[VX] Biographies.

[thanatos2k1]

Ok, so I've browsed tthe forum quite a bit and I've seen many actor biographies.. however.. what I'm looking for is a scene that allows you to choose characters in your story such as in Final Fantasy Tactics..  I can easily do this with events, however I am quite annoyed by the limit of 4 choices in the Show Choice event, I would like to see it have a scrolling menu on the side that you can select from that depicts the names of characters throughout your story, (like choices) and when you select it a window displays picture and a short paragraphed story of the selection.  Also the selections should not all be active from the beginning.  It would workk better that when you meet or hear about the character in game, that the biography becomes active.. like this:

  Your character has met "Elric Yore"

Control Variable: Biography = 1

If Biography >= 1
  Display "Elric Yore's" Biography in the window..

It seems like a pretty simple script or event that can make this work..  does anyone have something like this or point me in the right direction?

[thanatos2k1]

No ideas? -.-

[Nessiah]

You could make an evented choice menu or something?

[thanatos2k1]

Yes but I'm limited to only 4 choices, (One of which would be cancel)  I don't want you to have to go through a hundred choices, off the top of my head there will be at least 50 biographies, most likely more..  now if you are hardcore into a story..  Would you like to have to cycle through 30 something menus looking for something or would you like it in one full screen window you can cycle through, (like the item window)..

I'll see if I can find a picture of Final Fantasy Tactics "Brave Story" option so I can show you what I mean.

[thanatos2k1]

bump

[Nessiah]

Yes but I'm limited to only 4 choices, (One of which would be cancel) 

I meant a real evented choice menu.
http://rmt.divinelegy.com/templates/intermediate/menu.html

If for some reason it doesn't work: http://web.archive.org/web/20091015042557/http://rmt.divinelegy.com/
And if it still doesn't work, go get rpgmaker 2003 and download this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17078211/rmtutorial/menu.zip

if you want to know how it looks like:


or check this out, the same logic applies except it's not really an item menu:
http://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/410/

Another one is get Modern Algebra's ATS and learn how he handled choices, he did something like that where you can make custom windows for choices if I remember correctly. You'll most likely need RGSS knowledge.

Then there's Yanfly's script, scene status redux (I don't have it). I remember KGC also had one but I don't know which one it is. I also remember in rpgmakervx.net they also have a biography script but yeah.

[thanatos2k1]

MA has a catalogue base script that looks like it would work nice. As shown above.  It would be called from an event and display text based on a variable like this:

The window should be called by talking to an NPC, the names on the left should be selectable,
and the biography should be formatted nicely.  I saw a biography script like this but it only worked for actors.  Ideally I would like it to be user friendly where I can plug in information, and the names should only be displayed after a certain variable is reached such as

if $game.variable[16] = 32 then display these names:
Ralph
King Greyhem
Hiro

if $game.variable[16] = 33 then display these names:
Ralph
King Greyhem
Hiro
Kefka

if $game.variable[16] = 32 then display these names:
Ralph
King Greyhem
Hiro
Ulrika
Kefka

Please let me know if anyone can help.