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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Tsunar

#481 Nov 30, 2015, 09:52 AM Source

Rito said:
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.
You mean this? http://img09.deviantart.net/d096/i/2015/334/e/a/example_3_by_tsunar-d9ijoat.png
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#482 Nov 30, 2015, 09:55 AM Source

Tsunar said:
You mean this? http://img09.deviantart.net/d096/i/2015/334/e/a/example_3_by_tsunar-d9ijoat.png
Yeah, thats the one that most people want when you say "Theres been an error" since it says exactly WHAT made the error happen and which line to go to, to see what went wrong B)
Rito

#483 Nov 30, 2015, 12:21 PM Source

it looks like a conflict with other plugins.

Ellye the god will surely correct that.
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#484 Nov 30, 2015, 12:30 PM Source

Actually, yeah, I got that error once... I cant remember how I fixed it... :(
Mellye

#485 Nov 30, 2015, 12:42 PM Source

Hmm, the invalid script call seems to be coming from "jay_xdualtechs_forellyeatb.js". Can you link me to that script?

I'll take a look - perhaps it was done with a previous version of my ATB in mind and something broke.
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#486 Nov 30, 2015, 12:46 PM Source

Mellye said:
Hmm, the invalid script call seems to be coming from "jay_xdualtechs_forellyeatb.js". Can you link me to that script?

I'll take a look - perhaps it was done with a previous version of my ATB in mind and something broke.
Its meant to be the compatibility between Jay's Dueltech and this... how ironic...

EDIT: It Can be found HERE
Mellye

#487 Nov 30, 2015, 02:09 PM Source

Okay, I think I know what's happening, I'll get in touch with HeroicJay.
Tsunar

#488 Nov 30, 2015, 04:38 PM Source

yup! I just turned the script off and now everything working! Thank you guys so much for the help! =D The ironic thing is his script says its compatible with yours >.<
alo thanks for being so patient with me, I only started MV like afew days ago...
HeroicJay

#489 Nov 30, 2015, 09:20 PM Source

It's fixed. Sorry, guys, it was a bit hasty and not thoroughly tested. Go ahead and let me know about any more bugs you find; I'm going to try to overhaul the extension a bit by the end of the week. (I already know that dualtechs may behave oddly if you speed up or slow down one character's skill charge bar without changing the other in the same way, so you don't need to tell me about that one.)
Rito

#490 Dec 5, 2015, 10:01 AM Source

I am having a slight problem with the window of the characters.

Indeed, it opens and closes with each change of images.

I would like to know if there is a way not to activate this window until I asked him, ie at the end of the tutorial.
clitvin

#491 Dec 6, 2015, 03:34 PM Source

Would it be possible for turn states to ignore half tuns.

I'm going to try to explain what I mean, and hopefully it makes sense... because it's a bit confusing.

If I cast a skill that lasts 3 turns, the buff goes on with a 3 turn timer, but if the turn ends a second later, that timer is already been decreased to 2, even tho it has not been a whole turn for the skill.

So sometimes, especially for 1 turn states, they last unusually short. It think the easiest solution is to add to the state timer the amount of time left in the current turn, so it would be 3 turns + some minor amount of AT. Which would equal out to eventually mean the skill lasts exactly 3 turns from when it was cast...

Let me know if that makes no sense and I'll do my best to explain it another way.
Villhelm

#492 Dec 6, 2015, 03:56 PM Source

Villhelm said:
First off, I'm really enjoying this plugin, keep up the great work!

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a known limitation, but I'm encountering the following with a two skill sequence (I'm currently on version 2015-11-20-1808 and will try to update when I have time to see if it still persists) :

- Skill A is a basic single target damage skill.

- Skill A has an effect to call a Common Event that Force Action: Actor, Skill B, Last Target

- Skill B is a spell with <cast_time:50000> (the max ATB gauge value)

When performing this sequence, Skill B seems to skip the cast time. I have used Skill B in isolation and the cast time is correctly applied.

I have reproduced this issue in a project with all other plugins deleted so I don't think it's a compatibility issue.

Mellye said:
Yeah, as it is right now, Force Action will indeed override casting time.

I'll see what I can do about that!
Just wanted to check in and see if you've had a chance to look into this at all.

Also, I'm encountering an issue with trying to assign AT costs for individual skills. I'm using the <self_atb:x> notetag and everything works fine for certain hits or user targeted skills. I'm running into some limitations when using this for attack skills however.

