"Scope: The User" items out of battle

[stupid enough to like FF13]

I've run into something that's proving to be a bit of a problem, and I'm not sure if it's meant to function this way.

I have potions set to "Scope: The User" so that characters can only use potions on themselves in battle. However, out of battle, the game will only allow me to use potions on one party member—even if that member has full HP, the cursor won't move off of them and to another character. The only way to get it to move is to go into a different menu under another character (for example, Status → [Character]), which locks the cursor to that other character instead.

Is "Scope: The User" supposed to function like that? I would assume that the game does not attribute any specific user of items to items used outside of battle (particularly when characters can have varying PHA stats).

 

[Shaz]

It is a bit strange. "The User" really only applies in battle as you select an item on someone's turn. In the menu, there is no "the user" to apply it to. It seems to want this, and looks at the "currently selected" user from whatever previous screen you had open. In this case, it should probably allow you to use it on any person.


Do you have any custom menus or is it all pure RTP?


Moving to RGSSx Script Support

 

[stupid enough to like FF13]

Pure RTP, no custom scripts or custom menus.

It also raises the question of where the game derives user stats for items that are affected by the user stats. (In my game, the healing items that can be used on other people are affected by MAT.) My expectation, based on older RPGs where healing items effectively functioned as spells, was that it would use a value of zero rather than any particular member's stats when used from the menu.

 

[KockaAdmiralac]

I think the problem is...

When you select an actor in the Menu scene, he is stored in the $game_party.menu_actor

That variable is used in many other scenes, like Skill and Status scene.

So, perhaps "The User" scope points to $game_party.menu_actor, and the last actor selected in the Menu is "The User"

However, I'm not in position of modifying that script right now.

 

[Ramiro]

It is already resolved, is a bug detected in the menu selection of the rpg maker:

you can check the post here.

You're welcome  BD

 

[stupid enough to like FF13]

This works perfectly! Thank you.