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So, I've finally gotten serious with RMXP and decided to make an RPG. In the process of making new spells I've come across a few problems, such as:

1. A spell that uses all of your SP.
2. A spell that revives and heals your entire party at the same time.
3. A spell that can only be used outside of battle and is used to get over a certain terrain tag, ignoring passage settings (levitation, swimming)

I'd also like to know if RMXP by default has a good system for stats, since there are lots of buff/debuff spells in my game.

Thanks,
Pia Carrot

I think those can be made with common events.
Just create the effects there and select them from the common event dropdown box.
Number 2 would be 'recover all' then.

Everything you could want to know about RPG Maker XP stats can be found here: http://rpgmaker.net/tutorials/532/

Is it a good system? Ehh.... Kind of! If you know how it works, and maybe change action_order to not be so random it can be very balanced. I don't like how the system is geared towards spell tiers, but some people do.

I figured it would use events, but I didn't see an event request forum.

1. For a skill that takes all of your SP, you want to create a common Event that changes Skill points to 0...

so in the skill, you make it point to your common event that you'll use.

Then in the common event, you want to set a variable to your character's SP and then Get rid of all that SP by changing SP Decrease by that variable. and whammo, your effect will occur and the common event will strip the SP, or add the HP or whatever you need.

and now for 3. Look into a change tileset script. This will allow you to determine passability of a tile on one tileset and not for another. Leon Westbrooke did a nice Tileset swap script online. you should be able to find it easily.

All of those effect can be done in either events or scripts! Let's go over a few.

If you want to be able to walk on certain terrain tags, all you have to do is replace Game_Player's '"passable?" with

Code:
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  # * Passable Determinants

  #     x : x-coordinate

  #     y : y-coordinate

  #     d : direction (0,2,4,6,8)

  #         * 0 = Determines if all directions are impassable (for jumping)

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  def passable?(x, y, d)

    # Get new coordinates

    new_x = x + (d == 6 ? 1 : d == 4 ? -1 : 0)

    new_y = y + (d == 2 ? 1 : d == 8 ? -1 : 0)

    # If coordinates are outside of map

    unless $game_map.valid?(new_x, new_y)

      # Impassable

      return false

    end

    #if walk-on skill has enabled switch

    if $game_map.terrain_tag(new_x, new_y) == WALKABLE_TAG && 

      $game_switches[WALKABLE_SWTCH] == true

      # Passable

      return true

    end

    # If debug mode is ON and ctrl key was pressed

    if $DEBUG and Input.press?(Input::CTRL)

      # Passable

      return true

    end

    super

  end

If you make a skill that runs a common event to turn on your switch, you can then walk on that terrain tag!

What else... Here is how you can make your skill shows that it uses all SP. Make an edit to "draw_item" in Window_Skill.
Change:

Code:
self.contents.draw_text(x + 232, y, 48, 32, skill.sp_cost.to_s, 2)

to:

Code:
    if skill.common_event_id == SP_ALL_EVENT_ID

      self.contents.draw_text(x + 232, y, 48, 32, "All", 2)

    else

      self.contents.draw_text(x + 232, y, 48, 32, skill.sp_cost.to_s, 2)

    end

Revive and heal and SP All can be done completely through eventing. What I like to do is add this little script snippet to my project

Code:
class Scene_Battle

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  # * Public Instance Variables

  #--------------------------------------------------------------------------

  attr_reader :active_battler

  attr_reader :target_battlers

end

And then in you common event you can run a script on the user with

Code:
$scene.active_battler

.
similarly you can run script on all targets. Here is an example.

Code:
for target in $scene.target_battlers

p "Targetting: " + target.name

target.damage = 12

target.damage_pop = true

target.hp -= 12

end

With this code snippet, you can simply put

Code:
$scene.active_battler.sp = 0

in a skill's common event, and it will cost all of a battler's SP (even enemies, which is why I like to do it that way.)

...whew! Lots of words. If you need me to explain anything more in depth, feel free to ask.

Thank you all very much, this has helped a ton.

One more thing regarding spells, I found this "Blow Away" script when I looked at an internet archive of rmxp.org, the thing's old as hell but I'd like to use it, only problem is it seems rather buggy because when I use it, it will say "miss" and then the enemy is "Blown Away" from battle. It also seems to be unavoidable, even to bosses so it's very overpowered. If there's a more modern script that can do this or something that would be awesome.

The Script:

Content Hidden

Next time use the [ code ] [ /code ] tags, it preserves the tab spacing. Not sure how to fix resistances, maybe an elemental check? If it were my script I'd probably apply it as a state but....

Here is a fix for "miss" text.

Code:
class Game_Battler

Blow_Away_Skills = [33]

attr_accessor :hidden_skill

alias before_blow_away_initialize initialize

def initialize

before_blow_away_initialize

@hidden_skill = false

end

alias before_blow_away_skill_effect skill_effect

def skill_effect(user, skill)

if self.hidden

return false

end

if Blow_Away_Skills.include?(skill.id)

@hidden_skill = true

self.current_action.clear

end

result = before_blow_away_skill_effect(user, skill)

if @hidden_skill == true && self.damage.is_a?(String)

self.damage = ""

end

return result

end

end

class Scene_Battle

alias before_blow_away_update_phase4_step5 update_phase4_step5

def update_phase4_step5

before_blow_away_update_phase4_step5

for target in @target_battlers

if target.hidden_skill == true

target.hidden = true

end

end

end

alias before_blow_away_start_phase5 start_phase5

def start_phase5

for actor in $game_party.actors

actor.hidden = false

actor.hidden_skill = false

end

before_blow_away_start_phase5

end

end

class Game_Party

def all_dead?

# If number of party members is 0

if $game_party.actors.size == 0

return false

end

# If an actor is in the party with 0 or more HP

for actor in @actors

if actor.hp > 0 and actor.hidden == false

return false

end

end

# All members dead

return true

end

end

I added code tags to her script, and put in that it was by good ol' Fomar0153. :WINK:

wow, my answer didn't nearly touch the awesomeness of MechanicalPen. Somebody get this guy some points!!!

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