Learning and Forgetting skills.

[Deeth Irteen]

I've got a problem. In the various bits of coding, it says that I can make a character learn and/or forget skills. But when I tried to make my character learn the "thunder" spell, it didn't happen. Later on, when I tried the reverse of having him forget the spell at the beginning of my test play, that didn't work either.
I double-checked that the Thunder spell was an ability that could be learned by the character's class, and it was even set to the same level as he was during the coding.

What did I do wrong?

[Wavelength]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

I assume you're using Event Commands right now and not Code, so please write out the body of the Event here that you think should be teaching/removing the spell from your character and I'll analyze it. Also specify the conditions for the Event and whether it is a Common Event. Or are you not using an Event to teach the spell? A screenshot would be fine if you'd rather do it that way.

I've had no problems with teaching/forgetting spells in the past, except in very advanced applications of it (for which I used code instead of events).

[Deeth Irteen]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

Here's the one for learning I tried It's a common event, with the trigger set to Action Button:

Conditional Branch: Variable [ooo2: Item 1] < 1
Text: Deeth: Hey, it's one of those Crystals we were talking about!
Set move Route: [Beryl]
Graphic: "Beryl Sprite', 0,8,0
Move Right
Turn Left
Wait for Move's Completion
Text: Beryl: Further proof that Elbodin is killing the planet!
Text: Deeth: Riiiiight. Well, no point in just leaving it here.
Play ME: '011-Item02', 75, 100
Change Skills [Deeth] + [Thunder]
Control Variables: [0002: Item 1] = 1
Text: Deeth equipped the Crystal and learned Thunder!
Set Move Route: [Beryl 2]
Move Left
Graphic: (None)

Else

Branch End

[Wavelength]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

The setup looks solid, at first glance. I do have a few thoughts, though.

You said this is a Common Event - are you sure about that? Those cannot have action buttons as triggers. If it IS a common event, try moving the whole code into the map-based event and see if it helps.

You see all the stuff in the Conditional Branch correctly, but your character doesn't learn the skill, is that correct? I was having some problems last night where NOTHING in a Cond Branch was running (strangely flipping the order solved everything), but it doesn't sound like this is the same thing.

Make sure the right character is in your party (i.e. there aren't two versions of Deeth in the database or anything like that) and that he's assigned the correct class.

If that doesn't work, do a test to see if you can find out more information - try making an Auto Event that will occur at the start of the game which runs once and simply teaches Thunder to all of your characters. See what happens there and let me know, and maybe I can help figure out what's happening.

[Deeth Irteen]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

Well, there IS an autorun event at the start of the game, which is what I used to make Deeth FORGET the Thunder skill. But it didn't work.

EDIT: Le Gasp! As it turns out, I actually DID have a duplicate Deeth, and things got messed up. No idea how that happened. -_-'

[Wavelength]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

Booyah.

[Deeth Irteen]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

Once final question:

As you may have guessed, I'm planning to recreate the Materia System I invented. Will characters be able to learn skills that're set to levels higher than their current one via events?

[Wavelength]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

That's something you should try out for yourself, but I think the answer is yes. In fact, I think you can even teach a character a spell (via events or code) that they are not normally set up to learn at any level.

[Deeth Irteen]

Re: Learning and Forgetting skills.

Well, wish me luck.