Eli Pause game for RPG Maker MZ MV

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Terms of use / Termos de uso

Introduction

• This is a simple plugin that adds a pause scene with a background image of your choice when you press a button on Scene_Map.

Features

• Pause the game pressing a button when you are at the scene map(This also stop the $gameSystem.playTime()).
• Choose a image to show when the game is paused.
• It saves the current playTime(Graphics.frameCount/$gameSystem.playTime()) before you pause, and restore it after you leave the pause scene.

How to use

• You can choose a image from your system folder. Make sure it is the size of your game resolution. You can also not use any image.

• Check out this site to find your desired javascript keycode:
https://keycode.info/

To pause the game you can press the keyboard button you choose or the button on screen.
To unpause the game, you can either press the keyboard button again or click/touch the screen.

The image of the on screen button has to be an specific format that follow this aspect ratio:
Width: 1
Height: 2
Ex:
Width: 48
Height: 96

You can use the plugin command to pause the game manually too.

You can check the if the button is pressed using "pause".
Input.isTriggered("pause")
Input.isPressed("pause")
etc...

NOTE: The images are always centered on screen.

NOTE²: MZ version is a more advanced than MV one.