VE - Animated Battle

[gettogaara 4]

Now all I've got to do is set up my charsets to be used as battlers. Thanks you both.

 

This is something I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do. It seems like it should be very simple and I'm usually good enough to just blindly try things until something works, but this for some reason is just not happening for me. Care to share how you're doing this?

Unfortunately, even with the help of the user manual, I'm struggling as well lol. I installed the three necessary scripts (Basic Module, Animated Battle and Actor Battlers in that order) and I made a copy of the actor I'm trying to use in battlers under the same name and yet they still don't appear.

[geluf 38]

Now all I've got to do is set up my charsets to be used as battlers. Thanks you both.

 

This is something I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do. It seems like it should be very simple and I'm usually good enough to just blindly try things until something works, but this for some reason is just not happening for me. Care to share how you're doing this?

Unfortunately, even with the help of the user manual, I'm struggling as well lol. I installed the three necessary scripts (Basic Module, Animated Battle and Actor Battlers in that order) and I made a copy of the actor I'm trying to use in battlers under the same name and yet they still don't appear.

 

Let me know if you figure it out.

[whitedahlia 1]

I have a problem with kaduki. Everything works correctly but whenever I inflict damage the enemy dissapears accept for a tiny part of it.

 

Edit: I put it in a clean program and it still seems to happen yet its not as noticeable since it is faster. perhaps bog down my game less I suppose.

Edited March 19, 2012 by whitedahlia

[gettogaara 4]

Now all I've got to do is set up my charsets to be used as battlers. Thanks you both.

 

This is something I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do. It seems like it should be very simple and I'm usually good enough to just blindly try things until something works, but this for some reason is just not happening for me. Care to share how you're doing this?

Unfortunately, even with the help of the user manual, I'm struggling as well lol. I installed the three necessary scripts (Basic Module, Animated Battle and Actor Battlers in that order) and I made a copy of the actor I'm trying to use in battlers under the same name and yet they still don't appear.

 

Let me know if you figure it out.

 

It took me some time but I figured out what I was doing wrong. I'll break it down into steps because it can be pretty confusing.

1. Start with your main character.

2. Copy him/her into the battler folder without changing their name.

3. Open up the Animated Battle script and scroll down to line 310.

 

'Warrior_m' => {frames: 4, rows: 14, mirror: false, mode: :sprite,

action: :default},

4. Replace warrior with the name of your character and depending on the style you might have to change some things but this is good for a normal charset.

5. Make sure to save, exit and come back so that the changes are completely accepted. It didn't work for me until I did that.

6. Repeat with the rest of your party.

 

Hopefully that works for you like it did for me. Good luck.

[geluf 38]

Now all I've got to do is set up my charsets to be used as battlers. Thanks you both.

 

This is something I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do. It seems like it should be very simple and I'm usually good enough to just blindly try things until something works, but this for some reason is just not happening for me. Care to share how you're doing this?

Unfortunately, even with the help of the user manual, I'm struggling as well lol. I installed the three necessary scripts (Basic Module, Animated Battle and Actor Battlers in that order) and I made a copy of the actor I'm trying to use in battlers under the same name and yet they still don't appear.

 

Let me know if you figure it out.

 

It took me some time but I figured out what I was doing wrong. I'll break it down into steps because it can be pretty confusing.

1. Start with your main character.

2. Copy him/her into the battler folder without changing their name.

3. Open up the Animated Battle script and scroll down to line 310.

 

'Warrior_m' =&--#62; {frames: 4, rows: 14, mirror: false, mode: :sprite,

action: :default},

4. Replace warrior with the name of your character and depending on the style you might have to change some things but this is good for a normal charset.

5. Make sure to save, exit and come back so that the changes are completely accepted. It didn't work for me until I did that.

6. Repeat with the rest of your party.

 

Hopefully that works for you like it did for me. Good luck.

 

Edit: I finally figured it out! Thanks for the write-up. Everything fell into place.

Edited March 19, 2012 by geluf

[gettogaara 4]

Now all I've got to do is set up my charsets to be used as battlers. Thanks you both.

 

This is something I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to do. It seems like it should be very simple and I'm usually good enough to just blindly try things until something works, but this for some reason is just not happening for me. Care to share how you're doing this?

