Resource Instant Messages 1.1.2

In the modern day, we heavily utilize texting and instant messaging to have conversations with other people. This plugin allows you to bring a similar system to your own games!

Using pbReceiveIM, you can send the player an instant message you defined.

You can review old messages you received, along side new ones, using pbInstantMessages.

Demo Video of viewing an Instant Messages...

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Krahssen said:

This script is amazing!

By the way, I noticed that it uses "on__step_taken" instead of "on_player_step_taken" for calculating steps. Doesn't this cause the steps from movement events around to be counted instead of the player's steps?

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ardicoozer said:

Just my suggestion,
Maybe, player can access the message via items like a Xtransceiver do ( BW features ).

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wrigty12 said:

You can easily set that up on your own. Just use the pbInstantMessages script call in the item handler. I do call out that you will need to set up a way for the player to access the app in the Basic Setup instructions. Since people have different ways their menus/items are set up, it's easier to have them do it themselves to fit their own game than me try to support every menu/item/etc. out of the box.

"To access the Instant Messages app, you need to call pbInstantMessages. You can create a Pause Menu or Pokegear option to do this, depending on what your game setup looks like. Review the definitions of these for your game, duplicate one, and create one for Instant Messages using this function."

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wrigty12 said:

Huh. Yep. Totally did that. I'll change it on the next update!

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Krahssen said:

That's great to hear! There is also a small issue related to Essentials 21.1. Essentials 21.1 uses the monitor's Hz to determine the framerate. This means that, when calculating the message speed using frames, if you have a 144hz screen, the messages will go very fast. I think this could be resolved by calculating time in seconds rather than frames.
I noticed it when I moved the screen from my 144hz monitor to the 60hz monitor.

Thank you very much for the script

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BEFORE UPDATING ANY FILES: If you have made any edits the Settings or Configurations for the plugin, make sure to make a backup of those files before updating the plugin. If you copy over files to update, it will overwrite your changes. I recommend you duplicate your Configuration files and rename them, so they won't be overwritten when you update.

Change Log

• New feature: Sorting Conversations. Using the SPECIAL key, you...

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Krahssen said:

That's great to hear! There is also a small issue related to Essentials 21.1. Essentials 21.1 uses the monitor's Hz to determine the framerate. This means that, when calculating the message speed using frames, if you have a 144hz screen, the messages will go very fast. I think this could be resolved by calculating time in seconds rather than frames.
I noticed it when I moved the screen from my 144hz monitor to the 60hz monitor.

Thank you very much for the script

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wrigty12 said:

I think I solved it with the latest update. I only have 60 hz monitors, so I can't check the 144 situation. Let me know if it feels right now.

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Krahssen said:

I've been testing it for a while (144Hz and 60HZ) and it seems to be working perfectly now. I'll keep using it over the next few days, so I'll let you know here if any other issues come up.

That said, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I'll explain it anyway:

If I receive a message from a group (not mandatory, meaning it doesn't show up until I open it) and then, a few seconds later, I receive another one from the same group, when I open the group, it shows me both messages (one after the other) step by step.

This isn't much of a problem with a few messages, but if the player hasn't checked, say, 10 group messages and suddenly does, they'll have to sit through a VERY, very long conversation.

Maybe it could be made so that only the most recent message shows the animation, or perhaps that you can skip all of them automatically, so the player can exit the menu more easily than with the message fast-forward option. I’m not sure if you can think of any other way to avoid this.

Thank you so much, once again, amazing resource!

Edit: By the way, if I check the group after receiving more than one message, the timestamp won’t appear (even though it will show up if I exit the menu and go back in).

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The only file that was changed was 004_MessagesUI. You only need to replace that file with the updated one for this update.

Change Log

• Fixed a crash that would occur if an Instant conversation contained more than 1 line of text

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Ryuushedo said:

I got this error

Exception NoMethodError' at Section082:1106 - undefined method each' for "Good Grief":String

Exception EventScriptError' at Section033:177 - EventScriptError


GameData::InstantMessageConversation.register({

:id => :TEAM1,

:group => :TEAM,

:important => true,

:messages => [

[0, :Text, _INTL("It's urgent! there’s a bomb in Chroma City. Long story short, it’s kind of a situation. Can anyone help?")],

[1, :Text, _INTL("Wait, hold up! what? A bomb? In Chroma City? Did I miss something important?")],

[2, :Text, _INTL("Did he just casually say there’s a bomb like it’s nothing? Who’s planting bombs now?")],

[0, :Text, _INTL("Good Grief")],

[0, :Text, _INTL("I met a guy named Nero, one of the cultists")],

[0, :Text, _INTL("He attacked me, and afterward, he told Master Leaf that there’s an explosive set to go off in Chroma City")],

[3, :Text, _INTL("Is there any other lead? Lumina and I are still far away from Chroma City")],

[1, :Text, _INTL("I’m actually in Chroma City right now. Should I alert everyone?")],

[0, :Text, _INTL("No, don’t do that. That could cause a panic, and if they find out... they might detonate the bomb immediately")],

[1, :Text, _INTL("Got it. I’ll wait for you then")],

[3, :Text, _INTL("We’ll get there as soon as we can. Just don’t do anything reckless")],

[2, :Text, _INTL("Yeah, and call us right away if you find the bomb!")],

[0, :Text, _INTL("Got it!")],

]

})

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The only file that was changed was 004_MessagesUI. You only need to replace that file with the updated one for this update.

Change Log

• Fixed player message handling so you can have just a single string instead of choices. This message will appear just like NPC messages would (no player input).

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