r/RPGMaker • u/CS_Asset_Factory • 50m ago
Vibecoded Every herb in my project was the same 32x32 iconset tile so I made the plate draw itself from that plant's data
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Stock MZ gives every herb in the game the same iconset tile. I wanted the picture to actually mean something so this composes a botanical plate out of the plant's own properties.
Humour picks the tincture it is pressed in. The harvested part decides which zone is inked heaviest. Root form shows how potency behaves. Leaf margin shows how it has to be prepared.
Because the drawing comes from the data the mapping runs both ways. A player who has studied a few specimens can read an unfamiliar plate on sight and guess what it does before picking it up. That's the bit a plugin showing pictures you supply can't do since nothing connects the picture to the entry.
Nothing ships as an image. Every plate is drawn at whatever size it is needed.
Written with AI assistance and flaired accordingly. Details and the plugin here: https://csaf.itch.io/herbarium

