Party members

[vaale37]

Sorry guys, but I'm new to this game and will someone give me a very basic explanation of switching party members out if you have more than 4 for RPG Maker 3? Videos would really help because I don't even know really how to use events yet. Thanks in advance.

[Stormy]

Re: Party members

I'm not sure how complicated you want it, so I'll try a very rigid version.

The following is a tutorial on how to switch out one character for another, whether the player likes it or not (a story based, mandatory switch).

Before the Switch: Enter any dialogue you want here, perhaps a battle that causes the leaving character to die or something.

THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART!
Go to New -> Party Control -> Leave Party, then enter the name of the character leaving the party.
Go to New -> Party Control -> Join Party, then enter the name of the character joining the party.

Thats it! You may want to add a message saying "XXX has joined the group!"
But its not entirely necessary.

If you want to switch characters in a party, and there is only one person in the party, you will have to reverse the order of the events above (Add then Remove, instead of Remove then Add), because you can never have zero members in the party.

Hope that helps If you have any more questions don't be afraid to ask, and welcome to the Pav vaale37!

P.S. Don't apologize for asking questions, its what the forums are here for.

P.S.S There is yet another command called "Modify Active Members," I don't know how that one works, so hopefully someone here will tell us

[Pagerron]

Re: Party members

Nice answer TheStormWeaver. ("modify active members" just changes which character is visible while walking around)

Yes, welcome vaale37! Hope you like it here.

Also, here's an old thread started by Lausen that has some more valuable information about this topic.
http://www.pavilionboards.com/forum/...mber+switching

[Stormy]

Re: Party members

Thank you Pagerron. "Modify Active Members" could also be usefull at the end of the event I presented above.

For instance:

I'm going to use an event in Final Fantasy VII as an example. At one point in the game Cloud is lost in the Life Stream and the others must find/save him, with Tifa in the lead. To do something like this you would have an event something like this:

Go to New -> Party Control -> Leave Party = Cloud
Go to New -> Party Control -> Join Party = Tifa
Go to New -> Party Control -> Modify Active Members = Tifa
Go to New -> Display Control -> Display Message = "Tifa: Cloud is lost in the Life Stream, we must save him!"

Or something like that, I don't have the game on in front of me so the Display Control, blah blah, part might be wrong.