RPG Maker MV, no more hidden class. What does it mean?

[Heartbreak61]

Sorry for this silly question...

I read a lot about MV and 'no more hidden classes' things. What is a hidden class actually? Is it something like Sprite and Window classes on Ace? Or is it something else that doesn't documented on the help file.

Thank you.

 

[Zalerinian]

Yes, it means that classes like Sprite, Window, Input, and others are no longer hidden to us. We can see and freely change how they work using plugins, so it gives scripters a lot more freedom to customize games with plugins. If you don't intend to use plugins and just want to make a game using the default system, this will not affect you.

 

[Heartbreak61]

Thanks for making things clearer.

But as far as I know, we can change any class behaviour in ruby. For example, we can change String class so "2" + "2" will return "4" instead of "22", right?

So, as long as we have a documentation (and we already had it on help file) about those hidden classes, can I say that they aren't really hidden? We can still modify them somehow.

 

[Zalerinian]

Yes, and you can change how the default, hidden classes work, but you can't see how they work now, so changes are probably not going to work very well with everything.

 

[Heartbreak61]

Ah, I get it now. It's about how they works, not about what is their job.

Thank you very much