Possible to tin an event?

[S_Rank_Crazy]

I had a cool idea to be able to highlight objects (events) in an environment but I had a look through the event commands, did a little bit of googling and hit a bit of a dead end. So. Basically, what I'm looking for is a way to apply a tint to the event sprite which fades over a set period of time. From the looks of it there's no way to do this via the standard event commands, right? Or have I missed something?


Alternately I though of maybe taking a code approach, but I suspect it's not as easy as doing:


event._image.tint(myColour);


Or simply doing an adjustment on the colour matrix (since I'll need to ensure I get back to my initial state). I'm thinking the path of least resistance is to copy the canvas' sprite in to a secondary Bitmap and add to the event container, then set all non-alpha pixels to my desired colour, then over time just adjust the alpha of the entire bitmap. When alpha === 0 then remove the 'tint' image. Open to suggestions though. Doesn't seem like the most performant of solutions though.

 

[mlogan]

Probably the easiest way would be to create a character graphic of the item. In the graphic you can have the different frames tinted differently so that when you play a stepping animation it will change tint.


If you're not sure how to do this, I'd be glad to elaborate.

 

[Vox Novus]

Alternative suggestion: You could play an animation on the event that has a tint to the target for a number of frames.

 

[S_Rank_Crazy]

Alternative suggestion: You could play an animation on the event that has a tint to the target for a number of frames.

ooh. Hadn't thought of that. I'll give it a go. Might look at how MV handles in in the code and maybe make a plugin for it to be able to highlight things dynamically based on some event-define parameters. thanks guys. I'll let you know how if I run in to any issues

 

[Ossra]

If you are alright using a plugin, you can grab Character Control from my plugin thread. Character Control will allow you to alter all kinds of character sprite attributes.

 

[Jonforum]

I had a cool idea to be able to highlight objects (events) in an environment but I had a look through the event commands, did a little bit of googling and hit a bit of a dead end. So. Basically, what I'm looking for is a way to apply a tint to the event sprite which fades over a set period of time. From the looks of it there's no way to do this via the standard event commands, right? Or have I missed something?


Alternately I though of maybe taking a code approach, but I suspect it's not as easy as doing:



event._image.tint(myColour);


Or simply doing an adjustment on the colour matrix (since I'll need to ensure I get back to my initial state). I'm thinking the path of least resistance is to copy the canvas' sprite in to a secondary Bitmap and add to the event container, then set all non-alpha pixels to my desired colour, then over time just adjust the alpha of the entire bitmap. When alpha === 0 then remove the 'tint' image. Open to suggestions though. Doesn't seem like the most performant of solutions though.

Hey it's a good idea, and I thought something.


here step is working i test it.


1: create animation in database


2: make flash the (target) in the animation editor, ex: flash target for 5 sec (255 255 255 255) for white


3: call the animation on specific event.


For event:


$gameMap.event(ID).requestAnimation(id);


ex: for play animation 9 on event 16. 


$gameMap.event(16).requestAnimation(9);


Is work and give good resulte to make example item on map Flashing.

 

[S_Rank_Crazy]

Thanks for the help guys. @Exhydra that plugin looks amazing but I couldn't think of a good way to handle cases with event pages changing affecting the highlighting mechanism whilst still on the map. I started looking at the animation code for setting the tones and how that works and I came up with this:

 

[Ossra]

@S_Rank_Crazy I am getting a message that says I do not have permission to show the content you posted.   o:

 

[S_Rank_Crazy]

Dammit, pending approval. That's what I get for being enthusiastic.