Animated Enemies

xazrael · 2014-09-05T21:02:56+0900

Okay, so I have probably read every post asking about animated battlers, but I still have yet to find a way to do what I am looking to do. I do not want any visual actor in my battles at all, however, I would like my monster battlers to be animated. I cannot seem to find a script that works. I did find 1 script that was supposed to do what I wanted, but wouldnt work with Yanfly's Battle System. Here is the script I tried using http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/464-animate-enemies/ I kept getting an error on Yanflys Script under (new method: update_popups) I assume it doesn't like the script. If anyone can figure out an edit to the script I linked here that would make it compatible with Yanfly, that would be great. Or if I maybe missed another script out there. Even if you could take http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/500-animated-battlers/?pid=6454#entry6454 and make it enemies only that would work. I unfortunately tried but just kept getting errors. Thank you.

I've been trying to get this working too, using Rhyme's animated enemies (same link as above) and the Yanfly Ace Battle Engine. Testing combat out resulted in errors in the main Yanfly Battle Engine script in reference to popups between the following lines (848-919):

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# alias method: setup_new_effect
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

alias sprite_battler_setup_new_effect_abe setup_new_effect
def setup_new_effect
sprite_battler_setup_new_effect_abe
setup_popups
end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# new method: setup_popups
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def setup_popups
return unless @battler.use_sprite?
@battler.popups = [] if @battler.popups.nil?
return if @battler.popups == []
array = @battler.popups.shift
create_new_popup(array[0], array[1], array[2])
end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# new method: create_new_popup
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def create_new_popup(value, rules, flags)
return if @battler == nil
return if flags & @popup_flags != []
array = YEA::BATTLE::pOPUP_RULES[rules]
for popup in @popups
popup.y -= 24
end
return unless SceneManager.scene.is_a?(Scene_Battle)
return if SceneManager.scene.spriteset.nil?
view = SceneManager.scene.spriteset.viewportPopups
new_popup = Sprite_Popup.new(view, @battler, value, rules, flags)
@popups.push(new_popup)
@popup_flags.push("weakness") if flags.include?("weakness")
@popup_flags.push("resistant") if flags.include?("resistant")
@popup_flags.push("immune") if flags.include?("immune")
@popup_flags.push("absorbed") if flags.include?("absorbed")
end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# alias method: update_effect
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
alias sprite_battler_update_effect_abe update_effect
def update_effect
sprite_battler_update_effect_abe
update_popups
end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
# new method: update_popups
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
def update_popups
for popup in @popups
popup.update
next unless popup.opacity <= 0
popup.bitmap.dispose
popup.dispose
@popups.delete(popup)
popup = nil
end
@popup_flags = [] if @popups == [] && @popup_flags != []
return unless SceneManager.scene_is?(Scene_Battle)
if @current_active_battler != SceneManager.scene.subject
@current_active_battler = SceneManager.scene.subject
@popup_flags = []
end
end

end # Sprite_Battler

Commenting out that section of the script, I can actually get the combat working in game and the enemies animating fine (idle, defend, attack etc. animations all work), but obviously it's not an actual solution to just cut out that section from the core battle engine script. Besides popups not showing when that happens, I also run into a problem where when the enemy HP reaches 0 and toggles on the death state, the death animation frames cycle referenced by Rhyme's script will play on loop nonstop without the enemy collapsing/disappearing, Commenting out lines 158 & 159 in Rhyme's Script (self.opacity = 255 & self.visible = true) makes the enemy instantly disappear when dead instead of visibly looping its death frames, but upon killing every enemy in a troop the combat doesn't end and I'm given a choice to heal/use item/attack which crashes the game with a Divide by Zero since there are no targets left to attack :S

I like the simplicity of Rhyme's animation script even though I really only need the enemy idle, damaged, and attack animations so I would love to find a way to make it compatible with Yanfly, even if it results in a compromise (I don't even mind the damage dealt/enemy HP bars etc not showing) but the bug with the sprites not disappearing or following their collapse animations after death and combat not ending once all enemies have been killed is a game-breaker and I don't know how to fix the compatibility issue for the update_popups/@popups/setup_popups errors in lines 848-919 without just removing the problematic lines.

Edit: I may as well post my (slightly modified) Rhyme's animated enemies script, possibly somebody out there has a better modified version of it that's compatible with Yanfly or takes into account the above problems?

Spoiler

#==============================================================================

# ■ Animated Enemy Sprites

# Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

#==============================================================================

# Notebox Tag:

# Enemy: !Flip

#==============================================================================

# Spritesheet Data for referencing

#

# 0. Idle

# 1. Defend

# 2. Weak

# 3. Damaged/Dead

# 4. Attack

# 5. Item

# 6. Skill

# 7. Magic

# 8. Advance (n/a)

# 9. Retreat (n/a)

# 10. Victory (n/a)

# 11. Enter

# 12. Dead

# 13. Credits and/or etc (n/a)

#==============================================================================

# ~rhyme

#==============================================================================

module Animated_Enemy_Sprites

Delay = 15

FrameSize = [3, 14]

DefaultBlink = false

end

#==============================================================================

# ■ Game_Battler

#==============================================================================

class Game_Battler < Game_BattlerBase

attr_accessor :pose

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Flip

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def flip_sprite

return false

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Reset Pose

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def reset_pose

@pose = 0

@pose = 2 if @hp < mhp / 4

if @states != nil

@pose = 2 if @states.size > 0

end

@pose = 1 if guard?

