Encounter Alert

This script displays an encounter balloon over your player character on the map whenever you are about to encounter a random battle monster. When this balloon is displayed, the player can choose to skip the random encounter by pressing a specific button.

This only applies to random encounters.

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Script: Download here
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You will also need this spritesheet. Place it inside your Graphics/System folder

Usage

Configuration Options

There are several configuration options, though the defaults should be fine for most purposes.

• Skip_Key: the key to press to skip a battle, if possible
• Disable_Menu: disables menu access when the encounter balloon is displayed
• Disable_Movement: disables player movement when the encounter balloon is displayed
• Play_SE: allows you to play a sound effect when you encounter a random battle
• Encounter_SE: the sound effect that will be played, if enabled

Skip Condition

Each troop comes with a “skip condition”, which is a special condition
associated with the troop that determines whether your party can skip
the battle or not.

To set up a skip condition:

1. Create an event page for the troop
2. The first command must be a comment, with the line

   <skip condition>

3. The second command is a conditional branch, which you will use to specify
   the skip condition

Whenever a random encounter appears, the colour of the balloon determines
whether you can skip the battle or not: if it is red, then you can’t skip.
If it is blue, then you can skip. The skip condition must be met in order
for the balloon to be blue. If no skip condition is specified, then it is
assumed to be not skippable.

Encounter Points

In order to skip battles, you must have enough “encounter points”. The encounter points are stored with the game party, and tied to a variable of your choice.

In the configuration, you can set the max amount of encounter points the party can have using a formula.

Each troop may require a certain amount of encounter points in order to skip.
If you choose to skip the battle, then your encounter points will decrease
by that amount.

To specify the amount of encounter points is required to skip a battle:

1. In the same troop page that you used for the skip condition
   
2. Create a comment “<encounter points>”

3. Create a “control variable” command, and use the script box to set the

   amount of encounter points required. This is a formula.

Encounter Level

In addition to encounter points, a party also has an encounter level.
This can be used in the encounter points formula.

You can change the encounter level using script calls

encounter_level_up(x)
encounter_level_down(x)

For some integer x

Disabling encounter skipping

You can disable the encounter balloon option by making a script call

disable_encounter_balloon
enable_encounter_balloon

If disabled, random encounters will be processed as usual.

The Encounter Balloon

This script requires an “encounter balloon” spritesheet for the actual balloon animation. The script by default uses the one up there.

You may create your own balloon animation easily:

1. Modify the default ones
2. Create your own animation sequence, and update the balloon settings in the configuration as required