MOLTRESRIDER'S PROFILE

I just had a monster teleport the party to a 3x3 piece of land in the middle of a huge hole in the ground on the world map with no way to escape it.

I want the user to take a certain number of steps in order to trigger an event. When the player makes required number of steps on the 3x3 platform, it will trigger an event where the main character makes a statement where if he knew where his bird was, his bird could help him get off the platform.

I see that in "variable operation" there is "game data" where there is "Steps Taken". However, it WILL NOT let me add a constant to how many to add each time the user takes a step. There is NOT even an option to initialize the variable to 0. Therefore, I am unable to create an event that triggers when the user takes x amount of steps.

Whoever's idea was it to disallow assigning a value to a variable has a few screws loose. I may not be a programmer but my programming knowledge is not zero. I know in programming that you need to define or initialize your variables. But RPG Maker disallows this for "Steps Taken" for whatever reason. so I cannot tell it to trigger an even when the user takes 300 or whatever steps since arriving on the platform.

Since obviously you cannot initialize a variable for "steps taken", I am wondering, is there any way I can make the event occur once the user takes the required amount of steps?

I am NOT mistaking! I only added that script in this afternoon and I had a couple of crashes with this fight this morning.

This morning I thought it had to do with the fact that there was no space between the * and 1.15 and when I added the space, it seemed to only temporarily fix it.


Also, despite making absolutely zero changes, the game is now crashing seemingly randomly during that fight. I was trying to play it trying to figure out if it was a certain character or whatever but I noticed that it is now crashing at seemingly random times during that fight regardless if a player died or not.

It is only the boss's attacks that are crashing the game. I have yet to get a crash on player attacks. It seems to be any attack that Imperialdramon Dragon Mode does but not always. She could use a move once and the game not crash. But the next time, she uses that move, crash!

At first it was only Fiery Breath. Now it seems to be any move and the character does not even have to die or get into an untargetable state to crash the game.

The random encounter monsters that led up to the boss fight seemed to be unaffected.

However, I am going to spend the next several minutes fighting randos to see if it crashes at all.

I have a boss fight programmed and sometimes when the boss uses "Fiery Breath", the game will crash throwing this error:


A Google search of that error only brings up results where people were getting this error using custom scripts for various things. However, I am NOT doing that! I do not have any custom scripts in my game with the exception of Hime Untargetable State. But the problem existed before I added that script and it continues to crash sometimes when the script is completely removed.

There is literally nothing on Google regarding this error message with a completely vanilla attack.

It is NOT the animation either. That animation is shared upon many fire-based attacks and this is the only attack that causes the crash. Besides, the animation only uses default graphics and sounds, not imported ones. Even the"swallow" attack which uses Hime Untargetable State and uses imported sounds does not crash the game.

The crash rate seems to be a 50/50 shot. It is like flip a coin, if tails; the game crashes.

I have the attack setup like so:

There seems to be nothing weird with this attack. It does not add any states, there are no common event actions, and there are no script actions. It is literally just damage.

At first, I thought the issue might lie upon the b.mdf * 1.15

so I changed it to 4 + a.mat * 2.3 - b.mdf * 1.2 but the problem persists. I am still getting the crash and this error message when the Imperialdramon Dragon Mode does her Fiery Breath attack.

My troops are set up like this:

There is only a small amount of dialogue at the start of the battle only valid for turn 0. There is literally nothing else. Nothing to do with Fiery Breath or anything.

This is my Game_Unit: https://pastebin.com/CBGazLFE
which is completely unchanged. I have made no changes to Game_Unit

Line 90 appears to be: member = members
Which appears to be where the fault is. That entire block of code seems to be regarding dead characters. But when other attacks kill players, no crash—even on this same boss.

Does anybody know what the problem could be and how do I fix it?

So I had my programmer friend debunk your code. He says the code is BS. We spent two hours trying to make heads or tails of this and he has done coding for years. He's written many python scripts, he's even written me programs for my table top stuff and my fantasy games, yet he says the code you have me makes no sense.

I even copied my entire code from both Game_BattleBase and Game_Actor so he could see how RPG Msker code works. He said that some of the things that you are telling me to add are already in the code.

He also pointed out that the code is dealing with face graphics. I NEVER said face graphics. I SAID character sprites.

If someone can give me an answer that works, I would appreciate it.

So basically, I have monsters that can shrink your party members, greatly reducing their stats. It is kinda like "mini" in Final Fantasy but on steroids. I have already took the actor sprite sheets and shrank each individual character sprites to 1/3 of their usual size. Basically taking them down from 32x32px each and making them roughly 12x12px and centering them in the 32x32 squares. I want this other sheet with the 12x12 characters to be applied every time a party member gets the "shrunken" state.

I tried to figure it out on my own and tried a few methods. However, I ran into problems every time.

The first being is that you cannot assign a common event to a state in the database. So, that heavily limits me.

So instead, I applied a common event to the "shrink" move that changes the sprite sheet. However, if this debuff is removed in any way other than the user buying a potion that returns a character to normal size, and this also includes death, the character no longer has the shrunken debuff but his sprite remains shrunken.

So, I tried playing around with conditional branches but quickly learned that I would need to use the same conditional branch for literally everything that can change their state. This gets to be a real hassle—especially due to that fact that there are so many things that can happen in an RPG, it would be really hard to ensure that every variable is covered.

There MUST be a MUCH simpler way to automatically apply a different sprite sheet to actors when they get certain status ailments and return it back to the default sprite sheet when the debuff is removed.

Is there a simpler way to do this?

If there is, this would be a game changer. I could make sprite sheets for more than just the shrunken debuff