Ace Shop Options

Last Updated: 2012.01.05
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The RPG Maker VX Ace shop scene is relatively basic. It provides adequate information, but not really enough to let the player know what they’re actually buying or even selling. This script enables shops to show more than just the basic information displayed in RPG Maker VX Ace and even allow for custom commands to be inserted.

The item shop now displays more information to the player during the buying process. This is extremely helpful for players as it lets the player understand just exactly what kind of item they’re buying. The display is similar to that of the Ace Item Menu.

When buying an item, gold will be calculated visually to show the player how much gold will remain after the purchase. While yes, players can do this by themselves, but save them the extra step. Games are for playing, not practicing arithmetic.

Selling items will work the same way visually and allow the player to understand what they are selling.

Give items images instead of having zoomed in icons while being shown in the data window above. To do so, insert this notetag into their notebox:

<image: string>

Uses a picture from Graphics\Pictures\ of your RPG Maker VX Ace Project’s directory with the filename of “string” (without the extension) as the image picture shown in the Ace Shop Options.

Custom commands can be inserted, such as equip, which allows the player to equip items while in shop.

To add in custom commands, change the command list in the module and apply the custom command. They’ll show up in the command window if done properly. Here’s a list of currently compatible scripts with Ace Shop Options:

And that’s all, folks!

22 comments on “Ace Shop Options

  1. I love you. I knew you would eventually do something with shops but this more than exceeded what I thought you would do.

  2. You’re a God on Earth. Sweet holy geez every script just gets better. No one is as prolific with scripting and concise with their tutorials. I would pay you to teach me to script. Seriously, it would be worth every penny.

    • Seconded…I prefer WhiteDevil’s over Kread_EX’s script because of its simplicity and the ability to synthesize items from multiples of one or more materials – plus it does away with the whole alchemy level bit which I don’t plan on using…but as Przemo1013 just mentioned, the script seems to conflict with Ace Shop Options, which I would really like to use. The error’s in the line 605-608 neighborhood and is a “NoMethodError”.

      undefined method ‘command_window’ for
      #

  3. Hi, I have been using some of your scripts in a project that i’m making, and I find them amazing! I love your scripts, I’m studying programation at school, and I couldn’t make scripts like this even if I studied RGSS night and day for a month. They really are amazing you have my congratulations on that. But the reason I’m commenting is about an error at line 789, (if @item.image.nil?) the error was: “Script ‘Awsome_Shop’ line 789:NoMethodError Occured. undefined method ‘image’ for #”. This error happened when I tried to sell something, I didn’t know what the problem was, but since it was a condition instead of “if @item.image.nil?” I wrote “1+1==2″ because that would make the condition true to my surprise it actually worked. so I went reading some portions of the script and reached the conclusion that I can’t set images to the items, but that’s no problem for me since I like the pixelated icons. From what I understood from the script I can’t use images if that condition is allways true, it has to be false some times so that items with images can work, and I won’t get errors, so I’m wondering what should I write to make the script work properly with all of it’s features fully operational, not because I will use them but because I’m a curious geek, so, any ideas on what I should write on that line? Thank you very much in advance! And sorry for any bad english you might find, you see, I’m portuguese so english is not my native language. Thank you.

  4. First i would like to say that i LOVE your scripts, Yanfly. They are the best! Anyway, im getting this error when i try to open my inventory, after i started using the Ace Shop Options script: http://s11.postimage.org/60dj2bbqp/crash.png
    Im using the last version of your Item Menu script and the last version of your shop script, but i dont know why, i think its not working when i put them together. I tried to remove the shop script and try again, and it worked normally. Anyone figure out why im having this error? I tried to change the order (Shop script over Item script then item script over shop script) and i get the same error. I don’t think it has anything to do with it, but just for the record, i also use the equipment system script.

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  6. I wish this was a script i needed.. but it’s not.
    I’m trying to find a CSS(customizable shop system) script.
    So i can simply and easily move boxes around.. change height and width, tell the commands to be vertical if i want them to be… those sorts of things… and no one’s made anything like that… i was for sure this would have options like that but it does not.

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