Casper Gaming August 2024 Recap

Hi all, below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in August 2024, in case you missed any of them. You can also get notifications when an update occurs in the Casper Gaming Discord.

New Releases

[CGMZ] World Map - Show a world map with icons and other markers on top. You can cause icons to appear over the world map when needed, and hide them when not needed. This allows a world map that can give the player location info for important quest objective locations and other info. You can also show the player's current location on the map. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-world-map-109992307

[BGM] Tower of Wings - This one is an epic sky themed track that could be used for either a floating dungeon or a floating town. It sounds a bit more like a dungeon, but could be used for just about anything in the sky. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-tower-of-109357557

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Animated Battle Backs - This was updated to add support for map notetags to control animated battle backs on your maps, instead of needing to use an event to set up the animated battle back. It also added flicker support for animations, and the ability to change the animation anchor. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87940414

[CGMZ] Scan - You can now use a drag and drop parameter to determine which info is shown in the scan, and in what order (similar to my other plugins). Drops, gold, and exp were added as scan info possibilities. You can also have the scan wait for player input instead of being a timed wait. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-scan-106105822

[CGMZ] Conditional Choices - Your conditional choices can now check if an actor has a weapon or armor actively equipped, instead of just being in the inventory. These new conditions also work with the condition id system. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/84645787

[CGMZ] Currency System - This plugin was updated to add custom buy / sell prices for each currency. By default, they will be the price in the database, but you can now override this default. Of course, if the shop sets specific prices, those will still be used over these new custom currency defaults just like the default currency. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62959824

[CGMZ] Hooks - This update changed how hooks are set up quite significantly. Instead of one hook per action, you can now have multiple hooks per action. For example, if you wanted to recover all on level up AND display a balloon icon, you could make those 2 separate hooks. This should help cut down complex and long hooks that did multiple things. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/79987888

[CGMZ] Idle - This plugin was updated to add commands to forcibly clear idle status, or forcibly enter idle status. This can help you make cutscenes which either ensure the player is not idle or is idle. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/82921781

[CGMZ] Pixi Filters - This plugin was updated to allow filters to affect the entire screen. This will include pictures, the timer, and anything else added to the spriteset. It still will not affect things that are not part of the spriteset, such as windows. A future update will be needed to get it working where it impacts windows. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/43753620

[CGMZ] Event Names - A horizontal float option was added, so your name does not need to float vertically but can also float horizontally as well. More control was given to you regarding the opacity by distance feature, allowing you to control the distances in which this starts changing opacity and allowing for smoother opacity updating than previous versions. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-event-names-94910357

[CGMZ] Drop Tables - Previously, the option to communicate what dropped to the player was through the game message window. This pauses player movement while it is open, which could be undesirable. This is no longer the only option, as [CGMZ] Toast Manager integration was added and you can now show drops through toast windows. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64381140

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Event Movement - A new movement type was added: stalk. This will attempt to remain a certain amount of tiles away from the player. This update also added random waits between animation timing, so your step events don't all step at the exact same time like robots. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48715865

[CGMZ] Reputations - You can now have negative ranks that count downwards below 0! These ranks function similarly to positive ranks, other than they will be from 0 to -1000, or -1001 to -5000, etc. You must enable an option to allow the reputation amount to go below 0 to use these ranks as well, as by default the reputation amount cannot go below 0. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/48997915

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - Some utility functions for drawing an sv actor sprite to a window were added, which can also be animated though it takes extra work. The function is meant for drawing a single frame of an sv actor to a window. This update also added a function for basic comment reading. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Crafting - This plugin received a small update to fix a crash that could occur when touch UI was disabled. It also removed the confusing Always Show Recipes parameter, and instead added individual options for each condition that could cause a recipe to not display. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/crafting/

[CGMZ] Encyclopedia - This was a large update that added custom headers and custom info to all categories. Actors can now have their walk or battle sprites drawn, which are also animated. You can now open the encyclopedia scene by using an item. Windows now all have opacity, tone, padding, and skin options. All text should now support text codes, and some bugs were fixed too. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/encyclopedia/

Other

There is an ongoing poll for the next free plugins to receive updates and what those updates will include. You can vote now at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-next-plugin-110612109

The polls for the next small plugin and next bgm have ended. The small plugin will be a Dice System, and the BGM will be a pyramid themed BGM. Thanks to all who voted in those polls! The BGM poll is open to free members, while plugin polls require at least the $1 tier to vote.

August was a busy month for me, though things should be returning to normal for Casper Gaming in September. That is also why this recap is a few days late 😅.

Thanks for being a part of the Casper Gaming community 😁 Happy RPG Making!