[PK8]

Unlimited Graphically Layered Maps

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Introduction
This script allows users to add "additional graphical layers" onto various coordinates of certain maps, allowing them to create something closer to "parallax mapping" without having to use an external image editor.

Unfortunately/fortunately (depending on how you look at it), the data that's included with each tile such as priority, passability, terrain, and such doesn't get included here which means you might have to use the map editor as a way to design the base of your map.

Features

• Place graphics such as tiles, pictures, text, tiles from other tilesets, and rects onto your maps!
  
• They will scroll as if they were a part of your map. (Unless you change their scrolling formula.)
  
• Change certain properties of each graphic you place such as their angle, blend type, bush depth, color, hue, mirror flag, opacity, tone, zoom, & z.
  
• Provides an alternative to the well-known Parallax Mapping technique.

Screenshot

This isn't the best example in the world (the screenshot is pretty trippy) but the script should be able to provide developers with more ways to make their maps aesthetically pleasing, possibly rivaling parallax mapping.


This also isn't a very good example, but it does show off how you can place text, pictures, rectangles (they can act as shadows), and tiles from other tilesets onto a map.



Look at the bottles.

Script
Unlimited Graphically Layered Maps (RMXP)
Unlimited Graphically Layered Maps (RMVX)
Unlimited Graphically Layered Maps (RMVXA)

Instructions
Instructions on how to set your maps up is in the script's header.

Thanks
If it wasn't for me porting Woratana's Pictures script to RPG Maker XP and RPG Maker VX Ace, as well as Arevulopapo's Particle Engine over to RPG Maker VX and RPG Maker VX Ace, my old dream of somehow having "unlimited layers," and always hearing about a technique called "Parallax Mapping," I wouldn't have made this script. Thanks, community!

Author's Notes
Giving maps "unlimited layers" was something I always wanted to see someone scripted for RPG Maker XP when I was younger, but I was so far from capable of pulling that off. I kind of hate how I'm scripting this 7 years a little too late, but I hope someone enjoys it all the same.

This idea came about right after I was done porting Woratana's Picture Below Characters script to XP/Ace, making a script that allowed pictures to scroll along the map, porting Arevulopapo's Particle Engine to VX and Ace, and attempted to work on my own implementation of Ace's "Shadow Pen" for XP and VX.

License
Free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes. Just credit me.

[Narzew]

Wow! It's great. I think thas script is more than 6k lines of code, and's only 150 is required. :P
Good job!

[PK8]

XD! Thanks.

Just updated the script to version 1.0.1. This update fixes the bug that occurs when you call up a particular picture multiple times but change the hue in one of them which ends up affecting every other picture that had the same filename.

[PK8]

Update, the Ace version is up for download.

[Narzew]

The script isn't have a important function.
It's support from the autotilesets from XP and XpAce Edition. (Single File Difference)
Please add this if you can ;)

[xnadvance]

can the layers be toggled to show or hide? cause that would be awesome.

[PK8]

This was something I wish I put a little more thought into when I was coding this.

You could toggle their visibility but you'll have to pull off some scripting wizardry. You might have to perform a call like this (going off the top of my head here):

Code:

$scene.spriteset.uglm.each { |v| v.visible = false }

Unfortunately, the changes being made won't be permanent.

[xenochrome]

I am a noob to this site and rgss3 scripting in general, so my appologies to everyone if I have posted this in the wrong section; although, my question relates directly to the Unlimited Graphically Layered Maps Script by PK8...

I have the script installed in the VX Ace editor, and I can load the tiles and place them on the map... this feature works excellently.
*BUT*
I Cant Figure This out >> Picture : "filename in Pictures\System directory"
I Cant Figure This out >> Fill : ["fill", width, height, color, color2, vertical]
I Cant Figure This out >> Text : ["text",string,font,size,bold,italic,color,shadow]
I Cant Figure This out >> Tileset : ["tileset", id/name, tile]

I can not for the life of me figure out these funtions.... (more than 4 hours trying to figure it out????)
I keep getting this error message : Type Error nil can't be coerced into fixnum

This is where the script editor points me:
PK8::Unlimited_Graphical_Layers::BY32 == true ? self.x = 32*x : self.x = x

This is what I entered in the script to recieve this error:
Map[3] = Fill ["fill", 32,32,color.new(64,128,64,128),color.new(255,255,255,255),vertical=true] *I am Sure I am doing this wrong.... (sorry everyone)

when I enter Map[3] = [1, 0, 2, {"mirror" => true}] <-- This Works Perfectly!!!
sad I can't figure this out...
What am I doing wrong?

Please help....

[JayRay]

Just back again for a quick post and question...

The text links for the RMXP version of this are missing, can anyone re-up?