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• Original title: Request Simple Visual Novel / Galge Character Bust for Yanfly Message Core
• Original author: Gabihime
• Original date: October 23, 2015
• Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/request-simple-visual-novel-galge-character-bust-for-yanfly-message-core.46442/
• Source forum path: Game Development Engines > RPG Maker Javascript Plugins > JS Plugin Requests

Summary

I'm sure more people than me are interested in this for MV. In VX Ace I was using a script that Saba Kahn wrote but it didn't work with Yanfly's YEA Message system, so that was a bummer. For people who aren't familiar with this kind of storytelling, or who maybe just don't recognize it, you can see an example of it here: Ateleier Rorona Cutscenes, Disgaea Cutscenes Here are the details. Visual novel style display of 2/3 body sprites in three positions on the screen: left, center, and right....

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I'm sure more people than me are interested in this for MV. In VX Ace I was using a script that Saba Kahn wrote but it didn't work with Yanfly's YEA Message system, so that was a bummer.

For people who aren't familiar with this kind of storytelling, or who maybe just don't recognize it, you can see an example of it here: Ateleier Rorona Cutscenes, Disgaea Cutscenes

Here are the details.

• Visual novel style display of 2/3 body sprites in three positions on the screen: left, center, and right. These should be on a layer below the message box and name box. Positions should be defined in percentages, preferably, to make it flexible with different resolutions.
• Optional background layer behind the character images.
• Simple dissolve effect for the appearance / disappearance of characters.
• Ability to display up to three images at once, one in each of the three positions. That means a maximum of three characters on the screen at once.
• Persistence of images until they are cleared or replaced. For instance: two characters in positions L and R are having a conversation. L and R speak alternately, but their images remain in their positions until the conversation is over. When L is speaking, R is still visible. Having the characters pop up and down as they alternate speaking is very choppy and doesn't lead to good storytelling. It's easiest to simply have a function to clear the screen when the scene is over.
• A naming convention that makes it easy to group certain sprites together, to represent different emotions or states, like Actor_1_1, Actor_1_2, etc.
• Optional, but fun, is popping emote bubbles above the heads of the sprites, at some specifically defined location. Shin Totomono does this in its cutscenes.
• Simple integration into the MV messaging system. I know all of this can be done with show images, but it would save a lot of time and pain if I could just pop in a line to start this kind of conversation event, and easily control the images as I wrote the dialogue.
• Compatible with YEP Message Core
• Animation / mouthflaps / whatever is definitely not needed. Just the swapping out of flat, still images.

I've included some cheap-as-free screenshots below to show what I mean for people not familiar with what I'm talking about. I do still want to use the basic message system as well, for most other interactions that are not story events.

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