Passive Skills

Fomar0153 · 2020-08-23T05:45:24+0900

Passive Skills Version 1.4 by Fomar0153 Description Implements a passive skill system, where you can equip and unequip passive skills from the Skills menu. Features Customise how many points you have to equip passive skills. Replace skill icons to indicate if a passive skill is equipped or not. Screenshots Screenshot uses an x offset of -180 and has the on iconindex set to -1. If you're not using TP, then the above screenshot is more likely how set the plugin up, this one uses the default on and off iconindex. How to Use Place the plugin in your project's js/plugins/ folder. Inside RPG Maker MZ's editor, open the Plugin Manager. Create a new entry and select this plugin from the list. Customise the options to your liking and then click ok. Passive skills should be of the skill type you set in the options. Passive skills should add a state with the traits you want the passive skill to have. A passive skill's mp cost is used to determine how many points it takes to equip. Spoiler: Picture Guide Setup states for the passive skills. Add the state to the skill and then when equipped the state's traits will be added. Download Click here. If you are using Visustella's SkillsStatesCore then you can use this version which accounts for the display changes. Click here. FAQ Q: I got an error. A: Please be really specfic about what you did when the error occurred, hit F8 and it'll give you some more details that might be useful to me. Does it happen in a blank project? Credits Fomar0153 Terms of Use As long as I am credited, you may use this plugin in your projects both commercial and non-commercial. Version History 1.0 -> 1.1 - 22/08/20 Fixed a bug where all non-PP bars, always displayed the max value. Fixed a bug where the PP bars would show up in battle. 1.1 -> 1.2 - 23/08/20 Fixed a bug that could cause a crash if you attempted to activate a passive skill when you don't have any. Fixed a display bug where the PP cost of passive skills could be displayed incorrectly when MP cost rate wasn't 1. 1.2 -> 1.3 - 23/08/20 Fixed another bug that prevented any non-passive skill from being used. 1.3 -> 1.4 - 13/09/20 Increased compatibility with menu plugins and skill learning plugins.

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Started by Fomar0153 Aug 22, 2020, 08:45 PM 158 posts Page 8 of 8 View original ↗

ArcaneEli

#141 Apr 30, 2025, 07:33 PM Source

SteelSoldier said:
Does anyone know any other formulas for the passive skill points?
I am trying to figure out how to do something other than "this._level" character levels since I am not going to use them in the prototype I am doing

Make the passive X + Variable. So you can update it whenever you want.

ex: 5 + v[12]

edit: this is the correct version I posted below
5 + $gameVariables.value(50)
SteelSoldier

#142 Apr 30, 2025, 07:52 PM Source

Hmm the number works but the variable seems to give me undefined even after having an event run set variable to 0 and add 1 to variable
ArcaneEli

#143 Apr 30, 2025, 08:23 PM Source

SteelSoldier said:
Hmm the number works but the variable seems to give me undefined even after having an event run set variable to 0 and add 1 to variable
Oop sorry this is it, I was looking at an old project that wasn't tested.
5 = base value
50 = variable number

5 + $gameVariables.value(50)
SteelSoldier

#144 Apr 30, 2025, 10:41 PM Source

Awesome it worked!
Rohkuro

#145 May 25, 2025, 04:59 AM Source

I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but is there away to disable the passive point cost?
Maliki79

#146 May 25, 2025, 10:01 AM Source

Why use this plugin if you are going to disable it?
sunhihi

#147 May 25, 2025, 12:00 PM Source

Maliki79 said:
Why use this plugin if you are going to disable it?
I think what they mean is probably:
"I roughly want passive skills to be toggleable,
but I don't want to be limited in how many can be activated."
Maliki79

#148 May 25, 2025, 01:09 PM Source

You can make skills that use 0 points, right? (You'd set the mp cost to 0) This allows them to be toggleable but unlimited.
Or am I missing something?
Rohkuro

#149 May 25, 2025, 04:08 PM Source

Maliki79 said:
You can make skills that use 0 points, right? (You'd set the mp cost to 0) This allows them to be toggleable but unlimited.
Or am I missing something?
You can set the MP Cost to 0 but it'll still say "0 PP" at the end of the skill. The main reason I want to use the plugin is it provides the ability to have items give Passive skill that are equippable. The VS engine doesn't normally allow for that unless they are learned.
Maliki79

#150 May 25, 2025, 04:13 PM Source

So you just want the text showing the 0 pp to be absent.

Is that for all skills or just the ones that are 0 pp?
Rohkuro

#151 May 25, 2025, 04:41 PM Source

Maliki79 said:
So you just want the text showing the 0 pp to be absent.

Is that for all skills or just the ones that are 0 pp?
Just skills that use PP, I still want to see the Mana Cost, and TP Cost of skills.
Maliki79

#152 May 25, 2025, 04:48 PM Source

I'll see what I can do.

