Appear Halfway - Possible Bug?

[originalduffman]

Hello. 

I am new to RPG Maker, but I feel that in the past week, I have learned so much just by playing with the system and reading these forums. However, I stumbled upon something that really feels more like a bug as opposed to me not knowing what I'm doing. If this belongs in a different category, feel free to move it.

I am trying to set up a boss battle where the boss summons smaller enemies to come battle alongside him. Everyone online seems to be in agreement. I need to place the "summonable" enemies in the troops screen, and make them appear "halfway." I created a common event that the boss uses via a skill I gave him called "Summon Minions." The common event itself is what uses the "Enemy Appear" function, bringing my "halfway there" enemies to the screen. It works...sort of. But now, when my battler elects to use a move that affects all the enemies, once I'm asked to choose a target (which in this case would be all the enemies) the invisible minions appear on screen, and stay there. They can't do anything or be affected by anything until they've been officially summoned. But they remain visible. Is this a bug? Or am I doing something wrong?

You can see just what I'm talking about in the image I'm uploading with this post. The enemies without names weren't there until I clicked on the magic skill "Spark." 

 

[Kes]

Game Mechanics Design is for looking at how to design mechanics in a way that would be applicable to many games.  Your post seems to be more of a "I have a problem/how to?" question.

I will, therefore, ask for it to be moved to MV support, which is where "how to" questions go.

 

[originalduffman]

Thanks, but you can just close this thread. I hadn't seen the official bug report forum until now. I've asked my question there. Sorry for the trouble.

 

[Ralpf]

I think we need to start with the plug-ins you are using, I just tested on a new project and it worked fine. So that would mean that there is a problem in the plug-ins, either a bug in the plug-in, an interaction problem, or a plug-in order issue.

I would post a screenshot of your plug-in list so those that know about these things might be able to help, I don't really know enough about programming to really help here beyond that, but others do and they tend to be helpful.

If you want to try to debug it I would start with re-ordering the plug-ins.

 

[originalduffman]

Alright, I turned off all the battle related plugins and the problem did go away. I started turning on the plugins again, one at a time, testing the battle after turning each one on. And now, with the exact same settings as before, it no longer happens...so I'm not sure what's going on now.

 

[Ralpf]

Alright, I turned off all the battle related plugins and the problem did go away. I started turning on the plugins again, one at a time, testing the battle after turning each one on. And now, with the exact same settings as before, it no longer happens...so I'm not sure what's going on now.

That's...odd, I would keep an eye on it, but if it's working that's good.

 

[Kes]

@originalduffman

When you want a thread closed, please Report your opening post (bottom right, near the Multiquote button) and ask for it to be closed.  The mod for the particular forum might miss your post - especially as there are 20 pages of New Content every 24 hours at the moment -  but will see your Report.

thank you.