[MZ] JABS - J's Action Battle System

Jragyn · 2021-01-01T02:40:43+0900

JABS - J's Action Battle System J / JE / Jragyn v3.2.1 Introduction Using this engine will enable you, the RM dev, to create a game where battles take place in real-time on the map between the player (with their allies if they wish) and the enemy. Interactions between enemies are by-design expected to be fast paced, no more than 5-10 seconds at most, allowing for development of zelda-like games from the SNES era. This was largely inspired by Blizzard's ABS (BlizzABS / BABS, for XP) and Moghunter's ABS (XAS / Chrono Engine, for XP+/MV). Features JABS stands for J's Action Battle System. (Clever, huh?) Enemy battlers can be created via events w/ specific comments. Enemy battlers will follow their configured AI (that you decide with comments). Enemies can have default parameters to reduce the overhead for enemy creation. Ally battlers will follow their designated AI mode (changeable via menu and tags). Ally AI is a separate plugin and can be disabled if a solo game is desired. Ally AI can be toggled with switches and by enabling/disabling followers via event command. An aggro system that works for both enemies and allies(if used). Aggro is based on damage dealt (all kinds), and is configurable. Tags are used on skills to allow for creation of things like aggro-generating or reduction. Tags are used on states to enable aggro multipliers (positive or negative) or aggro locks. Basic 8-directional movement (doesn't support 8-dir character sheets though). The demo has DOES have an adapter plugin that enables Cyclone-Movement to grant pseudo pixel movement as well. Crude animation support. Animation as in, changing of the character sheet to something else for a short duration to give the illusion of animation. I am no sprite artist and opted against commissioning folks for assets just for testing this functionality, so it may be kinda glitchy. When I get my hands on the type of assets I'm looking for, I will revisit this. Spoiler: plugins I wrote and included that aren't JABS but do make JABS a little bit better It is important to note that these plugins may not be flawless! They were built by me and for me, but I figure folks may want a bit more detail about them here. Most all the plugins should have usage details in the plugin description. Use with caution! Click to expand... This comes with a bundle of plugins that are designed as "extensions" of JABS: AllyAi: enables allies/followers to fight alongside the player. InputManager: a plugin that translates button/key input to JABS actions. This is effectively a sample for how to build your own input mappers for JABS should you want to change your input layout or what have you. Diagonals: enables 8-directions for actions (such as a fireball). The "Diagonals" plugin may get removed when a more complete integration with Cyclone-Movement is built. Click to expand... CycloneAdapter: a plugin that fixes some of the quirks with how Cyclone-Movement works in the context of JABS. This should be disabled if not using Cyclone-Movement. If you find that the game feels non-performant, it may be a result of too many enemies/allies on the map that are all trying to calculate proper move routes. Pixel movement is expensive when combined with constant calculation of where to go. As such, if you find that it is causing lag, consider reducing the number of enemies/allies on a single map, consider reducing the number of steps per tile (in the Cyclone-Movement plugin parameters), and/or disable the pixel movement altogether (along with the CycloneAdapter plugin). JABS by itself still supports 8-directional movement for enemies/allies/actions via the Diagonals plugin above. Click to expand... Speed: enables the ability to set custom move speeds across the database and/or for events. Timing: enables cooldown reduction and the like. Charge: enables charging a skill one or many times to release and perform a different skill. DangerIndicator: enables little icons that show up near enemy battlers that indicate how dangerous they are to the player based on magic formulas. HUD: enables a display of various useful information, broken into four parts starting with the manager as the main J-HUD. Party Frame: enables the display of various player and party information like hp/mp and such. Target Frame: enables the display of various enemy information like hp/mp and other notes of interest. Input Frame: enables the display of the currently equipped skill slots, such as for the mainhand or combat skills. Click to expand... CMS: a custom menu system that slightly modifies parts of the main menu that gives greater detail selectively supporting the "more data" feature. Equip: a modification of the equip scene to reveal changes and allow access to "more data". Status: a modification of the status screen to give insight into all standard parameters (base/ex/sp) and some custom parameters for JABS. Skill: a modification of the skill scene to show more JABS-related data. Click to expand... Log: a log wind…

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Jragyn

#301 Jul 23, 2022, 09:12 PM Source

Mustardcap said:
That's what I did, but I can screenshot step by step to prove it

Mustardcap said:
See the problem? I feel like I'm literally doing what is supposed to be done; I tried the other releases too.
Perhaps the dev console would help.
If running from within RMMZ itself (as it appears you are), you'll probably have also noticed a second window pop up behind the playtest window. If for some reason it has not, then hitting F12 should bring it back up. Assuming it is available, choosing the "console" tab would likely have some kind of red error. What does that reveal?

On the other hand, if such a window is never available to you for some reason, the breadth of my troubleshooting knowledge ends there.
Mustardcap

#302 Jul 23, 2022, 09:13 PM Source

The log showed up

Jragyn said:
Perhaps the dev console would help.
If running from within RMMZ itself (as it appears you are), you'll probably have also noticed a second window pop up behind the playtest window. If for some reason it has not, then hitting F12 should bring it back up. Assuming it is available, choosing the "console" tab would likely have some kind of red error. What does that reveal?

