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[bis_senchi]

I would like to make my own battle system.

During the battle I would like my player to be able to escape choosing "run" on the menu. The battle would not start after a bright flask and I would like to use if possible inside battle grafics.

Thanks very much in advance for commands and plotscripting advice!

[Moogle1]

Nope, you can't use the engine's battle graphics in your own battle system.

The easy answer is that if you have to ask how to do it, you wouldn't understand if you were told.
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[Blue Pixel]

[bis_senchi]

Well. I may think about it later for a second game. For the moment I shall work on my grafics and make a good first one!

Anyway; I first have to solve a little problem.

Here it is : I make appear text box 34 using the key 8 and I would like to disapear ONLY by pressing 8 again. Could you help me ?

#--------------------------------------------------------------
script, my script, begin

if key is pressed (key:, then , begin
show text box (34)
????
#key 8 has been pressed again the "wait for text box" command below make dispear the text box
wait for text box
end
#--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks very much on advance!

[Moogle1]

Use "suspend box advance" to keep the player from advancing the text box himself. Use "advance text box" to hide the text box after the player presses the button. Use "resume box advance" to allow the player to advance text boxes afterwards.
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Slime Salad :: Independent Game Design

[Soule X]

I was thinking that, too, but will the 8 key register while the text box is up? I've never tried it, but it doesn't seem like it would work.

[Moogle1]

Yes, scripts will continue to run while text boxes are open.

If you are using the same key to open the text box as you are to close it, you will need to make sure the player releases the key after opening it and before closing it or the text box will flash onscreen and disappear before the player can read it.
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[bis_senchi]

I think I will use a tag to lock the hero and I will use a the increment command variable to count the number of time the key is pressed. Let's hope it will work.

Anyway, as I was working with npcs a question came to my mind
What does prevent copies of npcs from having different grafics.

I explain myself. By storing namer in a variable, you can make made different things to copies of npcs such as walking, appearing and dispaearing...

variable (Ed, Al)
Ed:=NPC reference (2, 0) #Ed 1rst copy of the npc2
create npc (2,0,1)
Al:=Npc reference (2,1) #Al 2nd copy of the npc2
wait for all

So why can't I give them a differente apperance ???

Why
alter npc (ed, NPCstat:palette, 50)
alter npc (ed, NPCstat:picture, 45)
wait for npc (ed)

alter npc (al, NPCstat:palette, 26)
alter npc (al, NPCstat:picture, 50)
wait for npc (Al)

doesn't work ??? whereas

walk npc (ed, north, 5)
wait for npc (ed)

walk npc (al, east, 2)
wait for npc (Al)

work .

Thanks in advance for the help and feel free to ask further questions if you don't understand me!

[junahu]

Right. This will probably confuse the hell out of you so I'll just say it. Each NPC (0-35) can have multiple copies of themselves. You can move the copies around because they are separate entities. You cannot change what they look like invidvidually because their properties are dependant on the NPC they were created from.

For example, if you created 2 copies of NPC 5.

1st:=Npc reference (5,0)
alter npc (1st, NPCstat:picture, 50)

this code would make every copy of NPC 5 look like walkabout 50.

There is a way around this if you've followed me so far. It works like this;
1 ) In Custom.exe make two NPCs for your map. The first one will have all the properties you want the npc to have at the beginning of your script. The other one will have all the properties you want the npc to have at the end of your script. (If you want two copies of the same npc have different properties at the end of the script then you'll have to create a third NPC)
2 ) (asssume that I've used npcs 0-2 for this example)

variable (1st, 2nd)
create npc (0,0,1)
1st:=NPC reference (0, 0)
create npc (0,0,1)
2nd:=Npc reference (0,1)
wait for all

change NPC ID (1st,1)
change NPC ID (2nd,2) #1st and 2nd have now changed into different NPCs
1st:=NPC reference (1, 0)
2nd:=NPC reference (2, 0)#This part is important if you want to keep refering to 1st and 2nd after this part

walk npc (1st, north, 5)
wait for npc (1st)
walk npc (1st, east, 2)
wait for npc (1st)
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[Mike Caron]

A short and simple way to explain it is that each copy of the NPC is a clone of the "base". If you change the base (by changing one of the clones) they all change.

If they could be changed seprately, there wouldn't be much point in a limit of 36 NPCs, would there?
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[bis_senchi]

What is you say is very interesting! Would there be possible then to create a fake ID that would be store in a (global) variable and then change it to the copy of the Npc and or to the original ???

The idea would be to create a "fake npc (with a fake ID)". Afterwall palette set and picture set are numbers; and they can be stored can't they ? I wonder what commands shall be used... does somoene knows how to change numbers in variable ?

That would prevent from using two npcs.
Thanks for the information. It's very interesting! I understand better now
why I couldn't give a different look to npc (2,0) and npc (2,1).

[junahu]

[bis_senchi]

Thanks again for the explanations. The best things to do when you use copies of npcs to make a npc with a new look is , according to me, to be sure that the original is not on the screen as you are altering the grafics...

Anyway; I have another little question: (sorry for posting a message again... ) how do I safely lock the keyboard

I would like to be sure that when the player press on z, r or esc, or alt it has no effects. I customed the keybaord keys with a key is pressed script. I need the suspend player command but I don't how to active it (with a tag, a global variable that becames true ?)

By the way could somoene confirm me that when the player press on z, r g, h, ctrl, 1 or 2 nothing will happen if the player is suspended ?

Thanks as always for help and suggestions !

[Bob the Hamster]

Yopu might be interested in the change NPC ID command.

[TMC]

Yes, when the player is suspended, none of the controls work, except for the joystick calibration key, J. On keypress scripts are still called, however.
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