An option to turn off (Battle) Animations?

[Cinnamon]

Is there a way to allow the player to turn off Battle Animations completely? To decrease lag, considering RMMV games are quite performance heavy for some reason, even without any customized content...

I sent my game to a couple of beta testers and one of them has her PC freeze half the time when a battle animation begins playing.

The only thing I can think of is going into JS and making each played animation an empty bitmap if a certain switch is on, but maybe there's an easier way?

 

[Mellye]

The only thing I can think of is going into JS and making each played animation an empty bitmap if a certain switch is on, but maybe there's an easier way?

There is - you could modify Game_Battler.prototype.startAnimation and Game_Battler.prototype.startWeaponAnimation to not do anything if the player selects the option to turn off battle animations.

 

[Cinnamon]

There is - you could modify Game_Battler.prototype.startAnimation and Game_Battler.prototype.startWeaponAnimation to not do anything if the player selects the option to turn off battle animations.

I'll do it, just a minute.

Yay!! I'll hold on. ^_^/

 

[Mellye]

Here:

http://pastebin.com/tAaFmRT3

This will add an option in the ingame menu that will disable battle animations.

Motions are still enabled.

 

[Cinnamon]

Here:

http://pastebin.com/tAaFmRT3

This will add an option in the ingame menu that will disable battle animations.

Motions are still enabled.

Yay! You're amazing, thank you!

Going to try this out right away. ^-^/

 

[Mellye]

Let me know if you run into any issues!

 

[Cinnamon]

Quick follow-up, would you happen to know how to turn off map animations as well?

I'm looking at Game_CharacterBase.prototype.startAnimation but can't seem to get it to turn off. o.o

Edit: Works great for battles, btw! Even turns off the weapon swing. Not sure if I'm a big fan of that but it'll help reduce lag as well! ^_^/

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to JS Plugin Requests. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Mellye]

Quick follow-up, would you happen to know how to turn off map animations as well?

I'm looking at Game_CharacterBase.prototype.startAnimation but can't seem to get it to turn off. o.o

Edit: Works great for battles, btw! Even turns off the weapon swing. Not sure if I'm a big fan of that but it'll help reduce lag as well! ^_^/

I've updated to it to also disable map animations:

http://pastebin.com/tAaFmRT3

 

[Cinnamon]

Yay! Thank you! Works like a charm.