[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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Ancient_Eagle

#321 Jul 23, 2022, 10:57 PM Source

Roninator2 said:
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Try to re-download a new version.

Ancient_Eagle said:
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
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3) After you downloading, try to extract the zip file, and it will become like this:
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4) You can now edit your map, skills, actors, etc... Also, you can play demo.
Roninator2

#322 Jul 23, 2022, 11:03 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
Try to re-download a new version.
Have you been following the conversation?
Ancient_Eagle

#323 Jul 23, 2022, 11:08 PM Source

Roninator2 said:
Have you been following the conversation?
To be honest, not all of them, but I did saw a picture that you got an error.
Your version 1.3.0 (or 1.3.2) try to update a new version into 1.5.0
Roninator2

#324 Jul 23, 2022, 11:30 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
To be honest, not all of them, but I did saw a picture that you got an error.
Your version 1.3.0 (or 1.3.2) try to update a new version into 1.5.0
That's why what you're saying is useless, because that was my proof of support for another member with their problem.
I do not have any problem.
Mustardcap

#325 Jul 24, 2022, 12:51 AM Source

Okay, guys, thanks for all the help! Turns out it was my version. I came back and updated it, and it works fine. Now I'm annoyed that the solution was so easy and so much time was wasted, but honestly, I'm more pleased than anything else.
Ancient_Eagle

#326 Jul 24, 2022, 02:33 PM Source

Is there way to reduce volume? I mean when I play, it's to loud for everything.
Jragyn

#327 Jul 24, 2022, 03:06 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
Is there way to reduce volume? I mean when I play, it's to loud for everything.
Sure, just use your local PC's volume adjustment function.
Or use the default options menu in RMMZ to reduce the volume incrementally within the game.
Or go through all the maps and reduce the BGM volume on the map setup (if that is what is bothering you).
Or go through all the database SFX and reduce the volume in the animation configurations (if that is what is bothering you).

For transparency, JABS does nothing unusual with music or sound effects.
It just uses whatever default functionality comes out of the box with RMMZ to play the music like any other RMMZ game.
Ancient_Eagle

#328 Jul 24, 2022, 04:15 PM Source

Ok, I think I will do that.
Also, I found something that most of them can use minimap, but there was an error I found. Even I tested to play, the fps reduce (20, 22, 23, etc...)

Check this one: Minimap Plugin

Edit: I update a new version for windows, and it's back now.
The plugin is working, but when I press start and press full menu, it shows me error.
Jragyn

#329 Jul 24, 2022, 09:09 PM Source

Ancient_Eagle said:
I found something that most of them can use minimap
I'm sorry, I am not sure if I follow.
Are you saying that you think JABS should have a minimap?
And that there is a problem with compatibility between JABS and someone elses' minimap plugin?

Judging by the errors listed above, the problem appears to be contained within the minimap plugin.
The errors you see below also appear to be related to pixi.js (the rendering engine that RMMZ uses) having issues with the minimap plugin.

The other "errors" you see above it are how JABS probes safely to see if you have an action pose or not for a given skill execution.
TenraiEmiko

#330 Jul 25, 2022, 02:50 PM Source

I would encourage you use your own text editor of choice (or VS Code if you don't have/use one) to root around and find it yourself. You may find other code things to play with while you're in there.
Well I didn't even know that VS Code have a search function...

Oh I googled up how to do so and get this: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/...rch over all files,each file and its location.

So basically how to do so without opening every plugin file manually? Should we open the project's folder's contents in VSC or not?
Jragyn

#331 Jul 25, 2022, 09:40 PM Source

TenraiEmiko said:
Well I didn't even know that VS Code have a search function...

Oh I googled up how to do so and get this: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#:~:text=VS Code allows you to quickly search over all files,each file and its location.

So basically how to do so without opening every plugin file manually? Should we open the project's folder's contents in VSC or not?
i was indeed implying that you should use VS Code (or some other tool that you're familiar with) to search across the files and look at the code to make the changes.

I take pride in saying that most all of my plugins are thoroughly documented if not via jsdocs (google it if you don't know what it is), then via inline comments throughout the code- in many cases almost every couple of lines- written explicitly with the intent of helping folks less-familiar with my plugins understand what they are looking at or at least what I was thinking when I wrote it:

If you find yourself still unsure what to do or how to go about this task, then I'd venture to say that perhaps these types of functionality adjustments are not in the stars for you without the aid of another plugin dev.

