How to Disable .FL's HUD when interacting with an Event?

[Dylanrockin]

Hello, I was curious on how to make .FL's HUD become disabled, whenever an event is interacted with. Since my game is very heavy on cutscenes and lengthy exposition, I don't want the HUD to be visible whenever I am talking with an NPC, or whenever story-crucial dialogue is going, since that pretty much would remove any and all kinds of immersion that there would be. I don't want to use a Switch, since that would involve having to go to every single event in the game and applying that switch to turn on and then off, which would be a pain.

I've never dabbled in something that involved NPC/Event scripting in RGSS before, and I'm just not sure where to start with this. I edited a lot of the functions that are currently in .FL's HUD, such as adding a clock, repositioning the Pokemon Icons, and adding a few little character specific functions.

 

[Nickalooose]

Sorry to say, but without editing the event, how would the script know to hide? You'll probably either need to use a switch or a hide script call... But both would require editing the event... I do think there is a way to do this through the script, but it may become complicated if you don't know scripting in general.

 

[Dylanrockin]

Sorry to say, but without editing the event, how would the script know to hide? You'll probably either need to use a switch or a hide script call... But both would require editing the event... I do think there is a way to do this through the script, but it may become complicated if you don't know scripting in general.

Ahh okie dokes. I figured that as much. I do have a toggle switch for the game, and I can basically just put the hide HUD switch for only story intensive sections of the game, just so that way it is still there for regular, non-important NPC's, but not there for when things get serious. So, I think I'll just go the route of using a Switch to toggle it off.

 

[FL]

On script, change line 'return if !$Trainer' to 'return if !$Trainer || !$game_switches[98]'. At Interpreter script section, after line 'def setup(list, event_id, map_id=nil)' add:

$game_switches[98]=false
$hud_need_refresh = true

After line 'def command_end' add:

$game_switches[98]=true
 $hud_need_refresh = true

But take note that any event makes the hud disappears.

Now I am capable of making a very better HUD, with almost no lag. I wish to do this, a day, since this script is still popular.