Can someone help me with this little problem?

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

Hi everyone! :)

 

In the game im making, instead of random battles, the player needs to touch monster sprites to start a battle. For weak monsters, im using a slime sprite, for average monsters, im using a ghost sprite, for tough monsters, a skeleton and for deadly or overpowered enemies, im using a grim reaper sprite.

 

So heres my question:

 

Lets say that the player becomes stronger than an average monster (ghost sprite), how can i make the sprite automatically become a slime? Can i do this with events? Or do i need a script?

[Moonpearl 32]

You can reserve a game variable you regularily update with the player's level. Then you can have each monster event hold several pages, each of which is set to condition: variable XX is greater than this level or that.

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

I tryed to do what you said but it didnt work. Im not really good with variables, so maybe i did something wrong. Heres what i did:

 

[Moonpearl 32]

Nope, not like that. You should use the "conditions" panel on the left. The problem with what you did is that the interpreter will always execute the second page, what your conditional branch does is just prevent the event from doing anything if the variable is not above 71. What the left panel does is ignore the entire page if the conditions are not met, and fall back to the previous one.

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

Ok. But what do i have to do in the condition panel to make the program understand that i want to use the actor's lvl and not something else?

[Moonpearl 32]

After each battle, insert a command to retrieve the player's level in variable XX ("manage variables" command) in order to ensure that it's always up-to-date. Then set each monster event's conditions panel to "variable XX is YY or higher".

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

It worked, thanks! But the only problem left is the sprite is changing only AFTER i touched the ghost sprite and ended the battle. Then the sprite changes and if i dont move away quickly, i get another battle. 

Edited December 29, 2013 by ♥Otaku♥

[Moonpearl 32]

Can you post screens of your event programming please?

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

Oh sorry. Heres the 2 pages i made:

 

[Moonpearl 32]

You should put the command that retrieves the actor's level right after the battle processing command, before anything else, and on all pages too.

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

Thank you so much! It worked this time!

Just one last thing. All the ghost sprites changes to a slime sprite after the battle ended. Is there a way to make them change before the map reappears?

If its more complicated or impossible to do, never mind. Im already glad that they can change. Im just asking this to make things look better.

[Moonpearl 32]

I don't understand, it looks like you're asking two different things at the same time. Can you clarify a bit?

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

What i mean is that after Adar (The pc) lv up to lv71, when i come back on the map after the battle ended, the ghost sprites dont change for half a second and then they switch to a slime sprite. Is there a way to make the sprites switch more quickly?

[Moonpearl 32]

Not without a script. This happens because the computer remembers how the map looked before the battle, and transitions to it before processing the rest of the event.

[♥Otaku♥ 1]

Oh, ok. Thank you so much for all your help!

[Moonpearl 32]

You're welcome.