How to make a state not applicable outside of battle?

[pedrocarsamar]

Hello. One of my characters has this skill which removes negative conditions and, additionally, applies a "prevention state" to the target, so that his ally not only gets health, but prevents further negative states by a certain number of turns. (Hylics' players know precisely what it means) I want this skill to work both on battle and on menu, but differently.

* On battle, I want the skill to heal negative conditions AND apply the "prevention state";
* But on the menu, I want the same skill to heal negative conditions, but not to apply the "prevention state", since the player could do this before every battle to get advantage.

The lazy way to get around with this issue is to create two skills: one usable on battles and one usable on menus. But I particularly think this would pollute the skill repertoire.

Is there a way to do what I'm planning?

 

[Andar]

That method isn't "lazy", it's basically the only one that works in the default engine of VXA.

the only alternative would be with using scripts that add new options to the engine - yanfly's lunatic states might contain a solution or something similar.

 

[ATT_Turan]

But on the menu, I want the same skill to heal negative conditions, but not to apply the "prevention state", since the player could do this before every battle to get advantage.

The other easy thing to do is add a Turn 0 troop event to your troops that checks for any party members to have the preventative state and remove it.

 

[pedrocarsamar]

Thank you for your contributions. I took a sight over the Lunatic States before making this thread, but I'm too dumb to make it work. For the time being, Turan's suggestion seems to be the best thing I could right now. So I'll just stick to it, unless I find another solution.

 

[Roninator2]

Could you not have the skill call a common event and then have the common event check if the player is in battle, then apply the state if true.
You can do a conditional branch script check in the CE
if SceneManager.scene_is?(Scene_Battle)
add state
end branch

 

[pedrocarsamar]

Could you not have the skill call a common event and then have the common event check if the player is in battle, then apply the state if true.
You can so a conditional branch script check in the CE
if SceneManager.scene_is?(Scene_Battle)
add state
end branch

That's actually a great idea, thx. But as I was trying to implement it, I've just got a new insight. Since I'm using Yanfly's follow up skill script, I can make the healing skill be followed by another that adds the state, but only if "SceneManager.scene_is?(Scene_Battle)" is true. And it surprisingly worked