Shadow Partner

Kaliya · 2015-11-20T09:50:10+0900

Anima - Shadow Partner REWRITE v1.08 by Liquidize Introduction This is a complete rewrite of the plugin by the same name to bring better features, better rendering, nicer code, and other things. Anima Shadow Partner is a plugin that enables you to create states that when applied to a target grant them a "Shadow" or "Clone". This "Shadow" will take a hit for them, resulting in 0 damage. However the Shadow will lose a "Life" when the shadow loses all its lives, than the shadow disappears and the battler with the state, loses the state. Unless the shadow is set to be persistent. Shadows are also able to block only specific elements, or attack types. You may not want all attacks to go to the shadow though, if its like a boss attack, well no problem. You are also able to apply shadow bypasses to pretty much any type of database item, be it a skill or weapon, or another state. Another great thing about shadows is, they are literally shadows. They will follow your battlers, and do whatever they do, if they move, so does the shadow. If you want a state to just give this nice shadow effect, that is okay to! You can do that by applying the "Just Mimic" attribute to the shadow. Don't want the shadow to mimic the original though? No problem! Just apply the "Dont Mimic" attribute. Shadows can also be persistent, and when they're persistent you can set it so that the shadows can regain one of their "lives" back at the end of X amount of turns, or at the beginning of another battle. Shadows can also be tinted, have their opacity changed, or even "blink". Features - Define a state in the parameters that when given to a target grants them the "Shadow Partner" affect as stated above. - Allows you to define how many lives shadows have. - Shows a "shadow" of the battler affected behind them. - Allow shadows to 'mimic' or not mimic the original. - Allow shadows to not take any damage, and just act as an actual shadow, that can mimic the original. - Specify the type of damage shadows can take - Specify the elemental type of damage shadows can take - Tint shadows, or even change their opacity. - Specify that shadows can be persistent, allowing passive shadow effects that can regen their lives at the end/start of battles, or over turns. - Specify skills,items,or actor shadow bypasses, allowing those with a bypass to ignore shadows! Video How to Use See help for detailed instructions and how-to Script v1.08 http://anima.mintkit.lol/shadow-partner/ FAQ Q: what are the requirements? A: It is built upon Yanflys battle system, so it requires that for the time being. Q: Does this work with Yanflys plugins? A: Yes. Q: Can i request features? A: I suppose so. Credit and Thanks - Liquidize Terms of Use: This script is free for commercial and non-commercial use, just credit Liquidize or "Anima Framework" in your credits .

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Started by Kaliya Nov 20, 2015, 12:50 AM 104 posts Page 4 of 6 View original ↗

Kaliya

#61 Nov 26, 2015, 04:13 PM Source

Roguedeus said:
I appreciate your explaining the note tag. Your documentation is very clear though. Better than most plugin documentation!

The attacks in my testing are all 'normal' element base attacks. Each enemy is set for physical ID:1 element.

15_1126_shadowIssues_2.PNG

(If you are saying that every ability must be assigned an element explicitly, thats going to break a lot of stuff)
Oh, I feel silly lol. I forgot you can set the attack element of battlers via traits. I will make this supported next update! Sorry.

Edit: If you need it now, or want it now. I've updated it and fixed both the parsing issue of the tag, and added attack element support.

https://bitbucket.org/liquidize/anima-framework/raw/c988de3b01aa7bf0ae8194a3cb7a77d6744992f3/ShadowPartnerRewrite/Anima_ShadowPartnerRewrite.js

Good thing this is beta, though I probably should test more myself haha.
Roguedeus

#62 Nov 26, 2015, 04:40 PM Source

Looks good so far! Thanks!
Kaliya

#63 Nov 30, 2015, 02:45 PM Source

I've updated the opening post to be solely for the rewritten version. As it is stable enough now to be used publicly. For a new feature set and video see the opening post.
Aidensmercy

#64 Dec 2, 2015, 06:25 PM Source

i finally got around to trying this new rewrite version out and reworking my game a little for it to work.

I have to say, this plugin is one of my favorites out there right now.

they way they move with the characters is just amazing, and great to look at, great job on this.
Yoshifull

#65 Dec 2, 2015, 07:27 PM Source

That plugin sure comes in handy, especially to mimic the Blink effect from early Final Fantasy...

Except for one little problem. Using Yanfly's Action Sequences, I found out that the actor skips wait period when under a Shadow Partner state, which makes the sequence too fast to understand what the character does...
Kaliya

#66 Dec 2, 2015, 07:45 PM Source

Yoshifull said:
That plugin sure comes in handy, especially to mimic the Blink effect from early Final Fantasy...

Except for one little problem. Using Yanfly's Action Sequences, I found out that the actor skips wait period when under a Shadow Partner state, which makes the sequence too fast to understand what the character does...
Could you post or PM me your action sequence so I can use it as a test to make sure it isn't just what you are trying to do?
Yoshifull

#67 Dec 3, 2015, 09:33 AM Source

Liquidize said:
Could you post or PM me your action sequence so I can use it as a test to make sure it isn't just what you are trying to do?
Here you go.

