CORTI'S PROFILE

Question:
DynRPG 0.3x allows to influence the windows in battle.
I like to draw my own skill and item menu. Moving the windows into the void is easy.

But how would you detect that it was drawn that frame?

Window.winTimer says "The total number of frames the window has been visible before a RPG::Scene change. " but it is increased even if the window is not visible.

Window.choiceTimer is increased only when the windows is really visible, so i would chose that.

Question 2: What is that tooltipp window with the item/skill-description on top called and is there a pointer to it?

author=bulmabriefs144
Are you kidding? I think this is doable by common event.

Replacing commands is of course easy by using event code. The tricky thing is to have the event code called at the right moment.

As you know "HERO does X Command" really means "HERO decided to use X Command", so the eventpage is called before the action is executed.
If you want code to run AFTER an action has ended, you need to set a switch in the "Hero does X Command" that activates another page, that will be executed after the action really happened. This does not work on item usage, defend or when using a skill that changes conditions, because somehow, setting or removing conditions changes the event page process and the maker ignores eventpages and calls them at a later time.

ATB is another factor. Monster and hero turns interrupt eventpage execution. It requires a lot of work and a pretty well configured AtbSpeed-Plugin to get actor turns executed one after another without doing unexpected stuff. I managed to do that, but i have 30+ event pages in every monster group with the single purpose of executing event code after something happened. Works most of the time.

The condition that prevents his hero from using attack is probably applied by monsters, that complicates the matter a little more, since it can also lead to changing the command while the command window is shown. Don't know if the maker-internal method is error-proof, which leads us back to crash boom bang.

What you wrote about a limit system is true. I can imagine that this would work pretty well using standard event code. I didn't suggest that to him, because of the compliations i just mentioned.

The crit-plugin is released, but compiled for v0.17, so it won't work with v0.20 and v0.30 because a callback signature changed.

I am not very happy with the way i implemented the miss-feature in my plugin. For a public release, it just lacks robustness. Pepsi's DynRPG v0.30 would allow me to create a better version of it.

I was just upgrading my project and another project i'm working on to v0.20/0.30 when the announcement hit, that 2k3 gets an official translation. The future of patches and projects is in a state of uncertainty while its unclear whether and how DynRPG and Patches will be implemented for the legal version 1.1.

The miss-feature will be added to the crit-plugin, as soon as i know where the journey is heading.

author=fdelapena
No.

Plugins/Scripts, not the language the tools where made with.

@GhostRider: Work almost done. Testing it all will take the time.

author=bulmabriefs144
Pepsi, is there anything these about Miss and Critical manipulation?

• I want a switch to turn on when you critical, allowing custom crit effects
• I want to set variables to ini for monster miss chance comparing a random number to it (example, I could set the monster speed to a variable, and miss if a roll from 1-400 is greater than the variable amt).

Or maybe just to have it say so when the critical happens. Is there a way for the DString to "speak up" about some of the hidden strings?

I created of plugin for custom crit using the int-stat or a hero constant. It does not use internal crit, it adds invisible attackpoints to increase the damage.

My own game contains a plugin that allows doing the miss-calculation myelf. I replace the attack with a "no damage"-skill. It works fine for me, but it requires certain technical constraints in the ordner of the eventpage execution and atb timing. I don't see others recreate that and that's why i never released it as a plugin.