Key input event plugin?

[Tinkerer]

Hi,

I wanted to create an event where the player has to press a certain combination of arrow keys (e.g. up, down, down, left), set against a timer. Problem is, RPG maker MV doesn't seem to have an appropriate key input option in the event editor. I shortly considered doing this:
Loop
If : Button [Up] is pressed down
Break Loop
End
Repeat Above

But the problem with this is that the player isn't punished for pressing the wrong button, the event will just continue waiting until the right button is pressed.

Does anyone know of a plugin that does this for me?

 

[Astfgl66]

You can try my QTE plugin, the link is in my signature.

I think there are some others as well, by SRD, IIRC.

But what you said can be acheived by event as well. Just add conditionnals for other button inputs that fail the qte when pressed.
Same for the time limitation. Set a variable before the loop. That will be your timer.
Decrease it in the loop and then add a conditional that checks if the variable is 0, if it is fail the qte.

 

[Tinkerer]

Thanks for your reply!
I tried your plugin, but it wouldn't play nice with my existing savegames (don't want to break the savegames of my patrons, again), so in the end I opted not to use it. Your reply did inspire me to give the event editor another go, and I finally cracked it! Sort of. It will still ignore all keys other than arrow keys, but at least it will punish you for pressing the wrong arrow keys.
The attached Event.txt file shows the test event I just scripted, in case anyone is looking to do something similar.
It's an event for checking a combination of six arrow keys at a leisurely time limit of 30 seconds, but it shows the basic principals. It requires additional images for displaying the arrows on screen.