How to make items exclusive to 1 actor ?

[Chester]

Hey,

I want an Actor to be able to use 1 or more items that is exclusive for him/her...

EXAMPLE

Item: Apple

Description: Can only be consumed by Johnny

 

[Kai Monkey]

Hi ♫

While setting up having different effects happening depending on certain conditions (e.g. which actor) is possible, having custom use conditions is not possible without a script.

For example:

http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/20347-custom-use-conditions/

Should do the trick

/Kai

 

[Warpmind]

Actually, it can be done through a Common Event - though that's a bit clunkier.

 

[Kai Monkey]

Ah, do you mean by "doing nothing but adding the item back"? I suppose I hadn't thought of that.

 

[Andar]

no, it's even clunkier than only "doing nothing" - that common event needs to identify the target to know if it should do nothing, and for that you'll need the item to place an invisible state and then the common event to check which actor has that state to identify the target of it, remove that state and decide on which effect or no effect to give.


yes, as warpmind said it can be done by pure eventing - but it needs a lot of tricks to get it right.

 

[_Shadow_]

I think this can be done by using a common event and a few ruby commands.

Let's analyze this and we can have a more experienced user actually give us the ruby commands needed.

Say we got three apples. All right? Apples are used by actor id = 1 and 4 (in the database)

Better yet, Apple is usable by CLASS id = 1 for exapmple, and actors 1 and 4 are THAT class.

So first off we need a command that assigns the id of a class to a variable.

Then we need the amount of members into a party.

This is event possible I think. Correct me if I am wrong.

According to what the quantity is, we will event the rest of the action.

We need a Common Event with a Conditional Branch that will assign every party member's id to variables.

This is Event possible.

We can now check if each player id is of that certain class. If so, this will be used.

Now if you want to do this during battle thing gets a little more complicated.

You will have to use a command that gets the id of the player that is actually about to use the item.

This is hard to be done I suppose but I found a "small hack" to do it.

Instead of id you can take the Luck of every hero.

Here is the twist:

Luck modifiers are nowhere.

Luck growth curve to all classes is set to 0

You got significant different actor Luck starting bonus  of Luck for each Actor.

For example Hero 001 starts with Luck = 1

Actor 002  has luck = 100

Actor 003 has luck = 200

and so on.

That way, you will know who is who during battle.

Conditional Event comparing Luck if it is >200 then

It's actor 003 do what is about to be done

inside ELSE  you put another Conditional branch if it is >100 then

It's actor 002 do what is about to be done

inside the else of that conditional branch

 you put the last case (it's actor 001)

Drawback: You unfortunately lose the utility of Luck and you MUST remove it from any damage formulas and other formulas using it on any script.  

 

[Kai Monkey]

Drawback: You unfortunately lose the utility of Luck and you MUST remove it from any damage formulas and other formulas using it on any script.  

Unfortunately, that is not possible without scripts; the LUK skill is used 4 or 5 times in the base engine of the game, when dealing with debuff effects and the chance of applying states onto opponents. 

 

[_Shadow_]

Unfortunately, that is not possible without scripts; the LUK skill is used 4 or 5 times in the base engine of the game, when dealing with debuff effects and the chance of applying states onto opponents. 

You can change the core of RGSS3 carefully removing any modification, if you know some Ruby basics I suppose.

Otherwise, someone can kindly help out this guy by giving a script with method overrides that exclude luck from all the RGSS3.

You are right though. This will be more messy than helpful.

How about a small script command that can take the current turn's actor id and assign it to a variable?

This can also solve this part I suppose, without messing with Luck.

 

[Kai Monkey]

Well, rewriting the engine to have luk removed seems like overkill when a script which sets custom conditions for items has both already been provided, and is what OP is looking for

 

[_Shadow_]

Well, rewriting the engine to have luk removed seems like overkill when a script which sets custom conditions for items has both already been provided, and is what OP is looking for

Yes overriding the parts of Luck is overkill for no reason indeed.

Oh my! Is such a script given??

Sorry I overlooked that. My apologies.

That's why I was trying to solve this in the first place, didn'r realized that.

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to RGSS3 Script Requests. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.

 

[Chester]

I was actually able to do this through a common event although it was only through testing. I'm not sure how it will exactly play out once I get my game started. But as of the moment common event is working. 

Thanks!