May 2025 Recap (Patreon)

Hi all, below you can see all of the updates Casper Gaming released in May 2025, in case you missed any of them. You can also get notifications when an update occurs in the Casper Gaming Discord or by following me on various social media.

New Releases

[CGMZ] Window Settings - Control windowskin, tone, padding, back opacity, and more. Allows you to manipulate the built-in default windows, as well as any third party plugin's window as long as you know the window constructor name. It has an easy to sue preset system for even easier integration with [CGMZ] plugins. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-window-129957107

[CGMZ] Inn Shop - A shop UI for selecting rooms at an inn. Instead of the basic stay and refill full hp for a set amount of gold, allow your player to select a room with various effects and costs displayed. Make a cheap basic room that only refills some hp or allow them to select a suite that fully restores everything for a matching price. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-inn-shop-129152773

[Icons] Controller Icons - Icons meant to represent buttons on popular controllers including xbox, playstation, and nintendo. They come in both unpressed and pressed variants. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/controller-icons

[BGM] The Convent of the Unremembered - A BGM fit for a church, monastery, or other religious zone that may give your player the idea that it may not be as holy as it appears. Of course, you can also use it anywhere else you think it fits. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bgm-convent-of-128024959

Alpha Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Quest System - This plugin received an update to allow you to hide rewards from displaying in the quest log and other areas of the quest system where they could display. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/52804166

[CGMZ] Picture Gallery - You can now optionally call the picture gallery scene with only one category and skip category select entirely. This allows you to event separate gallery scenes. Some integrations with other [CGMZ] plugins were added such as Scene Backgrounds and Controls Window. You can now change the category image style to fit and portion, to ensure you have complete control over how the category image displays in the window. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-picture-99761667

[CGMZ] Drop Tables - You can now set a variable for the drop amount, type, and id of the most recent drop. This can help you event any messages or other displays to the player based on what dropped from a drop table. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/64381140

[CGMZ] Currency System - You can now have columns in your currency bag, as well as complete control over the strings printed out in the currency bag scene. The help window position is also configurable now to either appear above or below the currency select window. The exchange scene now supports currencies with a max of 0 (infinite). Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/62959824

[CGMZ] Scan - You can now reveal the enemy's weakness and strengths in a scan. It also added an integration with [CGMZ] Enemy Upgrade to show an enemy's locations they can be encountered. Optionally, you can show location by note tags as well. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-scan-106105822

[CGMZ] Animated Battle Backs - This plugin was updated to add video battle backs, and the option to hide battle back sprites along with it. However, you do not have to hide battle back sprites when showing video if you would like sprites to appear in front of the video. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/87940414

[CGMZ] Scene Backgrounds - You can now play a video as a scene background, which will loop. This can be used to create much cleaner animated scene backgrounds. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/81531935

[CGMZ] Battle Swaps - This plugin was updated to allow you to hide the frame of the actor select window, and clean up the case where there are no selectable actors for battle swapping by adding some text to let the player know they do not have any actors that can swap in. It also added an integration with [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-battle-126903539

[CGMZ] Dungeon Tools - This plugin was updated to add the option of jumping for the hookshot instead of the slower gather animation. The hookshot now also goes slightly further if it collides with something, giving a better visual of it connecting to something. You can now set gamepad buttons to -1 to not use them. The Change Tool Access functionality was converted to an easier to use game switch. Link: https://casper-gaming.itch.io/cgmz-dungeon-tools

[CGMZ] Steal - The much requested waiting functionality is now in this plugin. You can wait for a timed wait, or for an input from the player after steal results are shown so the player can read more easily what was stolen. You can also now optionally award stolen items only after battle, and display normal skill effects from your steal skill such as damage, etc. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/cgmz-steal-117867957

[CGMZ] Hidden Objects - You can now show a clickable sprite that can show or hide the collection window, allowing your player to have a more complete view of your hidden objects scene. This update also fixed the collection window going slightly off screen in some cases. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/42891546

[CGMZ] Daily Rewards - This plugin was updated to show a timer window allowing the player to know how long they have until they can collect the next daily reward. This update also fixed a bug where the collection window would not update if the player had the scene open when the next reward became available. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60561458

Beta Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Self Variables - This update added self switches in the same format as self variables. This is useful if you want more than the 4 default self switch options, for complex events. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74503192

[CGMZ] Encounter Conditions - You can now have gold conditions, including [CGMZ] Currency System custom currency conditions. [CGMZ] Quest System conditions were also added, so you can make troops only encountered while on a quest, etc. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/76262737

[CGMZ] Light Effects - This plugin now supports rotations on lights, including both an initial rotation for static lights as well as an updating rotation to continually rotate the light. This can be used for things like spotlights and other common rotating lights. The global light visibility functionality has also been converted into an easy to use game switch. Link: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57452022

Free Plugin Updates

[CGMZ] Core - The monthly Core update added utility functions for playing videos and removed some old temporary functions that are no longer used by [CGMZ] plugins. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/core/

[CGMZ] Global Data - This plugin fixed a bug when adding global switches or variables in the plugin parameters and trying to use them with saved games. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/globaldata/

[CGMZ] Title Command Window - You can now have more than one column in your title command window, and you can also display an image as the window background instead of the windowskin via an integration with [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/titlecommandwindow/

[CGMZ] Professions - This plugin received a quality of life update, you can now have custom spaces between line items in the display window and the display window will respond to font size changes better. You can also optionally choose how many columns are in the category window. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/professions/

[CGMZ] Vehicle Landing Restrictions - This plugin can now run a common event when prevented from landing by this plugin. You can use this to display a message allowing the player to know why they cannot land in an area they normally would be able to do so. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/vehiclelandingrestrictions/

[CGMZ] Achievements - This plugin was updated to add [CGMZ] Currency System integration for criteria and rewards. It also now automatically works with the actor encyclopedia category for completion percentage criteria. Secret achievements can now hide all info. Many integrations with other [CGMZ] plugins were added. The achievement display window will now respond to font size changes better. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/achievements/

[CGMZ] Extra Stats - This plugin now supports custom space in the statistics scene, and a [CGMZ] Window Backgrounds integration was added for the statistics scene as well. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/extrastats/

[CGMZ] Plugin Commands - This update added plugin commands to get the current BGM or BGS position (in seconds) so you can event things along to the music in your game. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/plugincommands/

[CGMZ] Game Over - This plugin was updated to allow you to change the x/y coordinate of the command window, as well as its width. This should now allow complete control over the command window positioning. Link: https://www.caspergaming.com/plugins/cgmz/gameover/

Other

The Casper Gaming Wiki is now mostly complete in terms of plugin parameters and plugin commands. Of course, there is still a lot of work to be done. I have started improving the looks of the wiki so it is not so boring to read, with more improvements coming in the future as well. You can view the wiki here: https://caspergaming.miraheze.org/wiki/CGMZ_Plugins

The poll for the next small [CGMZ] plugin has finished and the winner was:

Jukebox - Allow your player to unlock music tracks through playing the game (such as by hearing them once through gameplay). They can then visit a jukebox and choose which music they want to listen to from those they have unlocked. This could also integrate into some other [CGMZ] plugins such as achievements for unlocking music.

Thanks to all who voted and suggested plugin ideas for the poll!

Want to have your voice heard? You can vote in the poll for the next BGM still, which ends in 6 days: https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-next-bgm-129306179

Thanks for being a part of the Casper Gaming community 😁 Happy RPG Making!