Making an Event Jump to the player?

[Alarkus]

Hi. I'm trying to make it so an event can jump to a player via a script call to achieve a "projectile" effect and I'm having some issues.
I managed to make it so the event jumps to variables containing the players X and Y, but the event jumps way off screen for some reason. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Here's what I attempted to use.
jump($game_variables[12],$game_variables[13])

 

[Bex]

When and were do you assign values to that Variables 12 and 13?

If this is for a Projectile, why not using the Eventcommand "Set Event Location"?
It would Teleport that Event directly to that position without jumping over the Map.

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In your case this should Teleport EventID1 to the Position of the Player.

$game_map.events[1].moveto($game_player.x, $game_player.y)

for the Jump with Eventid1 jump to Player it would be:

jump($game_player.x - $game_map.events[1].x, $game_player.y - $game_map.events[1].y)

and here Edited so it uses the target chosen in the Moveroute Command:

jump($game_player.x - $game_map.events[self.id].x, $game_player.y - $game_map.events[self.id].y)

 

[Alarkus]

When and were do you assign values to that Variables 12 and 13?

If this is for a Projectile, why not using the Eventcommand "Set Event Location"?
It would Teleport that Event directly to that position without jumping over the Map.

This Thread could be very Helpful:

Script Call Collection for VXAce

Table of Contents Event Page 1 † Message † Party † Actor † † Game Progression † Flow Control † Event Page 2 † Movement † Timing † Picture and Weather † † Character † Screen Effect † Music and Sounds † Event Page 3 † Scene Control † Map † System Settings † † Battle † Movie † ...

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In your case this should Teleport EventID1 to the Position of the Player.

$game_map.events[1].moveto($game_player.x, $game_player.y)

for the Jump with Eventid1 jump to Player it would be:

jump($game_player.x - $game_map.events[1].x, $game_player.y - $game_map.events[1].y)

and here Edited so it uses the target chosen in the Moveroute Command:

jump($game_player.x - $game_map.events[self.id].x, $game_player.y - $game_map.events[self.id].y)

Well, the reason I wanted to use the jump feature is because a transfer would be instantaneous, without any time for the player to move out of the way. With the jump there's a few frames before it gets to the player, so it better gives the illusion of say, a grenade or energy ball coming at the player without the awkwardness of 4 direction movement.
What you wrote seems to be working though, so thanks!

 

[Bex]

I was just curious. Thanks for explaining, and good to hear that it works.