RPG Maker Action Combat 1.6.5 is released!

• Change Priority: Change Priority of a character.
• Mount: Sit on anything you see and ride them.
• Gain Item Randomly: Gain item/weapon/armor/gold randomly, similar to other ARPG.
• Display Weapon: Display a sprite around player and point to mouse cursor.
• Game Mode: Change between Top-Down or Beat 'em Up dynamically.
• Reset Event Pages: Reset all events in game with a certain name to their first page, undo all control self switches and extra self switches that have been turned on.

• Item Gain Notification: Show what item/wapon/armor/gold amount you just received.
• Input Support: Allow to disable certain control method like keyboard or touch or gamepad.
• Clickable Options: Allow to change color, thickness, opacity of <clickable>.

• hasState: Check if a target is affected by a state.
• MAXHP: Return max hp of an event

• <lock rotation sprite>: A comment to Rotate to a degree without rotating the sprite.

New Supports for existing Features

• A new case for checkRange condition: "passable" - Check if there are passable tiles around the target.
• A new support for checkRange condition: Source now support <notetag>.
• Case ‘detected event’ from condition checkRange: Now support checking for detected player. It now can also be written as ‘detected target’. Both 'detected event' or 'detected target' work, they're the same.
• A new case for checkCollide condition: "map boundary" - Check if the event touches map boundary.
• A new case for checkCollide condition: "passable" - Check if the event has touched a passable area.
• Default "Change States" RPG Maker command: Now also trigger <state common event> and sync with menu.
• HP condition: Add support for event name and event notetag.
• Movement Route "rotateTo": Now support an animation duration, which control how long it takes for rotation to complete.
• Plugin command Create Dynamic Event: Now support naming the event.
• Plugin command Create Dynamic Event: Rotation Degree now support <notetag>.
• Plugin command Spawn Event & Create Dynamic Event: New option - Turn Toward | Allow event to turn to another character or share the same direction as the character
• Plugin command Spawn Event & Create Dynamic Event: A new case for Position (x,y) - target front| Spawn in front of the target.
• Notetag <hp: x>: Now support <hp: v[variable id]>
• Notetag <dmg: x>: Now support <dmg: weapon> for using main hand weapon traits and <dmg: 2nd weapon> for using second hand weapon traits. This is similar to plugin command Increase/Decrease Character HP "- player weapon" and "- player 2nd weapon".
• Parameter Drop Loot from Enemy: Now having the third option which combines the previous methods, which
• Drop Item new option (Auto + Template): A new method for controlling behavior of dropped items - Auto generated from enemy database but still use a template event to control how all generated loot behaves.
• Hotbar: Now support a different set for each actor id.

Adjustments

• Nearly everything will now use database traits, such as State, Enemy, Actor, Skill, etc.
• Added a new plugins load order in Hendrix Action Engine description.
• Demo Adjustment: Removed "<weaponAttack>" check in Enemy Collision Check common event and reduced complexity of the demo in other minor places.
• Demo Adjustment: Balanced all enemies stats in the database.
• Plugin command Control Local Variable: Removed Max Number parameter. Instead, Random Value now can be written in Value with format: Min Number:Max Number
• Critical text color for Pop Text Value: Now only change if it’s truly Critical instead of using a threshold.
• Movement Route rotateTo: Replace rotateTo(number) from targeting an event ID to a rotation degree
• Hover Outline feature: Now use a different method that is more performance optimized.
• Added some safeguard for spawning on “this” event to avoid Cannot read property 'centerPositionPoint' of null.
• Changed several functions to use deltaXY instead to get the right value when map is a scroll stype.
• Simplified: moveToPosition(‘forward’, ‘tile’). Now it purely relies on Dotmove to calculate moving per tile.
• moveToPosition(‘forward’, X tile): X now support a number. Meaning the amount of tile it’ll move.
• Remove RESET button from HUD Element: HUD elements now show a green border when in DnD mode. Changed HUD Element default position from 0, 0 to center of screen
• Parameter Drop Loot (Auto Generate method): Now all dropped items have the same name "Item Template". You can create an event with this name in template map to modify Loot behavior through that.
• Damage Calculation: If the result is gonna be 0, it’ll be 1 instead.
• Block Wall and Region: Now events with priority Above Characters will be excluded from this feature.
• Plugin command Increase/Decrease Character HP: Case ‘player weapon’ now by default will use skill id 1 from database. If you create a new project, you’ll see skill 1 is called “AttacK”
• Improved: Impassable collision spawning accuracy.
• Optimized Performance: Slight Performance Optimization in several functions.
• Optimized Performance: The performance of Easy Conditional Branch feature.
• Optimized Performance: Pop Text Value from redrawing every frame when the value doesn’t change.
• Optimized Performance: checkRange for case this checking against player.
• Optimized Performance: Break Event plugin command.
• Optimized Performance: Platform events.
• Optimized Performance: Event scan all switches when being destroyed.
• Optimized Performance: HUD flashing and Hotbar Creator plugin.
• Optimized Performance: Database skill and enemy name look up.
• Removed: In several commands like Update Character HP, ‘mdef’ and ‘def’ no longer supported.

Bugs fix

• An issue related to Hotbar function name that caused confliction with Hendrix Action Engine.
• An issue that skip passive features from being called if the map has a scroll type.
• Setting up enemy using Enemy Name from Database without notetag will cancel HP data from the enemy if open/close menu.
• Hotbar Creator: Fixed an issue with visibility switch still visible for a frame when open/close menu.
• Event Effect “Spin” not supporting 8 characters spritesheet.
• Standing on platform makes character act as "moving" .
• A compatibility issue with plugin Hendrix Realtime Event Effects Builder, related to scale property not found on a null event.
• A compatibility issue with plugin Hendrix Realtime Parallax Map Builder tilemap painting. Making event overlapping the tilemaps.
• A compatibility issue with plugin Hendrix Map Zoom, causing <clickable> not showing outline and click area correctly.