Resource Rescue MZ

This plugin is available for free for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0. Scroll down for the free download!

The load time reduction depends on your game's specifics, so please try before you buy, even for commercial use!

It's a lightweight plugin plugin that adds a little "hangtime" for image resources, during which they can be reused even after being formally discarded. This reduces load times during Map transfers without persistently increasing memory use.

Hints

You can enable debug-logging with the "Debug?" parameter, but this is quite noisy. In most cases, this plugin should not cause issues, though.

Notes

Textures are still cleaned up properly after Sprites are destroyed, but this is deferred until the Bitmap is garbage-collected. In practice, this should be unnoticeable.

Load Order

Load Resource Rescue late, so that it can reliably hook Sprite and Bitmap destruction.

Plugin Parameters

Debug?

Enables debug logs. Normally only effective during playtest, as it is otherwise turned off when the plugin is loaded.

Plugin Commands

None.

JavaScript API

This plugin unconditionally sets the global variable TS_Resource_Rescue when first loaded.

There, version, parameters (hydrated), utility functions and hooks are exposed and can be manipulated. Please see the source code for more information. (Search for const api.)

The frozen version property contains Semantic Version-compatible featureLevel, patchLevel and releaseCandidate information.

Save Contents

None.

Compatibility Notes

This plugin was tested on RPG Maker MZ 1.10, uses only the public RPG Maker API as far as possible, and does not use any platform-specific APIs.

This plugin should be compatible with any deployment target available for RPG Maker MZ, including web and most custom ones.

Generally speaking, "hard" incompatibilities with Resource Rescue should be very rare due to the defensive programming style used in this plugin.

License Grant

(as included in the plugin file, aside from line wrapping)

This plugin is free for non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0. (See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ for more information.)

A commercial-use license for this plugin can be purchased at https://tamschi.itch.io/resource-rescue .

Once you have purchased it, you may redistribute and sublicense this plugin file as part of games you create. You may not redistribute nor sublicense it separately or as part of an asset- or resource-collection, except in accordance with the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

You may modify this plugin when including it with your games, as long as the attribution above and this license grant stay intact. If you do so, you must add comments to indicate which changes you made from the original.