Moving Individual Actor Statuses in Menu

[CriticalGames]

Hi everyone,


I'm currently trying to develop my own Custom Menu Plugin, and while I've been going well (thanks in no small part of SumRndmDde's excellent tutorial series!), I've hit a snag that I just can't figure out and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.


I'm working on the Actor Status part of the Main Menu, where it displays all of your characters and their HP/MP/Level/etc. This is what I've currently got:





And this is what I'm trying to achieve:





My game features a total of 7 playable characters, and a maximum of 3 characters in battle, so I thought this was a good way of approaching the layout. So basically I'm trying to make it so that the menu is presented as a row of 2 characters, then a row of 1 character (which is centralised), then a larger than normal gap followed by two rows of 2 characters. I believe I know how to sort out the background with the Battle Party/Reserve Party assets, however...


I cannot for the life of me figure out how to manipulate the x/y/width/height variables of an individual actor's status (e.g. keep the first two party members in their designated columns, but move the third to the centre of the menu). I've tried creating new prototypes (e.g. I made one called drawActor1HP and tried to point it towards the first actor in the party using $gameParty.members()[index] - obviously I got something very wrong there), and looking for the origins of commonly referenced terms like 'actor' and 'ActorSimpleStatus' to see how they're defined. But no luck, I'm afraid - I'm completely stumped! So my question is - is there a piece of syntax that allows me to manipulate a single actor's status graphics? My current script is below; I apologise for the mess (this isn't my forte)!

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(function() {

var _Scene_Menu_create = Scene_Menu.prototype.create;
Scene_Menu.prototype.create = function() {
_Scene_Menu_create.call(this);
};

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.windowWidth = function() {
return Graphics.boxWidth - 240;
};

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.windowHeight = function() {
return Graphics.boxHeight
};

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.numVisibleRows = function() {
return 4;
};

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.maxCols = function() {
return 2;
};

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.drawItemStatus = function(index) {
var actor = $gameParty.members()[index];
var rect = this.itemRect(index);
var x = rect.x + 68;
var y = rect.y + 40;
var width = rect.width - x - this.textPadding();
var lineHeight = this.lineHeight();
var width2 = 186; //Math.min(200, width - 180 - this.textPadding());
this.drawActorName(actor, x, y);

this.drawActorIcons(actor, x, y + lineHeight * 2);
this.drawActorHp(actor, x, y + lineHeight, width2);
this.drawActorMp(actor, x, y + lineHeight * 2, width2);

Window_MenuStatus.prototype.drawItemImage = function(index) {
var actor = $gameParty.members()[index];
var rect = this.itemRect(index);
this.drawActorFace(actor, rect.x - 52, rect.y + 22, Window_Base._faceWidth, Window_Base._faceHeight);
this.changePaintOpacity(true);
};

Window_Base.prototype.drawActorLevel = function(actor, x, y) {
this.changeTextColor(this.systemColor());
this.drawText(TextManager.levelA, x, y, 48);
this.resetTextColor();
this.drawText(actor.level, x + 36, y, 20, 'right');
};

this.drawActorLevel(actor, (x + 130), y);

};

Window_MenuCommand.prototype.windowWidth = function() {
return 240;
};

Window_MenuCommand.prototype.windowHeight = function() {
return this.fittingHeight(this.numVisibleRows());
};

Window_MenuCommand.prototype.numVisibleRows = function() {
return this.maxItems();
};

})();

Thank you very much for looking! =)

 

[Kino]

You might want to use a for loop to  draw each status the way you want. And on the third iteration change it so its in the middle. I'll  add some code that I think might help later.

 

[CriticalGames]

You might want to use a for loop to  draw each status the way you want. And on the third iteration change it so its in the middle. I'll  add some code that I think might help later.

Thank you very much! I'm sorry though - at face value, I'm not really sure how I'd utilise that with the syntax I know. So if you could provide some example code, that'd be a massive help. No rush though =) Thanks again!

 

[CriticalGames]

Hi everyone,


Sorry to bump the topic, but I'm afraid I still haven't been able to figure this one out myself. So if anyone has any ideas, that'd be much appreciated =)