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Veiw Range Script - Near Fantastica - 03-02-2008

Veiw Range Script
Version: 1 & 2
by Jaime 'Near Fantastica' Webster
Not DerVVulfman
and Version: 3 Eta
Edit by DerVVulfman

Features
  • Lets events see the player and interact with it in different ways depending on how close the player is
  • To add this script make a script call it View_Range and add the following into it then call it accordingly with a script call
  • Can handle BGS effects

By the poster
I didn't create the original scripts, and as of now the links that Near Fantastica put up are down (and he can't get to them) and his RMXP system is down. Given that he posted the original (though broken) demo links here, there should be no problem to post the script.

I tinkered with the system and made a version 3 (still tinkering :) ) that combines the best features of both... and a little more.

Script
View Range v1
View Range v2

And
View Range v3 Eta


Instructions

For version 1

For version 2


For version 3



Take Care,
Near

Enjoy,
Mike aka DerVVulfman


* - * - * - * - * - *

Version 3 Eta
I included built in instructions that allow you to use local self-switches and global RMXP switches, as well as being able to control the volume when using the event_sound call. Also, the system's 'view' calls now includes an optional switch so impassable tiles can 'block' the view/detection system.

Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 10-23-2009

BUMP
Updated the version 3 edit to Version 3 Delta

The revision fixes a problem whereby enemies/events that can have their view 'blocked' may not properly detect the player coming into view.

Veiw Range Script - samsonite789 - 11-02-2009

I have spent hours upon hours trying to figure out how to fix that exact problem you fixed with the delta version. You have saved my life and sanity.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

RE: Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 02-21-2012

This is NOT a bump, but a revelation for users of RPGMaker VX.

A surprise occurred as a member of House Slashers, Lysop, discovered that most of the functions of View Range v3Delta actually worked with RPGMaker VX.

OMG, the script is cross-platform!!!! I gotta change this script's flag to BOTH!

For both RPGMaker XP and RPGMaker VX, it lets events find another event or the player within a certain range, and impassible tiles can block an event's view of its target if the 'block' parameter in the event viewing call is set to true.

IE:
$view_range.enemies_view(2, 12, 14, nil, true)
Lets event #2 see the player if it's within 12 tiles, but only if there are no impassible tiles blocking.
-and-
$view_range.enemies_view(2, 12, 14, nil)
Lets event #2 see the player if it's within 12 tiles regardless of impassible tiles


The only thing necessary for View Range to fully function with RPGMaker VX is a bit of editing so the Event Sound feature can function.

Normally, and with RPGMaker XP, it runs some statements within the Game_System class. These statements were removed from RPGMaker VX. But if you paste the below code into RPGMaker VX, you restore these methods that the Event Sound feature uses without any conflicts or side effects.

Code:
#==============================================================================
# ** Game_System
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  This class handles system-related data. Also manages vehicles and BGM, etc.
# The instance of this class is referenced by $game_system.
#==============================================================================

class Game_System
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Play Background Sound
  #     bgs : background sound to be played
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def bgs_play(bgs)
    @playing_bgs = bgs
    if bgs != nil and bgs.name != ""
      Audio.bgs_play("Audio/BGS/" + bgs.name, bgs.volume, bgs.pitch)
    else
      Audio.bgs_stop
    end
    Graphics.frame_reset
  end
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Fade Out Background Sound
  #     time : fade-out time (in seconds)
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def bgs_fade(time)
    @playing_bgs = nil
    Audio.bgs_fade(time * 1000)
  end  
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # * Get Playing Background Sound
  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def playing_bgs
    return @playing_bgs
  end  
end


RE: Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 03-06-2012

Ignore all that, and upgrade to View Range v3 Zeta.

Version Epsilon had code in it for both RPGMaker XP and RPGMaker VX dual compatability and fixed a directional error for VX. But Zeta got a working auto-detect for RPGMaker VX that worked.

RE: Veiw Range Script - LilyKnight - 03-07-2012

I am having issues opening the document in open office. IT tries to interpret it as an ascii file and shows gibberish when I open it. However, if I open it in editpad pro, it works fine.

I do wonder if its possible to make types of view. (cone, all around, straight line) and to check for events with a specific comment in them (hostile to certain types of events and afraid of others)

RE: Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 03-31-2012

Meh... Now it's ETA. Yeah, I'm going through the Greek Alphabet.

Autodetect stank. It didn't help if you made a script in RMXP that used a class that VX had and was detecting, so I said the heck with it and made it an on/off switch.



RE: Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 05-25-2012

This bump is thanks to PK8. While working on a request, he discovered that View Range Eta also works with RPGMaker VXAce.

RE: Veiw Range Script - penguwin - 07-12-2013

>_<
D'oh I don't get how to use this script.

RE: Veiw Range Script - DerVVulfman - 07-13-2013

Think of it as an alarm or sensor system.

Place an event on your map and make it... oh, I dunno... a rock. Make the 'trigger' for that rock to be a parallel process so it runs constantly. In the 'Event List' window on the right, you insert a script call command. A script call is where you can run an RGSS script (like view range) instead of your typical move-event/show-text commands. Now with that view range command, you set up a few values like the event's own id, a range and a switch that is turned on.

$view_range.event_view(12, 5, 3)


This example assumes that you are checking a circular range around event #12... for a distance of 5 tiles around it. And if the player is detected in this range, RMXP's switch #3 is turned on.

Oh... and there's a cool system to change audio volumes when you get closer or further from a source.

What you do when Switch #3 is turned on is up to you. You can make a guard ticked off.... a gate closes behind the player... the planet Krypton blows up... etc.