Scripting Query [Actors]

[Mac]

I was messing around with some scripts and i am currently making a list of RGSS codes and their functions but i ran into something that has me kinda puzzled. So here goes:-

To change an attribute such as the name of your character in your game you have to use the $game_actors as $data_actors wont work because it has been wrote to the database and they are set values. But this is the part that puzzles me...if you use the following code below it somehow overwrites the database and displays the new value. Is there a reason why classes make an exception?

$data_classes[1].name = "New Class"

 

[Sarkilas]

I think that the actor classes as it appears in the editor, only defines the base stats based on the actor data set values, and the plus values. The plus values, however, is defined within the script class. Such as $game_actors.hp_plus.

I wouldn't know why the classes make an exception, but as it is, you can change an actor's name; can you not? I know that ain't through the $data_actors (least I think it ain't?), but most of these things happen through scripting by obtaining the set values from the database.

I'll have to check this out a bit further to check why it works with classes.

 

[Mac]

Yeah to change the name you must do it through $game_actor rather then data.

Thanks so far ^_^

 

[tibuda]

First, that's because the $data_actors attributes are stored in the Game_Actor class ($game_actors variable), while the class name is not stored there. Take a look at the following method in Game_Actor:

  def class_name
    return $data_classes[@class_id].name
  end

Scond, you know that if you change anything in the $data_ globals, save your game and restart it, you will lose the changes, unless you use Seph's dynamic database.

 

[BlueScope]

tibuda, more like "if you change anything in the $data_ globals, save your game and restart it, you will lose the changes, unless you save the new globals, too, which i.e. Seph's dynamic database does."

 

[Mac]

Ahhh i see now ^_^

Thank you, $game_actors it is :P