that, and I've noticed two curiosities. Neither of them are really a problem for me, but nevertheless.

The first is that the @write_text command will not show the final character in the text string unless the final character is a space or some form of punctuation.

So a command like {@write_text "Message", 0, 0, "Hello world", 85} only actually results in showing "Hello worl". However, if I make the string "Hello world " (with a redundant space at the end), "Hello world.", "Hello world,", "Hello world!", or "Hello world?", then it works just fine. However, if I use "@append_line", then it doesn't have this problem. It's not really a big deal, because I can add a space to the end of the string just fine, but it's odd. I wonder if perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I'm using a custom font, or perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I'm using Cherry's VarTextWidth patch?

The second curiosity is a little bit more of a big deal, potentially, for some people, but still isn't an issue for me. If I use "@append_line" several times, the game crashes. Depending on how long the lines are, the first five or six appends will work fine, but then the sixth or seventh will crash the game. When all of the lines (both the appends and the initial write) are all a single letter, it crashes on the seventh append, and when the lines are actually several words long (to about a half screen's width), then it crashes after the sixth append. Again, this isn't a problem for me, as I'll never need more than two uses of @append_line anyway, so it should be fine. But I could see this being a problem for some people, potentially, at some point. Every crash that I got save one gave the error of "Insufficient memory" (I have 16 gigs of DDR3 ram running at 1333mhz, and my Task Manager does not show any spike in memory use). There was one crash, however, that gave an error message of, "Access violation in module 'RPG_RT.exe' in with address 00489625 and offset A6A0BFB7 of type Write occured."

EDIT: I figured out what was causing the unusual crash (still don't know what's up with the "insufficient memory" crash, though). It was because I was using a pointer that equaled 0. I guess that you can't do that. That's okay for me, but again, I think some people might find that problematic, as \n{0} is quite useful. And with \n, it doesn't matter if I'm using a pointer or not, it will crash every time if the value is 0 (normally, \n{0} prints the name of the party leader, whoever that might be).

EDIT: Oh, also, if I try to specify a colour, the text is just always red, no matter what I set it to. Thankfully, again, this won't be a problem for me, as I don't think I'll need text displayed through this plugin that will be anything other than \c{0} (which is what shows if I don't specify a colour at all), but this might be problematic for some.

EDIT: So I figured out what was wrong with the colour problem. I needed to put commas between the optional parameters, even if they were completely empty. So I actually needed something like {@write_text "Message", 0, 0, "Hello world", , 0, 85}. So that one turned out to just be user error. My bad.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks for getting back to me though. o/ Either way, this plugin is still hella useful. It's already saved me a week's worth of extra work, just on day one.

As many of you probably know, there exist several different mods/patches/whatevers that will allow the user to, through various means, change the message font in RPG Tsukuru 2003. However, all of the means to do this of which I'm aware are not able to recognize when the font being used has different pixel width on any given character as compared to the original, pack-in fonts. Unfortunately, this results in characters overlapping each other if their width is greater than that of the original fonts.

So, for example, if the original font expects a certain character to be three pixels wide, but your font has that character as five pixels wide, then the last two columns of pixels that compose that character will be overlapped with the first two columns of pixels that compose the next character.

Is there any way to fix this? Is there a patch, or a plugin, or something of that sort that will allow you to specifically define the expected width of each individual character used by your font? It's still better than having no custom fonts at all, of course, but having to smush my font so that it will fit is certainly less than choice. If no such plugin or patch exists, would I possibly be able to trouble someone to make one? I don't care if it could potentially result in text that surpasses what would otherwise be the boundary of its printing space (like printing off the edge of the screen, or overlapping from one text window area to another). I can assume responsibility for manually ensuring that everything is tidy myself.

Edit, September 12, 2019: Cherry helped me out and created the plugin for me that I needed. So consider this matter solved. The plugin should be pending approval on the utilities section on this site as of the time of this writing. It's called VarTextWidthPatch, and it works beautifully. That man is truly an epic hero.

I know that this feature was recently added in the official version, but I'm about seven years too late into my work to be jumping ship now, so I'm stuck with RPG Advocate's RPG Tsukuru 2003. Is there any way to add this functionality of variable-determined picture ID/layer on the unofficial platform? I've been wishing for years that I could do this, and now that the official platform has this functionality, I know that it's at least possible. I would KILL for this function. Does anyone know of a patch or plugin anywhere that can make this happen? And if there isn't one, is there any way I could convince someone to make one?

I guess the title says it all. Can someone point me in the direction of a plugin (or something), perhaps for DynRPG, that will stop the "shift" key from autocompleting/intsacompleting dialogue messages in RPG Tsukuru 2003? And if it doesn't exist, could someone possibly make one?

inb4, "but why?" Because I've coded a voice beep system, and when you press shift to autocomplete the message, the beeps keep on going as though you didn't, and I can't seem to figure out anything that actually works to stop that from happening. I can get it to MOSTLY work, but it's inconsistent. But that's not the point. The point is... Well, see the title. lol.

Please and thank you.