Text in Battle: How to do it!

[Khengi]

This was actually very confusing for me, but when I figured it out I banged my head a good, 30-40 times. I also noticed many people (n00bs like me) were having this problem, and it'd be selfish to keep the creamy goodness of events to my own self...O_o

Anyways, due to contrary belief, people start an event, (let's say boss battle) by using the "Battle Proccessing" command. After that, they use the "show Text" command and put what they want. Most people notice that the text shows up after battle. This can get annoying, and it took long, hard drinking to figure it out.

Then it hit me! I really hate tom and jerry! But then another thing hit me!

the actual guide/n00bguide is below:
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Ok, let's say you want a boss battle that you'll only fight once to say something in battle. Well, first things first, go to Database (right above the current map) and go to Troops. You first need to set up your boss as a troop (assuming that he's already an enemy). As a troop, click on him and add as many of him as you want. Below, you may notice that there is an event editor. Well, you probably already know where I'm going with this. By going to the event editor you can add events just like normal. Pretty shweet, eh? You've probably wondered why there were command slike "Deal Damage" in the event editor if it can't be used in battle. Well, it was meant to beused here, as well as "Change enemy graphic" and stuff.

Now, you can also add "conditions". these sweet little things make me want to find enterbrain headquarters and burn them... with love! (that was so got-dang fruity)

You can set a condition for an event, so it only happens when that condition is met. So, let's say I set it up so the boss says "Urgh, I'm losing" when he only has 30% hp left. well there's an condition for that. Just make your event and set that as a condition. pretty shweet, eh?

So, that's the end of my unnecessarily long tutorial on something so easy. You veterans may look at this like "Khengi is such a fruit! Let's burn his IP! He told us something we already know!" well, there are n00bs like me who don't know. So go slap a penguin.


Eh, heh.

 

[Starrodkirby86]

Oooo! I wanna slap a penguin! :evil: Anyway, I'm glad you got this, well so then less n00bs complaining. Even though I haven't ever seen this before, I mean this question. When I had this problem, I took the liberty of finding out how to do it myself, and suceeded. ^_^

 

[Grandor]

It's really not that hard if you looked through the program, and saw the event editor under the Troops Tab. But, good tutorial.

 

[Alirron]

I have a problem though, whenever I try to do text in battle, it just keeps on repeating itself over and over. How can I stop it from doing this?

Spoiler

Turn 1
Span Turn

Text "Blah blah blah"

Show Choices "Choices"
No events for choices

Branch End

That's the first, which repeats.

Spoiler

Condition Enemy 1 Skeleton >=5%
Text
Barrier cast on Lich

That's the second and third (with a different spell casted on the Lich)

Fourth, fifth, and sixth are when the Lich's HP are at 75, 50, and 25% of his hp respectively. Fourth and Fifth are merely screen shakes and flashes with cliche bad guy lines. The Sixth and final event is the following.

Spoiler

Text
Deal Damage Entire Party 1000
Text
Choices without rewards or consequences
Branch End
Change HP Entire Party +9999

Now -all- of that repeats itself over and over and over after conditions are met, throughout the ENTIRE battle. Needless to say it's annoying as heck >_< What am I doing wrong?

 

[Rhazdel]

I have a problem though, whenever I try to do text in battle, it just keeps on repeating itself over and over. How can I stop it from doing this?

Spoiler

Turn 1
Span Turn

Text "Blah blah blah"

Show Choices "Choices"
No events for choices

Branch End

That's the first, which repeats.

Spoiler

Condition Enemy 1 Skeleton >=5%
Text
Barrier cast on Lich

That's the second and third (with a different spell casted on the Lich)

Fourth, fifth, and sixth are when the Lich's HP are at 75, 50, and 25% of his hp respectively. Fourth and Fifth are merely screen shakes and flashes with cliche bad guy lines. The Sixth and final event is the following.

Spoiler

Text
Deal Damage Entire Party 1000
Text
Choices without rewards or consequences
Branch End
Change HP Entire Party +9999

Now -all- of that repeats itself over and over and over after conditions are met, throughout the ENTIRE battle. Needless to say it's annoying as heck >_< What am I doing wrong?

See in the upper right where you put Turn? Change it to Battle instead. Turn means that RMXP willl check if the conditions are met each turn. If they are (in your example, the Lich's HP is below 75%, etc), then it will run the text. Battle only runs once.

 

[Khengi]

Yeah, that was something I had to watch for. Something like "Turn" instead of "Battle" is good for like, regen.

 

[Jaberwoky]

So go slap a penguin.

I take offense to this! o_0

 

[FatalityPrince]

lol, and wow, i can't believe i was stupid enough not to figure it out':|

 

[eharper256]

Now you know how, people, don't do it! Well, you can, but do keep text in battle to an absolute minimum- It causes horrible, horrible lag... everything else is fine, but ye gads, that text!

 

[Khengi]

Yes, I only do text when the enemy's HP is at half. it causes a pretty demonic lag.

 

[Jaberwoky]

Now you know how, people, don't do it! Well, you can, but do keep text in battle to an absolute minimum- It causes horrible, horrible lag... everything else is fine, but ye gads, that text!

Really? o_0 It doesn't lag at all for me...

 

[RobF]

Is there a simple way to have a small line of text before each attack from an enemy? Sort of like in Earthbound........

Example: Annoying Old Party Man kicked you in the pants! *36 HP Damage*

 

[Khengi]

Effect: Old man got hit! (or something)
Condition: Player uses attack/skill

 

[Ryanna]

What about you want to do it When the battle starts?

 

[Khengi]

If
turn=1

 

[Granas3 REMIXED]

That doesn't necessarily work. There doesn't seem to be a way to make text appear before the commands are issued, so that might not be what Ryanna is looking for.

 

[Ulqiorra]

If you want text at the beginning of battle:
[Condition:Switch[0001] is On]
Show text:I like Pie!

(Put the switch on sometime before the battle)
(I knew how to do these things since I started using RMXP :P)

 

[Ryanna]

Thanks Mega Bc i'm trying to do a Tut in my game about how to attack

 

[Kururu]

Hmm... there is a HUGE lag problem in my game, so I'm gonna do this differently.

 

[kaze950]

Just do Turn 0, if you want it before battle.

The lag problem is annoying...I wonder if anyone will ever make a 'lag fix' to it, if that's even possible.