[RESOLVED] RPG2k3: Morphing your character mid-battle

         I'm trying to make a skill so that my characters can turn into a monster while they're battling. They can morph back and forth and the effects will last outside of battle. It's kinda like Ranma 1/2, where their charset, faceset, and battle-charset will change, but I'm having a little trouble figuring out how it will work. I've read Jharkoff's post and wandered around using the search engine, but I'm still having problems. So far I realize that I need to create the monsters as separate heroes, but can you change your party members mid-battle using a skill? If so, how?

I don't know if it will work... but I think if you.

But he want the battle characer to change when he does that skill in battle (sadly i dont know how to do it  )

You make a battle event that gets triggered if a certain switch is on (Boe just showed how to make a skill trigger a switch) and 'REMOVE_ HERO' from party and 'ADD_ MONSTER' to party... uh... yeah.

lets see if it works....TESTING

EDIT: hmmm.....didnt work.

   Hmmm, no workie  :'(   The party changes as soon as the battle ends, but still not during the battle.
 

But he want the battle characer to change when he does that skill in battle (sadly i dont know how to do it  )

   ^.^ I'm a girl, btw


  It's not the switches that I'm confused about, it's more making the graphics and fighting options change while you're battling. Well, I'm most concerned with making the graphics change.

   ^.^ I'm a girl, btw

damm those pic of anime girls that looks like boys....

im still trying to figure it out, since im going to create another game and want that to happended.....

*Points to her boobies* Yay boobies 

  I stuck a message in the beginning of the event and the message popped up right after the battle ended, so I guess that means common events can't occur during battle x.x
   *begins fiddling with battle events*

Do you have one or more members in your party when you morph? Having only one could mean RPGMaker sees it as a gameover...

*Points to her boobies* Yay boobies 

EXCELLENT!!

  I stuck a message in the beginning of the event and the message popped up right after the battle ended, so I guess that means common events can't occur during battle x.x
   *begins fiddling with battle events*

hmm? you want a message to appear in the battle right? well just make the trigger on a battle event on a specific turn of the battle (or put it on 0 turn which will show the message when you begin the battle) and puit the message there. 

oh and about the transformation, try making it not a common event but a battle event and test it if it works...

   Actually, the message didn't matter, I was just putting it in the common event for the morph temporarily to see exactly WHEN the common event would trigger, and now I know that they don't apply until your out of a battle.
   I think that by the time they learn how to morph they'll have another party member with them anyways, but I've heard about game overs happening that way. Ok, lemme test with the in battle events....


    Yay! It was a little sketchy, but it worked!!! I'll have to position the "Hero" and the "Monster" in the same battling spot for it to look better, but other than that, the characters changed! ^.^  The order of the characters changed, too, but that's no problem (I don't want the player to rearrange the order of their characters. You're stuck! MWUHAHAHAHA!)

    Ok, for all you who want to make your character morph as well, here's what I did:


   Put the skill with the switch.


   Yeah, I know, I like switches too much.


    And presto! Yes, I realize that she changed from a girl to a girl, but her monster sprite isn't ready yet. Anyways, the only thing left to fix is the fact that they move back when the skill is activated, the order of the characters has changed, and I need to make both the monster and the human keep the same level, exp, and skills ^.^


   Hmmm, this means that I'm going to have to have morphing events for all of the characters in the battle events and copy-paste them and put them into every one of the monster groups. Oh well, it's worth it ^.^ Thank you everyone!

Congrats that it finnaly works! 

hmm..... you must have them in the excact same position on the Battle Layout when your character transform....dunno bout the monster keeping the same level, exp and skill, maybe make a common event and put some conditional branches....maybe