Castle Paradox

[ShadowOD]

On many RPG's (Mainly FF), you can scan your enemies, so you can see their remaining health, weaknesses and strengths.

Is this possible on OHR?
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[Moogle1]

Yes. The simplest way is to do this:

1. Reserve an element that you aren't going to use for anything else. I'll call it the Libra element.
2. Make a Libra-elemental attack that sets the target's HP to 0%, then use the bitset Show Damage Without Dealing. This'll make the enemy's current HP show up.
3. Make an attack and an invisible enemy for each weakness. The attack should silently kill its caster while displaying the caption "Weak to ___!" The invisible enemy should be untargetable by heroes, should have 999 Speed, and should have just that one attack.
4. For each enemy, go into the Spawns menu and set "Spawn on Libra hit" to the appropriate enemy.

If you have enemies with multiple weaknesses or if you want to show resistances as well, you'll need to make a new enemy and chain of attacks for each one. In this case, only the last attack in the chain should kill its caster. Obviously this can get very tedious if you have a lot of weakness/resistance combinations -- I suggest restricting it to just weaknesses. I don't remember many RPGs whose scan spell showed you resistances.
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[ShadowOD]

Ah cheers bro.

FF8 shows your resistances. (I think)

Well i only need Health and weaknesses anyways

libra? FF12

Thanks again, you guys are alot of help.
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[Moogle1]

It's "Libra" in most fan translations of most FFs. I think I first saw it in FF5. FF3DS also has a Libra spell, if I'm not mistaken, but with a different effect.
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[djfenix]

Libra was the name of the spell in the original japanese. Lot's of spell name's were changed too (fire2-fira, fire3-firaga, life-raise)

I personally prefer Scan over Libra....

[ShadowOD]

I never knew that lol, but yeah i prefer scan.
I will attempt to put scan in my game and see how it goes.
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