Castle Paradox

[KhaTheGrey]

I would like to know to do an identify spell, like Libra from the Final Fantasy series, to where it displays info about an enemy, like elemental weaknesses and strengths, etc...

[Bob the Hamster]

If you simply want to show the target's HP, that is fairly easy.

Go to "Damage Settings..." -> "Damage Bitsets..." and then turn on the following bitsets:

"Show damage without inflicting"
"% based attacks damage instead of set"

Then change the "Damage Math:" to "100% of current"

You might also want to use the "Show Attack Name" bitset, and set the attack name to be something like "Current HP"

If you want to display elemental weaknesses or other info, it gets more complicated.

Rename one of your elementals to "Identify" (If you are already using all your elementals, you can increase the number of them up as high as 64 by going to "Edit General Game Data" -> "Battle System Options" -> "Number of Elements")

Make your scan/libra attack do "Identify" elemental damage, and then give every enemy a counterattack to "Identify" elemental attacks. This attack should use the attack caption to display a line of information about the enemy.

This method can be nice, but it is a lot of work because you need a whole bunch of different identify counterattacks for each type of enemy.

I should really program a better way to do identify attacks. Sorry it is so much of a pain right now! :)

[KhaTheGrey]

[Bob the Hamster]

[Rya.Reisender]

Since people mainly use "Scan" in combat to find out what elemental weaknesses a monster has and how many HP it got left, it would be enough to just make one counter spell per elemental weakness combination rather than for every monster.
Then the text can just display "Target is weak to fire" and you can use the counter for every monster that is weak to fire.
Combine that with the "Show remaining HP as damage" and you are good to go.
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