Conditional branch that checks actor's images?

[yumo_nikki]

Hello guys!

I'm working in rmmv and I managed to make the actor to be able to sit on the floor when hitting a key. I did it by using yanfly's button common events, and assigning a key to a common event in which the actor sprite changes to a sprite of him sitting, and another one that changes it back to the sprite of the actor standing. It worked fine, but here's the problem:

My actor changes sprites at various points of the game. I made sitting graphics for each different sprite and what i'm trying to do is that when the actor has x sprite, it changes to it's corresponding sitting graphic. So yeah, my question is if there is a way to use a conditional branch that checks which image the actor currently has, probably via script call?. I hope I'm making sense ^^;

Also just in case, I'm a noob so I apologize if I posted this in the wrong forum

 

[TWings]

You can use those if it's your leader :

• to get the image file name : $gamePlayer._characterName
• to get the image file index : $gamePlayer._characterIndex

If you need it for other party members (where x is the member number) :

• $gameParty.members()[x]._characterName
• $gameParty.members()[x]._characterIndex

 

[yumo_nikki]

Thank you so much for the fast reply!

Just another dumb question: do i replace characterName with the name of the png file, right?
I'm sorry if it's pretty obvious, I'm just not very familiar with script calls yet! ^^;;;;;;;

 

[TWings]

Sorry I wasn't really clear.
If you want to check those in a conditional branch with a script call,
If your standing sprites are in the same file you'll just need to check the index number like this :

$gamePlayer._characterIndex == Your picture index

if they're on different files, you'll need to check the file name like this :

$gamePlayer._characterName == 'Your picture file'

Just replace Your picture index or Your picture file by the values you're looking for.

 

[Shaz]

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a single variable, with each possible value referring to a version of your sprite? Then you just need to do a Conditional Branch to see if the variable is equal to each version, and use the appropriate "sitting" version.

Or if you have, say, 8 different versions of your character, you can put them all onto a single character sheet (so one character sheet will contain your character walking, in all 8 forms, one will contain them sitting, one will contain them, say, swimming and another riding a horse). So the character name refers to the pose, and the character index refers to the version. Or if you have more than 8 versions, but 8 or less poses, do it the other way around.

Then you just need to do a script call to change either the character name or the character index, and you don't have to bother with checking what they currently are.

 

[yumo_nikki]

It's working perfectly, thank you!

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a single variable, with each possible value referring to a version of your sprite? Then you just need to do a Conditional Branch to see if the variable is equal to each version, and use the appropriate "sitting" version.

Or if you have, say, 8 different versions of your character, you can put them all onto a single character sheet (so one character sheet will contain your character walking, in all 8 forms, one will contain them sitting, one will contain them, say, swimming and another riding a horse). So the character name refers to the pose, and the character index refers to the version. Or if you have more than 8 versions, but 8 or less poses, do it the other way around.

Then you just need to do a script call to change either the character name or the character index, and you don't have to bother with checking what they currently are.

Yes that's kinda what I did, I have a spritesheet with the walking cycle of each version of the character, and another one for the sitting version. I made sure that the sitting version and the standing version had the same index.

I just didn't thought of making a variable at first because i'm more familiar with the branches than the variables, but it sounds more effective

 

[Andar]

The most effective way to do this with eventing would be to store a key number for the current graphics into a variable when you change the graphics, and then check the variable whenever you need to know the current image.
The only requirements here is to always use a control variable command to change the value whenever you use change actor graphics.