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Adding a counter value for a new ability

Wootius

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A hopefully simple question. I have an ability, BALLOONS(Balloons!!) on a alternate form of Pikachu that currently mimics the effect of the Air balloon item. Switching forms works fine. However, I want it to take three hits to ground this Pikachu after which its abillity will change to GROUNDED until swapped back in and out.

So I added added an accessor, attr_accessor(:ballons=hit=counter) with equal signs due to censorship, to the PokeBattle_Pokemon to count these hits. However, when I try to set this to any value I get a undefined method error.

Here's the error in full

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and the code that causes it

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As you can see, I try to set the hit counter for the Pikachu that just switched in to 0 and run into an undefined method error. Thank you for any help given!
 
Maruno

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A Pokémon in the party is an instance of PokeBattle_Pokemon. A Pokémon that's out in battle is an instance of PokeBattle_Battler. The two are separate (but related) things. The reason is that, in battle, a Pokémon's features can change (most notably by using Transform), yet those changes are only supposed to be temporary and not affect the actual Pokémon.

So you put the attr_accessor(:balloonshitcounter) in the wrong place. Your best bet is to instead add another value into PBEffects, and then the counter can by accessed with battler.effects[PBEffects::BalloonsCounter] (or @effects[PBEffects::BalloonsCounter] if you're in PokeBattle_Battler).

Then in PokeBattle_Battler, def pbInitEffects, set it to the default value of 0. Stick this at the end of the method.

A little further down is def pbAbilitiesOnSwitchIn. I'm guessing this is where you put your code, and that's the right place for it. However, you should set the value to 3 here rather than 0. It's going to count how many balloons the Pokémon has left, and each pop will reduce the number by 1.

As for the popping itself, I assume it works the same way as the Air Balloon item does. So add code in all the same places as it which do (roughly) the same things.
 

Wootius

Glah
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Thank you, Maruno. I know enough about programming to know that I don't know enough. It's 100% working now, including losing then resetting the ability by switch out then back in. The only thing "wrong" is the listed ability doesn't change on the Status screen when I change the ability, due to that info being from PokeBattle_Pokemon I assume. Does Mummy do the same thing? Mummy Doesn't update on the Status screen while under its effects either. I may try and "fix" this.

You're awesome.


In looking to help others with this/something similar I'll add the code here. Using this will give you a Pokemon with an ability
that mimics Air Balloon for 3 hits after which it changes abilities to one without an effect until the next time it's switched out/in.
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