Screensaver Effect

[PK8]

Screensaver Effect
Version 1

Introduction
This screensaver effect began as an idea I wanted to script. Intrigued, I felt like scripting it. Whenever there is a user inactivity for a certain amount of time, the screen would automatically change colors (Time and screen tone is up to you.) in a screensaver-like fashion. When the user presses any button RMVX uses, the screensaver would disappear.

Features

• Affects anything with a Scene_Base
• Specify how many seconds of user inactivity there is before a screensaver appears
• Give your screensaver a custom screen tone. (Desaturated? Darken?)
• Scripters can create add-ons to it.

Screenshot
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Demo! (Download here)
Download VX Script/Demo!

Script (Copy into materials section)

Spoiler

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[Dark-Kyo]

Cool, im going to test this out.

 

[woratana]

Good idea for this script, Punk!

Anyway, here are some points you may want to consider:
- Many scripters usually forget to write ‘super’ for update method in the scenes they scripted from scratch. Therefore, this will not work with those scenes. I think to put this script in Graphics.update might be a better idea. ^^
- Sometimes the game has a looooong cutscene or movie that don’t need the player to push any key for long time. You may want to add the switch to disable this script temporary.

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

nice! to bad i use xp any chance u will make for xp?

 

[FlippyD]

Nice script, could you make it so that music also dims when the screensaver comes up, or a little graphic that could appear in the middle of the screen that says "idle"?

 

[rey meustrus]

It looks to me like this could be very, very easily ported to RMXP given two things:

1. Install SDK, including part 3.
2. Change "Scene_Base" in this script to "SDK::Scene_Base"

Since SDK::Scene_Base is scarily similar to VX's Scene_Base, like Enterbrain copied us or somethin'

 

[Kingdom Ablaze]

i wish it was that simple but the sdk kills 90% of my scripts

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Suggesions:

1) Put your constants in your module.

2)

	  if Input.trigger?(Input::R) or Input.trigger?(Input::L)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::A) or Input.trigger?(Input::B)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::C) or Input.trigger?(Input::X)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::Y) or Input.trigger?(Input::Z)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::UP) or Input.trigger?(Input::DOWN)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::LEFT) or Input.trigger?(Input::RIGHT)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::ALT) or Input.trigger?(Input::CTRL)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::SHIFT) or Input.trigger?(Input::F5)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::F6) or Input.trigger?(Input::F7)
		break
	  end
	  if Input.trigger?(Input::F8) or Input.trigger?(Input::F9)
		break
	  end
	  #Buttons End

How about this:

for b in Input::PK_SS_Buttons
  break if Input.trigger?(b)
end

# Then outside that module, add:
module Input
  PK_SS_Buttons = [A, B, C, L, R, X, Y, Z, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, SHIFT, ALT, CTRL, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9]
end

You can do the same for this:

	if Input.press?(Input::R) or Input.press?(Input::L) or Input.press?(Input::A)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::B) or Input.press?(Input::C) or Input.press?(Input::X)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::Y) or Input.press?(Input::Z) or Input.press?(Input::F5)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::F6) or Input.press?(Input::F7) or Input.press?(Input::F8)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::F9) or Input.press?(Input::CTRL) or Input.press?(Input::ALT)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::SHIFT) or Input.press?(Input::UP) or Input.press?(Input::DOWN)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	if Input.press?(Input::LEFT) or Input.press?(Input::RIGHT)
	  @pk_screensaver_time = 0
	end
	#Buttons End

Good idea Punk!