Yanfly Engine Plugins

YEP.111 – Icon Balloons – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

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RPG Maker MV provides us with 15 Balloon Animations to use to allow our events to show emotions with. Sometimes, this just isn’t enough. However, this plugin allows you to use icons from your IconSet to extend the number of balloon types you can use.

Save this image into your project’s img/system folder.

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Tips & Tricks – Power Up Transformations – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Give your party members the ability the ability to transform upon already existing transformations! Ascend to higher forms and crush your opponents!

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Tips & Tricks – Actor Transformations – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Last episode, we showed you how to transform enemies. This episode, we’ll show you how to do it for actors! And yes, they’re done differently! This video will show you how and why.

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Tips & Tricks – Enemy Transformations – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Enemy Transformations can be done through events, but it’s not easy to have events ready all the time at any moment, especially when something like, a state tied to the transformation expires. This video will teach you how to tie transformations together with states!

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Tips & Tricks – Jump (Final Fantasy 4) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Jump, a skill used by Dragoons from the Final Fantasy series, is a skill that launches the user up into the sky for a few turns. After those turns are up, the user lands on the target dealing significant damage. While the user is up in the air, the user becomes unselectable, making the user immune to damage and status effects.

** NOTE ** If you are using ATB or CTB, make sure under Battle Engine Core, you have Timed States and Timed Buffs set to true. This effect should work fine with DTB or any other turn based system.

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Tips & Tricks – Void Shift (World of WarCraft) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

The ability, Void Shift, from World of WarCraft allows the user and the target to swap HP percentages. If the lower of the percentages is below 25%, raise it to 25%. You can now recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Doom (Bravely Default) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In Bravely Default, when a battler is afflicted by Doom, it will die once the status effect counter reaches 0. You can now recreate this very effect in RPG Maker MV!

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YEP.110 – Call Event – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

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This is a reproduced method from RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003. It allows the game to call a page’s events as if it were a common event. These events can be drawn from any event on any map within the game.

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Tips & Tricks – Thorn Bind Hostage (Log Horizon) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Thorn Bind Hostage is a skill from the light novel/anime Log Horizon. It binds the foe with 5 roots, which upon being physically struck, will cut and release damage to the foe. Now, you can recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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YEP.109 – Common Event Menu Setup Pack 2 – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

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For those using the Common Event Menu and are rearranging windows around, you may have realized that it can take quite a bit of work to do. This extension plugin contains various setups that come easy for you to make quick menu setups for. This is the second Common Event Menu Setup Pack, with more options for you to pick from and give your Common Event Menus a nice fresh look fit for each type of menu.

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Tips & Tricks – Topsy-Turvy (Pokémon) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Topsy-Turvy is a skill from Pokémon that flips a target’s buffs and changes into them into debuffs. Likewise, the debuffs on the target will flip and change into buffs. Here’s how you can create such an effect in RPG Maker MV!

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YEP.108 – Actor Party Switch – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

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For games that benefit more from individual party switching, this plugin grants players the ability to switch party members on an individual basis rather than entire parties at a time mid-battle. However, actors that have just switched in and are on cooldown, required for battle, or locked in the party position cannot switch out.

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Tips & Tricks – Thievery (Final Fantasy 9) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Thievery is a skill used by Zidane, the protagonist of Final Fantasy 9. Thievery deals damage based on Zidane’s agility and the number of times Zidane has successfully stolen something from his enemies. Now, you can recreate an effect like this for RPG Maker MV, too!

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Tips & Tricks – Roaming Mend (Star Wars: The Old Republic) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Roaming Mend is a skill used by the Dark Side in Star Wars: The Old Republic. When an ally affected by Roaming Mend is struck, it will heal that ally and then move to another random ally with the same effect. Roaming Mend can heal up to 4 allies this way. Now, you can recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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YEP.107 – Element Core – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

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Elemental control in RPG Maker MV is pretty lacking. The calculation of how multiple elements are handled aren’t very clear nor are they too intuitive when it comes to certain aspects. This plugin also gives way to skills and items having more than one element, battlers being able to absorb, reflect, amplify elemental damage, and more!

NOTE: If you are using the Element Reflect and/or Element Absorb plugins, remove them if you are planning on using this plugin. Don’t worry. This plugin uses the same exact notetag format as those two.

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