Adding Pictures

[OneSteph]

Is there a way to add pictures into the game? Say you set an event to trigger after a quest is complete and it unlocks a picture, an actual photo, on the screen? What would be the best way to do that?

 

[Dr. Delibird]

Depends on how in depth you want to do this. If all you want to do is show a picture once the quest is complete then you can simply use a switch that you turn on when the quest is complete and then have a conditional branch that uses the "show picture" event command. There is a few different ways to do this exact example by the way.

If you want the player to be able to view the picture later whenever they want then that is a bit more complex but certainly do able.

Either way you will need to make sure the pictures you wish to show are placed into the "Pictures" folder in your project's folder.

 

[OneSteph]

Thank you! I would like for the picture to show up, but then also be added to an album that would be accessible at any time, would that be super involved?

 

[Nohmaan]

Do you mean something like Atelier RGSS's gallery script for MV?

RMV – Picture Gallery

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I don't think there's a way to natively do it in RPGMaker without the help of a script, but it's low hanging fruit so I'd imagine that one exists pretty soon.

 

[Dr. Delibird]

Thank you! I would like for the picture to show up, but then also be added to an album that would be accessible at any time, would that be super involved?

What you could do is this:

Where it says "Next Page" you can do another show choices event for each option of picture you need. Leave cancel blank so when your player selects it the event just ends. There are some tweeks that can be made to this but this is just the basis of how you would do it without a plugin.

It's not going to be as good looking as a plugin could do it but it is possible.

 

[OneSteph]

Do you mean something like Atelier RGSS's gallery script for MV?

RMV – Picture Gallery

Ver 1.5 – Last Updated 2016 / 10/ 04 File Name – MOG_PictureGallery.js DOWNLOAD CARACTERÍSTICAS O plugin adiciona uma cena de galeria de imagens. UTILIZAÇÃO Para chamar o cena use o comando abaixo …

atelierrgss.wordpress.com

I don't think there's a way to natively do it in RPGMaker without the help of a script, but it's low hanging fruit so I'd imagine that one exists pretty soon.

YES THIS EXACTLY!! <3

What you could do is this:
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Where it says "Next Page" you can do another show choices event for each option of picture you need. Leave cancel blank so when your player selects it the event just ends. There are some tweeks that can be made to this but this is just the basis of how you would do it without a plugin.

It's not going to be as good looking as a plugin could do it but it is possible.

This could definitely work if nobody adapts that plugin above, but it sounds like they may... maybe I'll work on mapping and characters and stuff and just.... hope?