1) The <self_atb:x> notetag seems to be contingent on the attack successfully landing. I have some skills that I would like to have a reduced cost for regardless of hit success.

2) If additional hits are added through traits (i.e. Attack Times +), then the <self_atb:x> notetag causes multiple instances of AT refunding.

Is there any way to specify a 'true' AT cost for an attack skill, regardless of number of hits or successfully landing it?
Mellye

#493 Dec 6, 2015, 05:58 PM Source

clitvin said:
Would it be possible for turn states to ignore half tuns.

I'm going to try to explain what I mean, and hopefully it makes sense... because it's a bit confusing.

If I cast a skill that lasts 3 turns, the buff goes on with a 3 turn timer, but if the turn ends a second later, that timer is already been decreased to 2, even tho it has not been a whole turn for the skill.

So sometimes, especially for 1 turn states, they last unusually short. It think the easiest solution is to add to the state timer the amount of time left in the current turn, so it would be 3 turns + some minor amount of AT. Which would equal out to eventually mean the skill lasts exactly 3 turns from when it was cast...

Let me know if that makes no sense and I'll do my best to explain it another way.
Due to this situation, it's better to use either <atb_duration:50000> or Action End instead of Turn End for states like that.

The first method (<atb_duration:50000>) means that it will always last exactly one whole turn, no matter if it starts near the end of one or not.

Action End means that it will always influence an action.

Villhelm said:
1) The <self_atb:x> notetag seems to be contingent on the attack successfully landing. I have some skills that I would like to have a reduced cost for regardless of hit success.
2) If additional hits are added through traits (i.e. Attack Times +), then the <self_atb:x> notetag causes multiple instances of AT refunding.

Is there any way to specify a 'true' AT cost for an attack skill, regardless of number of hits or successfully landing it?
That's a pretty good suggestion - I'll try to add another notetag for this!

Regarding the "Force Action", I haven't changed that yet - I have a bundle of pending bufixes, and I'll add this one too as soon as possible.
clitvin

#494 Dec 7, 2015, 12:21 AM Source

Mellye said:
Due to this situation, it's better to use either <atb_duration:50000> or Action End instead of Turn End for states like that.

The first method (<atb_duration:50000>) means that it will always last exactly one whole turn, no matter if it starts near the end of one or not.

Action End means that it will always influence an action.
The reason I was using turns instead of atb_duration is cause i want to show the number of turns left on the state icon which atb_duration cant do.
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#495 Dec 11, 2015, 07:34 PM Source

Using this with Yanfly Battle Actor Status means our ATB guages dissapear from the actor status window for some reason... Is there a way to fix this? :distrust:
PaybacK

#496 Dec 12, 2015, 02:04 PM Source

This is probably outside the scope of the script (not too good with JS) but would it be possible to implement mid-battle party switching? In FFX, if you'll recall, it's possible to switch the active character with a reserve member without losing their turn. Would that be possible to recreate?
Ghost of Christmas Kloe

#497 Dec 12, 2015, 02:25 PM Source

PaybacK said:
This is probably outside the scope of the script (not too good with JS) but would it be possible to implement mid-battle party switching? In FFX, if you'll recall, it's possible to switch the active character with a reserve member without losing their turn. Would that be possible to recreate?
With Yanfly Party Manager and this script, that is automatically available, if you have the escape/fight menu parameter on!
PaybacK

#498 Dec 12, 2015, 02:46 PM Source

Kloe said:
With Yanfly Party Manager and this script, that is automatically available, if you have the escape/fight menu parameter on!
WHOA! Didn't know that plugin allowed you to switch mid-battle. Thanks!
clitvin

#499 Dec 12, 2015, 04:54 PM Source

When trying to escape the actors don't lose any AT, so you can just keep trying to escape over and over again until you succeed. Is there any way to fix this?
Mellye

#500 Dec 13, 2015, 09:47 PM Source

clitvin said:
When trying to escape the actors don't lose any AT, so you can just keep trying to escape over and over again until you succeed. Is there any way to fix this?
This bugs happens only when used with Yanfly's.

I'm making a bigger compatibility patch to fix this and a handful of other compatibility issues, but those last few weeks of December are a bit harsh on my schedule. I'll release it as soon as possible.