Skills that decrease HP too?

[Duel]

In my game's battle system there are skills that will damage your opponent's HP but also damage yours. I'm not sure how to do this though. Anyone know how?

[Jamos]

Re: Skills that decrease HP too?

Have you tried smacking the computer with a rolled up newspaper and yelling "Bad Boy!" at it? Other than that... I dunno.

[TheHonorableRyu]

Re: Skills that decrease HP too?

If you mean skills that cost HP to use, the quick and dirty way is to put a line of code in the damage formula bar for the skill. For example:

a.hp -= 5 ; 100

Upon use, this would subtract 5 HP from "a" (the user), and then return 100 as the damage value to deal to the target.

But if you want more control, like displaying the HP cost to use the skill, or preventing a player from using the skill if they don't have enough HP, etc., these must be programmed separately. But there's a Yanfly script that can do it for you: https://yanflychannel.wordpress.com/...-cost-manager/

[Wavelength]

Re: Skills that decrease HP too?

Pretty much everything Ryu just said. Yanfly's Skill Cost Manager is very popular and very good too (though it can be dicey if you're using lots of other scripts too).

Only one thing to add - you can also use formulas to decide how much HP to take away from the user, such as a.hp -= (a.atk * 2 - a.def) but just keep in mind that no matter how you do it things like Variance or Elemental Weakness won't be taken into account since you're directly reducing the user's HP. This shouldn't matter too much to your player, though.

[Ryner]

Re: Skills that decrease HP too?

just keep in mind that no matter how you do it things like Variance or Elemental Weakness won't be taken into account since you're directly reducing the user's HP. This shouldn't matter too much to your player, though.

If you would like to have variable damage though, you could create another ability called Recoil or some such that damages the user by whatever formula you want. Then for the original skill have it run a common event that forces the character to use Recoil on itself.

[Wavelength]

Re: Skills that decrease HP too?

Good idea, Ryner!