On the other hand, if such a window is never available to you for some reason, the breadth of my troubleshooting knowledge ends there.
Jragyn

#303 Jul 23, 2022, 09:26 PM Source

Mustardcap said:
The log showed up
I'm not sure how to go about resolving this error based on the some of the lines listed in the image above. Allow us to take a moment and look together at what exactly that line is that your log window reflects:

Line 841 of the J-Base.js plugin.

If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd guess that the nodejs version possibly being leveraged in the default RMMZ is behind enough that private functions are not yet available or something? While "it works on my machine" I'd also guess is because I am a developer and possibly RMMZ is leveraging my own higher installation of nodejs?

If that was not the case, the only other possibility I could fathom would be that maybe the stuff getting downloaded by you is somehow getting malformed- perhaps a redownload would resolve it?

Other than that, I'm not sure how else I can aid.
Mustardcap

#304 Jul 23, 2022, 09:30 PM Source

That honestly sucks, this was something I wanted to try out, it looked really neat. :/

I already downloaded this many times, just look at my recycling bin.

Well thanks for trying to help, I guess.

Jragyn said:
I'm not sure how to go about resolving this error based on the some of the lines listed in the image above. Allow us to take a moment and look together at what exactly that line is that your log window reflects:

View attachment 235506

Line 841 of the J-Base.js plugin.

If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd guess that the nodejs version possibly being leveraged in the default RMMZ is behind enough that private functions are not yet available or something? While "it works on my machine" I'd also guess is because I am a developer and possibly RMMZ is leveraging my own higher installation of nodejs?

If that was not the case, the only other possibility I could fathom would be that maybe the stuff getting downloaded by you is somehow getting malformed- perhaps a redownload would resolve it?

Other than that, I'm not sure how else I can aid.
Roninator2

#305 Jul 23, 2022, 09:43 PM Source

I just downloaded the chapter 3 and it works fine. but a question for @Mustardcap
What folder are you in when you you load the project in RMMZ?
There is no Game.rmmxproject file in there.
and the screen you showed for the map in the editor, I don't see that in the project.
Are you downloading the demo and then opening your project?
Mustardcap

#306 Jul 23, 2022, 09:47 PM Source

I'm confused, what do you mean? I showed all the steps I did.

Roninator2 said:
I just downloaded the chapter 3 and it works fine. but a question for @Mustardcap
What folder are you in when you you load the project in RMMZ?
There is no Game.rmmxproject file in there.
and the screen you showed for the map in the editor, I don't see that in the project.
Are you downloading the demo and then opening your project?
Mustardcap

#307 Jul 23, 2022, 09:51 PM Source

I extracted the file through here
Mustardcap

#308 Jul 23, 2022, 09:58 PM Source

See here. It's labeled as .mmzproject
Roninator2

#309 Jul 23, 2022, 10:01 PM Source

So we have different downloads
Mustardcap

#310 Jul 23, 2022, 10:02 PM Source

what did you download?

Roninator2 said:
So we have different downloads
View attachment 235520
Roninator2

#311 Jul 23, 2022, 10:10 PM Source

click on releases

I also just grabbed the one from the link in the last page and yes it is the same as what you have.
I tested it and there is no problems.
What version is your engine running?
Mustardcap

#312 Jul 23, 2022, 10:24 PM Source

Roninator2 said:
I downloaded the one you did and I got the same file, but nothing RPG Maker can open. The other one had a file RPG maker could open, but it wouldn't run when I tried to start the application.
Mustardcap

#313 Jul 23, 2022, 10:26 PM Source

I'm on 1.3.2
Mustardcap

#314 Jul 23, 2022, 10:43 PM Source

Roninator2 said:
So we have different downloads
View attachment 235520
The exe downloaded from this works fine, so I can play the game. But if I open the demo, in the editor, and try to playtest or deploy it, I get the same error.
Roninator2

#315 Jul 23, 2022, 10:47 PM Source

Mustardcap said:
I'm on 1.3.2
I've tried a few different version and 1.3.0 and below give an error, 1.3.2 and up work fine.
Are you on windows or MAC or Linux?
Ancient_Eagle

#316 Jul 23, 2022, 10:50 PM Source

Try to update your version, there's a new one.
And those people who have issue for downloading, you can follow my steps:
1) Go to the link: https://github.com/je-can-code/ca/tree/chapter-3
2) There's a green one "Code", click it and download a zip

3) After you downloading, try to extract the zip file, and it will become like this:

4) You can now edit your map, skills, actors, etc... Also, you can play demo.
Ancient_Eagle

#317 Jul 23, 2022, 10:52 PM Source

Roninator2 said:
I've tried a few different version and 1.3.0 and below give an error, 1.3.2 and up work fine.
Are you on windows or MAC or Linux?

This is a windows, I don't know it will work for MAC or Linux.
if it's editor, it will work windows, MAC (Linux not sure about it), but if some export to the game, windows should work, but MAC I don't know if it works or not.
Mustardcap

#318 Jul 23, 2022, 10:53 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
This is a windows, I don't know it will work for MAC or Linux.
What error did u get on 1.3.0 and below?
Roninator2

#319 Jul 23, 2022, 10:54 PM Source

Mustardcap said:
What error did u get on 1.3.0 and below?
Ancient_Eagle

#320 Jul 23, 2022, 10:55 PM Source

Mustardcap said:
What error did u get on 1.3.0 and below?
Mine is Windows, I update a new version for like 2 months, and it's working for me.