HELP WITH MAKING AN FFVI-STYLE PARTY SWITCH SYSTEM

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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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07/23/2012 07:28 AM
We'll assume you have the characters you want on each team stored in some variables. We'll assume those variables are named "Team 1 Char 1", "Team 1 Char 2", and so forth up through "Team 3 Char 4".

When you begin the event, store the starting map IDs and coordinates of each of the three teams in some variables. We'll assume those variables are called "Team 1 Map ID", "Team 1 X-Coor", "Team 1 Y-Coor", "Team 2 Map ID", etc.

This goes in a common event, parallel process. Make the parallel process require a trigger switch that is only on during the time when you want the player to be able to set up teams. 

Key Input Processing: Check for cancel key, set to variable "Menu Key"

Branch if variable "Menu Key" is 6:

  Show Choices: Enter Menu / Switch Teams

  [Enter Menu] Handler:

    Open Main Menu

  [Change Teams] Handler:

    Branch if variable "Current Team" is 1

      Memorize Location in variables: "Team 1 Map ID", "Team 1 X-Coor", "Team 1 Y-Coor"

      (Put some code here to revive everyone who's dead on all three teams; this can be done with some HP checks and conditional branches.  Otherwise you will get game overs when removing and adding members.)

      Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 1"

      Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 2"

      Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 3"

      Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 4"

      Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 1"

      Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 2"

      Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 3"

      Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 4"

      Recall to memorized position: "Team 2 Map ID", "Team 2 X-Coor", "Team 2 Y-Coor"

      Set variable "Current Team" to 2

    Else

      Branch if variable "Current Team" is 2

        Memorize Location in variables: "Team 2 Map ID", "Team 2 X-Coor", "Team 2 Y-Coor"

        (Put some code here to revive everyone who's dead on all three teams; this can be done with some HP checks and conditional branches.  Otherwise you will get game overs when removing and adding members.)

        Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 1"

        Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 2"

        Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 3"

        Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 2 Char 4"

        Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 1"

        Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 2"

        Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 3"

        Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 4"

        Recall to memorized position: "Team 3 Map ID", "Team 3 X-Coor", "Team 3 Y-Coor"

        Set variable "Current Team" to 3

      Else

        Branch if variable "Current Team" is 3

          Memorize Location in variables: "Team 3 Map ID", "Team 3 X-Coor", "Team 3 Y-Coor"

          (Put some code here to revive everyone who's dead on all three teams; this can be done with some HP checks and conditional branches.  Otherwise you will get game overs when removing and adding members.)

          Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 1"

          Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 2"

          Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 3"

          Change party members: Remove character stored in variable "Team 3 Char 4"

          Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 1"

          Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 2"

          Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 3"

          Change party members: Add character stored in variable "Team 1 Char 4"

          Recall to memorized position: "Team 1 Map ID", "Team 1 X-Coor", "Team 1 Y-Coor"

          Set variable "Current Team" to 1

        End

      End

    End

  [Cancel] Handler:

  End

End



Then on each map involved in the dungeon, you need three events. The first one looks like this: 

Branch if Variable "Current Team" is not equal to 1

  Branch if Variable "Team 1 Map ID" is <this map's ID>

    Move Event: This Event, Change Graphic (to the graphic of the hero stored in "Team 1 Char 1"; requires some conditional branches)

    Change Event Location: This Event, Location stored in variables: "Team 1 X-Coor", "Team 1 Y-Coor"

  End

End


The second one looks like this: 

Branch if Variable "Current Team" is not equal to 2

  Branch if Variable "Team 2 Map ID" is <this map's ID>

    Move Event: This Event, Change Graphic (to the graphic of the hero stored in "Team 2 Char 1"; requires some conditional branches)

    Change Event Location: This Event, Location stored in variables: "Team 2 X-Coor", "Team 2 Y-Coor"

  End

End


The third one looks like this: 

Branch if Variable "Current Team" is not equal to 3

  Branch if Variable "Team 3 Map ID" is <this map's ID>

    Move Event: This Event, Change Graphic (to the graphic of the hero stored in "Team 3 Char 1"; requires some conditional branches)

    Change Event Location: This Event, Location stored in variables: "Team 3 X-Coor", "Team 3 Y-Coor"

  End

End



That should do it. Making the interface to choose the party members is up to you.
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