Version 1.03 Update

Greetings all.

I have uploaded version 1.03 of the Shield Block MZ plugin with the following changes:

• Removed plugin parameters related to displaying block rate and shield piercing on the VS ElementStatusCore menu scene.
• Removed function aliases that intercepted certain draw commands that were being used to draw block rate and shield piercing on some menus (such as the ElementStatusCore meny above)
• Added a couple of new functions to facilitate making custom parameters in VisuStella Core Engine much more streamlined.
• Added information in the help documentation about how to draw block rate, block percent, block amount and shield piercing values as custom parameters if you are using version 1.07 of the VS Core Engine plugin.

The latest update to the VS Core Engine allows developers to define and draw custom parameters on several menu scenes. In previous versions of this plugin, I was aliasing certain functions to attempt to achieve the same goal, but it was a slow process, and any new menus added later on would not immediately take advantage of my work without an update to this plugin to alias them as well.

This change allows you to define block rate, block amount, block percent, and shield piercing as custom parameters, which can then be drawn automatically on several custom VS menu scenes, such as the equip scene, the shop scene, the item scene, and the status scene. With this update, I have removed several plugin parameters that were used exclusively for drawing block rate and shield piercing, as they are no longer used. See the plugin documentation for how to make use of these custom parameters.

Here's a couple of screenshots of them in action as well!

I also updated the demo project with more updated plugin settings for the VS plugins, including prebuilt custom parameters for use in those menus above. Note: you need to copy + paste your own copy of the VS plugins into the demo project and enable the plugins in the plugin manager for this to work.

That's all for now!

-Ramza