Yanfly Engine Plugins

5 Fun Ways to Make Guarding More Interesting – 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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Battle systems are a major part of any traditional RPG. And the ability to Guard is also a key staple of battle systems. Yet, Guarding gets next to no love when it comes to designing RPG’s, so how about we find out ways to change things up a bit and make Guarding a much more interesting gameplay mechanic?

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Taunt
Weapon Unleash

YEP.164 – Core Updates and Desktop Optimization – 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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Does your game project have at least base code (rpg_x.js) 1.4.0 or above? And has RPG Maker MV updated past that, but you don’t feel like updating the base code manually, probably because you’ve made some edits to the code itself? Yet, you still want to take advantage of the changes from the version ups? This plugin will take care of that for you while keeping your base code intact, while ‘patching’ the changes made from higher version ups.

This plugin also adds in the updates and new functions from the versions leading up to 1.5.2 to ensure that your project has the most up to date functions even if it is running 1.4.0. This way, you do not have to tamper with the game project’s base code files yourself.

Note: you will still have to download the newest Pixi libraries and to get things working properly with this plugin. More will be explained in this plugin’s instructions section under the help file.

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RPG Maker MV 1.6.0 Emergency Update

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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A few plugins are known to crash/bug up upon the release of the RPG Maker MV 1.6.0 update. They’re pretty big ones, too. Please update the following plugins if you are using them:

You can grab the updated plugins here:
Core Engine
Item Core
Grid-Free Doodads

For a batch download of the whole YEP library, click here.

YEP.163 – Battle Animation Speed Options – 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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Player comfort is a major thing to pay attention to when it comes to designing video games nowadays. RPG’s are no exception either. And inside of RPG’s, the player is usually within a battle a large portion of the time. And for this large portion of the time, players are often waiting for battle animations to finish playing.

This plugin adds in the ability for players to choose how fast they want battle animations to play from inside the options menu. From the default speed, which plays one animation frame per four real frames, to the fastest setting, which plays one animation frame per one real frame, the player now has the option to choose how quickly things progress in battle.

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YEP.162 – Advanced Switches and Variables Tutorial – RPG Maker MV

NOTE: This is a tutorial made for the Advanced Switches & Variables plugin.

Many of you have asked what are some more ways we can use this plugin. That’s a very good question because there’s a lot of things you can do with this plugin. However, instead of giving the answers to every single example, it may be better for me to give you the actual Eval codes themselves and the description so you can figure out the things you can do with it, instead. There will be a “possible use” example listed just to give you an idea how things may be used. Hopefully, upon reading the descriptions for each one, you may come up with some ideas or answers to what you are looking for!

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YEP.162 – Advanced Switches and Variables – RPG Maker MV

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For the advanced users out there with JavaScript experience, you can set certain switches and variables to return data about the game through pieces of code on the get go. This can be used for event page conditions, enemy AI conditions, troop page conditions, and more! Continue reading →

YEP.161 – Lunatic Pack – Passive Condition Cases – 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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Passive States can be a powerful addition to a game, but if they are always active throughout a battle, they can be a little too powerful. Sometimes, you will want to limit the extent at which your passive states will be active by imposing conditional cases upon them. If all of the passive’s conditional cases have been met, then the passive will become active. This plugin adds a multitude of conditional cases for you to be able to use in your game and limit certain passive states from having their effects active at all times.

*NOTE*: This plugin is best used with RPG Maker MV version 1.5.0+. You can still use this plugin with a lower version number, but you will have a much harder time altering the plugin parameters without it.

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An Announcement

Heya, all! How’s everyone doing?

I’ll have to cut to the chase a bit and deliver some bad news…

As of late, I’ve been overworking myself (again) and the signs have finally started showing up for the past week. I managed to haul myself to the doctor this morning to get a check up and I may end up getting some serious health issues again if I don’t keep this overworking in check. The good news is, this time, I’ve caught it early ahead of time.

