[CGMZ] Event Clone for RPG Maker MZ

Hi all, introducing: [CGMZ] Event Clone!

The Problem

Have you ever had a complicated event that needed to be copied around multiple times, even perhaps to multiple maps? Then, maybe your event had a bug in it or needed to be changed as part of an update. You would need to copy the event all over again and hope you don't miss an area.

Event Cloning

With event cloning, you can simply tell your events to load a source event from a different map. With this plugin, you use a simple note tag <cgmzclone:eventId> with the event id you want to clone in the event note section. Then that event will behave as if it is the event on the source map.

If you need to make changes to your event, you only need to update the source event and all cloned events will automatically be updated as well.

Example

Each cloned event can be erased and interacted with separately, but they all do the same thing. In the gif example below, all of the cloned events show some text and then a death animation. However, what if we wanted to change to a Fog animation or change the text? Without cloned events, we would need to update all of the events. With cloned events, we only need to update the source event.

Cloned events still work with all event-specific commands. You can erase event and only erase one of the clones. You can also control self switches or use other commands that only affect one event without affecting clones too.

Mid-Game Cloning

You can also change events mid-game into cloned versions via a plugin command. You could use this for furniture building, such as giving the player the option to make a piece of furniture and then clone an event into the furniture they select. To tear the furniture down, you can un-clone the event and allow your player to re-select which piece of furniture they want to make. Many systems are possible.

See below example of changing a fire event to different fire types which are all cloned events:

Roadmap

This has been a plugin [CGMZ] has been lacking so I wanted to get this functionality out there. The plugin is planned to also allow spawning of events in a future update, but that is not yet a feature.

Do you have any ideas you'd like to see added to the plugin not already listed above? Let me know in the comments or in my Discord's #suggestion channel! I appreciate all suggestions I get and add them all to my to-do list.

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Quick Facts

✅ RPG Maker MZ
✅ No obfuscation
✅ All future updates included
✅ 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 itch.io 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.

Requirements and Terms

Please see terms of use here: Terms of Use

Requires CGMZ Core plugin: CGMZ Core

Happy RPG Making!