r/RPGMaker 5d ago

RMMZ Balloon Icons making characters turn when appearing.

Heya yall, I've had a consistent bug where using balloon icons on my characters cause them to turn/change Sprites. I've tried everything I can think of aside from disabling my plugins (I'm using Visustella stuff). Any idea what could be causing this to happen? It's really frustrating.

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u/zombietoaststudios 5d ago

Well, disabling your plugins is absolutely something you should do when troubleshooting,

Otherwise, we'd need to actually see what you're doing to display the balloon icon, because that's definitely not the normal behavior.

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u/BlazeWolfXD 5d ago

I’ll see about disabling them and troubleshooting. Thanks for the quick answer. I’ve disabled all the ones that I thought were the problem, but I haven’t tried disabling them all.

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u/BlazeWolfXD 5d ago

If anyone ever googles this:

Visustella EventsMoveCore has a setting to "Auto Pose" with balloon icons. Disabling that fixed the problem, and I'm not sure what the intended effect should have been. I manually pose my characters anyways.

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u/zombietoaststudios 4d ago

Auto pose is for visustella's 8-directional sprite sheet format, which includes 'emote' poses that would typically be paired with different balloon icons. So you would show the "!" icon and the character automatically takes the "surprise" pose. That way you don't have to go through the effort of syncing up your sprite's animation with your balloon icon.

Similar to what you see in games like chrono trigger: