Zombie Regeneration Functionality?

[Chaos Krux 29]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone might have a solution to a minor problem I'm having with my Zombification State. As it is right now, it works nicely in that it causes any and all healing, whether it be from items or magic, to be taken as damage. The problem I have with this is that it only registers healing that links to the REC Parameter (Recovery) and therefore does not reverse the effect of HP Regen or Revival Skills/Items. I'm not too bothered about Revival Skills/Items since I can just use healing skills to deal damage, but I would like Zombification to reverse the effect of Regen so that it acts more like poison if the target is a Zombie. This would also involve making Regen work normally again if Zombification was removed. I've played around a little with the script snippet that I'm using for Zombification at the moment, but I can't really figure anything out. I'll leave the snippet below if it helps, but don't credit me for creating it, because I didn't. I'd prefer not to have to get an entirely new script to make this work, and would much more prefer to just add another snippet to work for Regeneration, but I don't know if that's possible.

 

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!

Zombie.txt

[roninator2 257]

Health Regen is defined in Game_BattlerBase

it is hrg.

Looking at this, I would try adding in one line.

 

  def hrg; check_for_zombie ? xparam(7) * -1 : xparam(7); end

right after def rec and before def check_for_zombie

[Chaos Krux 29]

That's about as perfect as it possibly could have been, so thank you! I figured I wouldn't be able to have Revival Skills/Items cause instant death to Zombies anyway, since Revival isn't linked to any of the Parameters. Literally the only issue with this snippet is that it also causes other states that use the HRG Parameter, such as Poison, to have an opposite effect.

Edited March 11, 2019 by Chaos Krux

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

I would think to have some effect that if a revival type skill/item were used, to check if it is used on a zombie and have it do 100% damage instead.

 

That's my thoughts on this...

[Chaos Krux 29]

3 hours ago, PhoenixSoul said:

I would think to have some effect that if a revival type skill/item were used, to check if it is used on a zombie and have it do 100% damage instead.

 

That's my thoughts on this...

 

I suppose so, though that would mean that every item or skill that revives would have to be reworked with common events, right? I might try that when I have a few minutes spare... Sounds easy enough, if a little less fluent than using the default HP recovery...

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

I was thinking of having it check via the damage formula, but common events might work too...

[Chaos Krux 29]

On ‎5‎/‎20‎/‎2019 at 5:53 AM, PhoenixSoul said:

I was thinking of having it check via the damage formula, but common events might work too...

 

I haven't got a clue how scripting and damage checks work, and I'm way more familiar with Common Events anyway... I mean, I was kinda forced to be decent with common events because I needed a summoning system for my project, and none of the summoning scripts seemed to work... If I can make summoning work, this shouldn't be too bad... Thanks, though.

[roninator2 257]

On 3/10/2019 at 10:53 AM, Chaos Krux said:

causes other states that use the HRG Parameter, such as Poison, to have an opposite effect.

I figured it out.

  def hrg; check_for_zombie ? (check_for_poison ? xparam(7) : xparam(7) * -1) : xparam(7); end
  def check_for_poison; @states.include?(2); end

 

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

@Chaos Krux I would think something like this in the damage formula:

 

Spoiler

b.state(id)? ? b.mhp : #healing formula here

 

It seems that ronin got it though.

[Chaos Krux 29]

13 hours ago, roninator2 said:

I figured it out.

  def hrg; check_for_zombie ? (check_for_poison ? xparam(7) : xparam(7) * -1) : xparam(7); end
  def check_for_poison; @states.include?(2); end

 

Sorry for being a bit dumb, but this didn't work... I probably just put the lines in the wrong place in the script, but the way I did it, nothing changed... Poison was still healing under Zombie...

Edited May 22, 2019 by Chaos Krux

[roninator2 257]

Interesting, as it works for me. I tested every way I could think of.

class Game_BattlerBase
  def rec; check_for_zombie ? sparam(2) * -1 : sparam(2); end
  def hrg; check_for_zombie ? (check_for_poison ? xparam(7) : xparam(7) * -1) : xparam(7); end
  def check_for_poison; @states.include?(2) || @states.include?(40) || @states.include?(65) || @states.include?(74); end
  def check_for_zombie; @states.any? {|st| $data_states[st].zombie}; end
end

 

Edited May 22, 2019 by roninator2

[Chaos Krux 29]

11 hours ago, roninator2 said:

Interesting, as it works for me. I tested every way I could think of.

class Game_BattlerBase
  def rec; check_for_zombie ? sparam(2) * -1 : sparam(2); end
  def hrg; check_for_zombie ? (check_for_poison ? xparam(7) : xparam(7) * -1) : xparam(7); end
  def check_for_poison; @states.include?(2) || @states.include?(40) || @states.include?(65) || @states.include?(74); end
  def check_for_zombie; @states.any? {|st| $data_states[st].zombie}; end
end

Perfect, thanks. I was just putting the lines in wrong, like I thought. It works great now! And this way, I can still have Doom heal when zombified, which is a win.

 

[roninator2 257]

13 hours ago, Chaos Krux said:

Doom heal

Interesting. Does this do anything special?

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

@roninator2 As I recall, Doom is a special state in the FF games that when inflicted, causes instant death, or in the case of a couple of the FF games, does so after a set amount of time passes, which is usually indicated by a number above the character.

[Chaos Krux 29]

16 hours ago, roninator2 said:

Interesting. Does this do anything special?

 

12 hours ago, PhoenixSoul said:

@roninator2 As I recall, Doom is a special state in the FF games that when inflicted, causes instant death, or in the case of a couple of the FF games, does so after a set amount of time passes, which is usually indicated by a number above the character.

That's right, Phoenix. Only, since RPG Maker has no way of implementing that by default, I set Doom up so that it takes 25% of a character's MAX HP over 4-5 turns. It doesn't kill them, but It'll take their HP down to 1 in just a few turns if nothing is done about it. When a character is Zombified, they are healed 25% of their MAX HP each turn instead, as well as being immune to instant-death attacks.