Blizz-ABS Bug and Suggestion Compilation

[winkio]

Just had an idea that I thought I'd throw here for discussion:

Vehicles / Mounts.  They would need at least one "rider" battler, and would preserve some of the attacker's abilities while enhancing others.  Could give them unique movement abilities and skills/attacks only usable on the vehicle.  Just thought it would be something unique that not very many 2D RPGs have.

[Blizzard]

I think that could be done with plain eventing.

[The Niche]

Yeah, it'd be doable with Fjurio's actor fusion. I can make a system for it, should be able to post it later today.

[winkio]

Hm, I doubt we are thinking about the same thing, but sure, let's see it

[fjurio]

• player sprite change doesn't work (on $game_player using Set Move Route command), it gets reset by Blizz-ABS internal actor sprite handler *N*

I´m just notice this still doesn´t work for the players. Now you can change the graphics of events but not the graphics of the player with the "set move route" command.

Vehicles / Mounts.  They would need at least one "rider" battler, and would preserve some of the attacker's abilities while enhancing others.  Could give them unique movement abilities and skills/attacks only usable on the vehicle.  Just thought it would be something unique that not very many 2D RPGs have.

That is a great idea.
This is something i have planed for my future game. The Vehicle should have an unique jumprange, movespeed, runspeed and special skills. Just like you said.
Also a special behaviour for carriage should be included.

[The Niche]

Hmm...if there was a way to configure vehicles in the database, that'd be awesome. Would you use actors or enemies for the mounts?

[winkio]

Neither.  It would be a new class of battlers

[[Luke]]

That should be an add-on instead of part of the Blizz-ABS. Most games won't use that feature.

[winkio]

Most games won't use that feature.

Says who?  Is there any reasoning behind that, or just pure speculation?

[[Luke]]

Of course it's a speculation - I'm not a time traveller

I'm just suggesting that making separate "mounted" sprites for actors will cause too much trouble while this option of a fight cannot be used in caves or buildings. Changing the spriteset and few attributes (like movement speed) can be easily done just with eventing/scripting.
More than possible compatibility issues with Visual Equipment, although I don't know that for sure (I'm not that familiar with the script).

If you want it, I'm not stopping you, it would be an awesome feature, perhaps - but I don't think there's any real demand on it.

[Blizzard]

I agree. I'm also having the impression that most games won't use it.

[The Niche]

While this option of a fight cannot be used in caves or buildings.

Says who? Fuck logistics, I'm bringing my horse inside! And my motha-fucking plane!

Seriously, it'd be quite cool if you could specify what vehicles work in what maps. (The default being that all vehicles work in a map if nothing's set up for it)

Neither.  It would be a new class of battlers

Hrmm...For my add-on, I'm basically just merging two actors into a third. What's stopping you doing that?

[G_G]

If you ask me, I think the vehicle idea should be an entire new script on its own, then if people want to use it in Blizz-ABS a plugin be made for it.

[Starrodkirby86]

If you ask me, I think the vehicle idea should be an entire new script on its own, then if people want to use it in Blizz-ABS a plugin be made for it.

I agree with this. Vehicles/mounts/magical-drug-ponies can be an entire add-on on its own. Anyone who wants to use vehicles in their game can harmlessly get the plug-in anyway. There's no arguments against the author making a separate add-on, after all. o:

[winkio]

God, I just realized how much I hate RMXP again.  So the vehicle idea was interesting, but I'm dropping it.  Hopefully, Niche will make something useful

[G_G]

I might make a vehicle system. Of course later I'd make a plug-in for it work with Blizz-ABS. I would need help with that though. I only know how small bits and parts work in it.

[The Niche]

OH yeah, I'm supposed to be doing work...Anyway, Rose solved all mah current problems so I should be done soon.

[megaman30796]

I Have A Suggestion 4 Blizz-ABS.

Could U Make A Beam/Shot Radius.

eg:

I Use A Shooting Power But It Only Hits The Person In Front...Is There Something That Can Make The Shot Radius Bigger.

Something Like This(Sorry 4 the lame pic. i used paint):

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the config can let us choose the radius of the shot.

thats my suggestion

[Holyrapid]

Is that not already in the config utility? Because that sounds pretty much like a regular spear attack to me, except that instead of spear you're using a kamehameha...

[megaman30796]

no!!! You Don't Get It!!!!! It's Very Hard To Tell You Verbally But I'll Try 2 Find 4 A Pic 2 Effectively Describe It!

ALL RIGHT! The Hit Is Something Like This

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The First One Is A Normal Thrusting Power.
The Second One Is My Suggested Shot!