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Ok, I thought I have been experimenting a lot with the battle system lately, and to my surprise...a Battle System that is inspired by Darkest Dungeon is very possible in RPG Maker.

But I already fail at the basics, setting up a good battle hud. Maybe you guys can help me out, and perhaps there is a plugin that does just that. What I want to do is:

The darkest dungeon hud is...simpler in some ways than the standard rpg maker hud. it has no sub menus, basically you can select either items or one of the 4 skills (or you can pass the turn and move up/down the line, but that is not needed).



So when it is the turn of a character, you just see the 4 skills. That is what I want to have. 4 clickable button options when one of my characters is on action. no submenu that you have to access first. Would be nice if the first skill is just an attack with the current equipped weapon (but that is optional).

now, ideally there is another 4-6 buttons for usable items, and the ability to move around the character faces and hp/mp gauges because I want to have them on the right and not down, but that is optional. I want to have the basics down first, 4 clickable skills for every character.


HUD Maker doesn't work, at least for me on 1.6.2 and I am no fan of rolling things back to older version, so that one is out. Even though it sounded like it could do exactly what I wanted.


A friend of mine suggested the Luna Engine and I looked at it and it seems to be awesome, but that is pretty damn advanced, and deep down inside I know that I'm a lazy ass dev that rather lurks hours in this forum, trying to find a plugin that gets the job done...easier


Maybe you guys can help me out, maybe you have done something like it or you are currently setting it up for your game.

Please let me know, thanks for your time