Yanfly Action Sequence Unintentionally Attacking Twice

[RobotMaid]

I've been hitting a wall. I'm trying to make an AoE skill that hits all enemies but it keeps casting twice and it's infuriating me to no end because I have no idea what changed and caused it to start doing that. I used to have the entire following sequence under "whole action" and it worked... And then suddenly stopped working and every time I used this set up, it double casts.


The notetag sequence I've been using is as follows


<setup action>


wait for movement


jump user: 20, 20


move user: forward, 20, 20


wait for movement


</setup action>


<whole action>


wait: 10


motion spell: user


animation 69: opponents


action effect: opponents


wait for animation


</whole action>


<finish action>


perform finish


wait: 20


wait for movement


MOVE user: RETURN, 20


wait for movement


wait: 10


</finish action>


Having the attack scope be "none" is a fix, but not the fix I want. I want to have the attack scope be "all enemies" so you have a chance to cancel the move if you change your mind before casting it.

 

[Punamaagi]

I tested the skill and managed to remove the second damage ticks by inserting this between the Whole Action and Finish Action parts:


<target action>


</target action>


I think that the Target Action phase is the default phase where action sequences deal damage, so if you don't write anything in that section, the skill will deal damage for a second time in that phase. Writing an empty sequence allows the skill to "ignore" that in a way.

 

[leon93]

In layman terms, the sequence commands goes like this:


Setup > Whole > Target > Finish


So if you set up a Finish the process will run to the end, which causes the double cast. If you stop at Whole meaning you do not add the codes under target and finish, the double cast will not occur as the process does not need to run to finish stage.