General Methods XP VX & ACE

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General Methods

Methods for XP

Introduction

I am posting here a bunch of methods that I thought they have appeared a several times in my scripts or they are methods that seemed to be useful under certain circumstances, but are not good enough to become part of a specific script.

Warning!

This group of methods might not be useful for the average game developer that lacks any scripting skills.

Script Calls

rand_range(any_range)
any_range.random
Returns a random number that is included in the given range. A Range object is a number range with an initial value (the lowest) and a final value (the highest). It's something like using an entire array full of consecutive numbers.
I named the second script call random because I shouldn't overwrite rand. (The script call actually needs rand!)
Using the second option might be your best choice because it doesn't create a global method which would use more memory.

$game_party.leader
Returns the current party's leader (Aluxes!?)

$game_party.subleader
Returns the current party's subleader (Basil!?)

$game_party.actors_by_hp
$game_party.actors_by_sp
$game_party.actors_by_pdef
$game_party.actors_by_mdef
$game_party.actors_by_eva
$game_party.actors_by_agi
$game_party.actors_by_dex
$game_party.actors_by_strength
$game_party.actors_by_mana
Returns the actors sorted by the chosen stat (Descending Order)

$game_player.visible?
Returns if the player's sprite is not transparent

$game_map.events[Number].visible?
Returns if the event's sprite is not transparent

$game_map.events[Number].name
Returns the chosen event's name

You can also check if a battler is hero or an enemy in a new way by calling its brand new kind method that will return either an :actor or :enemy symbol if called. This could be useful in any Game_Battler or Game_Actor or Game_Enemy or Scene_Battle script.

Script

Code:

# * General Methods XP
def rand_range(range)
 rand(4) % 2 == 0 ? -rand(range.first) : rand(range.last)
end

class Range
 def random() rand(4) % 2 == 0 ? -rand(self.first) : rand(self.last) end
end

class Game_Actor
  def kind() :actor end
end

class Game_Enemy
  def kind() :enemy end
end

class Game_Party
 def leader() @actors[0] end
 def subleader() @actors[1] end
 def actors_by_hp() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.hp <=> a.hp } end
 def actors_by_sp() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.sp <=> a.sp } end
 def actors_by_pdef() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.pdef <=> a.pdef } end
 def actors_by_mdef() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.mdef <=> a.mdef } end
 def actors_by_eva() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.eva <=> a.eva } end
 def actors_by_agi() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.agi <=> a.agi } end
 def actors_by_dex() @actors.sort{|a,b| b.dex <=> a.dex } end
 def actors_by_strength
   @actors.sort{|a,b| b.atk + b.str <=> a.atk + a.str }
 end

 def actors_by_mana
   @actors.sort{|a,b| b.atk + b.int <=> a.atk + a.int }
 end
end

class Game_Character
 def visible?() !@transparent end
end

class Game_Event
 def name() @event.name end
end

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Free for use in commercial and non commercial projects.
You are free to post any methods here you consider that can be useful for scripting power users and actual scripters.