Battle System Tutorial by Vakinox - Revision history

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‎Arrays

Vakinox: /* The Battle Menu */

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‎The Battle Menu

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‎Turn Cycles

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‎Turn Cycles

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‎Turn Cycles

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‎Turn Cycles

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‎Turn Cycles

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‎Turn Cycles

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 Within the new Array, we have defined several things. In the parentheses we establish the character's name in quotes, and we also established his MaxHp as a value of 10. And furthermore we also gave his Attack (Atk) a value of 10.
-Whenever creating separate stats for a new character, you must again create a new array as similar to the one shown in example above. See the 0 in the brackets next to "blah"? That number is known as the index. Each array is given an index which gives them their own unique identity, separate from the others that may follow. For each new statistic for the other characters that you create, that identifying numerical value (the index) is increased. An example:
+Whenever creating separate stats for a new character, you must again create a new array as similar to the one shown in example above. See the 0 in the brackets next to "blah"? That number is known as the index.
 <syntaxhighlight>blah[0] = new Stats ("Character-01", 10);
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 What separates each instance is the index, the numerical value between the brackets. Remember to always change that number when creating new stats for the next character, or else it would conflict with other arrays that has the same index.
 You will want to create several different arrays for Equipment, Items, Characters, and Enemies attaching to them whatever you feel is necessary to be calculated and used in your battle system. You will want to separate them in a way that is easy to identify and reference so that your code won't become illegible or hard to read.
 === Parties ===

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 Our battle menu is referenced in the player's turn cycle. It will consist of options which the player can choose from to interact with the enemy or otherwise.
-<syntaxhighlight>
+<syntaxhighlight> </syntaxhighlight>
 == Attack Routines ==

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	Delay(800); //<--where animations would go		Delay(800); //<--where animations would go
	} </syntaxhighlight>		} </syntaxhighlight>
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		+	== The Battle Menu ==
		+
		+	(it's importance, what it handles)
		+
		+	Our battle menu is referenced in the player's turn cycle. It will consist of options which the player can choose from to interact with the enemy or otherwise.
		+
		+	<syntaxhighlight>
		+
		+	== Attack Routines ==
		+
		+	== The Graphics ==
		+
		+	== Health Bars ==

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   for (var i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
+  {
-   if ( Person[Party[i]].Hp > 0) // <--finds any member in the party that's still alive
+   if ( Person[Party[i]].Hp > 0)
+   {
-    Living ++;			   // <--if living = 0 then no-one alive
+    Living ++;
-    TurnLimit = i;       //last living party member in list
+    TurnLimit = i;
+   }
+  }
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     Elimit = i;   //last living party member listed
+   }
 }</syntaxhighlight>
-The above should all seem similar because it's nearly an exact replica of the player's turn.
+Once we check to see if the enemies' turn is larger than their limit allows in an If-Then statement, we can then conclude it's the end of their turn.

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 After that is placed inside the battle system function, we then can begin to start working inside the While-Loop and on our Turn Cycles.
-First two things you want to do create a Global Variable to track whose turn it is, and also inside the While-Loop place a reference to a function for drawing battles. We haven't made this function yet for drawing battles, but you want it to be the first thing inside the While-Loop so the battle graphics are shown properly when we do create the function.
+First two things you want to do create a Global Variable to track whose turn it is, and also inside the While-Loop place a reference to a function for drawing battles.
 When you have the Global Variable to track turns, which I call Side, assign it a value of ONE. After that, inside the While-Loop you want to make Global Variable equal ONE minus itself, like so:

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 === Turn Cycles ===
-When that's done, you now have to regulate turn cycles. To do this, we will have to put everything through a While-Loop then use another Global Variable with a Boolean Value to flip between the player and enemy's turn. To start, simply create a While-Loop to check if the battle is occurring.
+When that's done, you now have to regulate turn cycles.
 <syntaxhighlight>while (IsTheBattleOver == false){  }   // <--"while battle is not over, do this"</syntaxhighlight>

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	Your results should look similar to the above example.		Your results should look similar to the above example.
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		+	'''Enemy's Turn Cycle:'''
		+
		+	After we've finished off that long If-Then for the player's turn cycle, we now have to do one for the enemy.
		+
		+	We are still inside the While-Loop checking if the batter is over, so to contrast ourselves from the player's If-Then turn cycle that started with if(Side ==0) we simply need an Else statement.
		+
		+	Inside this Else statement, we will need much of the similar things found in the player's turn cycle.
		+
		+	To start, we will need a Global Variable counting the number of our living party members and a For-Loop to add the living to the variable.
		+
		+	<syntaxhighlight>else //<--Now the Enemy's turn
		+	{
		+	Eliving = 0; //<--if Eliving = 0 then enemies are dead
		+	for (var i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
		+	{
		+	if ( Enemies[i].Hp > 0); // <--finds any enemy still alive
		+	{
		+	Eliving ++; //<--counts the living
		+	Elimit = i; //last living party member listed
		+	}
		+	}</syntaxhighlight>
		+
		+	The above should all seem similar because it's nearly an exact replica of the player's turn.

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 Now inside of the If-Then statement, we want to establish several things.
-First thing we want to establish is a Local Variable to count how many living characters we have in our party. Then we create a For-Loop and inside the For-loop, we use an If-Then statement to find if any party members are alive and if there are, then enumerate the Local Variable for living characters accordingly. Since we're in a For-Loop, the Local Variable will keep counting any party members with HP over ZERO until the For-Loop's limit has been reached. The limit for the For-Loop should be the largest amount of character possible in your party.
+First thing we want to establish is a Local Variable to obtain how many living characters we have in our party, and then a For-Loop so we can count how many party members are still alive.
 <syntaxhighlight>Side = 1 - Side;  //<--chooses hero or enemy's turn
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+{
   Living = 0;
-  for (var i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
+  for (var i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {  }</syntaxhighlight>
-−
-  if ( Person[Party[i]].Hp > 0)  // <--finds any member still alive
+Since we're in a For-Loop, we want to add to the Local Variable Living as long as any party members with any HP over ZERO exists, until the For-Loop's limit has been reached.
-−
-   Living ++;  // <--if living = 0 then no-one alive
+The limit for the For-Loop should be the largest amount of character possible in your party, and your result so far should look similar to the below example.
-   TurnLimit = i;   //<--last living party member listed
+<syntaxhighlight>Living = 0;
+  }
 }</syntaxhighlight>

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	Now inside of the If-Then statement, we want to establish several things.		Now inside of the If-Then statement, we want to establish several things.
		+
		+	First thing we want to establish is a Local Variable to count how many living characters we have in our party. Then we create a For-Loop and inside the For-loop, we use an If-Then statement to find if any party members are alive and if there are, then enumerate the Local Variable for living characters accordingly. Since we're in a For-Loop, the Local Variable will keep counting any party members with HP over ZERO until the For-Loop's limit has been reached. The limit for the For-Loop should be the largest amount of character possible in your party.
		+
		+	<syntaxhighlight>Side = 1 - Side; //<--chooses hero or enemy's turn
		+	if (Side == 0) //<--Player's turn
		+	{
		+	Living = 0;
		+	for (var i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
		+
		+	if ( Person[Party[i]].Hp > 0) // <--finds any member still alive
		+	{
		+	Living ++; // <--if living = 0 then no-one alive
		+	TurnLimit = i; //<--last living party member listed
		+	}
		+	}
		+	}</syntaxhighlight>
		+
		+	Your result so far should look similar to the above example.