Run event when only one player left alive

[Kes]

I have something I want to run in a particular battle if, and only if, all actors are dead except one.  If it were a specific actor left alive, I could do that with a series of conditional branches.  However, I want this to run if it is any actor left alive.  Given the number of possible actors who might be in the battle party, and that party has 5 members, doing this by conditional branches spirals into a nightmare.


Is there a simpler way of identifying if all actors except one is dead?  I would use this on the troop page, set to 'Turn End' .


Thanks.

 

[Rinobi]

$game_party.alive_members.size == 1


You can use this in a conditional branch.

 

[Kes]

You are a star!  Thank you so much.


EDIT


I've just realised that I should have asked a second question.


Because I want to run some dialogue, I need to know which actor it is that is alive.  Is there a a quick way of doing that?

 

[Rinobi]

Yeah. The array will only have one actor in it, and they all start at 0, so:


$game_party.alive_actors[0] # The actor object




I don't like recommending this much coding, but this is what comes to mind in this situation.


actor = $game_party.alive_members[0]
$game_message.background = 0
$game_message.position = 2
$game_message.face_name = actor.face_name
$game_message.face_index = actor.face_index
$game_message.add "I'm alive!"


Those are pretty much the settings of the default message box.


EDIT


Oh, and if you're going to use control characters, use two backslashes \\C[1] with an exception for line breaks \n.

 

[Kes]

Thanks, I think I can work with that.