'Fire Emblem / Disgaea' Weapon System

'Fire Emblem / Disgaea' Weapon System
Version: 1.0
Author: DiamondandPlatinum3
Date: January 10, 2012

Planned Future Versions

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Description

This script introduces a mixture of both Fire Emblem's and Disgaea's weapon system to your game.
With this script you can allow your actors to have access to any weapon (unless you don't want them to, of course), so long as the actor has a high enough weapon skill level to wield it, this is the script mimicking Fire Emblem's weapon system.
When improving a weapon rank, you'll also earn parameter bonuses for that weapon type, which can be further improved as your weapon rank increases, mimicking Disgaea's weapon system.

Features

• Allows your actors to equip any weapon.
• Can restrict certain weapon types from an actor, so perhaps a soldier isn't going to use any Staves?
• Can restrict access to a certain weapon until your actor has a high enough weapon rank to be able to wield it.
• Can improve parameters for actors when equipping weapon types that they have leveled up with.
• Can learn skills via weapon level upgrade and only keep it whilst using that weapon type.
• Can display a level up message box when you have gone up a rank in weapon.

Screenshots

Spoiler for:

Instructions

Instructions are inside of the script, but it's a little complicated so I made a video tutorial on what things do. It can be seen here:

Spoiler for:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZyKy900fc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZyKy900fc</a>

Watch on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REZyKy900fc

Script

Get it from here

Credit

• DiamondandPlatinum3

Thanks

• IAMFORTE - No special reason, just wanted to put him on the thanks list
• Bunni89 - For requesting this script
  

Support

Post in this thread or PM me.

Known Compatibility Issues

I am unaware of any scripts it doesn't work with; if you find any, post in this thread.

Patches

GubiD's GTBS Attack Patch: GubiD doesn't seem to be using the normal attack method in his GTBS, this means that all aspects of this script works with GTBS except for normal attacking; this patch fixes that.
Paste this code in its own script slot below all GTBS related scripts.


GubiD's GTBS: Add Weapon Status Command Option: This Add-on will simply allow you to view your actors Weapon Level Status during a TBS Battle


‘Apply Weapon Type Limit to Actor Classes instead of Individual Actors’: This Patch simply allows you to insert the ~DoNotEquip Notetag in the Actor Classes instead of the actors themselves. This means that if your actor switches classes, you can readjust what weapons they are limited to to match this new class type.

Demo

I really think the Video should be enough to cover this, so I don't anticipate the necessity of a demo.

Author's Notes

This weeks scripting has been brought to you by the letter 'H', as in "Helium mix, optimal... Maneuver props engaged!"

Terms of Use

If you can find a use for it, this script is free to use in non-commercial games. If you want to use this script in a commercial game, please understand that I expect a free copy (that's means you PM me and let me know that you plan on using it for a commercial game).

Very cool!

I love you

*_* this is beautiful! I was actually thinking about something like this the other day~ I'll try it out sometime!

Nice work.

It's funny that this pops up as I'm half way through my own version of such a system, though I must say mine was inspired after playing Grandia more than the others (I've not played either Fire Emblem or Disgaea). It will still get released once it's finished because it's designed in a different way.

One thing I do notice: you have all of the hashes.

It's funny that this pops up as I'm half way through my own version of such a system, though I must say mine was inspired after playing Grandia more than the others (I've not played either Fire Emblem or Disgaea). It will still get released once it's finished because it's designed in a different way.

1. I made a game with a Kingdom named "Grandia", before I knew that a game was already titled that.

2. You should play Fire Emblem. ;_; I haven't played Disgaea, though, so I'm not sure what that one's like. =o

The request itself was for Disgaea, I just choose to add Fire Emblem onto it. I knew next to nothing about Disgaea (as I too have never really played it), and now on the VXA forum (where I also posted this script), some members have informed me that Disgaea actually gives you param boosts based on percentages rather than outright base boosting (as I have done), so now I've got to change it :/
But yeah Logan, you should play Fire Emblem, I'd recommend either Fire Emblem 8 or 9 since they are the easiest
Eight is on the GBA and Nine is on the Gamecube.

One thing I do notice: you have all of the hashes.

I wasn't sure if that was a critique or not :|
It was literally the only nice way I could think of to allow users to have as many weapon types and actors as they wanted.
I did not know you could actually make a 3D array that way, so that was a pleasant surprise though

One thing I do notice: you have all of the hashes.

I wasn't sure if that was a critique or not :|
It was literally the only nice way I could think of to allow users to have as many weapon types and actors as they wanted.

Don't get me wrong, I do like hashes myself. If it was practical, I'd probably turn all arrays into hashes, but sometimes that's just a silly thing to do.

But there is a lot. I understand that you've given the user the ability to pretty much customise everything, but I'd wonder just how many would want to (or rather, how many would actually customise everything). Perhaps a simplified version (kind of like a Lite version, perhaps) would be a good thing to do. Want all actors to have the same requirements to level up a weapon? Use the Lite version so you don't have to copy/paste all over the place. The main reason I say that, is because I really hate using copy/paste in any code situation, because it can lead to issues and such.

Back to the thing with the hashes. For the majority of the time the script is used, I can see most weapons using the same requirements. Where this might change is for powerful weapons to slow down their rate because they provide strong boosts. What I've done is made a hash which stores "rates"; each is defined as a letter rank (like you have S, A, B etc) and in there you can set how much you need for a given level, or, if you wanted to, a formula which will calculate the points for you similar to how exp is handled. Then you can choose a default rate for all weapons, and set the rates only for those that differ. You can also exclude certain weapon types for obvious reasons.

Seeing as it was a request based script, though, you do have to follow the requirements given. If they anticipate they will need to set individual weapons for individual actors, and that they are likely to be different for each (which from a design point of view is a lot of work and makes the system more complex than it should be), then you need to provide that specification. If they don't, however, then you can reduce the size of the code similar to what I have done.

You have a very good point there. I'll make a lite version to coincide with the fully customisable one.

Updated with percentages. Also have the choice between the Full or Lite versions of the script.