HOW TO MAKE BOSSES MOVE WHILE PERFORMING A SKILL! (UPDATED)

There has been many videos of RPG Maker 2003 I've seen that show enemies moving while performing a skill, just like a Player! I thought myself that was amazing and I learned how myself! Ever since that, people kept on asking me how to do it so now, here's a guide on how to do it!

First off, you want to take the battlefield that the monster is going to be on and open it up to paint or whatever editor you're using. You want to export one of the random battle animations, large or small, and put it on paint. What you want to make sure is that you know the border lines are for each of the frames. You then take the portion where the monster is going to be residing on the battle battlefield and paste it on each of the frames of the battle animation on paint. You then put the animation of the monster on each of the panels, making sure he's in the same position. You then import that battle animation onto RPG Maker 2003. Once you do, go to animations2 and make a new animation. Make sure when you put the animation together, you put each frame in the middle so when it appears, it directly covers the monster. Once you set the animation on one of the skills for the monster, what this will do is simply when the monster uses that move, an animation covers the monster, but since the background of where he's standing and the monster itself is in the animation, it will give the illusion that he's actually there!

Buuut, if this one isn't good enough, I have another!

*Update*
After learning a bunch of new techniques over this past week, I have figured out an easier method to doing all this! You can use the other way, but this, I think, is more effective and fun!

First, make the boss have no picture whatsoever, sounds crazy? Well, I'll explain soon! Then, you should make an actual moving animation of an idle boss and call it "idle boss"! So, at turn 0, display the animation on the "idle boss" animation and make a new page that says every turn, display "idle boss" animation. Next, make the skill that the enemy is going to use "global scale" and find out where the enemy is going to be. Once you to, take that background and put it in the animation itself. What this will do is block out the "idle boss" animation and have the skill animation go off and for making it "global scale", the position will be the same no matter what character the boss is attacking!

What's better about this method is that you can have animation go off when the enemy gets hurt! For example, make an animation, we'll call it "hurt boss", that displays what the boss will look like if they get hurt! Next, you can have a page that says "If Character uses Attack" and inside that page, if you time it right, you can have the "hurt boss" animation go off right when the character attacks! At the end of the page, you can just display the "idle boss" animation once again!

You can do the same thing for skills, but in the skill section, you must have have a condition that says "If (insert boss here) is the current target". This simply means that if you use an attack that aims for the boss, the condition will go off. Now, this is the tricky part. Since all the skills are going to be different lengths, you want to find a universal spot in all the animations where the "hurt boss" animation will go off. What i would do is have all the animations be a certain length, like 120 frames, so I would have a second "hurt boss" animation that would play the "idle boss" animation for 120 frames and then play the "hurt boss" animation for however long the animation goes and for the rest of the frames, play the "idle boss" animation. Another way is to time when each skill hits the target, like for instance, each skill will hurt the enemy at frame 100 no matter what. With that, have a second "hurt boss" animation that would play the "idle boss" animation for 100 frames and then play the "hurt boss" animation for however long the animation goes and for the rest of the frames, play the "idle boss" animation.

Now, with this, you can awesomify your battles so the player can be amazed even more! If you have any further questions, just message me and I'll be glad to answer!

If you looked at this and have no idea what i mean, here's a video of what I mean! This isn't mine, but it's my inspiration!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hKMdfwqFo4