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What This Is:
For those who want to simplify their scripts with shortcuts for essential functions, this pack covers a swath of user needs.
"Convenience Functions for the OHR: Volume 1" offers ~400 new functions to help users speed up the scripting process, focusing primarily on movement commands but not limiting to them, while also allowing for more complex actions in more compressed space, like applying the same actions to an entire group of heroes.
Categories Include:
General Shortcuts
- Wait Functions
- Text Functions
- Slice Functions
- Sound Functions
- Tag Functions
- Timer Functions
- Frame Rate Functions
- Range and Value Functions
- Group Everything Functions
Movement Shortcuts
- Hero Movements
- NPC Movements
- Advanced Hero Movements
- Advanced NPC Movements
- Group Movements (Heroes Only)
- Advanced Group Movements (Heroes Only)
- Position and Animation Movements
- Pixel Movements
- NPC Passage Rules
- Camera Movements
- Bonus Fine-tuned Movements
Character Display and Animation Shortcuts
Tile Animation Shortcuts
General Animation Shortcuts
Tile Reading and Writing Shortcuts
Zone Reading and Writing Shortcuts
Advanced Positioning Shortcuts
Team Building Shortcuts
Stat Manipulation Shortcuts
Special Effects Shortcuts
String Display Shortcuts
What's in the Zip:
This pack includes "convenience functions.txt," which contains all 115 functions, a Word document that explains how each function works, and the "Movement Shortcuts" RPG and script files to demonstrate a few of these functions in action.
Please use "Movement Shortcuts" to practice any function you're not yet comfortable using.
If you have ideas for additional shortcuts, leave a comment on the forums.
Thanks for using them. I hope they work out for you.
Update December 5, 2020:
The complete Convenience Functions for the OHR: Volume 1 is now online. This update includes:
- A PDF for easy-to-access instructions
- Close to 400 functions for hero, npc, and group movements, tile and zone checking and updating, advanced animations, special screen effects, and more!
- An updated edition of the Movement Shortcuts test file and plotscript
If anything's broken or if something doesn't make sense, please let me know in the companion thread.
Hope you all make good use of these functions.