Unfortunately, even with the help of the user manual, I'm struggling as well lol. I installed the three necessary scripts (Basic Module, Animated Battle and Actor Battlers in that order) and I made a copy of the actor I'm trying to use in battlers under the same name and yet they still don't appear.

 

Let me know if you figure it out.

 

It took me some time but I figured out what I was doing wrong. I'll break it down into steps because it can be pretty confusing.

1. Start with your main character.

2. Copy him/her into the battler folder without changing their name.

3. Open up the Animated Battle script and scroll down to line 310.

 

'Warrior_m' =&--#62; {frames: 4, rows: 14, mirror: false, mode: :sprite,

action: :default},

4. Replace warrior with the name of your character and depending on the style you might have to change some things but this is good for a normal charset.

5. Make sure to save, exit and come back so that the changes are completely accepted. It didn't work for me until I did that.

6. Repeat with the rest of your party.

 

Hopefully that works for you like it did for me. Good luck.

 

Edit: I finally figured it out! Thanks for the write-up. Everything fell into place.

Glad I could help. Scripts can be pretty confusing at times.

[Lyson 29]

Editted: I was retarded. Problem solved.

Edited March 22, 2012 by Lyson_Outridge

[Felis 0]

I'm still struggling with the sprite setup. I've got my character and the three requisite scripts. Placed their battle sprites in the Graphics\Battler folder and added an entry in the VE_SPRITE_SETTINGS... Still invisible. It really doesn't help that the manual isn't as clear as it could be (no offence meant, Victor). Here's the entry I put in the script.

   '$Actor29'  => {frames: 3, rows: 4, mirror: true, invert: false,
			    mode: :sprite, action: :kaduki},

Surely that should be right? My battler is invisible still and I have no clue what I'm doing wrong here.

[Alrian 11]

Did you put the "<battler name: $Actor29> in your character's notetag? This is the place where you're going to place it in the database for the scritpt to call it.

 

I hope it helps you.

[Felis 0]

... How the bloody hell did I miss that? I now have the character showing... The entire spriteset at once, which is annoying, but I can figure out the rest from here with any luck.

 

Thanks very much, Alrian - and gettogaara, too.

 

Now away I go to set up the sprites properly, and read the manual for the battler engine to see how to change the positions of the characters.

[Alrian 11]

I'm glad I was able to help you with it. This script is amazing but it sure needs a lot of attention to make it work properly ^-^

[Felis 0]

It does, at that. It's frustrating sometimes, especially for people like me who almost seem to have some kind of dyslexia specific to coding. But Victor *did* say elsewhere that his custom battle scripts won't be very newbie friendly - so I brought most of that on myself =p

I just reset the battler in the script to use charset mode and it's fixed my other problem with the entire spritesheet showing up in battle - that'll do until I figure out how to set up the kaduki-style sprites correctly - so at least I have a character to test battles with.

 

(Y'know, I think I can actually hear a little piece of some members souls die a little whenever somebody mentions Kaduki sprites)

Edited March 25, 2012 by Harlequin_Felis

[Alrian 11]

I guess I will help you with your Kaduki problem:

 

 

 

 

-First Step

 

You have to decide what is the name of the character graphic and put it on both folders: Characters and Battlers. In this case will be Maxwell.

 

 

 

-Second Step

 

When you have done that you will have to go to the Victor Engine - Animated Battle script on this session:

 

 

In this case, as I said earlier, the name of the character in the graphic folder is $Maxwell, so in the script you MUST put the name exactly as it is on the graphic folder. As I'm gonna only use this as an example I won't change the configuration, leaving it just as used on animation template highlited above.

 

-Third Step

 

Now you've got to put on the character's notetag <battler name: X> where X is the name you put in the character on the first step. In this case will be: <battler name: $Maxwell>

 

 

Don't forget to apply the modification and save the game!

 

If you have done everything right here is the result:

 

 

 

I hope this mini-tutorial can help everyone that's having this kind of problems ^^

[Ashley 0]

Edit: Disregard this, I figured it out.

Edited March 25, 2012 by Acolyte

[Felis 0]

I cottoned on to what I was doing wrong and came back to share that revelation! Alrian beat me to it. This is what I get for sleeping =p

I'm learning the system, even if it is a bit slow going. Might be able to try my hand at some custom anims in the next couple of weeks.

