Requesting edit of the standard battle system [the way skills are handled]

[Dalton]

Long time since my last request. And since my game has been cancelled and I am actually planning a new one, I thought I might want an own battle system.

I am working with RMXP
The thing I had in mind is an edit of the standard frontview battle system. Especially the way skills are handled is my main request.
The skill option (will be renamed in the actual game) should not bring up a list of the learned skills, but start a common event.
Each actor should have his own common event.
Since the rest will be handled through the common events, this is actually my whole request. Since I just started out, it does not have to be compatible with any other script.

Hope this is detailed enough and someone is willing to help me.

~Dalton~

 

[Dalton]

bump

 

[Dalton]

bump? Pretty please?

 

[Beran]

I'm not sure if this will affect the battle system in a bad way (though I don't think it should) but here's a way to do it
In the Scene_Battle 3 script find

when 1  # skill
        # Play decision SE
        $game_system.se_play($data_system.decision_se)
        # Set action
        @active_battler.current_action.kind = 1
        # Start skill selection
        start_skill_select

and replace it with
*coughs* forgot that each actor has his/her own common event. Lemme just figure this out for ya

when 1  # skill
       @common_event_id = @active_battler.id
       update_phase4_step6

EDIT: updated with a proper fix
Note that the common event number has to correspond with the actors number in the database. i.e. Aluxes is normally number one, so his common event should be number one. This was the easiest way to do it

 

[Dalton]

Ah, thank you!  :grin: I didn't think that someone would answer that fast after my bump.

It works great. One problem though: When the common event is through it doesn't change to the next actor. (I guess this my fault for not saying this) So it would be stuck on battler one for ever. Do you know any way around it?

Thank you for your work, Beran. I hope you can still help me  :grin:

 

[Beran]

hmmm....lemme think here
OK, found a way to do it.
just change my bit of code to

when 1
  @common_event_id = @active_battler.id
  update_phase4_step6
  phase3_next_actor

EDIT: I found a smoother way of doing things
instead of what I suggested, leave my code as was and, in each of your common events, all the way at the end add a script call saying

$scene.phase3_next_actor

This does assume you don't change scenes during battle (i.e. your common events don't take you to a menu that's not called in Scene_Battle, or the map)

 

[Dalton]

Thank you so much. Finally I have my system standing And it works quite nice I must say.

You will be fully credited whenever I decide to put my game up here. And of course, if I can help you any way I will be glad to do so.

 

[Beran]

No problem. and, unless you know how the engine's Audio module works I don't think I really need any help XD (trying to create a loop/playthrough function for my iPod script)

 

[Dalton]

Haha, no I am not to helpfull when it comes to scripting. (Basic windows are no problem, but anything beyond that...)
I am more of a plot developing and critizising nature. And some casic sprite editing is also where I could lend a hand. That is pretty much all I can give.
So I hope credit will be enough than.
This is quite resolved now.