I probably didn’t realize it, but ever since Tigress and Chickie left the team and I took over their spots, the amount of extra work started to build up again. Across the course of a half year, combined with my full time day job, I’ve ended up reaching that overworked status again. ><

As you can guess, I may have to cut down the amount of work I put into RPG Maker again, but for health reasons, I’ll be taking a small break this month. I’ve already taken a sick leave from work for the following two weeks after this one so I’ll be doing the same for RPG Maker…

That is to say, I will be finishing the plugin scheduled to be released this Friday for you all. But after that, it will be until January before I start working on RPG Maker again. With that in mind, I will be making some changes to the usual routine coming January 2018, though I’m unsure of what just yet. Naturally, I will go through it with you guys first so that nothing will be a complete surprise.

I also want to thank you all for your continued support and passion! Being able to share this passion for RPG Making that we love so much is what drives me to constantly work on new plugins and whatnot with you all! But beyond that, I would also like to remind you all to mind your health. Don’t let it suffer. Getting enough sleep, eating properly, and maintaining your body is just as important to your game’s development as your own passion. Passion is a double-edged sword that drives us forward to making progress but also blinds us to our limits. Remember to keep your passion in check and take care of yourselves, too.

I’ll be back now and then to post some updates on the situation. Don’t let me spoil your holidays and be sure to have some fun, too!

Yanfly

YEP.160 – Event Timer Control – 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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The event timer is often used for countdown purposes. However, sometimes you would like to have a bit more control over it, such as being able to pause and resume the timer, increase or decrease the seconds, minutes, or even hours on the timer. Don’t want a countdown timer? Why not have it count upwards instead? Experienced Lunatic Mode coders will be able to add in their own plugin commands, too!

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YEP.159 – Lunatic Pack – Action Beginning and End Effects – 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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Sometimes, we’d like to add additional effects to our actions in battle. These effects can range from adding more HP, applying a new state to the user after everything else has happened, removing debuffs, playing an animation, or even absorbing a fraction of all the total damage directly dealt by the action this turn. This Lunatic Pack provides a new batch of effects that you can use to empower your items and skills, or to even globalize them as a result of states.

*NOTE*: This plugin is best used with RPG Maker MV version 1.5.0+. You can still use this plugin with a lower version number, but you will have a much harder time altering the plugin parameters without it.

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YEP.158 – Lunatic Pack – Critical Sway – 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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Ever wanted to have a bit more variety in how critical hits are determined in your game? This plugin gives you the ability to sway the critical hit rate of skills, items, and states in your game! Users affected by it can have their actions result in criticals based off their own HP values or the enemy’s! Or perhaps the idea of linking the critical hit rate to the element rate of the action, too? You can also alter the critical hit rate based off the number of states, buffs, or debuffs on either the user or the target!

*NOTE*: This plugin is best used with RPG Maker MV version 1.5.0+. You can still use this plugin with a lower version number, but you will have a much harder time altering the plugin parameters without it.

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YEP.157 – Lunatic Pack – State Protection – RPG Maker MV

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This plugin allows you to add a variety of protection effects to your states to allow them to reduce HP or MP damage in more unique ways, from cutting off a percentage of the original damage, blocking off damage entirely once certain break points are met, capping damage in certain ways, and surviving fatal damage. And should any of those effects trigger, you can set the state to perform special effects, too!

*NOTE*: This plugin is best used with RPG Maker MV version 1.5.0+. You can still use this plugin with a lower version number, but you will have a much harder time altering the plugin parameters without it.

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YEP.156 – Map Quest Window – 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 plugin adds a new window to the map scene: a Quest Window to display whatever quest is currently active and its unfinished objectives. This way, the player can conveniently look at the needed quest objectives that are needed to be completed. The player can also set or clear the currently active quest from the Quest Journal System menu.

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YEP.155 – Lunatic Pack – Skill Rewards – RPG Maker MV

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This plugin allows you to add a variety of effects to your items and skills to reward the player for good (or bad) gameplay. Certain effects can only trigger under specific conditions, such as defeating the target, landing a critical hit, or striking the target’s weakness. After these conditions have been met, the effects can range from refunding skill costs, adding buffs, removing debuffs, or even applying states.

*NOTE*: This plugin is best used with RPG Maker MV version 1.5.0+. You can still use this plugin with a lower version number, but you will have a much harder time altering the plugin parameters without it.

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