Moving an enemy's battler

[CuddleFox]

Hello,
I searched and I didn't find a topic related to this.
I would like to know if there is a way to move an enemy battler in the same way that you could move an image, by just manipulating its x and y?

 

[Heirukichi]

A way to do that exists, but how you can do it depends a lot on when you want to do it. You can do it with a script call as well, but I am not sure I would recommend it. The implementation depends a lot on what you exactly need. Could you be more specific?

 

[CuddleFox]

I need a battler to go to the right, Out of the screen.

 

[Heirukichi]

If you know what battler you are talking about (as in troop id of that battler) you can get it from the scene itself.

spriteset = SceneManager.scene.instance_variable_get(:@spriteset)
enemies = spriteset.instance_variable_get(:@enemy_sprites)

Once you do that, you have every enemy sprite in your troop stored inside "enemies". You can access the N element of that array using

enemies[N] # N is the ID of your battler in the troop array

Moving ti is just as moving a normal sprite with x and y coordinates. If you want it to move to the right side you increase its X coordinate, if you want it to move down you increase its Y coordinate (decrease those coordinates if you want to move it respectively toward the left side or up).

All this can be placed in a single script call in an event with a small loop taking care of the movement itself.

Spoiler: It should resemble something like this

# shift a sprite to right side
ppf = 4 # pixels per frame
spr_id = 3 # id of the enemy in the troop array
spriteset = SceneManager.scene.instance_variable_get(:@spriteset)
enemies = spriteset.instance_variable_get(:@enemy_sprites)
spr = enemies[spr_id]
while ((spr.x - spr.ox) < Graphics.width)
  spr.x += ppf
  Fiber.yield
end