Giving characters free movement in battle.

[unknown-77]

Hello,I've been trying to figure this out for a while now and haven't had any luck so I'm hoping someone here can help or point me in the right direction.
So as stated in the thread's title I'm trying to give my characters the ability to actively move around the battlefield during battles. Similar to how it's done in The legends of heroes: trails of cold steel and Grandia. To give an example say that character A just started his turn and you select the attack option, normally character A would run-up to the enemy, swing his sword, and then run right back to his starting space. In Grandia or trails of cold steel however, Character A would: Run over to the enemy, swing his sword, and then stay in the new position he moved to when he attacked the enemy. This adds a bit of realism to the combat and makes battles a little more dynamic.


So after looking around the forums and messing around with note tag commands from plugins I managed to recreate this effect, I'll be it limited. You see I managed to get them to move freely and stay there until their next turn. However, at the start of the next round of turns, the characters return to the original position they were in at the start of the battle. That and when the enemies are too close the characters will face the wrong way when the attack, they also tend to overlap with each other if any character moves to the same location another character already moved to.

I figure that the way to fix these issues is either through plugins or note tag commands but I have no idea where to start, so I'm hoping some might be able to point me in the right direction on fixing them.

I know this post is super long but thank you for taking the time to read through this! and another thank you in advance for any help I get.

 

[gothicvoid]

I have this whole mechanic in my game.... Unfortunately i had to have plugins made to achieve it.... So it is possible... Just be prepared to pay unless some one is insanly nice which there are a few of those still around

 

[ShadowDragon]

free movements like that reminds me of "Tales of Symphonia " that has something like that.
good luck on your project if you are able to get it done nicely.

there is a sideview for free movemens of MOG LMBS (Linear Motion Battle System)
which is sideview free walking like "Summon Night, Sword Story" or "Tales of Phantasia"

but something in the video is nice as well if you can make it done.

 

[unknown-77]

@gothicvoid Hey thank you for the reply. I think we talked about all this before so it's good seeing you again. Anyway I figured it be like that and I am willing to pay for it if it comes down to that. I was actually looking for a programmer to help with this before I posted this here, LoL. so far I haven't found anybody yet. do you think you could recommend someone for me? sorry, I know I'm asking a lot of you and thanks again for the reply!

@ShadowDragon Funny you should mention that my game originally started out as a tales of fan game and still technically is but when I started playing trails of cold steel I instantly fell in love with its battle system and decided to add it on to the game. It still has a whole bunch of tales references in though.