Tactics System 1.2.1 (Tactical Battle System)

Beautiful work on the tactics system, arleqin; I've been experimenting with it all day.

I've a question: when I'm using Yanfly's 'Party System' plugin, when the characters go into SV, it starts displaying (or attempting) to display the other characters in the party/not displaying the player.

I've worked around with the placement of the plugins and the code and I think the issue is the party extension factor of the YFLY plugin. I'm still on the MV default 4 members so there's no "parameter issue" etc., but either I can't get the SV to display the single character, or depending on what I edit off of YFLY's code, the SV displays properly but the "Formation" screen won't.

I capped the script error when I had the plugins in a mixed order during debugging just encase it shows the actual .js problem, though that could be nothing. Also included is a cap of the graphic error in game.

Thanks again for providing the plugin and the additional community support in the thread. Any chance you can help here?

Hey, thanks for the quick reply! I actually started doing something similar, but I was trying to manipulate the BattleManagerTS.addGameEnemy function directly which i think caused some issues. I was able to cause 1 enemy to be randomly generated, but adding any more than that caused param null errors for some reason. I will implement this suggestion and post the results.

Thanks again for the great add on - I am really enjoying this. My background is mostly Unreal Engine 4 and 3D, but I have been playing a lot of old school RPGs lately, and got RMMV on sale on steam, so I figured I would give it a go. And I am glad I did.

i wrote a little script that's supposed to fix the few compatibility issues. i haven't tried it in every use case, so give me update. also, what are the crucial features that are missing compared to the srpg engine if you've used it. it would help me with future updates. thanks.

order in the plugin manager:
TacticsSystem.js > BattlePreparation.js > YEP_PartySystem > YEP_PartySystemPatch

i had experimented a while ago with a random generation of enemies on the map with BattleManagerTS.addGameEnemy. but finally I preferred to build the maps by hand. I'll make it available if I find this old script. rpg maker doesn't like to create events dynamically. it's better to create the events by hand and let javascript take care of the rest.

I'm just setting up another map to test it again now. I started experimenting around with SRPG again yesterday, just finding which system I prefer.

To be honest, I'm ideally looking for a system which allows the player to wander round the map and enter and leave a tactical "state" at will. My only issue with both systems so far is the need for either an entire different map for a single encounter, or only one encounter on a single map.

Playing around with both systems (with what little scripting knowledge I have), I've been able to better replicate what I want with SRPG so far, as the need for TS to have "troops" set up and I'd be playing with constant variables to calculate on-the-fly how many enemies have been slain per encounter compared to how many need to be so the game knows when the run the battle end script etc.

I'll have another little play with TS for now, see if I'm better able to get what I want from it today.

Thanks for the 'PartySystemPatch', I'll fire it up and and check the results.

I will point out one of the ease-of-use details TS has over SRPG: a fluid exploration-to-combat mode can be initiated on TS that incorporates your selected team members, so they can go from following you on the map to entering TS on the same map flawlessly, without any awkward position changes etc., whereas SPRG--from what I can tell--drags the defining code of the player party events when the game is initiated, meaning custom player created characters in-game aren't acknowledged/represented in SRPG's battle walking sprites.

The more poignant point I was trying to cover last night, you can't have the events that represent your party in combat follow you around on the SRPG map without it breaking their movement in combat, no matter how many alternate switches etc. are set on or off to define it.

hi! you can create skills in the database as default. normally the states are functional, just specify that the skill adds the state stun in the effects section. you can specify the scope of a skill with <range: diamond 2> (distance of 2) in the note section of a skill.

thank u so much sir but i already done it. now what i want to know is how can i create a skill that can damage enemies near by or should i say "area effect skill " and also how can i create a skill that will knock back the target hero. thanks in advance

apology for my misunderstanding. no it's not possible to make an area effect skill and knock back the target. it's not difficult to create a script to add this features but I don't have the time and as i'm the only to bring add-ons to system so i think it's compromised.

i asked this earlier, but is there a way to make it so attacks only deal damage in the direction the user is facing? it makes no sense for a single flamethrower attack to deal damage in all directions at once when it should only be in one.

EDIT: Also, what is THIS?

no, that's not possible at the moment. i will add this to my to-do list. for your error, can you tell me how to reproduce this and copy/paste the console error message (f8 during game testing) or send me your project in pm (less than 100 mo please). thank you.

i can't say how to reproduce it, as i'm really bad at explaining, but here are the event pages and the console message.

it seems that the log window isn't created at scene initialization but I can't reproduce the error. can you tell me the order of the plugins and if you use extra plugins. also be careful not to use the range of variables id between 1 and 4 because it is used by the system (you can change this in the plugin settings)

oops, i was using variable 4...

1. Thank you for the update. It's really great. Have you had a moment to check out the issue with <mvp:int>? It does work with actors and enemies but doesn’t work with classes. I have checked it on a clean new project with no other plugins.

2. One more thing. It is possible to make it compatible with Yanfly’s Main Menu Manager? As for now, everything that was added to the main menu through the Main Menu Manager appears in the tactical battle menu as well.

Hello!
First off: Beautiful script and thank you so much for sharing this with us.
It definitely has a lot of implications and I am excited to use this in a few different projects!

I just have a question and I'm sure it has been answered, however, I haven't been able to find the answer nor figure it out.

Is it possible to make spells act as buffs/debuffs that either increase or restrict the range of movements or even eliminate a unit's ability to move, entirely? Like a Root or a Snare spell?
Something that could reduce the tiles an enemy movement can move by X for Y amount of turns.

I also am curious about targetted AoE spells. I can make something hit all enemies, but that will hit everything in the spell's range - Is it possible to make a spell only hit the Target and anything that is within X tiles of the Target, rather than the spells entire range?

i fixed that in github. thanks.

yes I think it's possible but unfortunately i don't have time for that anymore (a lot of work at the moment).

hi, it's under development! i think this feature will be present for 1.2. i'd like to make the move point look like a "Ts-parameter" in the traits. so i think it will be possible to buff the move point for amount of turns with the states.

it's in my list but i'm definitely thinking about abort it. it takes a lot of time to implement aoe spells and i don't need it in my game. i can only advise you to look at other tactical battle system for rpg maker mv :

• lecode tbs : https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/lecode-tactical-battle-system-0-77-2b.71572/
• srpg engine : https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/inde...for-creating-turn-based-strategy-game.110366/

Hi not sure if this has been noted but cant find any info about it. Seems YEP_CoreEngine stops on screen animations with Tactics System 1.1 when you use a skill, not sure if there is a work around or something i can do to fix it?

Great plugin! I'm going to use it in a project I'm working on.

Is there an easy way to disable the "nearby units appear in combat scene" feature? I like the idea in theory but, for whatever reason, in practice it is a little hard to tell that that is deliberate (as opposed to a bug). So I'd like to just have 1-on-1 combat scenes, if possible. Thanks!

I managed to fix the issue. It was YEP_CoreEngine Lines 2753-2774. I deleted these lines from Yep_CoreEngine and now it works. Not sure if there is a better way or not.

//=============================================================================
// Window_BattleLog
//=============================================================================

Window_BattleLog.prototype.showNormalAnimation = function(targets,
animationId, mirror) {
var animation = $dataAnimations[animationId];
if (animation) {
if (animation.position === 3) {
targets.forEach(function(target) {
target.startAnimation(animationId, mirror, 0);
});
} else {
var delay = this.animationBaseDelay();
var nextDelay = this.animationNextDelay();
targets.forEach(function(target) {
target.startAnimation(animationId, mirror, delay);
delay += nextDelay;
});
}
}
};