Special Items Separate Menu

[DerVVulfman]

Ah, that's the beauty of what I did.

In the main menu, ala Scene_Menu, it activates the Item menu with a call like $scene=Scene_Item.new. The rewrite/script allows that statement to still be used, though it would 'remove' all the special items you designate. But if you instead use $scene=Scene_Item.new(true), you only get the special items.

What I am assuming you want is to have 'two' Item menu options in the main menu. This requires that YOU add a new option for the special item menu.

FIRST.... look at the block in Scene_Menu within the main method which looks like this:

Code:

# Make command window
    s1 = $data_system.words.item
    s2 = $data_system.words.skill
    s3 = $data_system.words.equip
    s4 = "Status"
    s5 = "Save"
    s6 = "End Game"
    @command_window = Window_Command.new(160, [s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6])
    @command_window.index = @menu_index
    # If number of party members is 0
    if $game_party.actors.size == 0
      # Disable items, skills, equipment, and status
      @command_window.disable_item(0)
      @command_window.disable_item(1)
      @command_window.disable_item(2)
      @command_window.disable_item(3)
    end
    # If save is forbidden
    if $game_system.save_disabled
      # Disable save
      @command_window.disable_item(4)
    end

This makes the 6 items in your menu. Let's assume you are adding the 2nd item menu below the first item menu... change it to THIS

Code:

# Make command window
    s1 = $data_system.words.item
    s2 = $data_system.words.item
    s3 = $data_system.words.skill
    s4 = $data_system.words.equip
    s5 = "Status"
    s6 = "Save"
    s7 = "End Game"
    @command_window = Window_Command.new(160, [s1, s2, s3, s4, s5, s6, s7])
    @command_window.index = @menu_index
    # If number of party members is 0
    if $game_party.actors.size == 0
      # Disable items, skills, equipment, and status
      @command_window.disable_item(0)
      @command_window.disable_item(1)
      @command_window.disable_item(2)
      @command_window.disable_item(3)
      @command_window.disable_item(4)
    end
    # If save is forbidden
    if $game_system.save_disabled
      # Disable save
      @command_window.disable_item(5)
    end

This increases the number of options from 6 options to 7

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In the update command method, you normally have this:

Code:

# If command other than save or end game, and party members = 0
      if $game_party.actors.size == 0 and @command_window.index < 4
        # Play buzzer SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.buzzer_se)
        return
      end
      # Branch by command window cursor position
      case @command_window.index
      when 0  # item
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Switch to item screen
        $scene = Scene_Item.new
      when 1  # skill
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Make status window active
        @command_window.active = false

You need to do some changes like this:

Code:

# If command other than save or end game, and party members = 0
      if $game_party.actors.size == 0 and @command_window.index < 5
        # Play buzzer SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.buzzer_se)
        return
      end
      # Branch by command window cursor position
      case @command_window.index
      when 0  # item
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Switch to item screen
        $scene = Scene_Item.new
      when 1  # THE SPECIAL ITEM!!!!
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Switch to item screen
        $scene = Scene_Item.new(true)
      when 2  # skill
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Make status window active
        @command_window.active = false

Note that I added a new ITEM option with the 'when 1' block, and changed the Skill to work for 'when 2'. Change all other 'when' values down one more value to match.

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Now that you did that, go into the update_status methods and advance all the when values by one as well....
when 2 # Skill
when 3 # equipment
when 4 #status

Hopefully, you can follow this. If you need to add/remove menu options like adding other features like 'party order', 'crafting' or the like, you'd need to know about this. We learn by doing, so I suggest a little practice on a test project.