Item Morph/Item Trade

[NatuElChido]

Hello! This overall is an open question, because I want to read some ideas how to implement this system.
For a little of context, my game have a night/day cicle (Similar to persona games) where in day you pick-up items and the history progresses and in the night, you do the actual fighting of monster and stuff.

So one of the main mechanics is to buy normal-everyday items and this during the night, became or morph into battle items, for example, a bottle of water becomes a potion.

Think is, i'm not sure is this is posible to archive in vanilla RPG Maker MV (In this case) or I'll have to use a plugin. This is where you guys can help me, since I have no idea how can I archive this.
Thank you in advance, I'll be reading and cosidering every idea you can send me. Thanks.

(Mods: I'm so sorry if I put this post in a wrong forum, I don't know else to put it since is an open question about possible solutions)

 

[AfroKat]

Maybe I'm reading this wrong but is your question morphing items?

I don't understand why you would do that. If the player does by normal items to use at night time, why not just use the same item? They are still human and need to eat and drink. Changing a hamburger into a Super Potion, and a Cheeseburger into a Phoenix Down would make it much more confusing then it needs to be. Not to mention players have to memorize 2x the items.

 

[NatuElChido]

That's exactly what I can do, the idea behind.
I don't what to go into to much detail of the why i want to do this, because is kinda complex, but to put it simple, the battling monsters partoccurs inside of the protagonist dreams, that's why you cannot carry items from outside the dream into battle.
The idea is to trade the "Memory" of the item for Items that can only be use in dreams. That opens another trouble, the managing of 2 inventories, but for that you can use the Variable System.
Thanks for the answer, btw.

 

[Kes]

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[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

You can opt to do it via events via checking how much of an item the player have, then remove that amount of the item and add the same amount of the new item... This would be huge though if you have a lot of these items.

 

[Finneess]

You could to this trough a common event before the time changes into night. For example; You set a variable to the amount you posses of certain item, then proced to remove that amount and add the equivalent to that item, and viceversa when you switch back, and so on with all the items you want to morph.

While I don't know or use MV that much, it would look something like this:
(Btw, sorry for the comments, I don't use the program on english haha)

 

[NatuElChido]

Thanks for the help.
Again I'm so sorry for not explaining me again.
Think is, you sell this "Memories" of the items, that's why I cannot simply morph all items at once.
Again sorry for not mentioning this before.

Para el chico en español:
No puedo cambiar todos los items de una vez, porque tienes que vender las "memorias" de los items por los items para batalla. No seas tímido de escribir en Españo, lo entiendo perfectamente

 

[Finneess]

If that's the case, I think i found a plugin that could do the trick;

Spoiler: Yanfly's Item Synthesis

Essentially, it gaves you the abillity to craft items through recipes, so you could use Day time items as the recipe for the Night time items, you can do this with weapons and armors as well, while also being a shop since you can also use money to craft the item itself. Of course, this would need some tweaking, mainly on terms of vocab. Hope it helps.

PD: No había visto tu nombre, pero aún así sigo escribiendo en inglés porque así son las reglas

 

[Restart]

Okay, let me see if I understand what you want.

During the daytime there is no combat. You want to be able to purchase daytime items and put them in your inventory.
During daytime, your inventory should only show daytime items.

During nighttime, there is combat. You cannot see your daytime items in your inventory, only your nighttime items. Nighttime items can be used in combat.
During nighttime there's some way to convert individual daytime items into nighttime items.

Is that correct?

 

[NatuElChido]

Gracias
I'll test it!

If that's the case, I think i found a plugin that could do the trick;

Spoiler: Yanfly's Item Synthesis

Essentially, it gaves you the abillity to craft items through recipes, so you could use Day time items as the recipe for the Night time items, you can do this with weapons and armors as well, while also being a shop since you can also use money to craft the item itself. Of course, this would need some tweaking, mainly on terms of vocab. Hope it helps.

PD: No había visto tu nombre, pero aún así sigo escribiendo en inglés porque así son las reglas

Okay, let me see if I understand what you want.

During the daytime there is no combat. You want to be able to purchase daytime items and put them in your inventory.
During daytime, your inventory should only show daytime items.

During nighttime, there is combat. You cannot see your daytime items in your inventory, only your nighttime items. Nighttime items can be used in combat.
During nighttime there's some way to convert individual daytime items into nighttime items.

Is that correct?

Yeah, that's correct, but, the conversion of this daytime items is THE ONLY way you can get nighttime items via buying it in daytime.

 

[slimmmeiske2]

@NatuElChido I've merged your two posts together. If you want to quote more than one person, please use the Multiquote/+Quote button for all posts you want to reply to. Alternatively you can just @ them, like I did in my post here.