[CGMZ] Power Meter (Patreon)

Hi all, introducing [CGMZ] Power Meter! This plugin adds a power meter minigame to your eventing arsenal. Make the player press stop on a power meter before your events continue, using the result in the event commands.

Power Meter Mechanic

The power meter mechanic is a gauge that fills up (and optionally back down) until the player presses to stop it. When the power meter is stopped, the percentage it was filled at the time it was stopped is provided to a game variable that you can then use in your events. For example, you could make it so they have to stop a power meter when attempting to cut down a tree with the success range being 70-100% filled with a bonus if they get it exactly 100% full. See below gif for how it could look:

Eventer's Tool

This plugin is an eventer's tool since you can do just about anything with it in your events. You start a power meter event via plugin command, during which event command processing will pause. After the power meter event is over, event command processing resumes. The only limit for what you could use this for is your skill at making events.

Customization

Currently, you can change things such as fill speed, gauge color, text displayed, and required input to stop the power meter. These are set up for each power meter event, so you can have power meters that show different things and have slightly different mechanics throughout your game.

Reusability

Power Meters are set up in the plugin parameters and given an id. You can easily re-use power meter events throughout your game by typing the same id into the plugin command to start a power meter event. If you need to change a power meter event later, you simply change that event's settings once in the plugin parameters and it will automatically be changed everywhere you used it in your game.

Support

Casper Gaming provides quick support to any user who needs it. You can leave a comment below with your question or issue, I try to check my Patreon at least once a day. For even quicker support, you can come into the Casper Gaming Discord and ask for help in the #support channel.

Quick Facts

✅ RPG Maker MZ✅ No obfuscation✅ No AI used at any point in the creation of this plugin

Roadmap

This plugin handles the foundations of the power meter mechanic currently, but there are some things I want to add to make it even better. These are as follows:

Touch UI support

Allow power meter events in battle

Statistics tracking for power meter events passed / attempted

Further customization options for power meters

Casper Gaming plugins are made much better through user suggestions. If you have an idea for a feature you'd like to see implemented that is not already covered above, please let me know. You can leave suggestions in the comments below or in the #suggestions channel of the Casper Gaming Discord.

Happy RPG Making!

This version focuses on some more customization for your power meter events. The power bar can now fill from right to left, and I also added decline variance so your decline speed does not have to be constant similar to how the growth speed does not have to be constant.

The text in the window can now handle branded controllers, so you can tell your playstation or nintendo controller players the proper button to press. The text uses to always be centered, but now you can choose the text alignment as well.

The window had a weird clipping bug fixed, and I also added an x/y offset to give you more control over the window's position. You can also now set how wide the window will be.