V's Custom Animated Title Scene v2.7

[vindaca]

V's Custom Animated Title Scene  v2.7
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Introduction
This script allows you to go well above and beyond what you can normally do to edit the title screen.
 
Features

• Allows you to set up of multiple layers for animations as well as the cursor animations.
• Allows for full control of the x, y and z positions of the commands.
• Options for both horizontal and vertical command window layouts.
• Allows for Images to be used instead of text for the commands.
• Allows you to set up an image when you can not access the continue option.
• Allows you to fully manipulate the title screens audio.
• Allows you to create a clock on your title screen set to real time.
• Allows you to optionally set up an initializing time for each layer with a new set of animations.
• Option for a splash movie to play before the title appears or after selecting New Game.
• Options to set a starting angle, blend, for all layers and maximum opacity for the fade animations
• Option to permanently fade out an image.
• Option for a minimum fade opacity for the fade in and out animation type.
• There is now a timer to activate the command window

Animations Types

• Rotating ~ Spins layer graphic clockwise or counter clockwise.
• Looping ~ moves layer graphic up, down, left, and right, in a looping method.
• Fade ~ Fades layer graphic opacity in and out.
• Time ~ rotates layer graphic according to system hour or minute.
• Wave ~ Makes the image move like a wave.
• Blend ~ Makes the image flash.
• Variable ~ Allows you to change the image name according to the variable value.
• Cursor ~ Changes the layers x or y values according to the cursor index.
• Initialize Rotate~ Allows you to spin the image while it is initializing .
• Initialize Move~ Moves the object until it reaches a set x or y position.
• Initialize Fade In~ Allows you to fade the image in while it is initializing.
• Splash Movie ~ Allows you to play a movie either before the title appears or after a New Game has be selected.
• Fade Out ~ Allows you to permanently fade out a pictures.

Screenshots
See demo for visual examples.
 

Updates / Bug Fixes

Any and all changes made can be found in the Description section located in the top portion of the script.


How to Use

Instructions can be found in the top of the script.
I have also create a help guide that can be found in the demo or at this link.


Script

Here is a link to the script.
 
 
Demo

Here is a link to the demo.


Requests
If anyone has any requests for alterations please PM me the details and I will try to accommodate them for you.
 

Terms

Here is a link to my terms

Really??? It can do all that??? Why, yes it can!!!

 

[Creative Ed]

It looks pretty good! I can see that with just this script people can replicate what a lot of other scripts do by default. But with this one they have more freedom to do what they desire.

I think it could use some extra features though, it still has some harsh limitations.

My suggestions are:

-Enable animated graphics: Suffix "_1" to "_8" for example as the frames numbers. (enable the choice to either loop or not loop)

-Add Wave Effects: These can do some pretty neat stuff.

-Add Blending Options: I can see this work pretty good if I wanted to simulate some kind of particle effect with an image for example. It would work great if combined with the suggestion above too!

-Add a glowing effect: This would work great when choosing "new game", "load" or "quit", and probably to something else the user would like.

Anyway, these are my suggestions. I think the script it's great, but it can be greater

 

[ShinGamix]

I want to see the pics please. Why do I have to dl the whole demo just to see what it looks like?

 

[kerbonklin]

I want to see the pics please. Why do I have to dl the whole demo just to see what it looks like?

Because GIFs take effort lul.

 

[vindaca]

@Shin sorry shin, Kerbonklin is right, and honestly I wouldn't even know how to go about doing that. If someone else whould like to do it for me that would be great though.

@BustedEd I will see about adding some of your requests. I was alreay thinking of adding the frame animations and the multiple animations feature. Those were both something I planned on adding from the start but it will take a little more time for me to work in there. I just wanted to get some feed back to see if it was worth upgrading, but I think the others ideas are great and I will try to add them in the next update.

 

[Creative Ed]

Great! Looking forward to it then!

 

[vindaca]

I added all of the requests except for the cursor side of it I will do a variable type cursor as well as some others too. This is all I could get done tonight, I will try to work on it later but I am going out to diner with some friends and family to find out the gender of my girlfriend and I's BABY!!!!! I"M SO EXCITED!!!

Sorry but I will work on it again tomorrow for sure.

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease.

 

[ShinGamix]

It doesnt have to be a gif I just want a png or jpeg shot of how it looks.

 

[kerbonklin]

It doesnt have to be a gif I just want a png or jpeg shot of how it looks.

But then you won't see the animations, and that's what really matters with this script anyways.

Since i'm bored, i'll download the demo and make a GIF of it using Camtasia Studio. I'll edit when it's done.

Edit:

Ignore the black bar on the bottom, my recorder does that for RM application-window-locking.

Also ignore any crappy renderings lul, but it looks normal and great in real-time.

Feel free to put this in the OP.

 

[vindaca]

Yeah but it's animated soo... Not to mention it's a very small demo, only 1.7 MB. Should only take a few minutes even with bad internet. Sorry. I mean even just explaining what it could done would be better then a still shot. I will update the discription for you though, to be more specific on what it can do.

