[Scripting Question] Changing Trainer Card Barkground Periodically

[dannydmf]

Hello!

I'm trying to figure out how to change the Trainer Card background based on different milestones throughout the project I'm working on. The general sense is that you start off with a white trainer card, then get a green one, then a red one, etc. throughout the game. A note is that I don't want to change "trainercard.png", just "trainercardbg.png". I figure this is probably easy to do if you know your way around the script, but unfortunately I'm not too good at it.

Any and all help is appreciated! 😊

 

[NettoHikari]

The PScreen_TrainerCard script section handles the background, so you just need to replace this bit near the top:

if $Trainer.isFemale? && background
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_f",@viewport)
else
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg",@viewport)
end

with something like:

if MILESTONE2 # Replace with your second milestone
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_r",@viewport)
elsif MILESTONE1 # Replace with your first milestone
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_g",@viewport)
else # When player has not achieved any milestones yet
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg",@viewport)
end

Of course, you can extend this to have as many milestones and backgrounds as you want by adding more if-statements.

 

[dannydmf]

The PScreen_TrainerCard script section handles the background, so you just need to replace this bit near the top:

if $Trainer.isFemale? && background
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_f",@viewport)
else
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg",@viewport)
end

with something like:

if MILESTONE2 # Replace with your second milestone
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_r",@viewport)
elsif MILESTONE1 # Replace with your first milestone
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg_g",@viewport)
else # When player has not achieved any milestones yet
  addBackgroundPlane(@sprites,"bg","Trainer Card/bg",@viewport)
end

Of course, you can extend this to have as many milestones and backgrounds as you want by adding more if-statements.

Thanks for the response!

Would "MILESTONE1", "MILESTONE2" correspond with a switch/variable/comment/script command in the editor? I apologize if it's obvious, I have a really low comprehension of scripting. Thanks again.

 

[NettoHikari]

Thanks for the response!

Would "MILESTONE1", "MILESTONE2" correspond with a switch/variable/comment/script command in the editor? I apologize if it's obvious, I have a really low comprehension of scripting. Thanks again.

It could correspond to any conditional statement. In your case, global switches will probably be the easiest and most readable to use. For example, for your first milestone, you can have a Global Switch 42 (or whatever number you choose) that gets set to "true" when the player has reached the milestone, so then "MILESTONE1" becomes "$game_switches[42]". Then you can set up more global switches for your other milestones and do the same.

 

[Ego13]

If you have multiple milestones I'd recommend using a global variable and just increase it by 1 when the player hits the milestone. It's less switches to keep track of and even easier to read imo