[Yanfly] In notetags, how to apply an element to damage/healing?

[Adorkbutt]

The way I'm doing it is basically (not exactly) like this (I changed some syntax so it would show up in one screenshot):

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It works if the target has higher/lower than 100% Physical Element, because of "user.atk * target.elementRate(1)"

However, this isn't a good solution for things that absorb 100% Physical Element, since "hp -variable 3: target, show" just literally subtracts HP by the number, totally disregarding what element is selected in the drop-down. And sometimes I want skills to change elements during the skills.

How do I accomplish this? I looked in RMMV Script Calls

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but I can't find any instances of "element" or "physical".

Also, I have looked in all of the Yanfly documentations (his Elemental & Action Sequences), and I've even looked in "Action Sequences Guide A helping manual about Yanfly’s Action Sequences Plugins Written by Yoshifull". Best I've found was DamageCore having a reference to "this.calcElementRate(target)" but I haven't been able to make that work.

I also tried having 1 damage inside of "Formula" and then multiplying it by the player's Attack/Magic Attack, and then doing "Force Element: (element)" inside of the notetags... but that takes forever, and messes up a lot of pre-existing things (like multi-target skills attacking for 1 damage at the start of the turn, then doing the <Target Action> stuff...etc)

With that being said... am I missing something? How do I make my RPG Maker MV (or plugins, more specifically) apply an element to damage/healing in notetags?

Ultimately, my idea is that it should be as easy as "hp -variable 3: target, show, (element)" and you apply whatever element (in my case, Physical), but obviously this isn't a thing. And yes, I checked, because I updated all my plug-ins and still don't know how to fix this problem.

I want more than one damage formulae (due to having timed attacks) during the course of a skill, and that's easiest to do in notetags, with nothing written in anywhere else (having it set to "Type: None").

I am using yanfly plugins, and this is probably entirely a lack of tools/resources problem.

TL;DR: I want to apply elements to formulaes in notetags. Any easy way?

 

[Trihan]

As I said in the Javascript support channel on Discord, you may have to loop through the attack object's attack elements property to make sure it's calculating all elements assigned to it instead of just physical. I'll take a look at this later.

 

[Rivendark]

change variable 3 = Math.max(0, ($gameVariables.value(2) - target.def));

 

[Trihan]

We figured out how to do it on Discord using states for each part of the skill and modifying the damage formula based on which part state the user has. :3