ALEXNOAH'S PROFILE

Xenogears as got the best animations ever in a 2D game, strange that no one mentions it, the deathblows of the characters are mindblowing, also the hit effects sounds SOLID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL-_0Yo4ZMQ&ab_channel=Artificialraven

Also that Aberrant 2 RPG Maker game looks gorgeous!

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!"

You rule!

So, is this code already workable?
I would try it myself, but i would need to re-arange all my scripts again just to try the Yanfly Input Combo script.

EDIT: Oh my bad, so this code makes the battler stay in place when attacking the enemy but does not return to original position, right?

author=pianotm
Hmm...Yami's Battle Symphony is completely compatible with Yanfly, I don't know about maintaining combos, but you might be able to use YBS to force Fei to return to his original position once the combo is over.

I knew that Battle Symphony was more compatible because i used it back in 2014, but i am using Theolized Battle System, which is the BEST battle system ever, i dont think i can use Battle Symphony and Theo at the same time? hahaha

author=Marrend
To see what you were talking about, I downloaded a demo of Theolized SBS threw Yanfly's Combo Input into it, and added a few test-skills at the end of the DB.

What I'm noticing is that the first input the actor stays in place, but, any following attack, they return to their original position, only to jump out with the next attack in succession. I also keep forgetting that, at this point, abilities don't actually cost anything. It seems to be possible to enter the "Raijin" combo (Triangle, Cross -> "XZ") followed by another light, medium, or heavy attack? I thought Yanfly's combo system was set up so that once a combo skill fired, you couldn't input any more. For what it's worth, I only programmed "Raijin" and "Senrestu", so, the max combo inputs would be 3 (even if, AP-wise, we're using up to 5).

I dunno how involved I want to get here. However, if I were to commit, I'd have to study the scripts with more scrutiny to understand what could be done to circumvent the actor from jumping back into their initial position so long as a combo is being inputted. Or what's going on with being able to input commands after a Raijin.

Darigaaz, it would almost be like Baclyae Revolution all over again.

Thanks for trying to help me in this bud, i really appreciate it,
But yes, that is what happens as you could see, i managed to put Fei in place by using "script, "@ori_x = self.x; @ori_y = self.y" so that way Fei stays in place ONCE he moves towards the enemy, but this script will make that last position his actual position, meaning that he will stay there and no return to his ORIGINAL position (hope you can understand what i mean, my english doesnt helps either hahah)

Maybe i can ask Theo, but i dont think he will help me in this...

The only way i see now is to just use combos as skills, and those combos makes you gain TP to make Deathblows...

Cheers.

Ok... so i tried to implement a combo system but its almost impossible... The Yanfly script is very limited and doesn`t allow multiple combos like in Xenogears... Seems i will need to skip this part and just make a basic RPG system. Sad because this is something i really wanted to implement but RPG Maker is limited and things like this happens.
Maybe in the future i could pay someone to make a script specifically for this, but i doubt it will happen.
I will continue making this game, of course, maybe i will add a system where depending of the level of the player is the amount of attacks one can do in a single turn, similar to Lunar games.