Shared health / mana pool in battle? Topic

APATHY IS FOR COWARDS

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10/09/2014 12:21 PM

I don't have VX Ace but I'm considering picking it up very soon, I just wanted to check one thing first. Would it be possible to script a battle system where you controlled several party members, but they shared an HP / MP pool among all three of them?

I have a decent amount of programming experience, I just don't know if something like this is possible or practical to script in VX Ace... thank you :D

karins_soulkeeper

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10/09/2014 12:32 PM

A quick and dirty work-around would be to link all of the character's hp's, and then just hide the other hp bars from view.

Based on that: yeah, I think it's possible. I've the slightest of how to do it though :/

SunflowerGames

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10/09/2014 02:25 PM

It would involve variables likely.

Actor 1's HP = Variable 1
Actor 2's HP = Variable 2
Actor 3's HP = Variable 3

Variable 1+2+3 = Party's HP = Variable 4

Then you would need to hide the HP bars, and show the health bar based
on the 4th variable. And if this variable is 0 all party members die.

Edit:
I realized another issue with this is that this would need to work outside of battle as well.

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APATHY IS FOR COWARDS

4158

10/11/2014 03:47 PM

Thanks you guys! I'm messing around with the scripts now and I don't think it'll be too bad.

LouisCyphre

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10/12/2014 12:34 AM

It's not terribly difficult if you set it up right. You'd want to access Game_Actor and just make each actor set the other actor's HP equal to their own, when their HP changes. No addition or anything wonky like that; and it still causes them to die naturally at 0 HP instead of needing obnoxious event-like coding.

[RMVX ACE] SHARED HEALTH / MANA POOL IN BATTLE?

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