Endgame Statistics Screen & Ranking

[SithDuke]

I'm after displaying variables, switches and various game stats(saves, various actors stats/ etc) upon game completion. This would ideally also include ranks based on switches and variables. This is akin to the Metal Gear Solid games.



I realise I can do this just by writing variables into a text box but it looks horrible in eventing. Is it possible there's a script to do this and make it more concise?

 

[ShinGamix]

Couldn't it be done eventing instead??

 

[Kes]

If it looks horrible that is not the fault of the variables, but how you have chosen to present your information.  And that is a graphics issue.

You could do it by having the info displayed over images brought up by the Show Picture command, for example.

 

[SithDuke]

It's not how I've chosen to present my information, it's the lack of options over the display of message boxes I have. Firstly there's no apparent way to show an image inside of a message box like the example I gave in my first post.

Even if there is, I'd need to copy and paste the entire message box event for each different Grade/Title: possibility, which needs to check for things like "Playtime < X", "Saves < X", "Boss Souls >= 3". As each of these variables/switches will possibly carry point values which is used to give the player their grade/title. I imagine this to be an extremely lengthy event.



Using the default message box system looks like this. Firstly the window isn't centre aligned and looks horrible stretched across the screen.



Using show picture with a transparent text box on top could work but there's no way add a small menu to this screen. If I were to "Show Choice"  it would still use the standard message box boarder.



Ideally I'd like to have a small menu to allow the player to save and continue into New Game+ or return to the game.

This is why I asked for a basic endgame scene as doing this via the RPG Maker interface compared to scripting a scene and just letting me use a script-call to call the scene would be a lot better.

 

[Kes]

Hmm, would something like this do?  It's got a lot of customization options, including the display window.

 

[SithDuke]

Hmm I put it into my project and I got a strange error.



.empty? is a standard Ruby method isn't it? Not sure why it's throwing me an error. But from the screenshots I can see. It looks like it's setup to display images nicely however I'm not sure how I'd go about displaying variables, text and other game data. 

 

[Shaz]

Yes. .empty? is a Ruby method that applies to an array. What it's saying is that the thing that comes before .empty? is not an array. It has not been defined.


I bet you added the script then loaded a saved game that was saved prior to you adding the script.


What is line 88 in Cache?

 

[SithDuke]

Yes. .empty? is a Ruby method that applies to an array. What it's saying is that the thing that comes before .empty? is not an array. It has not been defined.

I bet you added the script then loaded a saved game that was saved prior to you adding the script.

What is line 88 in Cache?

No I didn't load a saved game and line 88 is if filename.empty?

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------  # * Load Bitmap  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------  def self.load_bitmap(folder_name, filename, hue = 0)    @cache ||= {}    if filename.empty? #<----------------------- Line 88      empty_bitmap    elsif hue == 0      normal_bitmap(folder_name + filename)    else      hue_changed_bitmap(folder_name + filename, hue)    end  endOkay so I'm guessing it's because it's looking for a picture that doesn't exist, so that's fixable. However my earlier concern was there's no apparent way to display text for game information/variables and such. Also one of my earlier requests were for there to be a small menu allowing access to the save Scene and return to game option.

 

[KockaAdmiralac]

Maybe XS Records can help you?

Link : http://niclas-thornqvist.se/rpg/scripts/ace/xs-records.txt

Screenshot : http://niclas-thornqvist.se/rpg/scripts/ace/xs-records.png

 

[SithDuke]

This is quite good, the only issue is it seems to only support icons so I can't use any grading images. Since variables can't be a string I can't see any way to go about making just a grade/rank either.

 

[Sato1999]

Yes variables can be strings.

Just do this in a Script call:

$game_variables[ID] = "Stuff Stuff Stuff"

 

[KockaAdmiralac]

Yes variables can be strings.

Just do this in a Script call:

$game_variables[ID] = "Stuff Stuff Stuff"

That's true.

But it happened to me that, when I set the variable to a string and saved, the save engine crashed (while using YEA-Save Engine)

So, to prevent that possible issue, set the variable to a string, and then after showing the scene simply set that variable to some number.

Or maybe it was just YEA-Save Engine. I don't know, and I'm too lazy to test that again, but I think it would be a good idea

 

[SithDuke]

So using XS Records the best I can seem to do looks like this:



It doesn't support images and there's obviously no menu. Is there no way to get the Game Timer variable to display in the correct Hours:Minutes:Seconds format?

 

[KockaAdmiralac]

It DOES support icons.

# R_LIST[ID] = [RECORD_TEXT, VARIABLE_ID, ICON_INDEX(can be nil), ENABLED]In the part below set icon index to something that is not nil and set ICON_ENABLE to true.

The game time can be displayed with setting it to a variable and then displaying that variable.

Set the variable somewhat like this :

$game_variables[variable_id] = sprintf("%02d:%02d%02d", Graphics.frame_count / 12960000,Graphics.frame_count / 216000 , Graphics.frame_count / 3600)

 

[Karanum]

There's also a way to get the playtime pre-formatted. Just use this:

$game_variables[variable_id] = $game_system.playtime_s

 

[SithDuke]

It DOES support icons.

# R_LIST[ID] = [RECORD_TEXT, VARIABLE_ID, ICON_INDEX(can be nil), ENABLED]In the part below set icon index to something that is not nil and set ICON_ENABLE to true.

The game time can be displayed with setting it to a variable and then displaying that variable.

Set the variable somewhat like this :

$game_variables[variable_id] = sprintf("%02d:%02d%02d", Graphics.frame_count / 12960000,Graphics.frame_count / 216000 , Graphics.frame_count / 3600)

Yes it supports Icon, but it was an actual image (not from the Icon Set) that I was intending to use. One image per each Grade.

I used

$game_variables[0026] = sprintf("%02d:%02d%02d", Graphics.frame_count / 12960000,Graphics.frame_count / 216000 , Graphics.frame_count / 3600) 

The value stays as "0" if I use the above. If I used $game_variables[26] I get the below error.

 

[KockaAdmiralac]

For the image, I don't know.

Try this script call

$game_variables[26] = sprintf("%02d:%02d:%02d",Graphics.frame_count / 216000, Graphics.frame_count / 3600, Graphics.frame_count / 60)It worked for me

 

[Karanum]

You're using the Conditional Branch event command that assumes all variables are numbers. The sprintf command used to format the playtime turns the variable into a string, and that's why it throws that error.

If you want to use the playtime to determine the grade, the best way is to use another variable and get the flat playtime there, using $game_system.playtime, or Graphics.frame_count / 60, and then make the Conditional Branch use that variable.

 

[SithDuke]

 

You're using the Conditional Branch event command that assumes all variables are numbers. The sprintf command used to format the playtime turns the variable into a string, and that's why it throws that error.

If you want to use the playtime to determine the grade, the best way is to use another variable and get the flat playtime there, using $game_system.playtime, or Graphics.frame_count / 60, and then make the Conditional Branch use that variable.

You were absolutely right. I guess I'll have to check the grade based on seconds played. Thanks again!

For the image, I don't know.

Try this script call

$game_variables[26] = sprintf("%02d:%02d:%02d",Graphics.frame_count / 216000, Graphics.frame_count / 3600, Graphics.frame_count / 60)It worked for me

It's formatted correctly now and doesn't crash. I do appreciate your help and patience, thank you very much. I think it's is probably as good as it's going to get now.