Blacksmith? Need help~

I was wondering if a Blacksmith System was possible in the RPG Maker... just like suikoden 1,2 and 3 how instead of buying new weps you just upgrade them.... I'm kind of a new wit this stuff.... so if anyone can tell me if it is possible... and if so, how can i do this..? Thanks!
-Alex

Yeah, you would just have the game unequip your weapon, check to see what weapon it is, and upgrade it. It could be based on items you have, how far along in the game you are, or just raw GP.

Of course, I have no idea what the upgrade system is like for those games, so I don't know exactly what you're looking for.. can't code without specifics.

Bluecube,the weapon upgrade for suikoden is like this:

You have your base weapon when you start.Then for a certain amount of gold you can upgrade the attack on your weapon by buying an upgrade with gold.Then the blacksmith upgrades you weapon with new attack rating.

Note:The name of the weapon always changes when you upgrade.
Also in suikoden only the attack rating on your weapon goes up.You learn skills by having certain runes.

Gotcha, I see how that works - that's just a "one weapon" system, where you just upgrade what you have instead of finding new weapons.



www.freewebs.com/bluecube/files/UpgradeDemo.zip

Thanks dude, Cause I wanted to make a game where instead of finding items and buying new items..... I want there to be a "Blacksmith" in every town that upgrades weapons... cuase i want the Hero to have a certain Weapon throughou the whole game... but i dont want it to be weak... I know that theres a way where I can make it unequip but i would only be able to switch it with another weapon with a different name.... so... please if u can find a way to do this it would be great!

It's done, you'll just have to copy/paste the URL since freewebs seems to have disabled direct links to files. (It's in my post above, it was actually working last night but I guess I forgot about the no-direct-link thing.)

My method just has the hero unequip the weapon and equip a new one, nothing too difficult. Obviously, your weapons/names will probably be different. It still appears that the hero has one weapon that upgrades and changes names, but it's actually just 4 different weapons that are switched. (Well, 8 - four for BlueCube, four for NinjaGuy) Obviously this can be expanded to 10 or 40 weapons, as long as there's an upgrade branch for each weapon.

Don't forget that you need gold, it's in the pot. Just tell it what you want. The game has to "clean up" after unequipping your current weapon, otherwise you'd still have your old weapon in your inventory - you'll see that in the branches.

Anyway, if you need more explanation, just say so.