enemies (event) randomly appear and disappear

kiros · 2017-07-09T22:20:46+0900

hi there I'm trying to populate a map with events that will trigger a battle when in contact with player (imagine bats flying around in the map) These events (bats) will appear at random Page 1: (no condition) / No sprite / parallel process random variable 1..10. if variable > 7: self.A = On Page 2: self.A / bat sprite / touch event trigger battle if win: self.B = ON / self.A = OFF Page 3: self.B / No sprite / parallel process wait for some time self.B + OFFThus returning to the beginning and start over What I'm trying to do is for the even(bat) to disappear at random as well. Basically akin to have a event touch & parallel process on the same event. And because that is to have multiple of these events in the map, to have one background event to switch off 'switches' is counter intuitive. So, is that a way around it? or I would have to have hundreds of variables (one for each event) to make it work?

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Started by kiros Jul 9, 2017, 01:20 PM 5 posts View original ↗

kiros

#1 Jul 9, 2017, 01:20 PM Source

hi there

I'm trying to populate a map with events that will trigger a battle when in contact with player (imagine bats flying around in the map)

These events (bats) will appear at random

Page 1: (no condition) / No sprite / parallel process
random variable 1..10.
if variable > 7: self.A = On

Page 2: self.A / bat sprite / touch event
trigger battle
if win: self.B = ON / self.A = OFF

Page 3: self.B / No sprite / parallel process
wait for some time
self.B + OFF
Thus returning to the beginning and start over

What I'm trying to do is for the even(bat) to disappear at random as well.
Basically akin to have a event touch & parallel process on the same event.

And because that is to have multiple of these events in the map, to have one background event to switch off 'switches' is counter intuitive.

So, is that a way around it? or I would have to have hundreds of variables (one for each event) to make it work?
BrandedTales

#2 Jul 9, 2017, 01:40 PM Source

Sorry, Typing from a phone.

Can you choreograph your bats with a background parallel event, and then use self-switches to make then visible or not? Use something like a single variable to calculate between one and a hundred (or five hundred or whatever depending on frequency). Then if it comes up 1-n where n is the number of bats you have, it flips the switch of that bat.
kiros

#3 Jul 9, 2017, 02:20 PM Source

Not sure if I got it quite right...

The bat will appear/disappear depending on the value of self-variable
A parallel event will random a number, let's say 10
Then bat[10].self-switch will set to off!

But how can I access the self switch of another event to switch it off? (if I got you right)
If I had the bat decide by itself, then I could not start a battle upon touch.
BrandedTales

#4 Jul 10, 2017, 04:17 AM Source

Apologies about the lengthy delayed response. Took awhile for me to get back to the computer.

I've put together a demo that should illustrate what you are trying to do using Yanfly's Self-Switch plugin. I've zipped up a file that has the events (both for your bats and for the parallel event running it all).

The bats will blink in and out at random, and if one hits you while visible, right now it will pop up text "Encounter", but in theory you could adapt that. The appear/disappear right now is also very abrupt (since the switch flips and they blink out/in), but in theory once you see the logic you could increase the content of what happens when the condition is met.

I'll private message you with a link where you can download the demo project I built for you to check it out.
kiros

#5 Jul 10, 2017, 11:05 AM Source

Thank you very much

That's exactly what I was looking for.
I'm using self switches/variables from Yanfly but I had little to no knowledge on the lunatic mode (barely had a need to use it)

Once more, thank you