Changing weapons mid battle

[marbeltoast]

Hello!

I'd like to give the player the option to change which weapon they are using during a battle.

There is a large number of different weapons in my game, and at any time, the player could have all of them, none of them, or any combination therein.

The player can always use any weapon, regardless of what type of character they are and what type of weapon is being used.

My current plan is to add the option "Change weapon" to the list of actions, alongside "Attack", "Guard", and the skill type and item commands, but if this is not an option, I'd be cool with adding it as a learnable skill instead. Using this action would end the player's turn as otherwise the option to change weapons would be overpowered.

Is there a way to do this in-engine? If not, is there a plugin that you could point me towards that would do either what I want, or do a close enough approximation that I can make it work?

Thank you for your time and for whatever help you are able and willing to provide, and happy holidays.

 

[mobiusclimber]

I think MV comes with a plugin you have to turn on that will allow the player to change weapons or shields mid-battle.

[edit: if not, yanfly has a plugin that might work:

 

[marbeltoast]

if not, yanfly has a plugin that might work

Interesting. I'll look into it and see if it's able to do what I'm looking for.

Edit: It's not exactly what I was looking for, but if nothing better comes along fairly soon, then I'm gonna use it anyway and redesign my system a little so it works better.

 

[slimmmeiske2]

Since this isn't possible in-engine, I've moved it to Plugin Requests for you

 

[Mordayn]

Actually there's a simple way to do this using an item that calls a common event to do the Equip Scene push and doesn't require a plugin.

Create an item with the Effect of running a common event.
The common event script needs to be Script: SceneManager.push(Scene_Equip)

Make sure Scope for the item is set to the User so it only targets the active character and I'd set it to No for consumable so you can just give it to the party inventory on the start of the game and it will always be usable.

 

[MushroomCake28]

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