YEP.150 – DragonBones Integration – RPG Maker MV

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DragonBones allows your games to use skeletal animation, a type of computer animation in which a character (or object) is represented by skins/textures and a digital set of interconnected bones (called the skeleton). Using a set of instructions, the game will create animations based off these skins, skeletons, and instructions to create beautifully smooth and light-weight movements.

This plugin, made by TheGreenKel, and collaborated with Yanfly, will allow you to use skeletal animations made by DragonBones for your battle system! This means that with skeletal animation, you can make your battles look extremely fluid, more flexible animations outside of only 3 frames per motion, more than 18 possible motions, get rid of sprite based resources for faster loading times, and smaller file sizes for your games! In other words, there’s practically no drawback to using it provided you have the resources.

This is a collaboration plugin by TheGreenKel and Yanfly to ensure compatibility with the Yanfly Engine Plugins library.

Installation

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Introduction

This is a collaboration plugin by TheGreenKel and Yanfly to ensure compatibility with the Yanfly Engine Plugins library.

MIT License and Terms of Use

MIT License for the remaining code of the Plugin

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Yanfly Engine Plugins Terms of Use

Any original material made by Yanfly is free for use with both free and commercial RPG Maker games unless specified otherwise. I do not demand royalties or special liberties if you choose to use Yanfly original content in your commercial games. (Although a free copy of your game would be nice!) I only ask that you provide ‘Yanfly’ or ‘Yanfly Engine’ a spot in your game’s credits.

Any edits made to Yanfly original material are okay as long as you still provide the proper credit. Any non-Original content posted, linked, or shared on my website and channel will still require you to contact the respective parties for permission of use.

Installation Instructions

Follow these instructions to integrate DragonBones into your game:

1. Make sure you have at least RPG Maker MV version 1.4.0 or above. Recommended version is 1.5.0 and above!

2. Download the Installation Pack from Yanfly.moe or from here

3. Extract the Installation Pack using WinZip or WinRar.

4. Copy the contents of the ‘js’ folder into your project’s folder matching the directory structure and files.

5. Open up your game project’s index.html file with Notepad/HTML editor

6. Find <script type=”text/javascript” src=”js/libs/pixi-picture.js”> and insert the following lines under it:

7. Install this plugin by adding it through your Plugin Manager. 8. Make sure this plugin is located UNDER the following plugins:
YEP_BattleEngineCore
YEP_X_ActSeqPack1
YEP_X_ActSeqPack2
YEP_X_ActSeqPack3
YEP_X_AnimatedSVEnemies

9. Copy the DragonBone assets from the Installation pack into the respective folder you wish for your game project. Adjust the ‘Assets Path’ plugin parameter to match the folder path.

10. Save your game project!

General Usage by TheGreenKel

The plugin is only tested on DragonBones 5.2 & 5.3. I rewrote a chunk of the plugin to make it compatible with Yanfly plugins, and possibly more.

Usage:
1) After confirming your DragonBones Armature/Skeleton shares the name of your Battler, export DragonBones data into the ‘Assets Path’ parameter. Default is ‘dragonbones_assets’

2) Add the new armature data into ‘Preload Assets’ parameter

3) This plugin will automatically look for the 18 default animations inside the dragonbones armature.
[walk, swing, damage, dead, wait, chant, guard, etc.]

4) You can overwrite default animation by using ‘dragonbone_ani_’ notes.
Example: ‘dragonbone_ani_walk:steady’, the ‘steady’ animation will be played inplace of the ‘walk’

5) Vanilla actor/enemies now show up by default. You need to replace it with a blank image. Check the demo project to see what a blank image would look like. This change will make this plugin more compatible with plugins that changes UI.

6) If you are using Yanfly Action Sequence 2, you can now play any dragonbones’ animation using the ‘motion’ command.
Example: “motion dance”. The game will look into the dragonbones armature to see if it has the ‘dance’ animation. If the animation is there then the animation will be played.

7) You can now control whether an animation is looping or not by setting the ‘Play Times’ variable inside the Dragonbones Editor.

8) Get more info/tutorial at forum link:
Link

Notetags

Use the following notetags to make full use of your DragonBone battler integration for your RPG Maker MV game!

