Hulp!

[nightprince75 0]

Is there any way to make character specific skills and limitations that affect the player depending on which character they have in the lead position? I'm using a party-switcher, and it seems kind of silly to have an angel plunging to the bottom of the sea when that map is designed for the atlantean character. I can set up some things dependent on who is in the party, but haven't figured out how to do it with just the lead character

[dolarmak 23]

well that depends entirely on the party switcher. What one are you using, maybe there is a quick add-on you could have to do that?

[nightprince75 0]

I'm trying to use Blizzards, and basically, I've pretty much decided to force one character into the front, since I've finally gotten that part of the script to work, and have been piddling around with setting up states that influence the characters' abilities, etc--it's a Macguyverized duct-tape patch job, but closer to what I want than anything I've been able to find online. So far I haven't found much of anything (I'm thinking along the lines of DK64 type of characters) It's really aggravating me--I can rig it up so that one character shrinks down to the size of a flea, but unless that character is in the lead, Chunky Kong is the one going down the rabbit hole instead of Tiny--I might have to eradicate the party entirely,though that's not what I had originally planned

[dolarmak 23]

Does any one else follow Tiny down the hole or is he going alone?

If he's alone it's simple. Since he's already in the lead, remove the rest for the party. Set up some variables or switches to remember who is in the group and when Tiny returns , put them back in the group.

 

Otherwise I would ask if Tiny's ability make every one small so they could follow him?

[nightprince75 0]

Yeah, theoretically the script is supposed to be able to do that, but when I try to use the syntax that is supposed to remember the current party for a quick restore later, it results in a complete and utter failure. Since I have ten possible actors and random checkpoints to organize them at (I know that's grammatically incorrect, but I've had a stressful morning with this playtoy already and just don't care)--anyway, I've temporarily eliminated this particular hurdle from my project for now--I was mostly interested in having various things affect only certain actors, not just the events themselves, but items, potions, etc. After being told that this wasn't even possible in another forum and encouraged to request a custom script, I've been finding ways to manage it a bit at a time anyway--I've been making my own video games since before the disk drive was invented, and have no intention of being daunted by the Ruby Syntax, when I once made my characters out of string of binary code--It's just EXTREMELY frustrating right now. I never had any intention of making the predictable "Aluxes beats up the bad ghosties" game, and unlike other interfaces I've played with I'm not learning much from existing scripts

 

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How does one get a caterpillar script to arrange the characters in some other format than single file? I've been playing around with a rather generic one, and managed to get it to the point where I can reposition the three ugly ducklings in relation to the first actor, but not in relation to each other--I've googled this and found a few other people who have asked this question, but none of them received an actual ANSWER--just links to other caterpillar scripts, and of course those links are now dead. I found something like this in Mr.Mmos game invader, called Franchesca's companions, but I don't want any part of that mess, other than rearranging my actors a smidge, and possible communicating between them. However after a nightmarish experience with Heretic's caterpillar, which didn't even have the arrangement I wanted, and would have literally destroyed my project, if I hadn't had the foresight to copy what I had prior to experimenting with funky scripts--well, right now I just want to accomplish one simple thing, fan out my actors, and stay away from gold fiddles...

Edited April 7, 2013 by dolarmak
Double post merged

[Heretic86 25]

In regards to the Caterpillar, I've taken a crack at it, but failed miserably.  Im sure that it is possible, but it is definitely beyond my ability.

[dolarmak 23]

In regards to the Caterpillar, I've taken a crack at it, but failed miserably.  Im sure that it is possible, but it is definitely beyond my ability.

You and me both. lol

 

 

Nightprince75, avoid double posting if you can. if no one has responded yet, just edit your previous post.

[nightprince75 0]

Okay--the caterpillar thing turned out to be much easier than I thought--while what I came out with might not be what most people are looking for, I'm not most people and rather like it--My cat actors now have a seemingly random cluster, switching places as they move, kind of like people do IRL. They seem to have minds of their own, kind of a ghost in the machine--it's hard to describe, but basically I just broke the script in an artistic fashion.... Now for something completely different! Does anybody have ANY ideas on how to restrict the use of items, either based on the actor, or the state inflicted, or something I haven't thought of yet? My thing is, two of my actors are healers and I want to make it so that they are the only ones with access to the medical chest--I can make it so that using an item like a potion doesn't affect certain players, that was just a matter of creating new elements, but they still consume them, and what I really want is for the HEALERS to have to use them on the battlers--which is pointless if the item isn't going to work on the battler--Also I have a gunner who runs out of ammo, and has to buy clips to reload, and I'd like to make it so he's the only one who can use the clips, since other actors can consume them wastefully. Any ideas? Theories? Any input at all would be appreciated!

[nightprince75 0]

Okay, so I found the only script on the world wide web that does what I want in the "Tons of Addons" scripts, but when I tried to add the three scriptsets like the creators prescribed, my game had a severe allergic reaction--not to cast aspersions on anyone! Anyway, this was the only script out of the collection I was at all likely to use, and it's such a simple-looking script, I tried to use it by itself {and failed, obviously, or I wouldn't be whining}. I've looked in the help menu, and looked for tutorials, I can actually script in other languages/syntaxes, which is probably a huge part of my problem right now, since I'm looking at ruby syntaxes thinking they're like something else, and they are not... Anyway, I need to figure out how to define "ACTOR_ITEMS" the way it's used in the following line: if $game_system.ACTOR_ITEMS && self.is_a?(Game_Actor) : and every time I think I have a clue, I turn out to be mistaken--can somebody explain this to me like I'm a small dumb child? I would be very grateful...