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Basic knowledge on writing ATB(Active Time Battle) system plugins


Thorough Comprehension on writing ATB(Active Time Battle) system plugins(Possibly upcoming)


Goal


Shares my experiences and understandings on writing a decent ATB system plugin and their addons, meaning this topic will focus on more advanced stuffs


Targeting Audiences


Those having decent battle related plugin development(experienced plugin developer having written dozens of decent battle related plugins with decent code qualities), and:


1. Solid understanding to the default RMMV battle flow implementations


2. Basic knowledge on writing ATB(Active Time Battle) system plugins


3. Solid understanding on how the fundamental ATB system concepts work on the user level


Contents


I. ATB System Configuration Management


1. 3 Dimensions Of Control And Freedom


2. Notetag Management


3. Summary


II. ATB System Code Qualities


1. Invariants


2. Correctness


3. Robustness


4. Performance


5. Coupling


6. Cohesion


7. Flexibility


8. Summary


III. ATB System Addons


1. Bar Addon


2. Charge Addon


3. Cooldown Addon


4. Countdown Addon


5. Delay Addon


6. Order Addon


7. Addon Ordering Rules


8. Interaddon Dependencies


9. Summary


IV. Detailed DoubleX RMMV Minimalized ATB Reasoning


1. Invariants


2. Correctness


3. Robustness


4. Performance


5. Coupling


6. Cohesion


7. Flexibility


8. Summary


V. Detailed DoubleX RMMV Popularized ATB Core Reasoning


1. Invariants


2. Correctness


3. Robustness


4. Performance


5. Coupling


6. Cohesion


7. Flexibility


8. Summary


VI. Detailed Ellye's ATB(also includes CTB option) Reasoning


1. Invariants


2. Correctness


3. Robustness


4. Performance


5. Coupling


6. Cohesion


7. Flexibility


8. Summary


VII. Detailed YEP.24 - Battle System - Active Time Battle Reasoning


1. Invariants


2. Correctness


3. Robustness


4. Performance


5. Coupling


6. Cohesion


7. Flexibility


8. Summary


VIII. Summary


Before actually covering any of the above contents, I want to explain why this topic's structured this way:


1. Writing a decent ATB system plugin often demands its codebase to have decent code quality and its configurations to have decent control and freedom given to users


2. Writing a plugin often starts from designing the configuration regions so it's natural for this topic to explore that part first


3. Writing a codebase normally involves some planning in advance with code qualities taken into account so this topic should explore some code qualities afterwards


4. A decent ATB system plugin will either be extremely massive or have dozens of addon plugins needing the core plugin so this topic should cover some addons not already covered in Basic knowledge on writing ATB(Active Time Battle) system plugins


5. Studying some existing ATB system plugins can further consolidate the understanding on writing decent ATB plugins after grasping all the above more advanced stuffs


I'll start to talk about the contents in the upcoming replies in this topic. For now, let's cite some simplified ATB system flowcharts as both a preparation on what I'm going to cover and a revision on what you're assumed to know already:







Simplified Ellye's ATB(also includes CTB option) Flowchart -