Actor and Enemy Notetags:

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<DragonBone: name>
<DragonBone Battler: name>
– Sets the DragonBones associated with this actor/enemy to be “name”. The name will be associated with the assets used. It will be used to check for associated filenames that end with _ske.json, _tex.json, and _tex.png. The listed assets must be found in your assets folder.

Note: The name is case sensitive.
Note: If the plugin parameter ‘Auto-Preload Battlers’ is set to ‘true’, then this will add the battler to the list of assets to be preloaded.

*EXAMPLES**

<DragonBone: Demon>
<DragonBone: DragonBoy>
<DragonBone: Swordsman>
<DragonBone: Ubbie>

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If a DragonBones battler is not detected here, it will not be able to utilize the following notetags and their effects.

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<DragonBone ScaleX: n>
<DragonBone ScaleY: n>
– Replace ‘n’ with a number. It can be positive or negative, whole or decimal number. This will affect how much the battler will be scaled by. A number less than 1 will be smaller than the base asset itself while a number larger than 1 will be larger than the base asset. If the number is negative, it will be mirrored horizontally or vertically depending if
ScaleX or ScaleY is used respectively.

Note: This will overwrite the setting set in the plugin parameters for ‘Default ScaleX’ and ‘Default ScaleY’.

*EXAMPLES**

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<DragonBone Width: x>
<DragonBone Height: x>
– This allows you to set the ‘width’ and ‘height’ of the DragonBones battler by replacing ‘x’ with an integar value. This value is mostly used for collision purposes as well as mouse click activation. These values can be adjusted because each battler can be a dynamic width/height so it is important for you to adjust them properly. If not adjusted, they will take
on the default width/height values found in the plugin parameters.

*EXAMPLES**

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<DragonBone Keep Sprite>
<DragonBone Replace Sprite>
– Lets you decide if you want to keep the original sprite used for the actor/enemy or have the DragonBone battler replace it altogether. If you opt to replace the sprite, then the sprite will be hidden during battle as long as there is a DragonBone battler in place of it.

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<DragonBone Ani motion: animation>
– Replace ‘motion’ with a proper battler motion name. ‘animation’ is to be replaced with a skeletal animation name from DragonBones. This is for any motion that doesn’t have a specified skeletal animation of the same name in DragonBones.

Replace ‘motion’ with one of the following:
attack
walk thrust escape
wait swing victory
chant missile dying
guard skill abnormal
damage spell sleep
evade item dead

Note: The ‘animation’ to be replaced is case sensitive.

*EXAMPLES**

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For those who want a more condensed way to adjust the DragonBone battler settings, you can use the following notetag format:

<DragonBone Settings>
Battler: name // The name used for the DB battler

ScaleX: 0.3 // Scale X used for the DB battler
ScaleY: 0.3 // Scale Y used for the DB battler
Width: 150 // Width used for the DB battler
Height: 180 // Height used for the DB battler

// Below are a bunch of battler motions tied to skeletal animations

Ani Attack: normalAttack
Ani Walk: steady
Ani Damage: hit
Ani Dead: dead
Ani Swing: normalAttack
Ani Wait: steady
Ani Chant: stun
Ani Swing: stun
Ani Evade: stun
Ani Thrust: stun
Ani Missile: stun
Ani Skill: stun
Ani Spell: stun
Ani Item: stun
Ani Victory: stun
Ani Dying: stun
Ani Abnormal: stun
Ani Sleep: stun

Keep Sprite // Allow the sprite to show alongside DB battler
Replace Sprite // Hide the sprite while the DB battler is active
</DragonBone Settings>

– Anything placed in between the notetags: <DragonBone Settings> and </DragonBone Settings> will be used to determine the properties set for the DragonBone battler used for the actor/enemy. With the exception of the ‘name’ property, all other properties are optional and can be omitted from the list of properties to sandwich inbetween your notetags.

*EXAMPLES**

<DragonBone Settings>
Battler: Ubbie
Replace Sprite
ScaleX: -0.2
ScaleY: 0.2
Width: 150
Height: 100
</DragonBone Settings>

<DragonBone Settings>
Battler: Demon
Replace Sprite
ScaleX: 0.3
ScaleY: 0.3
Width: 140
Height: 140
</DragonBone Settings>

<DragonBone Settings>
Battler: Swordsman
Replace Sprite
ScaleX: -0.4
ScaleY: 0.4
Width: 150
Height: 180
</DragonBone Settings>

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