Player based event movement question.

[kram1024]

I am wondering if there is a way to cause a movement of a map event to be based on the movement of the player i.e. dungeons in Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals or in Lufia: Ruins Lore. If I can do that, then I can remove my dependancy on rm2k map areas by having monsters move around in the exact same manner that they do in THOSE dungeons. I posted here because I was hoping a non-script means of doing this is possible because I do not need to make the engine lag that is not a good thing and scripts can tend to lag in a virtualized environment such as VMWare or Virtual PC.

 

[Brewmeister]

Having never seen any Lufia or rm2k, can you describe what it is you're looking for?

 

[kram1024]

as for the lufia style event movement: check this video out (North Labyrinth, Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals). Note: enemies only move when you do and follow different patterns based on which what it is.
and for the RM2k style map areas thing, in RPG Maker 2000 and RPG Maker 2003, contiguous regions can be set up on maps with different encounter data than the rest of the map, these are called areas.

 

[Gubid]

This should do the trick. Just add a comment with the word defined at the top of the script within the event and BAM, it now approaches like a lufia enemy.

 

#===============================================================================

# Lufia Enemy Movement - by GubiD (04/24/2011)

#===============================================================================

 

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

# * Constants 

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

# ENEMY_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER - text that must be contained in comment for event to 

#    be recognized as Lufia type enemy. 

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

ENEMY_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER = "enemy"

 

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

# Game Map

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

class Game_Map

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

  # Setup - Adjusted to setup lufia event hash

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

  alias setup_gm_map_lufia_movement setup

  def setup(map_id)

    setup_gm_map_lufia_movement(map_id)

    @player_pos = [ $game_player.x, $game_player.y]

    refresh_enemy_event_list

  end

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

  # Refresh Enemy List - Method to locate enemies for later updating

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

  def refresh_enemy_event_list

    @l_enemy_list = []

    for id in @events.keys

      event = @events[id]

      if event.list.size > 0

        for command in event.list

          if command.code == 108 #comment

            if command.parameters[0].include?(ENEMY_COMMENT_IDENTIFIER)

              @l_enemy_list << id

            end

          end

        end

      end

    end

  end

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

  # Update - Changed to check for 'player movement' and update enemies when done

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

  alias upd_gm_map_lufia_movement update

  def update

    upd_gm_map_lufia_movement 

    if @l_enemy_list.size > 0

      if @player_pos != [ $game_player.x, $game_player.y]

        @player_pos = [ $game_player.x, $game_player.y]

        move_enemies

      end

    end

    check_for_event_erase

  end

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

  # Check for Event erase - If an event is later erased, it cannot be updated

  #      so here we remove it from our 'update list'

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

  def check_for_event_erase

    needs_removed = []

    for id in @l_enemy_list

      event = @events[id]

      if event.erased == true

        needs_removed << id

      end

    end

    if needs_removed.size > 0

      for id in needs_removed

        @l_enemy_list.delete(id)

      end

    end

  end

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

  # Move_enemies - Takes all the enemies from list, and has them move toward player

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

  def move_enemies

    for id in @l_enemy_list

      event = @events[id]

      event.move_type_toward_player

    end

  end

end  

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

# Game Event - Added ability to read if it has been erased

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

class Game_Event < Game_Character

  attr_reader :erased

end

 

[kram1024]

That script will work but a true lufia style enemy can even move on a fixed path or a custom one as well as the type you provided a script for, simply only executing that path sequence when the player moves. In other words, same event movement as normal, just changing the frequency to only per player step.