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Last year I discovered this fabulous plugin by nz_prism that lets you display AND animate full body character portraits! I’ve already created several cutscenes using it.

Here is the JavaScript, which is available for free.


Here are some cutscene examples, so you can see what I'm doing:

The Tumblr links aren't working, so I'll post them the old-fashioned way:
Animation Example 1
Animation Example 2

This plugin is amazing, but has one significant problem. After you click to advance the dialogue, the character who is speaking keeps moving until a specified number of frames passes. Then the next character begins speaking, but the first character may still be moving. When filming my videos, I have to wait until one character stops moving before I advance the dialogue, but I don’t think most players would have the patience for that. At the same time, I want the animations to sync relatively well with the dialogue.

I think I found a solution that will work with this plugin, but I don’t know how to properly implement it. The plugin has a feature where characters who are not speaking are grayed out. I wonder if it is also possible to make characters who are not speaking stop moving. Can anyone help with this?

If it helps, I found what I think is the code that causes the speaker to gray out when it finishes speaking. This starts at Line 1741.


Game_MessagePicture.prototype.updateSpeaking = function() {

const isSpeaking = this.isSpeaking();

if (this._isSpeaking !== isSpeaking) {

this._isSpeaking = isSpeaking;

if (isSpeaking) {

this._z = 6;

this.tint(this._originalTone, DEACTIVE_FRAMES);

} else {

this._z = 5;

this._originalTone = this._tone.clone();

this.tint(DEACTIVE_TONE, DEACTIVE_FRAMES);

}

}

};