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I'm working on a project which has events (Zombies) that move around at random or directly towards the main character (MC) and party members (Followers). The Zombies are set to event touch, so they activate if they touch the MC or Followers (I have a script which treats the Followers as the MC). Depending upon what weapon the MC has, different things happen. For example, if the MC has a shotgun equipped, then a shot animation is played, but if the MC has a knife equipped then a slash animation is played. It's actually significantly more complex than that, but that's the simple version.
I have a few main questions. I am new to RPG Maker and have some limited programming knowledge but not in Java. So workable solutions probably have to be in RPG Maker, plugins, or very basic script commands.
[*]I want the MC to be able to die. Currently, for all weapons, the Zombie 'rolls' a variable associated with that weapon, and on a 1 the MC is infected, instead of infected, I would like the MC to die and then have one of the followers in the group become the MC, and if there are no followers left for the game to be over. I would prefer to let the player choose which Follower to promote to MC but that doesn't matter very much to me. Is there a way to do this?
[*]I would also like the player to be able to switch up party composition and leave behind party members at will. Can this be done?
Thank you in advance for any help. I'm trying to learn RPG Maker itself - not just do this one project, so if it seems like there are areas of the game I don't understand, please let me know (especially if you have any helpful resources on the subject).
As a side note, if anyone has any resources for Zombie images, sprites, SE, animations, etc. that are free to use, I would love to know about them.
I have a few main questions. I am new to RPG Maker and have some limited programming knowledge but not in Java. So workable solutions probably have to be in RPG Maker, plugins, or very basic script commands.
- Right now, the Zombies only check the MC's weapons. I don't like the way this feels. I could make the Zombies check the weapons of the Followers, but with my current understanding of events, I would first have to make the event figure out which Followers are actually in the party and then create a hierarchy for choosing which weapon to react to - all of which seems very complicated.
Is there a simple way to set up an event like this?
- Can you have event touch check which Follower it is touching?
- Are there other better solutions to this problem?
[*]I want the MC to be able to die. Currently, for all weapons, the Zombie 'rolls' a variable associated with that weapon, and on a 1 the MC is infected, instead of infected, I would like the MC to die and then have one of the followers in the group become the MC, and if there are no followers left for the game to be over. I would prefer to let the player choose which Follower to promote to MC but that doesn't matter very much to me. Is there a way to do this?
[*]I would also like the player to be able to switch up party composition and leave behind party members at will. Can this be done?
Thank you in advance for any help. I'm trying to learn RPG Maker itself - not just do this one project, so if it seems like there are areas of the game I don't understand, please let me know (especially if you have any helpful resources on the subject).
As a side note, if anyone has any resources for Zombie images, sprites, SE, animations, etc. that are free to use, I would love to know about them.
