How can i make a character change "forms" during battle?

at the moment i just have skill called "Swift Shift" skill type"shift" that increases luck and agility a fair bit. However in Battle you can continually use the skill to stack.

Anyone know how i can make it into something that can only be used once till another "Form" is used?

ah nvm i figured it out XD big derp on my part

wait nvm again no i didnt unless theres a different way to use states?

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Just a reminder it's not a good idea to post more than once in a row, you can use the Edit button to change your last post if no new replies have been made.

Also I do not understand what you are trying to do.

He is basically wanting to do techniques that change the actor's class for a bit instead of upgrading the status, from what I get.

best way to think of it is like the forms of Deoxys except as a skill does that help?

also my apologies for the multi posting i didn't find the edit till after

or like how humans usually get stronger when turning into a werewolf

You could try making a common event that changes the class of the character for one with the changes you want.
But I'm pretty sure you'd need one technique/common event combo per character with it...

I've done this, it's simple to execute (like 3 lines of event) but a pain to set up.

You'll need 2 actors (how you juggle them and divy up XP is up to you) make sure they have the same skillsets and weapons if this is a 'normal' tranformation, Then you just write a common event (mine was triggered by an item - just set it's use to trigger a common event) and have it play an animation/SE/etc and 'change party members' and put the alternate version in. (if you do this in battle though it makes the original party member run off-screen and the new one run back on, which is a bit... odd...)

If you want to do this as a 'universal' battle form (or w/e) you just make the item applicable to all the members, otherwise make it only work for the one who's going to transform. 

ty so much