<setup action>

OPACITY not focus: 0

JUMP user: 50, 30

MOVE USER: target, FRONT BASE, 30

WAIT FOR JUMP

IMMORTAL: target, true

MOVE user: BACKWARD, 55

FACE user: target

WAIT FOR MOVEMENT

DISPLAY ACTION

CAST ANIMATION

WAIT FOR ANIMATION

</setup action>

<target action>

MOVE user: target, BACK BASE, 20

MOTION ATTACK: user

ACTION ANIMATION

WAIT: 14

IMMORTAL: target, true

ACTION EFFECT

ARMOR PENETRATION: 12%

WAIT FOR ANIMATION

WAIT 20

MOVE user: target, FRONT BASE, 20

MOTION ATTACK: user

ANIMATION 124: target

WAIT: 20

ACTION EFFECT

WAIT: 30

</target action>

<follow action>

CLEAR BATTLE LOG

OPACITY not focus: 255

MOVE user: HOME, 25

IMMORTAL: target, false

</follow action>

<finish action>

FACE user: HOME

perform finish

IMMORTAL: target, false

</finish action>

What happened that was noticeable is that it works all fine without the Shadow Partner State and the waits are respected, but when it is, the actor just seems to miss them.
Riff

#68 Dec 3, 2015, 09:34 AM Source

When i turned this plug-in on, i couldnt use any healing skills outside battle. Got some error that says 'missing _battleback'. Not on my pc now, but if you need the exact error message, i'll post it in a bit. Just wanna post this so i wont forget later (i dont usually use healing spells during playtesting and i found this bug yesterday).
Kaliya

#69 Dec 3, 2015, 01:27 PM Source

Yoshifull said:
What happened that was noticeable is that it works all fine without the Shadow Partner State and the waits are respected, but when it is, the actor just seems to miss them.
I found the cause but it will take some time to fix.
Yoshifull

#70 Dec 3, 2015, 05:41 PM Source

Liquidize said:
I found the cause but it will take some time to fix.
Thank you for your quick response. Looking forwward for the update!
Naridar

#71 Dec 3, 2015, 11:01 PM Source

Would it be possible to have shadows mimic the character's action as many times as its' remaining lives?
Kaliya

#72 Dec 3, 2015, 11:46 PM Source

Naridar said:
Would it be possible to have shadows mimic the character's action as many times as its' remaining lives?
I am not entirely sure what you mean by this.
Kaliya

#73 Dec 4, 2015, 10:46 PM Source

Yoshifull said:
Thank you for your quick response. Looking forwward for the update!
I've updated the plugin to "1.05" which contains a fix for the issue you had. I've had to go and rewrite the sprites however, so shadow sprites are now separate from normal sprites, before they were based upon them now they are completely separate. Therefore some issues may occur, but I have not noticed any. Temporarily however "BLINKING" shadows do not exist, and shadows can't blink.
Yoshifull

#74 Dec 7, 2015, 06:34 PM Source

Liquidize said:
I've updated the plugin to "1.05" which contains a fix for the issue you had. I've had to go and rewrite the sprites however, so shadow sprites are now separate from normal sprites, before they were based upon them now they are completely separate. Therefore some issues may occur, but I have not noticed any. Temporarily however "BLINKING" shadows do not exist, and shadows can't blink.
Seems to work like a charm over here. Thanks for the update!
xXAinSophAurXx

#75 Dec 14, 2015, 09:31 PM Source

Plugin works great except for one small thing, if I apply a Shadow State to enemies, the shadow persists after the enemy dies. I don't really know how to make it vanish along with the enemies. I think someone else mentioned the same issue on page 2 but I didn't see a fix for it and I have version 1.05 as far as I know.
Kaliya

#76 Dec 14, 2015, 10:37 PM Source

xXAinSophAurXx said:
Plugin works great except for one small thing, if I apply a Shadow State to enemies, the shadow persists after the enemy dies. I don't really know how to make it vanish along with the enemies. I think someone else mentioned the same issue on page 2 but I didn't see a fix for it and I have version 1.05 as far as I know.
I've fixed this bug in v1.06 (which can be obtained via the opening post), as well as another bug where opacity wasn't being properly set. Thank you for the bug report!
xXAinSophAurXx

#77 Dec 14, 2015, 11:44 PM Source

Liquidize said:
I've fixed this bug in v1.06 (which can be obtained via the opening post), as well as another bug where opacity wasn't being properly set. Thank you for the bug report!
oh awesome! Sorry, I missed the 1.06, thought I was up to date haha. Thanks for the fast reply :D
Kaliya

#78 Dec 14, 2015, 11:53 PM Source

You were up to date, I just fixed the bug after you reported it :)
Roguedeus

#79 Dec 15, 2015, 07:59 AM Source

Here is that screenshot.
Kaliya

#80 Dec 15, 2015, 11:15 PM Source

This bug has been fixed in the new v1.07 see opening post.