Styles for Blizz-ABS

[Hellfire Dragon]

Styles
Version: 1.0
Type: Battle Add-on

Introduction

Allows players to cycle through multiple 'styles' during battle. Basically each style sets certain skills to hotkeys so players can swap between attack skills and healing magic (for example) quickly during battle without the need to bring up the hotkey menu.

Features

• Allows quick and easy swaping of skills
  
• Includes a Styles HUD
  
• Just change 2 variables in the beginning of the common event to change the HUD position easily
  

Screenshots

The HUD isn't too impressive and that's really all you'd be seeing

Demo

Download - Mediafire

Instructions

Just copy+paste the common events into your project and set the variables.

Credits and Thanks

• Hellfire Dragon
  
• Blizz for making the most awesome ABS ever
  

Author's Notes

There's one little bug that I haven't been able to figure out yet. If you have the hotkey section of the Blizz-ABS HUD active and you change styles, the style change won't work until you deactivate the hotkey HUD but if the hotey HUD isn't active it works just fine.
Other than that, report any bugs in this thread

[Blizzard]

The bug: Which keys are you using to change the styles? IDK why, but maybe something goes wrong during the hotkey display update.

[Hellfire Dragon]

I'm using Q and E for the style change.

[Blizzard]

Well, that's kinda weird. O_o It shouldn't conflict.

[Eternal]

Wait a second, so you can't change styles when the hotkeys are active, but you can when they're not...?
How's that a small bug?

Oh, and couldn't you just do so that when the player presses the style changing button, the hud deactivates and then activates again?

I like idea a lot though, im using it for sure xD

[Hellfire Dragon]

I'd count it as small anyway

Oh, and couldn't you just do so that when the player presses the style changing button, the hud deactivates and then activates again?

Could be a temporary fix I guess. It would look weird if the HUD flashed everytime you changed styles though :p

I like idea a lot though, im using it for sure xD

Thanks

[Blizzard]

I can take a look at it if you want.

[Hellfire Dragon]

Yeah, that'd be great

[Eternal]

yay, Blizz-Man is on the job!

[Blizzard]

Ok, I checked it. It's not really an error, but it is my fault. Since I didn't expect that hotkey setup for one actor would change during the map scene, there is no handling for it when the actor changes item hotkeys or skill hotkeys. Only when the player actor is being changed (read: player switches party leader) the display is being refreshed. I did this to improve performance a slight bit (comparing arrays can be costly). I'll make it so it does check it in the next version since comparing 2 arrays of 10 elements isn't really much of a performance impact. So just use Blizz-ABS 2.71 when it's release and you'll be fine.

EDIT: LOL!

The bug: Which keys are you using to change the styles? IDK why, but maybe something goes wrong during the hotkey display update.

Way to predict what was causing the error. xD

[Hellfire Dragon]

xD 

Thanks Blizz

[element]

cool
Ill use this if you wont mind.

Could you add that the game map resets it when the player chooses a new style ? So you wont need to reuse X to make the hotkey hud dissappear and reappear.
Also a page where the player can make his own styles could be cool.
However i think that when you planning to do that you'll need to script ... :p

However, Cool event system !

[Hellfire Dragon]

Alright thanks For the player to create his own styles I'd say that would definetly be a script though