How do you reference a Skill Name in the "Show Choices" Message Event & Teach a Skill with a Script?

[DarrelOdin]

As an overview, I am attempting to make a sorta-rogue-like upgrade system. When a foe is defeated, a common event is called to check if the player can upgrade, ascend or learn skills, and offer them a choice of any that are true.

I focused on the Upgrading first, and have successfully gotten the random choices done. However, I am experiencing issues regarding the following:

• Displaying the randomly selected skill name in the "Show Choices" Message Event

I could not find documentation on how to display a skill name in the Choice list, with the skill chosen based on the id stored in the set variable. My thought is it should be \S.name[\V[id]] or something similar, but I keep getting only the # held in the variable displayed instead.

• Writing the script that teaches the chosen skill to the actor

I must be missing some basic understanding of using a script in RPGMVXA, because from checking out https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/how-to-teach-an-actor-a-skill.27887/, this should function to make sure the actor learns the set skill: $game_party.members[1].learn_skill($game_variables[126])

Instead I get an error of "undefined method learn_skill for nil:NilClass" which clearly means something isn't right.

Are there any suggestions, or pointers on what documentation to look for? I sincerely appreciate any help.

 

[Shaz]

By default, you can't do this with Show Choices. That sort of thing is only for messages, and depending on what it is, you might even need a script to enable it.

So, are you using a script to change your choice options?

The leader is $game_party.members[0] not [1] so you will get that error if you only have one person in your party.

 

[DarrelOdin]

Oh! I was unaware of that - in which case, no, I have not set a script up to change the choice options. I shall look into that.

And thank you, I'll correct that too!