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RPG Maker Animation Solution - RPG Maker MZ Plugin

Easily display animations and bring your characters' actions to life! · By Sang Hendrix

[ANSWERED] Frame numbering issue...

A topic by Vidyamaya created 29 days ago Views: 47 Replies: 7
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I love the plugin, but... Would it be possible to alter it in a way that it can read separate frames beginning with 0 instead of 1 in the file names? The reason I'm asking is because all of the animations that I have with separate frames come from CrunchPix, I have literally hundreds of animations from them and almost all of them begin with frame 00, and some of them have well over a hundred frames... And there's simply no way I can bring myself to rename THOUSANDS of frames to make sure they play in the correct order, lol.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

There are 2 methods that you can try:

1. You can use a renamer software that will automatically rename all your files starting with 00 to 1, 2, 3, 4... I'm currently using Advanced Renamer which is free and good!

2. You can also pack all of them to... a spritesheet using Aseprite or any spritesheet packer software, then just tell the plugin how many columns and rows the file has and let it handle the rest.  

If you're still struggling with both of those methods then you can tell me again and I'll make an update to the plugin.

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Awesome, I was wondering if there was a simple method for batch processing the names but hadn't ever looked into it... I'll give that Advanced Renamer a try. Thanks a bunch!

One more barely-relevant question: Could you possibly make a plugin that can do what this plugin does but for battle scenes, instead of just on the map? Like, make it possible to use separate frame animations and/or animations during battles that aren't limited to RPG Maker's standard sprite sheet sizes? Those Crunch Pix animations I was referring to have some really pretty effects, but they're in a wild variety of sizes and resolutions, and I had quite a headache trying to reformat them with various cheap softwares that I tried out... A lot of them ending up shrinking the frames so much that I couldn't really use them. I already tried using this plugin of yours in an Action Sequence and it didn't seem to do anything, which didn't surprise me -- I don't know the first thing about coding, but I imagine it requires a totally different process from what goes on during map gameplay.

Developer(+1)

Omg I'm sorry for the late reply. I replied to your comment 2 days ago but now that I'm checking again, it wasn't here!!

For a plugin to display animation in battle, I'm afraid I don't have much experience with the RPG Maker built in combat system. There's someone already make a plugin for that on RPG Maker Web forum but I don't remember the name of said plugin. 

Alright, well thanks for the response anyways!

Developer

If you still have the issue with frame numbering thing please let me know and I'll add work on a new feature for the plugin.

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Nah, I tried out the Advanced Renamer software that you mentioned, and it worked perfectly, so that's no longer an issue, thanks a BUNCH for that one! :D