Custom Scenes not stop event activity

[Milena]

Is there a way that custom made scenes won't stop the events running in the screen? For example, when we access the menu, the NPCs moving on the screen (events) would pause. is there a way to disable that?

 

[orochii]

At least without remaking the scene, it is not possible.


The menu for example, it really doesn't have the characters there, they're just part of a background image. So if you want to make, for example, characters continue moving or something else, you would need to create the spriteset in the menu instead of just using a screenshot, and update the characters too. And probably more.


(So it's not actually disable "that", but enabling "it", I guess xD).

 

[Hudell]

The easiest way would be to implement the menu inside the map scene.

 

[Andar]

The engine is designed in a way that the map is stopped when any scene is active, and I think changing that would cause a lot of compatibility issues and other problems.


However, you can make the menu in the same way a lot of people made HUD-scripts, and just disable player movement while checking the input - that way the rest of the map would continue, and if the HUD-Design is good the layer wouldn't even realise that it is a HUD and not a menu.

 

[Milena]

The easiest way would be to implement the menu inside the map scene.

Could you be more specific how this can be done? Did you mean that I should be doing the Menu Windows in the Scene_Map itself?

The engine is designed in a way that the map is stopped when any scene is active, and I think changing that would cause a lot of compatibility issues and other problems.


However, you can make the menu in the same way a lot of people made HUD-scripts, and just disable player movement while checking the input - that way the rest of the map would continue, and if the HUD-Design is good the layer wouldn't even realise that it is a HUD and not a menu.

That can work <3 I'll try what I can do. What I need to do maybe is that I have to do it via a switch check after so it goes away when the menu is canceled.

 

[Hudell]

Yup, that's exaclty it.

 

[Milena]

Yup, that's exaclty it.

I'll try this. Perhaps when a switch is made, then it should show.

 

[orochii]

Another thing you should deactivate is event activation, I suppose. I imagine something like an event moving randomly, or a timed event, touching the player and opening a message box. Still all this can be "fixed" by designing things taking these situations into consideration.


I believe that in the old days, evented menus worked fine, because of the "interpreter_running" flag that was on when an event was running (pretty sure something like that existed internally in RM2k/3). Maybe do a flag somewhere called menu_showing that deactivates the same stuff as when an event is running.