The Escape skill. What does being escaped mean?

[fugahagen]

Does being "escaped" just change "_hidden" to true?

If so can I just use "_hidden" to simulated actors not in battle but who will be back soon. For stuff like the "Jump" command from Final Fantasy.

What I'm mostly trying to do is make it so people can come in and out of battle. Wanted to just use the Escape command and then change the _hidden var to false when they come back but I'm not sure if there is more to it than that.

 

[Arctica]

3 Months ago I made a teleport spell for my early project that pretty much did what you wanted, though different purpose. It allowed enemies to teleport party members out of the battle. I made a counter spell call recall that allows party members to bring back the party member that was teleported out.

I did it by using the $gameParty.removeActor(actorId) and $gameParty.addActor(actorId) script calls. This is assuming those script calls exist for MV as I did this for MZ.

Also it looks like escape does just hide them:

Game_Battler.prototype.escape = function() {
    if ($gameParty.inBattle()) {
        this.hide();
    }
    this.clearActions();
    this.clearStates();
    SoundManager.playEscape();
};

and when you dig deeper:

Game_Actor.prototype.hide = function() {
    Game_Battler.prototype.hide.call(this);
    $gameTemp.requestBattleRefresh();
};

and deeper lol

Game_BattlerBase.prototype.hide = function() {
    this._hidden = true;
};