@Rohkuro , I have looked into this.
When I made a Passive skill with 0 MP, it did not show the cost at all.

So I am unsure what it is you wanted to do.

EDIT: I tried again with the VS stuff included and see what you mean.
Of course with VS, it'll be MUCH harder to fix, but I'll look into it.
Rohkuro

#153 May 25, 2025, 05:27 PM Source

Maliki79 said:
I'll see what I can do.

@Rohkuro , I have looked into this.
When I made a Passive skill with 0 MP, it did not show the cost at all.

So I am unsure what it is you wanted to do.
That is so strange, I wonder if it has to do with a visustella plugin. I'm posting an image to show that it's displaying the PP Cost.
Maliki79

#154 May 25, 2025, 06:13 PM Source

Rohkuro said:
That is so strange, I wonder if it has to do with a visustella plugin. I'm posting an image to show that it's displaying the PP Cost.
View attachment 341457
It ABSOLUTELY is because of VS. I'm looking into it now, but because of how VS is set up, it's really hard to code around for less-than-expert coders like myself to figure out...

EDIT: @Rohkuro , I couldn't figure out the exact coding to fix it, but I did find a workaround.
If ALL of your Passives will be 0 PP, you can move the plugin right above the Skill/States Core and the Passive cost will behave like MP costs visually.

And by default, VS hides 0 MP costs.

Hope this helps.
Rohkuro

#155 May 25, 2025, 06:50 PM Source

Maliki79 said:
It ABSOLUTELY is because of VS. I'm looking into it now, but because of how VS is set up, it's really hard to code around for less-than-expert coders like myself to figure out...

EDIT: @Rohkuro , I couldn't figure out the exact coding to fix it, but I did find a workaround.
If ALL of your Passives will be 0 PP, you can move the plugin right above the Skill/States Core and the Passive cost will behave like MP costs visually.

And by default, VS hides 0 MP costs.

Hope this helps.
Yeah that works perfect, thanks for the help.
Blackfield

#156 Oct 29, 2025, 12:59 PM Source

I have found a bug with this plugin in combination with "learn skill from equipment" ( https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/learn-skill-from-equipment.125659/ ) and visustella.
I have equipment where you learn the passive skill +10% HP. The bug happens when I activate the passive skill when it is not yet learned and then remove the equipment:

1) HP 240/240 Standard HP, no passive skill activated.
2) HP 240/264 HP +10% passive skill activated
3) HP 226/240 After removing equipment while the skill is activated

For some reason the current HP decrease which doesn't make any sense. This only happens with activated visustella plugin. Not sure if anyone has encountered this too?

What fomar created with the AP, learn skill from equipment and passive skills plugin is absolutely amazing and not replicable with visustella (afaik), so I would really want this to work so I can use them together.
FrigidGaze

#157 Oct 29, 2025, 01:27 PM Source

Blackfield said:
I have found a bug with this plugin in combination with "learn skill from equipment" ( https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/learn-skill-from-equipment.125659/ ) and visustella.
I have equipment where you learn the passive skill +10% HP. The bug happens when I activate the passive skill when it is not yet learned and then remove the equipment:

1) HP 240/240 Standard HP, no passive skill activated.
2) HP 240/264 HP +10% passive skill activated
3) HP 226/240 After removing equipment while the skill is activated

For some reason the current HP decrease which doesn't make any sense. This only happens with activated visustella plugin. Not sure if anyone has encountered this too?

What fomar created with the AP, learn skill from equipment and passive skills plugin is absolutely amazing and not replicable with visustella (afaik), so I would really want this to work so I can use them together.
Hiya,

The VS Items/Equips core plugin settings have an 'auto-adjust' for HP when max HP changes, in 'Equip Menu Settings' which you can toggle on/off.

Does turning that off resolve the issue you're having? Just to potentially narrow it down and see if it's a full incompatibility or not (which might be harder to resolve due to the obfuscated nature of VS' stuff) since it might be a quirk of how VS' equip core reads max HP changes not knowing about the passive skill stuff from other plugins.
Blackfield

#158 Oct 29, 2025, 07:03 PM Source

FrigidGaze said:
Hiya,

The VS Items/Equips core plugin settings have an 'auto-adjust' for HP when max HP changes, in 'Equip Menu Settings' which you can toggle on/off.

View attachment 352175

Does turning that off resolve the issue you're having? Just to potentially narrow it down and see if it's a full incompatibility or not (which might be harder to resolve due to the obfuscated nature of VS' stuff) since it might be a quirk of how VS' equip core reads max HP changes not knowing about the passive skill stuff from other plugins.
Hiya! Yes that worked, you are a wizard - thank you again!! :)