Understand when I say I do not have the time to hold your hand through such things, nor do I believe what you're requesting (a hook for on-party-cycle effects, if I remember correctly) is something that is necessary or even useful out-of-the-box with JABS.
Ancient_Eagle

#332 Jul 26, 2022, 11:41 AM Source

I was wondering if you can possible use this skill attack, like for example:
- Beams (Kamehameha, Galick Gun, Masenko, etc...) see this picture.

Is it possible to make it one?
Jragyn

#333 Jul 26, 2022, 02:54 PM Source
Ancient_Eagle said:
I was wondering if you can possible use this skill attack, like for example:
- Beams (Kamehameha, Galick Gun, Masenko, etc...) see this picture.
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Is it possible to make it one?
Things similar to this can be made, mind you I personally lack the graphical prowess to produce the assets for such things...

but JABS itself supports:

line-shaped collision:
HTML:
on a skill: <hitbox:line>
hitting multiple targets:

(use the RMMZ native "all enemies" scope on a skill)

hitting multiple times:
JavaScript:
on a skill: <pierce:[TIMES, FRAMECOUNT_BETWEEN_HITS]> ex: <pierce:[5, 15]> can hit each target 5 times, with a 15 frame delay between each hit
or just using the "repeat" count in a skill, though that stops at 9, but adds to the pierce count.

There are a lot of things you can do if you get creative with it.
savyy

#334 Jul 28, 2022, 03:14 PM Source

Hey! Very nice plugin! Is there a way to change game switches or trigger common events on a skill cast?
Jragyn

#335 Jul 28, 2022, 04:47 PM Source

savyy said:
Hey! Very nice plugin! Is there a way to change game switches or trigger common events on a skill cast?
All effects of a skill are executed when a skill connects with its target, so stuff like this would work I assume as you're hoping:

That doesn't include game switches directly (though this allows common events to do that for you), but I would argue that such functionality is not really the responsibility of the JABS engine to begin with.
savyy

#336 Jul 28, 2022, 08:58 PM Source

Jragyn said:
All effects of a skill are executed when a skill connects with its target, so stuff like this would work I assume as you're hoping
Yeah, I tried it. But for some reason it didn't work, regardless of what was inside the event. Maybe I configured something wrong.

Anyway, adding a JS set switch value command to the damage formula worked like a charm.
Jragyn

#337 Jul 28, 2022, 09:31 PM Source

savyy said:
But for some reason it didn't work, regardless of what was inside the event
Hearing you say this, I took a closer look at the underlying code to determine the problem- and figured out why it wasn't working for you (unbeknownst to me).

the technical details you probably won't care about.
The code (the native RPG Maker code, not the stuff in JABS), it looks like there is some kind of hiccup in communication when building the base code.

In JABS, I mirrored the skill application code into my own method to make some adjustments to accommodate JABS as an engine. In that code, they iterate over each of the item effects and "apply" them as seen here:

which if you poke into that function, you'll see that it appears to be performing the common event logic:

Understand when I say that I did not go investigate a function that is named like this because I assumed it would do as the name implies. However! Had I looked...

I would've noticed the implementation is missing entirely.

Trying to understand how this does work in a regular turn-based battle, I found that it is because the execution of the common events for some reason is not actually handled here. This is why it was not working.

The next major release I do will contain the fix for this, which I'm hoping to have out this weekend.
Indywin83

#338 Jul 30, 2022, 11:39 AM Source

Hello! First of all thank you very much for all your precious work!
I'm new to this world and I'm making my own project for myself an my brother to play together. I would like to ask you if in the plugin there is a multiplayer local co-op option. For what I've seen, there isn't. So I inserted a plugin for multiplayer in the project. It is called OcRam_Local_Coop. It seems to work but obviously there are some bugs (like if the second player tries to go to another map, there is an error). Do you thing that it would be possible to make this plugin work? Thank you for your reply
Jragyn

#339 Jul 31, 2022, 12:07 PM Source

Indywin83 said:
Do you thing that it would be possible to make this plugin work? Thank you for your reply
I didn't realize that such plugins existed.
I attempted to look up the plugin, but from what I can gather, it appears to be a paid plugin. With that in mind I would have to defer you to that plugin author for compatibility issues. They can review my source code and accommodate in code of their own plugin to integrate with JABS.

On a side note though, I recently extended the input management for JABS with multiple players in mind so it shouldn't be too painful for them if they already have something working. I personally intended to revisit the possibility myself later down the road, but local coop is not a high priority for me right now.
langkhach017

#340 Aug 1, 2022, 10:09 AM Source

Thanks for your jobs. But a little question: How can you lock the camera of the map when players come into the map's edge?
I's tried to deleted all plugin & common event in your demo, but it still work like a god :shame: