Adding Child in Manager classes not allowed?

[Milena]

So I went on making a simple image to be displayed when you invoke an action:

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(function(){ BattleManager.invokeAction = function(subject, target) { this._logWindow.push('pushBaseLine'); if (Math.random() < this._action.itemCnt(target)) { this.invokeCounterAttack(subject, target); } else if (Math.random() < this._action.itemMrf(target)) { this.invokeMagicReflection(subject, target); } else { this.invokeNormalAction(subject, target); } subject.setLastTarget(target); this._logWindow.push('popBaseLine'); this.refreshStatus(); this.spAttack(); }; BattleManager.spAttack = function() { this.hiOugi = new Sprite(); this.updateSpAttack(); }; BattleManager.updateSpAttack = function(){ this.hiOugi.bitmap = ImageManager.loadPicture(this._subject.name); this.addChild(this._specialSkillAnimation); };})();  

But it says undefined is not a function on the this.addChild line. Is there a problem adding sprite images in BattleManager?

 

[nio kasgami]

Simply because Battlemanager is a static classes and not a true classes

like it's was impossible to do this by calling a sprite in Ace you can't do that in MV too

 

[Milena]

Simply because Battlemanager is a static classes and not a true classes

like it's was impossible to do this by calling a sprite in Ace you can't do that in MV too

In Ace's battle manager you can actually call a sprite as far as I remember.

 

[Another Fen]

Hi,

As far as I know, sprites can only be added to scenes (so they are drawn while the scene is active) or other sprites (drawn while the parent sprite is drawn). If you want a sprite to be displayed during battle, you should add it to the battle scene or the Spriteset_Battle instance.

 

[Milena]

I see. I'll try to see what I can do because I want to determine which actor has used a skill and when it would be executed. I saw that the only way I could do this if I was into the invoking action for the skills, using of items, etc. I'll check Spriteset_Battle in this case.

 

[DarknessFalls]

this._specialSkillAnimationis never being set.

 

[Milena]

BattleManager.updateSpAttack = function(){ this.hiOugi.bitmap = ImageManager.loadPicture(this._subject.name); this.addChild(this.hiOugi); };changed it to something like this, and addChild is still an undefined function.

 

[Iavra]

Because BattleManager doesn't inherit from PIXI.DisplayObjectContainer, like Sprite and Scene do.

 

[Milena]

Because BattleManager doesn't inherit from PIXI.DisplayObjectContainer, like Sprite and Scene do.

Hmm, so where should I go, if I ever want to present a Sprite when an action is about to be executed? For example, Harold chooses Spark. Before Spark executes, I just want this sprite to show. Where can I find this specific action?

 

[DarknessFalls]

Why would you want the sprite to show before it is executed? 

In Game Action apply method you would say this.item().name === 'spark', call something like sprite.push or scene.push or something .push and push the object on.