@pose = 3 if dead?

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Use Item

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

alias use_item_ani use_item

def use_item(item)

if item.is_a?(RPG::Item)

@pose = 4

else

if item.is_a?(RPG::Skill)

if item.id == attack_skill_id

@pose = 4

elsif item.physical?

@pose = 6

elsif item.magical?

@pose = 7

end

end

end

use_item_ani(item)

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Perform Damage

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

alias perform_map_damage_effect_ani perform_map_damage_effect

def perform_map_damage_effect

perform_map_damage_effect_ani

@pose = 3 unless @guarding

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Upon Damage

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

alias on_damage_ani on_damage

def on_damage(value)

@pose = 3 unless @guarding

on_damage_ani(value)

end

end

#==============================================================================

# ■ Game_Enemy

#==============================================================================

class Game_Enemy < Game_Battler

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Flip

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def flip_sprite

return true if Scan::string($data_enemies[@enemy_id].note, "!Flip")

return super

end

end

#==============================================================================

# ■ Sprite_Battler

#==============================================================================

class Sprite_Battler < Sprite_Base

attr_accessor :battler

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Initialize

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def initialize(viewport, battler = nil)

super(viewport)

@battler = battler

@battler_visible = false

@effect_type = nil

@effect_duration = 0

@spritesheet = true

@pose = 11

@counter = 0

@delay = Animated_Enemy_Sprites::Delay

@frame_size = Animated_Enemy_Sprites::FrameSize

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Frame Update

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def update

super

if @battler

@battler.reset_pose if @battler.pose == nil

self.mirror = @battler.flip_sprite

@use_sprite = @battler.use_sprite?

if @spritesheet

update_pose if @pose != 11

end

if Graphics.frame_count % @delay == 0

@counter += 1

if @counter >= @frame_size[0]

@counter = 0

if @pose == 11

update_pose

else

@battler.reset_pose

end

end

end

if @use_sprite

update_bitmap

update_origin

update_position

end

setup_new_effect

setup_new_animation

update_effect

else

@effect_type = nil

end

#self.opacity = 255

#self.visible = true

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Update bitmap

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def update_bitmap

if @spritesheet

@spritesheet_bitmap = Cache.battler(@battler.battler_name + "-spritesheet", @battler.battler_hue)

ss_size = [@spritesheet_bitmap.width, @spritesheet_bitmap.height]

new_bitmap = Bitmap.new(ss_size[0] / @frame_size[0], ss_size[1] / @frame_size[1])

cx = @counter * (ss_size[0] / @frame_size[0])

cy = @pose * (ss_size[1] / @frame_size[1])

crop_rect = Rect.new(cx, cy, ss_size[0], ss_size[1])

new_bitmap.blt(0, 0, @spritesheet_bitmap, crop_rect)

else

new_bitmap = Cache.battler(@battler.battler_name, @battler.battler_hue)

end

if bitmap != new_bitmap

self.bitmap = new_bitmap

init_visibility

end

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Update Pose

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def update_pose

oldpose = @pose

newpose = @battler.pose

if newpose != oldpose

@counter = 0

@pose = newpose

end

end

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Blink

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def update_blink

self.opacity = (@effect_duration % 10 < 5) ? 255 : 0 if Animated_Enemy_Sprites::DefaultBlink

end

end

#============================================================================

# ▼ Scan

#============================================================================

module Scan

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

# ● Scan.string(object, string)

#--------------------------------------------------------------------------

def self.string(object, string)

if object[/#{Regexp.quote string}/]

return true

end

return false

end

end

The only thing I did as far as I can remember was that I modified the stances to only use idle since I actually only need the idle stance. I'm not sure if I included editing it to remove the sprites if the battler is already dead, but maybe I did coz I'm sure the sprites go away when the battler dies last time I tested it.

As for the battles not ending, never had that problem.

Mog hunter have a battler pose in is master demo he made

Well, I made some progress and fixed the never-ending battle bug by changing around the load order of my scripts. The animated enemies actually * mostly* work with Yanfly, I am still missing popups and would like to get Rhyme's animated enemies to work with: http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/19425-custom-collapse-effects/ instead of having them instantly vanish on death / be stuck in the death animation frames loop, but at least I am not getting any game-crashing errors right now =]

Also both of those replies were helpful, since I realized a problem in the load order was causing the strange never-ending battle bug and not some lines in either of the scripts. I looked up and download mog's battlers demo and its waaaay more complicated than what I'm trying to do but has a lot of cool things in it, + it's the only front view battle i've seen that doesn't use actor animations in combat which is also what I am doing. It's useful but I'm so close to getting Rhyme's to work with Yanfly and now that I know its possible I'd rather stick with it.