Force enemy to perform action on specific actor

[Shiro-chan]

Hello,
I have the following situation:
-an enemy can perform a scan on one/two of the party's actors (out of a maximum of four) via a decision-making process:
--if only one actor is available/alive, the enemy simply copies that actor's skill via the scan and then performs the skill itself (say a heal if only Natalie is available/alive)
--if at least two are available and not dead, those two are scanned via force-action and the enemy fires a special combination attack based on who those two actors are

My problem is that while everything works if all 4 actors are in the party, in case that an actor is missing, the force-action command (based on the index system the program provides) bugs out and may display the scan on the wrong actor(s); for example if Erik is missing, then Alice and Natalie are scanned when it should be Erik and Alice being scanned respectively (it's only a visual error though).

I use Yanfly Engine Ace - Ace Battle Engine for this.

So question is: is it possible to NOT use indexes for the scan skills, but instead use the actual actor numbers (2-5) rather than indexes 1-4?

Thank you very much for reading and, hopefully, providing an answer.

 

[TheoAllen]

You could try to replicate the same effect but use script calls. This is untested, taken directly from the code that handles the force action.

battler = $game_troop.members[enemy_index]
battler.force_action(skill_id, $game_actors[actor_id].index)
BattleManager.force_action(battler)
Fiber.yield while BattleManager.action_forced?

What you need to replace
enemy_index = replace with the enemy index (not id) based on how you put it in the troop
skill_id = replace with the skill id you want the enemy to use
actor_id = replace it with the actor id you want the enemy to target

 

[Shiro-chan]

I tried to script-call this:

battler = $game_troop.members[1]
battler.force_action(471, $game_actors[2].index)
BattleManager.force_action(battler)
Fiber.yield while BattleManager.action_forced?

Sadly it crashes outright.

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Magical Camp 0.4.7b
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Script 'Game_Interpreter' line 1411: NoMethodError occurred.

undefined method `force_action' for nil:NilClass
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OK  
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[TheoAllen]

Index started from 0, not 1

 

[Shiro-chan]

Right, that was the error. It works perfectly now, thank you very much.

 

[slimmmeiske2]

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