RPG Battle Engine - Alpha 7.5, downloads in first post

[curry nochi rice]

uhh Jake, is it possible to "transfer" variables from regular renpy land to python land?

I'm planning to use regular variables created in regular renpy land, and use it inside python blocks... problem is I have no idea how or even believe it can be done.

[xela]

uhh Jake, is it possible to "transfer" variables from regular renpy land to python land?

I'm planning to use regular variables created in regular renpy land, and use it inside python blocks... problem is I have no idea how or even believe it can be done.

I am not Jake, but I might save him some free time:

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label start:
    $ attack = 90

label start_battle:
    # ... BE instantiation code until you get to this bit:
    Member = f_class("John Smith", Attack=attack, sprite=Sprite)
    # Rest of BE instantiation code... 

This and getting stats back into Ren'Py or a different Python land can be semi-automated with a bridge function.

[Jake]

This and getting stats back into Ren'Py or a different Python land can be semi-automated with a bridge function.

To put it more directly - variables in "Ren'Py land" are Python variables, there's absolutely no difference between the two. Any line which starts with a '$' in Ren'Py-script is a line of Python code, with Python variables.

You can also refer directly to battle engine classes and members on lines beginning with a $, if you like:

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 $ currentStrength = myFighter.Stats.Strength

[curry nochi rice]

[Solved]

[lackofwords]

Just wondering, are there any keymaps bound to any of the cancel actions for the battle engine.
To me it just seems like there should be one, instead of just relying on clicking the cancel button.

[curry nochi rice]

how do I hide/show the "gridstatsdisplay" by implementing a button? >.< I'm studying python code atm but maybe the guys here would be able to provide a quicker solution. I think a screen with a small button superimposed over the battle could work.

obviously that didn't work. Anyway would transplanting the values of the gridstat to a screen even possible? I don't want to do anything to the engine.ui.rpy.

Edit 3:
I have concocted a rather primitive solution

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            ui.frame(xalign=0.080,yalign=0.2)
            ui.imagebutton("assets/ui/delete_white.png", "assets/ui/delete_black.png", clicked=ui.returns(1))
            ui.imagebutton("assets/ui/delete_black.png", "assets/ui/delete_white.png", clicked=ui.returns(2))
            pop = ui.interact()
            if pop == 1:
                renpy.hide("_battleGridStatsWindow", layer=self._battle.GetLayer("UI"))
            else:
                renpy.show("_battleGridStatsWindow", what=window, layer=l)

funny thing is I need to click the button twice for the game to go on. :v

[Meiting_98]

Hello, I would like to ask:
How can I make the equipment inventory so that it's the same as the party inventory from the rpg shop screen (kind of connected(?))?
I'm able to do it only if the rpg shop and equipment screens are in one label. But I need it to be in different labels like:

menu:
"Buy"
jump rpg_shop
"Equip"
jump equipment

Thank you before

[Waveripple]

Ok, this will most certainly make me sound kind of dumb, but how so I change the range from the enemy to self and allies? I'm trying to make a HP heal spell and MP heal spell for ACTIVE BATTLES.
I've tried changing the range in the magic spells to zero or negative to see if it would work, but it didn't (the attack did, however, heal the baddies perfectly well though). I tried making a new skill and see if that would work, so I copied the haste skill and changed haste to heal, and tried that, but I could not for the life of me figure out what to change or add to effect HP/MP.
Help please? I tried to figure this out myself, and I'm frustrating myself horridly.
I tried going through the 17 pages before on this thread, but there was so much that is a big possibly that I missed something, so if I did, could you tell me which page or something pretty please.

~Waveripple

[Mole-chan]

Hey there.
Hopefully a simple enough question to answer for you, but I'm kind of frustrated by it.
I'm trying to make a new item class, but once I make an actual item of that class, it's not recognized by anything. Store, battle, anything. It's only recognized in equipment but only since that just scours everything with no additional logic.

I copypasted everything from an existing item class that did work, and did the same when declaring the item.

Here's pretty much everything related to that item.

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    class AntiCorruptionItem(BattleItem):
        def __init__(self, name="AntiCorruption", cost=40):
            BattleItem.__init__(self, name, cost=cost)
            self._name = name
            self._targets = TargetData(friendly=True, enemy=False, range=1)
            self._description = "A magical concoction that can revive fallen team mates."
            
        def PerformAction(self, fighter, target):
            target[0].RemoveEffect("Corruption")
            target[0]._battle.Announce(target[0].Name + "'s corruption was repaired!")

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Library.Items.AntiCorruption = AntiCorruptionItem()
inv.AddItem(Library.Items.AntiCorruption,1)
priceList.SetSellPrice(Library.Items.AntiCorruption, Library.Items.AntiCorruption.Cost)
priceList.SetSellPrice(Library.Items.AntiCorruption, Library.Items.AntiCorruption.Cost/2)

Any help at all would be appreciated, since the item is pretty critical to the implementation of its associated status effect, and I have no idea why a literal copy paste job wouldn't work properly.

[Ignideus]

Is it possible to have it when a character dies in a battle, that character is gone from the game forever? Like Fire Emblem or X-COM style permadeath.

[xela]

Is it possible to have it when a character dies in a battle, that character is gone from the game forever? Like Fire Emblem or X-COM style permadeath.

Delete all references to a character from the game? Or you can simply prevent the character from appearing with a flag...

[curry nochi rice]

Anybody knows how to adopt the wargame to use movingAIFighter?

[Meinos Kaen]

Edit: Nevermind. I got it.

Another question then. I recently played again the Devil Survivor games. I noticed that while their backgrounds are mostly pre-rendered, they have grid movement and elevations like they were grid created... I was wondering, would it be possible to recreate the effect by putting a prerendered image of the battlefield in the background and then creating the grid and elevations via a completely transparent basic grid block?

And speaking of grid, what's the orientation of the ingame grid? I made a mock up in photoshop but it's not the right degree...

[darkfanimewatcher]

I'm trying to make units that move like chess pieces. I tried messing with the LoS and targeting systems but I'm a little out of my depth. My current plan is to make a different move skill for each movement type (rook, bishop, knight etc) and filter out the targeted positions that don't match. Does anyone know how to do this the right way?

[Eiliya]

Is it possible to make just a long list of characters and monsters in a separate .rpy document and then call the proper ones to use when setting up the battle (my type is Active), or do I have to add it anew for each battlefield?