Combat animations via scripting; How?

[ZeroSum]

[DerVVulfman]

Hey, Zerosum. I saw your request and wanted to give you a little heads-up on how to assign the @active_battlers in your code.

First, let's look at how they are defined in the default code. Within both the phase3_next_actor and /b]phase3_prior_actor[/b] methods, , the command of...
@active_battler = $game_party.actors[@actor_index]
... assigns an actor to the @active_battler value. But the method of update_phase4_step1 uses a command of...
@active_battler = @action_battlers.shift
... which uses both actor and enemy values gathered and sorted within in the make_action_orders method.


In otherwords, the @active_battler acts as a place holder for both actors and enemies within the party or the troop. You could actually make a specific battle animation for the 2nd member of your party by merely using...

Code:

$game_party.actors[1].animation_id = 15
$game_party.actors[1].animation_hit = true

... or cycling through every enemy like so...

Code:

for enemy in $game_troop.enemies
     enemy.animation_id = 15
     enemy.animation_hit = true
    end

Does that help?

[ZeroSum]

Great! This is exactly what I wanted to learn, but only easier

Thanks for the heads up, this info makes for much nicer use of battle animations in my combat interface.