Guest Followers

In RPG Maker, you have a party of actors.

You can add actors to the party, or remove actors from the party at anytime. However, by default, all of the actors in the party can be interacted with in the menu, and may participate in battle.

There may be situations where you just want an actor to “appear” as if they are part of the the party, but aren’t actually in the party. For example, let’s say an NPC asked you to accompany them through a cave, and you wanted the player to see that the NPC is following them, but you didn’t want them to actually use the NPC in battle.

With this plugin, you can add actors as “guests”, which would simply allow them to show up as non-party followers.

Download

Plugin: download here (right-click, save as)

Installation

Download the plugin and place it in the “plugins” folder in your project’s “js” folder. Then open your Plugin Manager (F10), double-click an empty row, and select the HIME_GuestFollowers plugin.

Once it is in your list of plugins, turn the plugin on.

Usage

Adding Guest Actors to Party

To add guest actors to the party, use the script call

PARTY.addGuestActor( ACTOR_ID );

Where the PARTY is a valid Game_Party reference, and ACTOR_ID is the ID of
the actor that you want to add as a guest.

For example, to add actor 4 as a guest to the current party, you can write

$gameParty.addGuestActor(4);

You can only add the same guest actor to your party once. If you attempt to
add the same guest actor multiple times, it will do nothing.

Removing Guest Actors from Party

To remove guest actors from a party, use the script call

PARTY.removeGuestActor( ACTOR_ID );

For example, to remove actor 4 as a guest from the current party, you can write

$gameParty.removeGuestActor(4);

Checking if Guest Actor is in Party

To check if a certain guest actor is in the party, use the script call

PARTY.hasGuestActor( ACTOR_ID );

For example, to check if actor 4 is a guest to the current party, in your
conditional branches you can write

$gameParty.hasGuestActor(4);

Which will return true if actor 4 is a guest in the party. Again, remember that because they are not in the party, a regular “Actor in Party” condition check will not find the guests.

Moving a Guest Follower using Move Routes

You can use a move route to control guest followers if necessary.

To move a guest, start by writing a plugin command

guest_move_route ID

Followed by a move route command.
The ID means the ID of the actor guest. So if you wanted to move the guest
whose actor ID was 4, you would just write

guest_move_route 4

Followed by a move route command.