Display an image when a critical hit happens?

[yorshee]

I'll just like to let you all know before I write this post that I know next to nothing about programming - I'm building my first game just to teach myself.

I'm trying to get an image to pop up for half a second when either an enemy or a playable character lands a critical hit. I'm trying to do this by making the image appear and then disappear as a common event using this code:

@>Show Picture: 1, 'image', Center (0,0), (100%,100%), 255, Normal@>Wait: 30 frame(s)@>Erase Picture: 1 ..and then I'm trying to call the common event with this code in Window_BattleLog (specifically, the part bolded)

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------- # * Display Critical Hit #-------------------------------------------------------------------------- def display_critical(target, item) if target.result.critical $game_temp.common_event_id = 1 text = target.actor? ? Vocab::CriticalToActor : Vocab::CriticalToEnemy add_text(text) wait end end'1' is what I named my common event, is that the same thing as the event ID? Is this even the problem? Sorry if this is a noobish question, as I said, I'm not very experienced with this

 

[Ruiran]

I'm terrible at scripting, but wouldn't using a Bitmap work easier ?

 

[yorshee]

I haven't tried tinkering around with bitmaps yet, I'll try that if no other solutions are suggested soon.

 

[Evgenij]

Try this:

$game_temp.reserve_common_event(id)

 

[yorshee]

Try this:

$game_temp.reserve_common_event(id)

It works! Thank you!

However, it doesn't work if I name the event something different - to anything other than '1'. This happens:

Script 'Window_BattleLog' line 282: NameError occurred.undefined local variable or method '(event name)' for #<Window_BattleLog:0x8969314>Am I confusing the event name with the event ID or something? :S

Also, how do I make the image appear before any of the text does? Like, the first thing that will alert you that you got a critical hit will be the image appearing, and then the accompanying text.

 

[Evgenij]

If you want it to be displayed before the text, you will need some more scripting.

I can write you a script, that lets you display an image on an critical hit, if you want.

And for: 

$game_temp.reserve_common_event(id)You can use only Numbers for "id" which correspond to the Common Event ID you want to call.

 

[yorshee]

If you want it to be displayed before the text, you will need some more scripting.

I can write you a script, that lets you display an image on an critical hit, if you want.

And for: 

$game_temp.reserve_common_event(id)You can use only Numbers for "id" which correspond to the Common Event ID you want to call.

That would be awesome! Thank you so much!

Ideally, I would like the image to appear alongside the text, but if it appears before it then that's okay too.

Yeah, I figured out the ID thing.