@Kerbonklin~ Thank you and by all means if you want to change the animations go ahead. I just threw those in there for testing really.

 

[ShinGamix]

I dl the demo and it says can find graphics/picture/slime

So I guess I need to add a slime pic

edit-got it working. Oh that is really nice.

 

[vindaca]

Thanks Shin!

 

[Creative Ed]

I added all of the requests except for the cursor side of it I will do a variable type cursor as well as some others too. This is all I could get done tonight, I will try to work on it later but I am going out to diner with some friends and family to find out the gender of my girlfriend and I's BABY!!!!! I"M SO EXCITED!!!

Sorry but I will work on it again tomorrow for sure.

Love, Peace, and Chicken Grease.

Gratz!

*Downloading demo.

 

[vindaca]

@BustedEd~Thank you very much! Let me know how it works out for you.

@Kerbonklin~ Thank you so much for that. It helps to make my bad explaining more visable.

@everyone~I am almost done with the cursor animation tag. I am just going to make it an animation tag in the screen layers hash in the set up, so that you can add mutiple animated layers to the cursor as well.

On a side note: IT'S GONNA BE A BOY!!!

Updated: v0.5 or higher includes cursor animation type tag.

 

[Creative Ed]

@vinadaca Congratz again!

Ok, so I downloaded the demo and ended up making custom menu:

I've encountered a few problems and there are a few things that could be improved.

I've also made a demo of the composition I made by the way. I just felt like it lol. Just to see the potential of this script

It can be used as a template for the script.

-Why have two images with diferent names to make 1 looping image?

-The images looping start separating from each other (Check Template. Wait for a little bit until the cloud images loop 2 times and you'll see.)

-Not enough instructions in the comments. (Lucky I know thing or two, or else I would've been completely lost. Try explain more of how to set up the layers and  commands. By commands I mean for instance ":fade_frame_rate". I understood what it is, but if I were to do the layers from scratch I would have no idea what are the commands.)

-The Menu fading out isn't very smooth. I'd rather see soft fade out.

-Some polishing: The wave effect looks a bit odd, and the blending effects could have fade transitions, instead of imidiatly changing.

-Add a Decision SE specific for "New Game" option and maybe for the other two options and the cursor moving aswell?

If I remember something else I'll let you know

The rest seems to be excellent. I think this one has pottential to be one of the best title menu scripts

Here's the Title Template I made(Updated): 

http://www.mediafire.com/download/d42k4w016mv77wj/V%27s+Custom+Title+Demo+-+BustedEd+Template+V1.4.exe

(Anyone can download this Template of this script and use it on their projects.)

 

[vindaca]

Thank you very BustedEd, I wasn't shooting for best title script but good to know at least 1 person thinks so.  ... I mean Thanks man....

and thank you so much for the great example too. I don't get to see to my script used by someone else that often. It looks great, but you might want to mention the version number.

Also I see what you were takling about with the layers seperating. That problem should have been fixed in the last update though.

My reasoning behind the two layers with different names is pretty easy. when you set up your layers they are in a hash, the name of the image is the hash's key, so if you try to do two layers with the same name it will just rewrite the first images information and not produce a new image. Instead of trying to add in a duped layer in the middle I left it open incase you wanted to do something like I did with the slimes in my demo.

As far as fade and the wave I will work with it some more for fine tuning.

As far as the different sound effects for each command, I think thats another great idea and I will be happy to add that in as well.

 

[Creative Ed]

No problem

Yeah, I'll put the version number. You can use this template for your demo if you want

Hm I see, yeah figured it was to have the freedom to put two images looping in the same layer. But cant you do something like - check if more than one image is on the same layer (animation types 3 to 6). If it is, leave the space to add other images. If it's not then loop normally (with only one image). It's just that when you have one image you have to duplicate in order to loop correctly. That means the game will load 2 diferent graphics instead of only one which is wasted memory.

That sounds great!

By the way, I forgot to mention. why don't you make the cache folder being Titles1? It just seems more fitting than pictures. Since you'll use pictures in the game and having them mixed with the pictures for this script would make a mess. While the Titles folder would be empty and have no pourpose because you're not using the deault titles.

 

[vindaca]

Either way it is the same amount of memory, wether it's two pictures or one drawn out twice, and the amount of memory is nothing, just bytes(unless you have huge pictures.)

"If it's not then loop normally (with only one image)",

If you only use one image it will not loop right. There will be blank area inbetween the the loop. thta is another reason for the 2 pictures.

Thanks again for the idea but I don't think I'm going to change the scroll set up. For what I needed to do, that was the perfect way of doing it.

 

[Creative Ed]

Hm ok I see.


You're right. I thought it would affect, but yeah since RM doesn't support high resolutions, big images wouldn't make much sense.


It's not like it takes much effort anyway, since it's just copy and paste basicly x)

 

[Arisete™]

I noticed that all the "graphics" don't fade out when you press New Game.