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Hi all, introducing [CGMZ] Floating Text!

This plugin allows you to show text that slowly floats up and automatically fades out over events or the player. There is no limit to how many floating texts you can use or have appearing at once.

What It Does

By default, RPG Maker only allows you to show text to the player through a full message window. This interrupts the flow of gameplay, as it stops player movement and takes up a large portion of the screen. Often, this is too intrusive for some things you want to show the player. There are many alternatives, such as [CGMZ] Toast Manager. This plugin is another alternative, as it allows you to show a brief text message directly over the player or an event.

See below gif for how it can look:

Customization

This plugin provides many customization options for you. Your text supports text codes, so you can do things like show icons, use text color codes, and even use many third party text codes that any message system plugins you have might add such as [CGMZ] Message System.

You can also control the height gain and duration of the floating text. Want longer messages to last longer? You can do that.

Presets

This plugin comes with 2 Plugin Commands. One shows floating text, with all configuration options provided in the plugin command. The second allows you to use configuration options from a preset. Presets are incredibly useful for making messages consistent throughout your game. For example, you can make a chest preset for messages shown in your treasure chests that has a duration of 60 frames. Suppose later in development you want to change your chest messages to all last 120 frames instead. With presets, you just change it once instead of at every chest in your game.

Quick Facts

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

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.

Roadmap

I plan to expand this plugin by adding more customization options, including y or x offsets and different float / fade / animation options for your text. Please suggest any other ways you want to customize the floating text not listed above as well.

Casper Gaming plugins are made better through community suggestions. I am always happy to hear any features you'd like to see added that I may not have thought of already. Please leave any suggestions you have in the comments below, or in the #suggestions channel of the Casper Gaming Discord. I add all suggestions to my to-do list.

Happy RPG Making!

This version adds a few new options for your floating text sprites. You can now choose the z index, in case you want them to appear behind other graphics. You can also give them an x or y offset so they can be better positioned if your events or other graphics are non-standard sizes. A blend mode option was also added for the different blend modes pixi supports.

This update also added opacity control, instead of forcing your text to start at full opacity and start fading out linearly after some time until it is totally transparent, you can now control all aspects of the opacity. You can set the start and end value of the opacity change, the linear interpolation mode, and what percentage of the total duration the opacity change starts.

This update also added a hue start and rotation, so you can make your sprite rotate its hue. Note that for white text, hue rotation will have no effect. See below gif for some of the above options in use: