Ellye's ATB (also includes CTB option)

Mellye · 2015-10-24T16:56:32+0900

Disclaimer: I did this mostly as a learning experiment for RPG Maker MV, but it should also be usuable. Perhaps something similar is even already implemented in some of the core plugins, I didn't check. Anyway! This is a pretty straightforward script that works nicely in a plug'n'play style, no real setup required. What does it do? It changes the way your battle works slightly, by turning it into ATB (Active Time Battle) combat; as many of the Final Fantasy games (plus a few others). It adds a new gauge besides your HP, MP (and possibly TP), called a "AT" gauge. The speed that this gauge fills up is based on your character Agility. The most agility he has, the quicker the gauge fills up. A character gets to act when his gauge is full. So your combat is no longer structured on rounds where everyone gets to act exactly the same amount of time, but instead is more free-form: a character that is considerably faster will get to act more times during a fight. Monsters use the same system (but their gauge is hidden). Configurable Parameters: You can set a "weight" for the Agility attribute, if you feel that the default one doesn't work well with the numbers you're using in your project (i.e: perhaps you want to make Agility even more relevant, or perhaps you feel like this script is making agility a bit too relevant and want to tune it down). You can also set a "Turn Timer" - this is relevant for mid-battle Events that have a turn condition. This is basically the "Agility" that the turn timer would have (it also might affect status effects set for "Turn End" instead of "Action End"). Legal: Feel free to use this script as much as you want. I just can't offer any warranty. Etc: The code is obviously a bit of a mess - I've just coded this throught the witching hours after a full workday. But do let me know of any bugs or other issues! Current Version: 2015-11-28-1906: * 2015-11-28-1906: Cast motion should now finish at the proper time. * 2015-11-26-1052: Added the option of mid-battle escape. * 2015-11-22-1515: Fixed a bug with Confusion/Enrage effects and casting times. * 2015-11-22-0925: Made enemy gauges compatible with Yanfly's sprite sideviews for enemies (and possible other similar SV sprites). * 2015-11-22-0453: Can now also use on states. See HELP. * 2015-11-20-1808: Added notetag for states, actors, classes, equips and enemies, and notetag for states. * 2015-11-14-2144: Added the 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 . * 2015-11-14-1629: Added Battler EndTurn Effects parameter. * 2015-11-14-1518: Added delay system. See HELP. * 2015-11-14-1405: Separated a few stuff into their own method, like casting stop/starting and atb ratio. * 2015-11-14-0154: Made step back when casting compatible with Yanfly's. * 2015-11-14-0134: Turn prediction now predicts casting times when hovering over a skill with cast_time. * 2015-11-11-2339: Fixed an issue with Turn Timer and Instant ATB. * 2015-11-11-1101: Added paramaters for the Turn Order Display to show symbols when hovering over skills that affect the predction. Work in progress, it looks pretty crude still. And it still needs to predict cast on hover too (it only displays after selection for now). Leave those parameters blank to disable the feature. * 2015-11-09-2317: Enemies now also use the different interruptible cast gauge color. * 2015-11-09-2317: Separated the drawActorATBGauge method for better compatibility with interface and gauges plugins. (Thanks for the suggestion, Bobstah!) * 2015-11-09-0119: Characters with restricted movement (stun, for example) have their cast interrupted and their gauge display stays empty. * 2015-11-08-2354: Fixed casting actors staying forward until the next action. * 2015-11-08-2354: Added Imported.Ellye_ATB for compatibility. * 2015-11-08-2307: Can now mark skills as and other skills as . Also added parameters related to the interrupt system. See HELP. * 2015-11-08-2157: Can now add custom and per skill. See help. * 2015-11-08-1557: Added a Default Animation parameter (played at start of cast, defaults to 0 due to compatibility, but I recommend 52 from the default RM MV database). * 2015-11-08-1557: Added a Default Cast Motion parameter. * 2015-11-08-1557: Added the option of using reversed cast gauges. * 2015-11-07-1722: Fixed a bug with lingering enemy cast bars depending on how it finished casting. * 2015-11-07-1722: Improved performance of enemy gauges slightly. * 2015-11-07-0519: Added ATB gauges and Cast gauges for enemies, and parameters to configure it. PENDING: Offset per enemy (via [Note]), configurable gauge back color, and a few other optional stuff. * 2015-11-07-022…

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NarikoStudios

#461 Nov 25, 2015, 02:11 PM Source

Does this work so that I can turn it on and off during battle?
Trying to get a system where the style of battle changes after a limit break then back to default after using it
Mellye

#462 Nov 25, 2015, 03:20 PM Source

Harulover said:
Does this work so that I can turn it on and off during battle?

Trying to get a system where the style of battle changes after a limit break then back to default after using it
Unfortunately, no - the changes this do the battle flow are a big too deep for them to be applied on the fly.

Not that it would be impossible to make such a thing, mind you. If you still want, remind me of this again after I'm done "finishing" all the core features and fixes, and I'll take a stab at that.
LuLight

#463 Nov 25, 2015, 03:25 PM Source

"Escape mid battle"

please make choice to use

I still like it can't escape mid battle :)
Mellye

#464 Nov 25, 2015, 03:28 PM Source

LuLight said:
"Escape mid battle"

please make choice to use

I still like it can't escape mid battle :)
It will be a parameter, yes.

