Visual Status Effects?

[ShinyRedUmbreon]

Is there a way to make a party member look different when they have a status effect? For example, let me show you Ness from Earthbound, completely okay.

Then say some mushroom enemy gives him a "Mushroomized" status effect, causing him to get confused. This ailment stays outside of battle, and shows Ness with a mushroom on his head.

Is there any script that can do the same thing, which is to change what the actor looks like when a status effect is applied to them?

 

[Heirukichi]

I think you can do it with a parallel process, without any need for scripts at all. Just have a parallel process common event run constantly (let's say once every 30 frames) and check if any party member has a sprite-modifying status. If it does, change its sprite accordingly, if it does not, restore the default one. Of course, if you want to do it with a script you can do it with a script as well, it is quite easy as long as every different sprite is part of the same sprite-sheet.

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

I think you can do it with a parallel process, without any need for scripts at all. Just have a parallel process common event run constantly (let's say once every 30 frames) and check if any party member has a sprite-modifying status. If it does, change its sprite accordingly, if it does not, restore the default one. Of course, if you want to do it with a script you can do it with a script as well, it is quite easy as long as every different sprite is part of the same sprite-sheet.

This would be a good method, just note that if you want this to happen in battle (like if the actor got the state in battle and not out of it), you'd need a scene interpreter script because parallel common events dont run on the battle scene by default.

 

[Heirukichi]

That or a troop event that runs at the end of each turn. It does not run when you kill the last enemy, but the one in the map covers for that.

 

[ShinyRedUmbreon]

Thank you two for contributing help.

I was able to find a way to get it working.

Thank you so much!