Party member change

[Danyo]

I'm wondering if someone could give me an example of how I could allow the player to change party members at any time - like have a specific place (event) that they go to whenever they want to do this. I have 11 playable characters, but I always want the main character as the active member. Having a bit of trouble with it...

[Jedo]

Re: Party member change

Well, you could have some kind of 'party change room' with 10 different events along the room or something, and you could have a message display tell the player which event corresponds to gaining each character. Then program each event to add a certain character.


Or something like that.

[Dyne]

Re: Party member change

Like Jedo said, the easiest way to do it is to have a "Party Changing Room".

For example: Lets say you have a home base where all characters possible to join you can join you. Have a variable handy, and think of it is "Change Party" or something.

When you enter the base, have an event that removes all characters from your party, and a message display something like: "Party Disbanded", just to let the player know their party is gone.

Now have 2 modes for each character. Have each person's mode 1 say something like:

QA Branch

"Would you like me to join you?"

-Yes
-No

If no, just end the event. If yes, have the character join your party, and add 1 to the "Change Party" variable. Also, switch to mode 2.

On mode two of the character, have it activate when "Change Party" variable reaches 3. Have a message like: "Sorry, you have too many people", or something.

This way, once you reach the limit of 4 (only 3 characters can join you), you cannot just keep adding characters to your party.

*EDIT* Forgot to add that you need reset "Change Party" variable back to 0 when you enter the room. You should also have mode 1 activate when the "Change Party" variable reaches 0.

[Danyo]

Re: Party member change

Thank you very much! That's exactly what I was looking for.