Request: ATB And Percentage bar assistance for Custom Battle System

[Dragoon de Sol]

Okay, I can't get to the RPG Maker Programming area, so this'll have to do.

I need help with two things.

1. I need help on how to code an ATB bar that determines when a character/enemy can act.

2. I need help on how to code bars that measure percentages of amounts, such as HP/MP.

[Ben]

2k3 or xp?

[Dragoon de Sol]

Heh..oops.

2K3.

[Ben]

i am of no help to you then... Gemini is XP compatible onry.

[Dragoon de Sol]

Dammit.

[Dominicy]

It all depends on how specific you want the ATB bar.  such as add one to a variable called "Character 1 ATB" and have a conditional branch that asks if the variable is atleast one.  if it is, display picture "Character 1 ATB bar 1" or something, and keep doing that up until you reach how ever much you want, such as up to 10 or 20.  That's the best I can do for now..

[Moosetroop11]

MOVED.

You got the main page problem too huh? Sucks. I hear firefox can load it fine.

[RPG noob]

This should help for the percentages

 

If you thought of cross multiplying, you were right. For those of you who don't know, cross multiplying is the term for the metheod we'll use to solve this. Lets say the hero has 2 life left our of 10. And we're trying to find the percentage of that. Heres what the coding would look like.  [percentage] = hero current life (2)  [percentage] times 100 (percentage)  [percentage] / hero complete life (10)    we have 2, times 100 = 200, divided by 10 = 20.  Thus, we'll get 20% as the amount of life left.    Whenever you want to find a value that you can't get by using the variable options command (percentage for example) you need an algorithm to find the value. You need to think of what it needs to accomplish, and what you have to work with.

Then you would have a conditional branch that checks what the percent is and show the picture accordingly.

On a side note I can't get on the main page either using opera

[Dragoon de Sol]

Thanks RN. Now all I need is the ATB. I know how to work the bar, just not how to determine how it fills. Do I measure seconds or what?

[RPG noob]

You want an event that loops with a condition switch           (switch 1 on) which counts a seconds variable up to how ever many seconds you want until the players turn e.g 10.  When it reaches 10 seconds make the event stop (switch 1 off) and show the commands.  When the character has used a command flick the switch on and set the timer variable back to 0 and hopefully the process will start again.

Sorry if thats a bit hard to understand

[Dragoon de Sol]

Hmm...I see what you mean now.

We need to get your name changed from Noob to something else ^_^

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by RPG noob
You want an event that loops with a condition switch           (switch 1 on) which counts a seconds variable up to how ever many seconds you want until the players turn e.g 10.  When it reaches 10 seconds make the event stop (switch 1 off) and show the commands.  When the character has used a command flick the switch on and set the timer variable back to 0 and hopefully the process will start again.

Sorry if thats a bit hard to understand

I would advise against this method because usually you want the atb gauge to fill up according to the characters speed/agility. So if you want to have it fill up according to their agility, do something like this.

Find out the maximum agility a character can have, by defualt its 999; however, your game may only go up to 100 or 500. Once you find this number, set a variable [hero1ATB] equal to it, then make it a little bigger. So if your highest is 999, set [hero1ATB] equal to 1010 (or something like that). After you have it set to the correct value, subtract the heros agility from [hero1ATB]. If the agility of the hero was maxed out at 999, the number will be very small (11), but if the agility was low such as 10, the number will be really high at 1000.

After you get this new number for [hero1ATB] make a parallel process event for the ATB. Every .1 seconds, add a number to a new variable called [hero1ATBadd]. Lets say this number is 10. Every time you add 10 to [hero1ATBadd], check with a conditional branch for if [hero1ATBadd] is greater than or equal to [hero1ATB]. If it is, then turn a switch [hero1turn] ON (or do whatver you want to do in order for the hero to take its turn. So if [hero1ATB] is 11, it'll be the heros turn every .2 seconds. if [hero1ATB] is 1000, it'll take 10 seconds for the hero to take its turn. By balancing the number you add (10) and the max agility (1010), you can control how fast you want the heros bar to fill on the various levels.

You can do this for multiple characters, just make sure that the max number is the same for all of them.

In the end, the code will look something like this.

[hero1ATB] = 1010
subract hero1 agility from [hero1ATB]
Label 1
wait .1 seconds
[hero1ATBadd] + 10
if [hero1ATBadd] is greater than or equal to [hero1ATB]
--(take a turn)
else
--jump to label 1

you'll want to turn that code off while its the heros turn, i learned that the hard way...

[Dragoon de Sol]

Thanks for the tip, man.

[RPG noob]

nice one db I didn't think about agility lvl lol... serves me right for trying to figure it out really late  

[DragonBlaze]

Lol, on my first cbs agility didn't play a role in it either. Then when I first started adding agility, it was a mess...