SkillRobber

[kyonides]

SkillRobber

XP + VX + ACE

by Kyonides

Introduction

No, it's not a Blue Mage skill script!
Your heroes don't need to ever die to learn the skill for one reason only...
They will steal it themselves!

For XP

Code:

# If you succeed, the Target Animation will be displayed on top of your hero!

# Add the same number of Skill & State ID's to the SKILL_IDS & STATE_IDS
# Constants because they are totally correlated.
# The higher the Skill ID, the more powerful it should be.

# Create the same number of Skills and States in the DB.
# The stealable skills may add 1+ of those States to their Plus State Set.
# They are another indicator of the Skill's Power Level required to steal them.

module SkillRobber
  SKILL_IDS = [82, 83]
  FAIL_SKILL_ID = 101
  WAIT_FRAMES = 20
  MESSAGE_LEARNED = "%s already learned %s!"
  MESSAGE_SUCCESS = "%s successfully stole %s!"
  MESSAGE_FAILURE = "%s failed to steal any skill!"
  MESSAGE_NO_SKILL = "%s found no skill to steal from %s"

For VX

Code:

# Create the same number of Skill & State ID's in the DB.
# The new skills should include the following note tag:

# <steal skill lvl 1>

# The level increases the more useful the given skill is.
# The stealable skills may only add 1 single State depending on the mininmum
# skill level required to steal them.

module SkillRobber
  SKILL_ANIME = 49

For VX ACE

Code:

# Create the same number of Skill & State ID's in the DB.
# The new skills should include the following note tags:

# Skill Robber's Note Tag
# <steal skill lvl 1 anime 3 6>

# Stealable Skill's Note Tag
# <stealable skill lvl 1>

# The level indicates how powerful Skill Robber should be in order to learn it.
# The animations will be used for the success and failure cases. Here a fail
# actually means that your hero already knows the skill.

module SkillRobber
  MESSAGE_LEARNED = "%s already learned %s!"
  MESSAGE_SUCCESS = "%s has stolen %s from %s!"
  ROB_SKILL_NOTE_TAG = /<steal skill lvl (\d+) anime (\d+) (\d+)>/i
  STEALABLE_NOTE_TAG = /<stealable skill lvl (\d+)>/i

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Terms & Conditions

Free for use in any game!
Remind a certain  Wulfo that Lina Inverse is paying him a visit one of these days!
Remember that stealing is bad!
That's it!

[kyonides]

The ACE Port Has Arrived!

Well, it only took me another day to come up with a port for RMVX ACE.
As you might have guessed, every edition of the engine has a quite different version of RGSS so a scripter always has to check out what has remained intact and what has (terribly) changed in every single installment of the Maker.

Developing the script for ACE has been the more convoluted of them while XP and VX were almost pretty much straight forward. The above mentioned changes were minimal indeed.

VX ACE port mainly depends on notetags to make it work under any circumstance.
The only Constants it uses are required to display custom messages that were not considered by the engine developers back in those days.

And keep in mind that stealing is bad!