Icon Balloons

[Tsukihime 1,489]

Icon balloons

-Tsukihime

 

This script displays a balloon above your character. It is the same idea as the default balloons, except it draws an icon.

 

The icons are still-images though.

 

Usage

 

Place the "Icon-Balloon.png" file inside Graphics/System

 

Script call:

 

show_icon_balloon(char_id, icon_index, wait?)

where

 

`char_id` is the character on the map (-1 = player, 0 = this event, 1+ is specific event ID)

`icon_index` is the index of the icon

`wait` is a boolean representing whether the game should wait until the balloon disappears

 

Download

 

Script: Download here

 

Notes

 

There are three hardcoded methods in Sprite_Character

 

-initialize

-dispose

-update

 

Each of them adds a new line to handle the icon balloon. If it is not compatible with your scripts because you are using animation scripts as well, just delete these three methods and modify your script to handle the icon balloon.

Edited March 30, 2016 by Tsukihime

[Falcao 88]

It look great

 

But why you didnt alias those harcode methods intead of overwrite them?

 

[Tsukihime 1,489]

Couldn't figure out how to alias.

[Victor Sant 273]

You forgot to add the superclass of Sprite_Character

 

class Sprite_Character < Sprite_Base

 alias :th_icon_balloon_initialize :initialize
 def (viewport, character = nil)
   @icon_balloon_duration = 0
th_icon_balloon_initialize(viewport, character)
 end

 alias :th_icon_balloon_dispose :dispose
 def dispose
   th_icon_balloon_dispose
   end_icon_balloon
 end

 alias :th_icon_balloon_update :update
 def update
th_icon_balloon_update
update_icon_balloon
 end
end

Edited September 3, 2012 by Victor Sant

[Tsukihime 1,489]

Is there a difference between updating the balloon before or after the `setup_new_effect` call in `update`?

[EvelynNoSpaces 0]

Icons are sticking to the speech bubble and they start overlapping.

[Tsukihime 1,489]

Screenshot? It doesn't seem different from before.

[Gone away 0]

Second - icons are just overlapping. Each time a different icon is shown, it shows ON TOP of the previous icon displayed. You not disposing them correctly? This script is pretty essential to my game, but I'm not able to use it 'cause of this bug so please look into it!