Party Member Syntax help

[legacyblade]

Alrighty, I'm sort of new to scripting, but I'm taking a hand at it. I've been doing ok, but I ran into a wall. I need to check a few things.

1. How do I find out how many people are in the party? I have an idea on how to make something support any party size, but I'd need to use a while loop based on the number of party members.

2. How do I check (in code) a specified party member (by position index)'s HP and status? I've looked through the help file, but I can't get the syntax correct, I must be missing something.

If you could help, that would be great, I could get the script finished.

 

[Brewmeister]

$game_party.actors.size

$game_party.actors[0].hp

$game_party.actors[0].states will return an array of states that are ON. "nil" means it's empty...

if $game_party.actors[0].states == nil
  # whatever
end

 

[legacyblade]

Thanks, this will make my script work right, I am in your debt.