How do I Create Skills for my characters and enemies?

Heya all! im kind of new in construct and this is the thing , im trying to make a strategy turn-based RPG (kind of front mission for PS1) but i cant find the correct combination of expresions to create Skills ...and i believe i will have a complication or two more...but lets try to solve this one first hahaha...any ideas or pointers?

Thanks all for reading and helping!

It depends on how complex you need those skills to be.

If it's just "Fireball Level 1-10" then you can use a simple instance variable "FireballLevel", set it to 1 and then increase this number as your character levels up.

If it's a complex skills tree with various upgrades etc,, you might need something like a dictionary or an array for this.

Hey Keus!

If you just have a list of skills which increase in level, just use a dictionary which an entry for each skill and entry value for level. If you need them to have dependencies, like a skill/talent tree, use an array to store skills, their levels and their dependencies.

It's hard to be more specific without more info on your project.

Hope that helps. Cheers!

WoW! i really didnt expect ppl to actually answer me this fast!...first of all thank ou both for answer me i really apreciate, and well for the "hero" it would be nice to have a talent book (just a few skills inside that book) and for the enemies i would like them to have only 2 or 3 skills (and this is my other problem) how can i make them decide to (for example) attack or heal them selves or defend??.

dop2000 you said something bout a dictionary right? theres any post bout that u can recomend me to read?

bruno my project is almost like front mission for PS1...tactical battles but u have your own skill talents tree u can learn spells from there ,and the enemies only have 2 or 3 skills ..i been looking for some IA tutorial but all i could find was like a tower defense xD

well thanks again for reading me and sorry for the prehistorical english (im from Argentina doing my best haha)

Google "Construct 2 dictionary", there are a few good tutorials.

Put Enemy object and Skills dictionary to a container and you'll have a unique skill set for each enemy.

Your entries in the skills dictionary could look like this:

Key: Fireball Value: 3

Key: Poison Value: 0

Key: Heal Value: 5

Writing an AI for enemies should be an interesting task. You can start with something similar to this:

If enemy.health<50 & Skills.Get("Heal")>0 // then use heal spell

else If Skills.Get("Fireball")>0 & Player.fireResistance<50 // use fireball spell

else If Skills.Get("Poison")>0 & Player.poisonResistance<50 // use poison spell

else // use normal attack

Dop2000 thank you again bro!!!! gonna check it out! , you said something bout writing an IA and then just gave me a few examples...since im a noob with construct 2 can u tell me please where i can write that? or its just an example with events in the event sheet??

Thanks!!!!

Yes, all your AI code will be in event sheets. You need to read a few tutorials to get a better understanding how everything works in C2.

yeah im on it already i actually like this engine XD hahaha i already found a good dictionary tutorial with images and stuff haha