Ellye's ATB (also includes CTB option)

Cn you make it so that even when the player is deciding the enemies gage is filling and they can attack you. 

It's on my to do list, but it will probably be the last feature to be implemented, and likely as a separate plugin - full active ATB mode completely breaks the standard way battle flow works on RM and might have considerable compatibility issues with almost anything battle related.

sadface, this seems like it would be easy to do, the game seems to pause when its your turn, so I would just listen for the atb to fill on the enemy and then force the enemy to do an action regardless of what the player is doing.

May I point out that motion animations (step forward and default cast motion) aren't working as intended? For example:

When an actor is ready for commands, he/she will step forward. When it ends, he/she didn't step backwards, he/she just stays in the place until he/she performed the action. He/She should step back when done issuing commands and step forward again when it's his/her turn to perform an action.

The default cast motion defaults all skills to this motion, regardless of the type of skill. I should suggest a parameter for the default skill motion to a skill type ID, otherwise defaults to cast motion. It also should be separated by a comma if there are more than one ID someone will like to use. Also, if skill has no skill type, it should default to skill motion. So this way when using "Attack" or other physical skills aren't using cast motion and also that's the reason why I said this is because Attack skill is using cast motion when it is defined with a note tag <cast_time:x>.

Are you with the lastest version? I think I fixed the actor not stepping backwards. Unless the bug still happens in some situations, maybe together with some plugins?

Edit: Just tested, and it indeed did not work properly - if used together with Yanfly's.

Made a compatibility change that should get it working together with it now.

If I understand you correclty, I also already have those covered currently.

There's a default_cast_motion parameter, and each skill can have their own <cast_motion:> notetag (use <cast_motion:wait> for no special motion).

OK, thanks I'll update.

Oh, didn't notice. Thanks!

See if that solves the stepping back issue. And thanks for reporting!

The new update fixed it. Thanks for the update! And no problem!

I found another issue: after an actor performs an action, the motion stays in the place until an enemy attacks. Is this normal?

It's a known issue, I'm hoping to get it fixed together with a few other changes this weekend.

I've uploaded the cast delay system, if anyone want to help me test if it's working properly.

It's controlled by a mix of global parameters and per-skill Notes.

The parameters:

Maximum Delay Percent controls the maximum that a skill can be delayed, by a % of its normal cast time. It defaults to 100.

This means that a skill with a cast time of 30000 can be delayed for up to 30000 more.

Default Delay the default amount, also as a % of the normal casting time, that a skill gets delayed when the character gets hit by something that can delay. It defaults to 10.

This means that if you're casting something with a cast time of 30000 and gets hit by something that delays, you'll be set back by 3000.

Delayable by Default if set to 1, this makes all skills delayable by default, without the need to manually set them to delayable. You can select some to still be not delayable via note tags, see below.

Delays by Default if set to 1, this makes all skills able to delay by default (only when they hit an enemy of the caster; healing and supporting skill still won't delay by default, for example).

The notes you can set per skill are:

<delayable>
Will mark a skill as delayable, regardless of default settings.

<not_delayable>
Will mark a skill as not delayable, regardless of default settings.

<delays>
Will make a skill apply delay regardless of default settings. If no <delay_amount> is specified, it will use the default delay amount. Will also delay even if it targets ally (by default this doesn't happen)

<delay_amount:NUMBER>
The amount (a % of the total cast time) of delay to be applied. For example, 25 means that it will bring the casting bar down by 25% of its maximum value. If you set to 0, no delay will be applied (in case you're using Delays by Default parameter). You could potentially use negative values too.

I'm not sure what this meant, but I'll test them out. Can you explain exactly what these are for?

EDIT: I see no differences when using them.

Oh, I wrote all that up and forgot to write the basic part.

It's for delaying Casting Time. Similar to <interrupt>, but instead of breaking the cast bar it delays it.

So you can set a skill (say, Fireball), to have:

<cast_time:50000><delayable>
And either set basic attack  to <delays> or just leave Delays by Default on, and each basic attack would delay the casting of Fireball a little bit.

Is it possible to redo the formula for ATB?  When I tried editing it in the .js file the ATB bar disappeared strangely so I'm not sure if I just typed something in wrong.  But lets say the formula desired is 

75 + ((Math.pow(a.agi, 0.5)*10)

Is there a way to make that work?

Updates:

 * 2015-11-14-2144: Added the <start_atb:NUMBER> note-tag feature. Can be used on actor, class, equip and enemy to set a starting amount of ATB.

 * 2015-11-14-2004: Can now select which parameter to use for casting, instead of it being fixed on Agi. There's a global parameter, and the note <cast_param:>.

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For now, I don't expose that as a parameter, but you can change it directly in the JavaScript if you really want to.

Look for:

CalculateATBRate = function(agi) {        return (base_atb_increase + agi * (agi_weight / 100));    };(Line 1279 in the current version)

The "agi" parameter here is passed from other functions (and in some situations isn't agi at all, but instead turn timer or cast rate). For your formula, you should set your Base Fill parameter to 75 and swap that middle line for:

return base_atb_increase + Math.pow(agi, 0.5) * 10;I'll see about exposing this to parameters for advanced users later on.

Forgot to mention this issue: whenever I turn on enemy gauges, it does not show up. Might be issues with Yanlfy's or Bobstah's?

With Yanfly's I just tested and seems to be working properly (with my plugin below Yanfly's in the list), I'll take a look with Bobstah's.

Thanks for reporting!

OK, dumbfounded. Your plugin works with both Yanfly's and Bobstah's. I found an issue, I placed your plugin above Animated SV Enemies and that happens. So I placed it below. It works now!

EDIT: It seems that the gauge is sized according to the sprite. It will appear small on small sprites. I'll like a configurable width of the gauge.

Makes sense, I might add it as a note tag so you can select it per enemy if needed (to adjust for the ones that need adjustment), plus an optional global value in parameters.

Is it just for me or after I cast a magic, the characters continue to stay in the casting animation? I'm using the yanfly plugins.

I have got an error and it occurs whenever I enter battle, even in a new save file.

(The bit about job-points isnt the problem since it still does this, minus the job points bit, when job points is turned off)

With job-points enabled

With job-points disabled