Items and widgets in battle: is it possible?

kaedusoft

Here I am again trying to find a way, if possible, to accomplish what I want and learn more about this amazing engine.

I already mentioned that during a menu battle, when choosing "Attack," you can't go back and the player is forced to choose a target. That needs to be fixed.

What I want is to use items during battle, but I found I can't display widgets during battle. I could solve this with display_choices, listing the usable items, but that doesn't allow icons to be displayed and it's a bit ugly and awkward.

Is there a way to use items in battle, or, alternatively, how I can program it myself using widgets?

barron

depending on your games set up (in my case an rpg) if u have items in your inventory (items that are made in ur items tab) in engine you can do the following

for potions and the like (hp mp temp stat boosts ect)
u set them up like this

for the script in this case small health potion here is that code

heal_entity(player, 10);

the 10 in this code is how much you want the hp do u want recovered!
"player" is who the entity witch for an rpg you'd use player since in battle all your characters eg party members are player controlled

for healing mobs it would be
heal_entity(entity["name of character here"], 10);

for MP i think its using the assign value

player.stat["mp"] += 1;

if its an npc eg a mob and they wanna use them u up this
entity["name the character"].stat["mp"] += 1;

if you wanna use this to use a skill or take points away in the case of a skill or a posion you would use "-=" and not "+="

lastly once you have made the script dont forget to put it on the "script" area on the Useable/Consumables in the items tab
when ur in a battle open up your inventory in battle and right click (it might be left click) the potion/item and it should
work!

enjoy! and hope this helps! =)

kaedusoft

First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to provide such a detailed answer.

What you're telling me apparently only works with tactical battles; I haven't been able to open the inventory or a widget in menu battles. Maybe I'm overlooking something and don't understand what I'm supposed to do, but I've been mulling it over for hours and haven't been able to find a solution.

barron

you should be able to open ur inventory in any combat mode do u have a custom inventory or the default one?

kaedusoft

Custom inventory. I can open it in real time battles and tactic battles, but not in menu based.

barron

you can u need to go into the game config and into keybinds and then assign a letter like i and run script and get that to open ur inventory what what i do