Using scripts to change parameters

[Thermalburn]

Hey everyone,

I tried to do this on my own without scripting by using only events, but it doesn't seem possible. Anyhow, here is what i'm trying to do;

In my game all of the characters have 0 MAXsp, and the only way to get SP is through certain items. For instance, by equipping a particular weapon you're MAXsp is raised to 10 but as soon as you unequip the weapon, your MAXsp drops back to 0. Different weapons/items give different values.

I was hoping that maybe someone could help write a script that can do what i described above; something versatile, where i can add more weapons/items and their respective parameters quickly and easily.

I thought i could use conditional branches to do this, but i couldn't set the MAXsp parameter, could only increase it (So instead of setting my char's MAXsp to 10, it would INCREASE it by 10 every second!). Besides, even if i did get it to work, i would need to make like 50 conditional branches for each piece of weapon/item armor.

Thanks is advance

EDIT: Sorry XP

 

[Racheal]

XP or VX?

[edit] Then I shall have this done shortly.

[edit2]

class Game_Actor

  WEAPONS_SP = []

  WEAPONS_SP[4] = 100

  ARMORS_SP = [0, 5, 10, 2, 6]

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

  # * Get Basic Maximum SP

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

  def base_maxsp

    n = $data_actors[@actor_id].parameters[1, @level]

    weapon = WEAPONS_SP[@weapon_id]

    armor1 = ARMORS_SP[@armor1_id]

    armor2 = ARMORS_SP[@armor2_id]

    armor3 = ARMORS_SP[@armor3_id]

    armor4 = ARMORS_SP[@armor4_id]

    n += weapon != nil ? weapon : 0

    n += armor1 != nil ? armor1 : 0

    n += armor2 != nil ? armor2 : 0

    n += armor3 != nil ? armor3 : 0

    n += armor4 != nil ? armor4 : 0

    n = [[Integer(n), 0].max, 9999].min

    return n

  end

end

You define how much SP it increase at the top, either how WEAPONS_SP does it with 1 id per line, or like ARMORS_SP, where it's all in one line. In the armor example, the first 0 is for id 0, which doesn't exist. So armor 1 would have the 5 SP bonus.

 

[Thermalburn]

Thank you very much!

But I'm a bit new to the scripting aspect, so where exactly would i put your code?

Also i'm a little bit confused as to how i should assign SP bonus to my weapons...sorry

Thanks for your help

 

[Racheal]

Just above main is generally a good spot for inserted scripts. Right-click main, and click insert.

Basically I was trying to demonstrate the two ways you can assign the sp.
You can either go
WEAPONS_SP = []
WEAPONS_SP[weapon_id] = sp_bonus
WEAPONS_SP[different_weapon_id] = sp_bonus
etc etc

or

WEAPONS_SP = [0, weapon1_sp_bonus, weapon2_sp_bonus, weapon3_sp_bonus, etc etc etc]

For the first method, if you don't give a specific weapon a bonus, it will default to 0.

Oh enterbrain, how I wish you let us edit the database editor to make our life easier

 

[Thermalburn]

Very cool!

Thank you so much! You've been a great help.