Combat animations via scripting; How?

[ZeroSum]

Hi there,

I've been learning how to script for the past months and am making decent progress. There is something I'd like to learn and maybe the people here can enlighten me.

What I'd like to learn:
How to write code to play an animation just before and after using the party command phase in combat.

I have learned how to play animations on battlers/active_battlers with methods like this used in the scene battle class (3):

PHP Code:

<?php 

def window_animation

      @active_battler.animation_id = 164 

      @active_battler.animation_hit = true 

  end 

[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.