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Multiple Message Windows Extended - DerVVulfman - 03-22-2025

Multiple Message Windows Extended
Version: 1.1



Introduction

This custom message system adds numerous features on top of the default message system,  the most notable  being the ability  to have  multiple message windows open at once.  The included features are mostly themed around speech bubble-like messages, but many are useful even for default-style messages.



Features
  • multiple message windows
  • speech bubbles
    • position over player/event (follows movement and scrolling)
    • optional message tail (for speech or thought bubbles)
    • can specify location relative to player/event (up, down, left, right)
  • thought bubbles
    • Same parameters as speech bubbles with extras
  • enhanced show choices system
    • Can go beyond the four-choice max by linking windows together
    • Can be positioned where desired when message window 'floats'
    • Many other extras
  • letter-by-letter mode
    • variable speed (and delays)
    • skippable on button press
  • autoresize messages
  • player movement allowed during messages
    • if speaker moves offscreen, message closes
  • name boxes
  • icons in messages
  • switch-in-message language support
    • rather than saying true/false, switches can say yes/no and etc.
    • customizable to suit your language.!
  • Behind-the-window animated portrait busts/profiles
  • everything also works during battle
  • settings configurable at anytime



Screenshots
[Image: PthYxP0.gif]



Demo
There are TWO demos, one for general users, the other for those using the RMXP SDK v 2.4.

Click for the Standard Edition
Click for the RMXP SDK Edition
Look for the Download link in the top right of the screen



Instructions

Plenty, and within the title/header page. There are so many options, you gotta be NUTS to delete it.



FAQ

Includes the FONTZ script that grants Outline, Shadow, Underline and Strikethru styles.

MOST of the system between both demos are the same, only using different "System Adaptation Scripts" depending on standard and SDK editions.


Compatibility

Designed for RPGMaker XP. Overwrites the Message system, some components of Game Battler, and main scripts within Scene_Map and Scene_Battle.  Please refer to the System Adaptation Scripts which perform most overwrite changes where most changes may be needed.  Edited areas are 'marked'.


Credits and Thanks

Wachunga of course
XRXS code for the self-close and wait for input
Slipknot for a convenient approach to altering settings in-game
SephirothSpawn for bitmap rotate method




Terms and Conditions

Free to use,  even in commercial projects.  However, I will need some form of due credit for both myself, Wachunga, XRXS, Slipnot and SephirothSpawn.

RE: Multiple Message Windows Extended - DerVVulfman - 04-02-2026

BUMP
to version 1.1

The initial version contains an animated portrait and battler portrait system. And with it, a feature to allow one to keep the portrait to remain on screen while going from one message to another without flicker or need to redraw. But the update made today streamlines the commands into the simple script calls of "hold_portrait" and "hold_battler".

The audio playback option likewise has a new script call, that being "set_message_audio". And by calling this command before the message event, you need not need to use the initial \A command code.

For error prevention issues, the process that plays the audio will first check the validity of the file itself. It will check and make sure that the audio file does exist within the Audio\SE folder, and can check between all basic audio file formats native to RPGMaker XP.

And of errors, this version also fixes a bug that prevented the use of animated portraits when the portrait had only one frame and was intended to be static. This was an un-noticed bug, and one fixed with a simple value change.