[-Eventing-] Drive Forms in the style of Kingdom Hearts II

The Forms
For this tutorial, we will be using the 'Final' form. You must choose which forms you will use.

Common Events
To start off, let's go to the Common Events section of the Database. You will need to create 2 common events for every form.

You should name them accordingly, such as 'FINAL1' and 'FINAL2'

Open FINAL1 and insert a 'Flash Screen'. The basic settings work fine, just make sure to uncheck 'Wait For Completion'.

Insert a 'Play SE' after that, and choose 'Ice4' -- Those two will give us our eye candy.

Now, insert a 'Change Party Member' and add the 'Final Form' of your character (DO NOT INITIALIZE) , then remove the current form of your character.

Now, you will make a switch. Label it 'FinalForm' and turn it on. Now set a timer, and make it however long you want the form to remain in effect. I will set mine at 30 seconds.

Now, go to your 'FINAL2' Common Event. On the trigger, set it as 'Parallel Process' and make the switch 'FinalForm'.

Insert a conditional branch that will check if the timer is 0 min 0 sec OR LESS.

If so, insert a Flash Screen and Play SE as we did in the first, and Add the original character back, then remove the Form.

Set the timer to stop.

After this, turn off the 'FinalForm' switch.

Leave the area under 'Else' blank.

The Skill
Now, create a skill named 'Final Form' and give it an appropriate icon.

The scope should be 'NONE' and the Common Event will be 'FINAL1'

Be sure to decide when your character can drive up. Should it be only in battle, or anywhere?

Testing it
Be sure to test out your new drive form and make sure it all works fine.

SCREENSHOTS

The Common Events


The Skill


If you are having any problems, feel free to ask.

Seems like a good tutorial! I have a character who will use this pefectly! and actually this would be good for anybody who's making a Bleach game (I originally was but stopped) switching between forms has never been easier, thanks Seppie!

I originally did this because I was going to make an RPG (it's been scrapped) that would have been similar to KH II, in the sense that the main character could 'Drive.'

Having a huge problem with this, I know you probably meant for it to be strictly in battle but I'm allowing out of battle as well and when I change to my other form my character becomes the third character and my original second character becomes my new main? same when the timer runs out, he reverts to his old form just fine, but he stays the third character when he was originally the first.... and I copied your pics exact, any ideas?

What Im saying is I want my main character to transform, and remain mymain character instead of becoming my third?

Send me an unencrypted of your project and I'll see what I can do, man.

I made conditional branches for each party member, then removed each member based on which DPM (Diverse Party Member) is in my party because I have 3 mains and a lot of DPM's so now it just removes every character present and re-adds them in proper order. This part is now working fine for me...

The only problem now lies with the timer, when it hits 0 I get ejected from battle without a battle aftermath or anything, I don't know why it ejects me... but I will do further research on the matter

Oh fuck. I had that problem. Jet from RMVX helped me. Lemme see if I can find the script again.

Code:

class Game_System
 
  def update
    if @timer_working and @timer > 0
      @timer -= 1
    end
  end
end

EDIT: There you go. Above main. It won't exit the battle when timer hits 0.

thanks man it'd be very much appreciated

Post updated

Thanks man it all works perfect now, my Holy Knight can now tap into his inner Reaper for a short time This honestly made a great addition to not only skill set but also to my main char.'s development and my story's development as well, surely Seppie thou art a God for this.

Not just I, my friend, but CaptainJet as well.

new problem...not totally huge or anything, but the form remains for the duration of the battle regardless of the time limit, once the battle ends he switches back, I suppose this is okay for how my game is set up being that his normal and reaper form are both seperate database actors and grow differently, but most people would want it to revert in battle so the original gets the EXP instead...no big deal and I don't think there's a real fix this...maybe...but the script you gave me stops and waits at 0 to stop it from ejecting from battle, and when the battle end it allows the timer to end....Either way for ME everything works fine.

I think I had this problem, too. At least, the form remaining. I didn't have a problem with the EXP because the form shared the level of the original.

I've altered the original event a little bit now and removed the timer, instead I set up a skill to enter my Form then had another skill to turn him back, thus my player can freely switch between forms whenever since there's no limit, I countered this by making his alter form grow awkwardly, his heath grows downwards drastically if he uses the form too much in battle. So basically in the end if you've used your form too much it'll be absolutely useless because enemies will be able to slaughter you one hit. This works perfect for my character...and I found a cool werewolf sprite I could add using this....your idea has sparked alot of ideas for my game.

I'm glad it has sparked ideas for you, but the ideas should already be there and you should be looking for the ability afterwards.

I work as I go, much easier, when I come up with a new idea I go back and revise what I already did,

https://broken.darkbb.com/t55-broken-forums-may-be-moving

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