I'm up to one of my crazy tutorials again. However, this tutorial is more than an action battle system, its completely re-designed so the enemy can utilize custom spells. There are updates and development notes on this tutorial, because it was designed for a magic, melee, and ranged battle system tutorial. I still haven't got everything done yet.
Updates
4-6-08
Submitted tutorial with basic Melee and Enemy magic skills
Starting the Tutorial
First, let me explain what we need for this tutorial to work. You MUST have all of these.
- A couple of variables
- A couple of switches
- A couple of good animations
- A couple of map events
- Useable menu system
Making the basic battle command
I'll follow Quiversee's tutorial on this, to create the basic battle command. Create a map event that is parallel process, with a trigger switch called 'ABS MODE'. Call the event 'Action Battle System'. Create a event in the map and call it 'Animation'.
Follow this code:
Now, if you press enter, your hero will step forward very fast and slice. However, he won't do any damage until we create the DMG calculator event. We will do that, and then we will create the enemy's damage event so that the player can get damaged. Also, please make the 'Animation' event above hero with the default graphic of the first tile in *Tileset. For the **** animation, you will need an animation to show.
Creating the Damage Calculator:
Create a new action key event on your map that the player can't reach. This event should be called DMG Calculator, and the event on the map should be called by the Action Battle System, nearly at the end of the event.
You will need your own battle algorithm to calculate the damage done by your character, but that's basically all of what you need. Insert your algorithm inside the ****A**** comment area. Create a enemy event but don't do anything in it yet, and name it Enemy1.

Do the above for every monster. Make sure you Subtract the damage you have done from the enemy variable that is new: (0008: Enemy1HP). Enter the X numbers as any number you would like above.
Setting up the Enemy Event
Alright, now, we go to and create the enemy event. On the first page, leave all the preconditions blank, except the Variable precondition for the variable (0009: Enemy Atk choice) is equal to 0. Make the Movement type to Custom Pattern, and make it do this in movement: Move Toward Hero. The trigger condition is Collision with Hero (or On Hero Touch (event,hero).) Note a comment to how much the enemy attack power is; and include this below. Make sure you insert your own animation in the **** spot.
The above is the code for a basic attack. Now, create a new parallel process event on your map, and make it do a wait for two seconds, and then, make a variable operations to variable: (0009: Enemy Atk choice) and make it a random number between 0 and 3. Now, make three more pages and insert the code above, but now make your own numbers for the attack and change animations. After you have coded all three pages that you have created, make one last page, with the switch precondition: Enemy1 Died - ON. The whole page should be blank and the graphic should be blank too.
Setting the enemy HP
This is the last final part of this tutorial so far. Make an auto-start event that sets the variable Enemy1HP to some number, and turn a switch called 'added Hp 1' ON. Make a new page and set this page to action key with the precondition 'added HP 1' that's on.
Complete!
We are done. Currently, the player can only use a melee attack, but that will change. In the meantime, be ready for the next tutorial update, and you may have to tamper with some code for this one.

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