[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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#522 May 7, 2026, 12:25 AM Source

it's also work in RPG Maker MV?