FFII Bestiary - For Rpg Maker MZ

GENERAL

Updated version v1.2.0! More info in devlog.

"Final Fantasy II" is a memorable JRPG from the '90's era. This game had a clean and polished bestiary that could be used in different types of games. You can see an example of the original inside this video:

MAIN FEATURES:

- Bestiary system inspired to Final Fantasy II within list and showcase scenes.

- Added enemy death counter usable inside the details window and whenever you want. Every time an enemy is killed, the number of deaths are added to the counter registered to the enemyId.

- Highly customizable battlebacks and enemy details window line per line;

NOTETAGS:

You can set custom battleback1 and battleback2 for single enemies inside the notebox of the enemies' database's entries. Those images are taken from the folders img/battlebacks1/ and img/battlebacks2/. 

Notetags are: 

<BestiaryBB1: filename>

<BestiaryBB2: filename>

PLUGIN PARAMETERS:

BESTIARY NAME -> The name shown in the header window of the bestiary and as command menu;

BESTIARY COMPLETITION FORMAT -> The string shown in the completition window. The "%1" is replaced by completition percent.

DEFAULT MONSTER BATTLEBACKS 1 AND 2: Those are the default battlebacks applied if notetags for enemies battlebacks are nout used.

LOCKED TEXT -> This is the string text used when an enemy entry is still not unlocked.

SHOW IN MENU -> Bool that determines if the bestiary command is shown inside the menu by default;

INFO WINDOW LINES -> Those are the list of lines shown inside the details' window inside the enemy close-up.

Each entry represents a line inside the details' window. Entries are composed by Line Name (the actual parameter name) and the Value that is the value shown on the right of the Line Name.

The Value entry is a string that needs to be assigned to the text variable. Both Line Name and Value can use escape characters/codes.

Moreover, you can use the variables:

enemyId -> Access to the enemy id of the current enemy entry;

enemy -> Using this variable, you can access to the current enemy properties.

PLUGIN COMMANDS:

This plugin is provided by two plugin commands:

FORCE UNLOCK BEAST -> Using this plugin command you can forcefully unlock a monster inside the bestiary.

SHOW BESTIARY IN MENU -> You can decide if showing/hiding the "BESTIARY" command from the game menu.

PLUGIN COMPATIBILITY:

This plugin should be compatible with VisuStella's core's plugins and It should not give problems with other plugins if they do not affect intensively default RPG MAKER MZ library.

Update v1.1.0:

Added a better compatibility for VisuMZ_1_MainMenuCore.js. If this plugin is available inside your plugin manager the "Show In Menu?" parameters will not add automatically the "Bestiary" command in menu. Otherwise, you can add it through the parameters of the MainMenuCore. Here you are some default settings you can use.

Settings for Command Window List plugin parameter:

{"Symbol:str":"_bestiary","Icon:num":"50","TextStr:str":"Bestiary","TextJS:func":"\"\"","ShowJS:func":"\"return !!$gameSystem._showBestiary\"","EnableJS:func":"\"return true\"","ExtJS:func":"\"return null;\"","CallHandlerJS:func":"\"SceneManager.push(Scene_Bestiary)\"","PersonalHandlerJS:func":"\"\""}

However, you can edit those settings the way you want if you have the knowledge for doing so. For example, the "$gameSystem._showInMenu" could be used for determining if the command is enabled instead of determining the command visibility in menu if you need to do something different.

RPG MAKER VERSION:

The plugin is developed on Rpg Maker MZ - Version 1.3.0 and with the related PIXI.js Version 5.2.4. 

This plugin is NOT compatible with RPG MAKER MV.

TERMS OF USE:

• Credits to BlueMoon.
• Avoid to change plugin information, filename and parameters name for the sake of integrity of the code.
• Edits to the code are allowed.
• The plugin can be used for both commercial and non-commercial projects.
• You can't redistribute this plugin as it is or incorporating portion of the code inside another plugin;