[CGMZ] Animated Battle Backs (Patreon)

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Hi all, this plugin adds animations to your battle backgrounds to help make them less static.

The plugin works by allowing you to create "animated battle background" properties in the plugin manager, and then in your maps you will change the battle background using plugin command to call that animated background via the id assigned to it. When you no longer want to use the animated background, you use the Clear Battle Back plugin command.

As for the actual animations, you can attach an unlimited amount of them to your animated battle background properties. Animations use a sprite-sheet based animation style, with as many frames as you want. You can have a starting or replay delay, specify the x/y coordinates of the animation, the x/y scale of the animation, and the delay between switching frames.

The following features are planned for this plugin in the future:
1) Scrolling backgrounds
2) Animations that can move and change scale
3) Animations that cycle through multiple sprite sheets

Have another feature you'd like to see added? Leave a comment below with your suggestion, or use the #suggestions channel in the Casper Gaming Discord.

Happy RPG Making!

This update makes it easier to control when the animations are shown in the battle background.

You can now have your animations start the battle hidden. There are also two new plugin commands: Show Animation and Hide Animation. These will allow you to show/hide an animation during the battle.

Animations now also have an opacity parameter, in case you want slightly transparent animations.