 

Thanks for the tut, Alrian - should cutdown on people as slow as me who have the same issues =^-^=

[CT Bolt 23]

 

I feel like such a n00b... I just can't figure out how to even get this to work. Here is my situation:

The scripts I use are in the following order:

â–¼ Materials

 

Victor Engine - Basic Module v1.17

Victor Engine - Animated Battle v1.04

 

â–¼ Main Process

Main

 

I have the Scorpion working that I got from here: Holders Animated Battlers

The actor doesn't show up at all though... the notetag for the actor is the following:

<battler name: Warrior_m>

 

I have the following images in both Characters & Battlers

Scorpion[anim].png

 

Warrior_m[anim].png

 

PS. I've read the manual and I'm still having trouble figuring it all out.

 

 

 

Edit (SOLVED): Yup I'm an idiot. I didn't have the "Victor Engine - Actors Battlers" script in place anywhere. The actor now shows up.

Edited March 26, 2012 by CT_Bolt

[sinchross 33]

[Already Solved: I didn't had add the suffix to the battler name file. ^^']

 

I'm having problems with the configuration of the animated battlers...

I do everything how is said in the script manual...

 

And somehow, what apears in the battle is the entire file of the character with all poses floating arround...

 

i_i

Edited March 27, 2012 by sinchross

[CT Bolt 23]

[Already Solved: I didn't had add the suffix to the battler name file. ^^']

 

I'm having problems with the configuration of the animated battlers...

I do everything how is said in the script manual...

 

And somehow, what apears in the battle is the entire file of the character with all poses floating arround...

 

i_i

 

Just a tip, for best results have the enemy graphics set up like this:

...\Graphics\Battlers\Enemy_Name.png <--- Use a single frame from the animated one & assign this graphic to the enemy in the database.

...\Graphics\Battlers\Enemy_Name[anim].png

 

I see your problem is already solved though so... you may already be doing this.

Edited April 14, 2012 by CT Bolt

[Rafael Black 5]

I would really appreciate it if you make a demo for this...

and the more if you make a demo compilation for all your scripts.

Well, in VX, I do know how to use Tankentai with add-ons easily. But I think I won't download this without a demo or two.

Looks promising, I'll be keeping my eye out on this. Kudos, Victor.

EDIT:

Just read through your user manual, down until the FAQ (seriously, it's the FAQ)

I guess you're not making a demo.

But if you do consider (or not), then it would be better. It's up to you.

Edited March 30, 2012 by Rafael Black

[gettogaara 4]

Hey Victor, I've been using your script for a while now and am really starting to get the hang of it. The only thing I can't seem to figure out is how to make a character throw something that'll come back to them. One of my characters uses a boomerang and looking through your manual, I couldn't find any note tags for throwing.

[Alrian 11]

@Gettogaara

 

I'm not Victor but I think I can help you a little ^^.

 

 

You have to put on the skill's notetag the apropriated action for the skill you're planning to use.

In this case is:

 

<action pose: throw weapon>

 

But you MUST use also this :

 

<advance pose: step foward>

 

 

 

 

 

If you don't, the character will move next to the target and tackle him instead of throwing the weapon. With the <advance pose: step foward> the character moves a bit and then throws the weapon.

 

Using a Knife as a weapon:

 

 

 

 

 

Using a Boomerang as a weapon:

 

 

 

 

I hope it helps everyone that's having this kind of problem ^^

Edited March 31, 2012 by Alrian

[Holder 333]

Oh that's really useful to know that you can do that, is that an icon image or a picture which is being thrown - Can it be animated at all?

[Alrian 11]

@Holder

 

Those are icons xD The skill trajetory is set on the script and you can use them with all the battlers styles.

 

 

 

Character Style

Kaduki Style

Sprite Style

 

 

 

But surelly it's looks strange when you throw your weapon and the battler still holds it on the stance. So there must be a way to solve that, but I didn't figure it out yet xD

 

Don't mind the battler graphic. I wasn't able to finish the battler sprite. I don't have your talent xD

[Holder 333]

Thanks This'll really help now because I thought I'd have to do a separate animation sheet (For the animations tab) for things to be thrown. So knowing this I'll be able to size some weapons on that basis and make them disappear when attacking.

[gettogaara 4]

@Alrian

Thanks but I was hoping it wouldn't need a skill to be used. I tried putting the tags in the weapon's note box but that didn't work either.