My own game will be using a differente escape system, for example (per character instead of the whole party at once - I'll release that when I get it done, in case anyone else would want).
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#465 Nov 25, 2015, 04:02 PM Source

Mellye said:
It will be a parameter, yes.

My own game will be using a differente escape system, for example (per character instead of the whole party at once - I'll release that when I get it done, in case anyone else would want).
Yes, I think once per character would be a cool system! Looking forward to it!
lolbriefcase

#466 Nov 25, 2015, 04:29 PM Source

Chiming in to say I really appreciate how you've commented your code cleanly and gave all your functions and variables meaningful names, it's made it much easier and faster to edit and add on to the system for my game.
NarikoStudios

#467 Nov 25, 2015, 05:04 PM Source

Would be really awesome if you could make something that lets me add this battle system for a form and then go back to default when the form is over
It would make it pretty dramatic to see that the form changes the battle itself so it isn't just the form that changed but they have new stronger skills and the battle changed to be based on reflexes and then goes back to a normal side battle

I'll have to look at your fishing though as that sounds interesting don't think i'll use it but sounds like worth a look at it xD

Trying to get Forms to be a big thing that shouldn't be used too much so that it affects the actor as a whole rather than making them stronger for a short time it strains them to have so much magic at once and having to react to the agility and turns make it seem more obvious that it is a strain on the user and shouldn't be used too much

Just a idea of what I've been trying to do recently with my battles xD will be downloading this if I can add it in and out for forms though sounds really good
Maliki79

#468 Nov 25, 2015, 05:06 PM Source

Mellye said:
It will be a parameter, yes.

My own game will be using a differente escape system, for example (per character instead of the whole party at once - I'll release that when I get it done, in case anyone else would want).
I'd prefer a party-wide escape phase,but as long as the party can escape, I'll take it however you can give it!

Thanks!
Mellye

#469 Nov 26, 2015, 12:57 PM Source

There's now a parameter for mid-battle escape.

It works pretty much like the standard RM combat - you press the Cancel button when it's your turn, and it will bring back the Fight/Escape window. If you select "Escape" and fail, you lose the turn of the current active actor (otherwise you would be able to just keep trying infinitely).

Let me know if something doesn't work properly.

Update: I've already noticed that the mid-battle Escape doesn't play nicely with Yanfly's. I'll take a look at that later.
deny0801

#470 Nov 26, 2015, 11:17 PM Source

only wait mode?

Can I use no-wait mode?
Mellye

#471 Nov 26, 2015, 11:58 PM Source

deny0801 said:
only wait mode?

Can I use no-wait mode?
Only wait mode for now. Semi-active and Full Active modes will be done as separate plugins later on.
Fox536

#472 Nov 28, 2015, 05:43 PM Source

~~Is this compatible with yanfly's party change plugin that allows for mid battle party changing?~~

It is compatible if you show allow the fight and escape window to show.
Mellye

#473 Nov 28, 2015, 10:28 PM Source

The bug that made characters keep their casting motion for longer than intended after casting should be fixed now.

I'm looking at some of the pending compatibility issues.
Unconnected42

#474 Nov 28, 2015, 10:32 PM Source

That's great !
Tsunar

#475 Nov 29, 2015, 11:25 AM Source

Soooo I am having abit of trouble I keep putting <cast_time:500> in the skill's note box, but still in game it cast literally instantly!
Also whenever both of the enemies on the field are unable to move by status effect the game crashes D=
JmLyan

#476 Nov 29, 2015, 11:30 AM Source

Tsunar said:
Soooo I am having abit of trouble I keep putting <cast_time:500> in the skill's note box, but still in game it cast literally instantly!

Also whenever both of the enemies on the field are unable to move by status effect the game crashes D=
The reason for that is that a full ATB gauge is 50000, thus a cast time of 500 would mean it takes one-hundredth of the time it takes for the ATB gauge to fill normally.
Tsunar

#477 Nov 29, 2015, 11:37 AM Source

JmLyan said:
The reason for that is that a full ATB gauge is 50000, thus a cast time of 500 would mean it takes one-hundredth of the time it takes for the ATB gauge to fill normally.
Ah I see, so the longer the time frame the slower the cast... Thanks! Thats one problem down. What about the problem of "When all the enemies cant move, crash..."
Mellye

#478 Nov 29, 2015, 02:03 PM Source

Tsunar said:
Also whenever both of the enemies on the field are unable to move by status effect the game crashes D=
I couldn't reproduce this one here - can you show me how your status effect is set up?
Tsunar

#479 Nov 30, 2015, 07:30 AM Source

Mellye said:
I couldn't reproduce this one here - can you show me how your status effect is set up?
Sure thing I'll actually show a screen shot of the states and errors

The Status Ailments

http://orig05.deviantart.net/88e6/f/2015/333/4/d/example_1_by_tsunar-d9ijfti.png

http://orig04.deviantart.net/2247/f/2015/333/c/a/example_2_by_tsunar-d9ijfth.png

The Error

http://orig08.deviantart.net/5faa/f/2015/333/0/e/error_by_tsunar-d9ijfto.png

Again thank you for the help
Rito

#480 Nov 30, 2015, 09:44 AM Source

Can you make a screen with the dev console?

It would help a little better to locate where the problem comes.

Presses F8 when you're playing and do a screen when you're wrong.