I just started getting into RPG Maker, and I just finished all the tutorials. I want to make a game that has interactive portraits like Melty Quest and Violated Heroine, but I have not seen how to do that in RPG Maker MZ. Is it a plug in? I have spent hours on YouTube watching plugin videos to see if any did that, but no luck. I noticed that your screenshots do something similar, and I figured I would ask how you are accomplishing the reactive character portrait on the right side of the screen. Is this built into RPG maker and I am stupid? Or is it a plug-in? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It can be done with Eventing,
You could create a Parallel Common Event (remember to set a Switch for it to run)
Set the Image you want to normally appear, and put a IF condition that will erase the main image a put another one (for example) When hurt,
Can be done like this, But if you want it more Sophisticated you'd like to link one Common event to another common event
That handles a Being hit Switch, For example, and turns it off automatically after 2 seconds
Here in this example, you see that Hit Switch will be off after 2 seconds
So for example, You activate an event and this event ONs the Hit Switch, the image will change to the being HIT image and after 2 seconds it will Turn it off and change back to normal
Remember that you need another Switch for the parallel to work in first place, this is also good for when you need to shut off this system
Edit> Oh yeah, remember that you should manage the Number of Show picture, because if you use #1 for example and another events want to call #1 for another image, the command will not work. This is why plugins could give an advantage in this case, since they don't occupy Image slots of the engine.
So for any system that Requires Many images slots I rather recommend a plugin for that, If you don't know how to JS yourself you can Start by looking What classes and subclasses handles certain elements.
