[Ace] Prexus Shadows Incompatibility issue

[ZirconStorms]

Demo below. Screenshots:


There is a shadow generated for (Sprite_Remind) when there should be none, causing a shadow to hover above the player character. I'd like to get rid of this shadow bitmap for the balloon display.

The two scripts used are:
Prexus - Shadows: https://rpgmaker.net/scripts/193/
VIPArcher - Balloon Display for Event: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/balloon-display-for-event.101049/

 

[Roninator2]

Looks like the balloon script's update needed to be alias'd not super'd

  alias r2_update_b4kcs   update
  def update
    r2_update_b4kcs
#~    super

That's because both of those scripts are using Sprite_Character

Sixth is the best.
I forgot that it is it's own class that has the parent of Sprite_Character.

 

[Sixth]

Yeah, the balloon script uses Sprite_Character for the balloon display unnecessarily, which causes those shadows for the balloons to appear.
This snippet should prevent that from happening:

Spoiler

class Sprite_Remind < Sprite_Character

  def update_shadow
    # Removed...
  end

end

Not tested, of course.

@Roninator2
The super call is correct there actually, since that method is not defined directly in Sprite_Remind class. In these cases super should be used instead of alias.
Using Sprite_Character as the parent class is still unnecessary, lots of useless update methods will run for it, but still, super is the correct way there.

 

[ZirconStorms]

Yeah, the balloon script uses Sprite_Character for the balloon display unnecessarily, which causes those shadows for the balloons to appear.
This snippet should prevent that from happening:

Spoiler

class Sprite_Remind < Sprite_Character

  def update_shadow
    # Removed...
  end

end

Not tested, of course.

@Roninator2
The super call is correct there actually, since that method is not defined directly in Sprite_Remind class. In these cases super should be used instead of alias.
Using Sprite_Character as the parent class is still unnecessary, lots of useless update methods will run for it, but still, super is the correct way there.

Works perfectly, yeah. The farthest I had gotten to fixing the issue originally was removing the shadow once a balloon popped up, but this fixes the issue. Thank you to you both