Detecting party leader

[Kelg]

Is there a way to dectect the party leader and display the name in conversations?

 

[Ellie]

\n[0] always refers to the party leader, doesn't it?

 

[Kelg]

That comes out as a blank.(Maybe I'm missing something?) Unless you are saying to use \n[01], but I'm looking for some kind of command that can give the current on-screen character's name.

 

[Dalton]

You could try to use a script as a condition in a conditional branch.

If $game_party.actors[0].id == x

Here you'd have to set x as the possible characters IDs inside the database.
Just set the different names for different characters.

There may be a simpler way, but this one should work.

Hope this helps

~Dalton~

 

[Kelg]

It gives me an error message when I put that in, though I might be doing something wrong..
Anyway, I have it so that any party member can be removed and the party can have one member. So I am trying to find a way to make the party leader's name be displayed incase certain members are not present.

I want to be able to put the party leader's name in the space above, so that in story events it won't matter who is in the party.

 

[Glitchfinder]

Unlike in most scripts, when referring to game objects like the party members, an array will always start at 1. (The first entry, 0, is nil in things such as the party, items, actors, monsters, troops, etc) This means that you would use \n[1] to display the party leader's name.

 

[Kelg]

Oh, I see now. Thank you everyone for the help. Also, is there a way to detect the number of party members?

 

[Kipe]

 

[Kelg]

Oh, thanks for pointing that out... Now I feel kinda stupid. :crazy:

 

[Brewmeister]

Unlike in most scripts, when referring to game objects like the party members, an array will always start at 1. (The first entry, 0, is nil in things such as the party, items, actors, monsters, troops, etc) This means that you would use \n[1] to display the party leader's name.

\N[1] displays Actor 1 name, not party member 1. (i.e. in the default project, it will always display "Aluxes", regardless of party order.)

This little scriptlet will add a \P[n] function to allow you to show the party members name

class Window_Message

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# * Add \P[n] to display Party Member[n] in a message - Brew

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  alias pm_refresh refresh

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  # * Refresh

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  def refresh

    # If waiting for a message to be displayed

    if $game_temp.message_text != nil

      text = $game_temp.message_text

      # Control text processing

      text.gsub!(/\\[Pp]\[([0-9]+)\]/) do

        $game_party.actors[$1.to_i - 1] != nil ? $game_party.actors[$1.to_i - 1].name : ""

      end

      $game_temp.message_text = text

    end

    pm_refresh

  end

end

 

[Kelg]

Nice script, it makes things alot easier. Thank you.