In this tutorial we’ll continue setting up schematics to animate battle actions.

This time we’ll only handle the close range melee attacks, which all use the same schematic. We’ll use sound types to play an attack and hit sound, so we need to set that up as well. Since that’s not that much to do, we also let damaged combatants flash red when they receive damage (that’s set up in the flying texts for HP) and update the use cost texts, which currently show the full status value name (Magic Points) instead of it’s short name (MP).

We’ll set up:

• sound types
• combatant sounds
• attack schematic
• update attack abilities
• HP damage flash
• use cost texts

Let’s get to it.

Sound Types #

Sound types are used to play sounds without knowing (or caring) which actual sound will be played. Combatants, equipment and other things (including Sound Assignment components) can define which sound is played for which type – this allows us to e.g. play an attack or hit sound in our attack schematic, and the actual sound can depend on which combatant attacks (and which weapon they have equipped) and who’s hit by the attack (and maybe which kind of armor they wear). We’ll only use a default sound setup for this tutorial, though.

You can learn more about sound types in this Makinom documentation.

Navigate to Base/Control > Sound Types, we’ll change the Default type and add an additional type.

0: Attack #

1: Hit #

Combatant Sounds #

We’ll set up default attack and hit sounds for all combatants.

Navigate to Combatants > Combatants > General Settings.

Animation & Movement > Sound Settings #

Save Changes #

That’s it for the editor setup for now, we’ll continue with schematics.

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Attack Schematic #

Like with use and death, the Attack animation also plays until we stop it, so we need to play and stop it in the schematic. We’ll also change the user’s showWeapon bool variable to let it’s equipment viewer show the weapon during attacks.

Additionally, we need to handle the direction of our animations – the attack animation has different versions for north, south, east and west directions. We already handle this automatically via the combatant’s movement direction. So, what do we do to make use of that? We change the combatant’s last movement direction – easy!

Navigate to Schematics and start working on a new schematic.

Settings #

We’ll add a prefab that’ll spawn to animate the attack.

Prefabs #

Change Last Move Direction #

Add Node > Movement > Movement > Change Last Move Direction

This node does what it’s name promises – it changes the last move direction of a combatant.

We’ll use it to play rotate our sprite (animation) to the target. For this, we simply use the direction from the user (Machine Object) to the target (Starting Object).

Wait #

Add Node > Base > Wait

Combatant Animation #

Add Node > Animation > Combatant > Combatant Animation

We’ll play the Attack animation. As said, the attack animation will play until we stop it, so we don’t need to wait for it.

Change Variables #

Add Node > Value > Variable > Change Variables

We’ll now enable the showWeapon bool variable on the user, this’ll show it’s weapon via the Equipment Viewer (as we set up).

Play Sound #

Add Node > Audio > Audio > Play Sound

Play the Attack sound type on the user.

Spawn Prefab #

Add Node > Game Object > Prefab > Spawn Prefab

We’ll spawn the prefab on the target (Starting Object).

Wait #

Add Node > Base > Wait

Calculate Action #

Add Node > Battle > Action Outcome > Calculate Action

We now calculate the outcome of the action.

No further settings needed.

Play Sound #

Add Node > Audio > Audio > Play Sound

Play the Hit sound type on the target.

Wait #

Copy the first Wait node (0.5 second wait).

Change Variables #

Copy the previous Change Variables node, we now disable the showWeapon bool variable.

Combatant Animation #

Copy the previous Combatant Animation node.

We’ll now stop playing the Attack animation.

And that’s it for the schematic. Click on Save Schematic to save it, e.g. as Attack.

Abilities #

Next, we’ll use the schematic to animate our attack abilities.

Navigate to Status > Abilities.

0: Attack #

Battle Animation #

2: Poison Attack #

Battle Animation #

3: Slow Attack #

Battle Animation #

4: Blind Attack #

Battle Animation #

Damage Flash #

Next, we’ll setup up a red flash on a damaged combatant’s game object. This is done in the HP status value’s flying text settings.

Navigate to Status > Status Values and select the Health Points status value.

UI Settings > Flying Text Settings > Flying Text 0 #

We need to add the red flashing to the Damage and Critical Damage settings, since we already have set up using different versions in the status system setup tutorials.

Damage > Flash Settings #

Critical Damage > Flash Settings #

We use the same setup, but do a longer flash.

Update Use Cost Text #

And lastly, we update the use costs to show short names (MP) instead of the regular names (Magic Points) of the status values.

Navigate to UI > Text Display Settings.

Status Texts > Use Cost Display #

These settings manage how use costs will be displayed in menus. We’ll only change the status value texts.

Negative Change Text #

Positive Change Text #

Set Change Text #

Save Changes #

And that’s it for the attack animations!

Don’t forget to save your changes by clicking on Save Settings at the bottom of the editor.

Testing #

Hit play in the Forest Battle 1 scene and hit some enemies.

And it’s working – weapons are shown, sounds play and prefabs spawn, great!

 

Next, we’ll set up the bow attack schematics.