Select characters from a pool?

[Josuhavictorious]

Hello again,

I'm new here so I don't know if this functionality already exists in a plugin that I'm just not aware of
(Although I haven't been able to find it if it does exist..)

But I would love to add in my project the ability to choose from different characters mid game from a pool of characters and assign which ones are going to be in the main party like in Final Fantasy 6 and I believe Legend of Dragoon as well.
I haven't seen this in any of the plugins yet but I would this ability!

 

[Aloe Guvner]

Do you want the player to always have the ability to choose the characters (like, from the menu)? Or is it just a one-time thing where they choose the characters?

 

[Josuhavictorious]

Always have the ability. Definitely not a one-time thing. Where you only see the main characters in your party unless you click a submenu to view your entire roster and swap characters from there.

Haven't decided if I want the ability to switch through characters at save points or maybe via Airship like in Final Fantasy 6 but in any case being able to do it in any format would be a great start.

 

[Aloe Guvner]

You might have fun eventing the airship solution, and learn a lot in the process too.
Here's a tutorial to get you started.

One thing to add to the end of that tutorial is that on the airship, you would have events that represent your characters which allow you to add or remove them from the party. You can use regular switches to control whether you've met them or not (i.e. are they even on the airship?) and self-switches on the event itself to control whether they're in "add" mode or "remove" mode.

An advantage to this method is you can make it a little more personal, and add some narrative and dialogue to when the characters are added to give them personality.


Alternatively, you can add this option to the main menu.

You can try HIME Party Manager or Yanfly Party System, there are probably other options too.
There would be a way to call these plugins specifically at save points instead of always being available in the main menu also.

 

[Josuhavictorious]

wow these look great thanks Aloe! I'll follow up here when I get it all goin!

 

[Josuhavictorious]

So honestly the Yanfly party system is exactly what i'm looking for.
I would however only like to only allow changing party members from save points.
would that be possible?

Aloe i'm just now learning plugin commands and script calls but before I venture down the rabbit hole,
Could I command when the script would turn on and off? is that even possible?