XENOGEARS FAN BATTLE GAME

author=RedMask
Neat! I love Xenogears. I don't think I've ever seen a fan game of Xenogears before.

author=Marrend
Well, I think I might be in a similar position space you are, AlexNoah. I can get characters to hold their positions when a combo is active (they still jump in place, put, I'm trying to ignore that for now), but does not return to their original positions after it's done.

I've done a bit of digging, and generally throwing variables into the debug console. It seems the flag that determines that a combo is active (in our case, the class-level variable @input_combo_enabled of Game_Actor), is specified as "off" for the functions of "on_battle_start" and "on_battle_end". The related function of "enable_combo_off" turns it off at the end of the Scene_Battle.use_item function, and somewhere (I already forgot ;_;) in the "Game_Action.valid?" function.

My amateur hack (including calls to place variables into the debug console!) as it stands, in case anybody wants to know:

class Game_Actor < Game_Battler
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # New method : init oripost
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def init_oripost
    @ori_x = original_x
    @ori_y = original_y
    @oori_x = original_x
    @oori_y = original_y
  end
=begin
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # New method : Reset to original position
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def reset_pos(dur = 30, jump = 0)
    if @input_combo_enabled == true
      goto(@ori_x, @ori_y, 0, 0)
    else
      goto(@oori_x, @oori_y, dur, jump)
    end
  end
=end
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  # Overwrite method : Goto (basic module)
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  def goto(x, y, dur, jump, height = 0)
    super(x, y, dur, jump)
    height = [height, 0].max
    y = @shadow_point.y if @lock_z
    @shadow_point.goto(x, y + height, dur, 0)
    puts(@input_combo_enabled)
    if @input_combo_enabled == true
      puts(@ori_x, @ori_y)
      @ori_x = self.x
      @ori_y = self.y
      puts(@ori_x, @ori_y)
    else
      puts(@ori_x, @ori_y)
      @ori_x = @oori_x
      @ori_y = @oori_y
      puts(@ori_x, @ori_y)
    end
  end
end

*Edit: Maybe the @input_combo_enabled variable actually isn't the one we're looking for. Maybe there's another boolean variable. Something that "Raijin" "Senretsu", <max_combo number of inputs>, or <timed_out number of inputs> that triggers the system to say, "That's it! The cooking's done! The Prawn Battle of OVA!"

author=Marrend
Right. The position variables are retained after the combo's done. I haven't looked into the code to figure out an alternative that would return the battler to their actual-original position after a combo's done.