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Since it's something I believe will be very useful going forward, I'd like to present some in-development work on a custom plugin - the Expanded Status Window.
In particular, the new Status Window has pages (or tabs) that can each contain different types of information per Actor. Ideally, this could be linked to wholly separate windows, or some other customization strategy. I've yet to fully figure out how to make the pages aspect fully customizable for others without heavy plugin editing. Either way, I've already made progress on customization, as seen in the images below.
(All images hosted in an Imgur album here, in case the links fail otherwise: http://imgur.com/a/il26x)
Higher resolution game? The windows will adjust to match! (Only partially at the moment, but that'll be remedied later.)
(The new EXP bar is colored purple, as you can see.)
At present, I'm developing two separate pages - one for parameters and the other for in-depth profile information.
The core purpose behind this: by making space and separate pages, we'll now have room to list more stats on the Parameter page - like Hit Rate, Critical Rate, etc. If someone can get extra stats working, we'll definitely need the space. (Something I hope to move onto after this little project.) It'll also easily allow for more Status window content of whatever type.
Before I continue on, as the images seen here would serve as the baseline form of the new Status window(s), do the adjustments seem reasonable/well-designed? Of note is that the nickname won't appear everywhere by default - only in a select area - and that the total earned XP isn't being listed at present. (One option for the nickname - if resolution is high or your Actor + class names are short enough, it's not hard to put Actor + Class on one line and Nickname on another. That could easily be made a plugin option.)
Also, since I do seem to be able to attach files here... I've uploaded my current *.js plugin code, inside a *.zip. (The forum won't allow a direct *.js upload.) It's obviously pretty rough and in development, but if you'd like to tinker with it, be my guest. My next thing is likely to add some plugin-parameters so that any extra parameters to be reported can be specified on a per-game basis. (This also requires allowing you to choose the in-game text for those extra parameters.)
Edit: on further looking, I found a much more suitable sub-forum for this on the site... but I don't know how to delete the post here. Either way, any posts would be better off placed here.
In particular, the new Status Window has pages (or tabs) that can each contain different types of information per Actor. Ideally, this could be linked to wholly separate windows, or some other customization strategy. I've yet to fully figure out how to make the pages aspect fully customizable for others without heavy plugin editing. Either way, I've already made progress on customization, as seen in the images below.
(All images hosted in an Imgur album here, in case the links fail otherwise: http://imgur.com/a/il26x)
Higher resolution game? The windows will adjust to match! (Only partially at the moment, but that'll be remedied later.)
(The new EXP bar is colored purple, as you can see.)
At present, I'm developing two separate pages - one for parameters and the other for in-depth profile information.
The core purpose behind this: by making space and separate pages, we'll now have room to list more stats on the Parameter page - like Hit Rate, Critical Rate, etc. If someone can get extra stats working, we'll definitely need the space. (Something I hope to move onto after this little project.) It'll also easily allow for more Status window content of whatever type.
Before I continue on, as the images seen here would serve as the baseline form of the new Status window(s), do the adjustments seem reasonable/well-designed? Of note is that the nickname won't appear everywhere by default - only in a select area - and that the total earned XP isn't being listed at present. (One option for the nickname - if resolution is high or your Actor + class names are short enough, it's not hard to put Actor + Class on one line and Nickname on another. That could easily be made a plugin option.)
Also, since I do seem to be able to attach files here... I've uploaded my current *.js plugin code, inside a *.zip. (The forum won't allow a direct *.js upload.) It's obviously pretty rough and in development, but if you'd like to tinker with it, be my guest. My next thing is likely to add some plugin-parameters so that any extra parameters to be reported can be specified on a per-game basis. (This also requires allowing you to choose the in-game text for those extra parameters.)
Edit: on further looking, I found a much more suitable sub-forum for this on the site... but I don't know how to delete the post here. Either way, any posts would be better off placed here.
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