3rd person battles/other things

[rpgfanatic]

Does anyone know how to make a 3rd person view for battles? I thought I could just zoom the camera out on the battle start script.

Also, is there a way to make amount of battles won NOT affect classes? I wanted to make a system where the player has to take a multiple choice test to advance a rank.

I really appretiate your help!

[thetruecoolness]

Re: 3rd person battles/other things

Well for the class thing just look for the level up scripts (if you started on easy and have the default data) and you just don't call the script commands that deal with class level up, unless they get the test right. Haven't messed with that much so not sure if that will work or not, but if it doesn't just max out the battles needed to level up to as high as it will go.

For third person you can do it but it will be a lot of work. There are two ways to go about doing it, both are really hard and require a lot of effort.

One way is to make your party characters have enemy models in battle and zoom the camera out, and edit the enemy actions on the character 'enemy' models to have them face the opposite direction and be on the other side. This will require very extensive knowledge of how the default battle system works however. And you will only be able to show 3 characters, and all your enemies will have to be the same type in battle (no mixed groups).

Another way is to make your own Custom Battle System which doesn't use the default battle system at all. Having not done this myself -neonash- and I believe Dolyeman would be good people to ask. I think there is even a tutorial up on how to make a ACBS (Active Custom Battle System, Link/action RPG style battles). The key to most of these is learning how to make events and a button script for button input, and then using Member Data load save commands to edit stats (take damage, etc).

So yes it's possible but a lot of work.

One website you might want to check out in addition to this one is http://doansdomain.proboards27.com/index.cgi . This site is dedicated to just RPG Maker 2, and has most of the people who frequent this board and use RPG Maker 2 on it, and a lot of help in the forums on custom battle systems. This is a common question, but it doesn't have a very simple answer, there is no one way to do it.