[MZ] AlertRegion

License: Free for personal or commercial use. 

Context: In games where player positioning is important for gameplay to trigger events depending on the player's position, it can be a tiring and repetitive task to exhaustion if all the tasks that involve this are done only by event commands.

Description: This script allows the developer to activate / deactivate switches when the player enters a land marked as a preconfigured region.

How to use this script: No plugin configuration is required. After activating it in the RPG MAKER MZ it will be ready to be used!

Configuring the map regions: For each map, the developer can configure up to 255 different regions. Setting up a region is quite simple, as long as the developer inserts a tag in the “Note” field in the Map settings where he wants the alert to work. The following theme tag structure:

<alertRegionID:switchId, value>

• <alertRegion is the tag suffix
• ID is the region number
• switchIdis the number of the database switch that will be manipulated.
• value is the value to be assigned to the switch. It can be true, false or temp.

Alert types: There are basically two types of alerts, a permanent alert and a temporary alert.

2) Permanent alert: in this type of alert, a database switch is activated or deactivated when the player moves to a terrain marked as a pre-configured region. When he leaves this land, the state of the switch will not be changed.

To set up a Permanent Alert, assign "true" or "false" to the value in the tag configuration.

Example 1: ACTIVATE switch 1 in the database when the player enters region 4.

<alertRegion1:4,true>

Example 2: DISABLE switch 2 from the database when the player enters region 10.

<alertRegion2:10,false>

2) Temporary Alert: In this type of alert, a database switch is ON as long as the player remains in a terrain marked as a pre-configured region. When he leaves this terrain, the switch is turned off.

To configure the temporary alert tag, assign “temp” to value in the tag configuration.

Example 3: Set switch number 3 in the database to be activated while the player remains on a terrain marked as region 89.

<alertRegion89:3,temp>