[Archive] Pokemon Essentials: Starter Kit for RPG Maker XP

Vi-black said:

Very big thank you to both of you, this helped and I found my values. =)

It appears, that Charmander is too high now. The Y-Coord in the pokemon.txt file is right, it pops out at the right point but when I chose my command, it hops to a higher place...

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Ongekibou said:

Hey, I wanted to use an animated title screen, and the notes say to use an animated gif, however I've tried naming it "pic_1.gif", "pic_1.png", and even making it an animated png, but nothing works.

Alternatively, if someone could give me an example script on how to do a frame-by-frame animated title screen, that would also be swell.

Can anyone help me?

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Vi-black said:

(I watched, that most Poke like Piplup and Chelast don't have this problem. Pikachu is about 2 point too high and Shiggy/Charmander are way too high... I'm confused.)

Here are 2 screens. When battle begins and the Poke comes out its ball, it's at the right place. As soon as I can command, it switches to the high position (where it bumps up and down as it should). When I am about to switch it out, the pic is shortly shown at the starting (right) position.

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KingCharizard said:

EDIT: I figured out your issue vi-black, for some reason your screen size is affecting the sprite position.

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carmaniac said:

You don't need a script to do this; simply save your animation as a .gif but when saving it do it like this file name:

(insert name here).png so that way it's an gif file with a .png extension to it.

EDIT:
Didn't read your post properly, have you made sure it's spelt Pic_1 with a capital P?

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Ongekibou said:

Yeah, I have used capitals, just doesn't work. Opens the game, then proceeds to crash. The gif is about 17 seconds long; is it too long or something?

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Mrchewy said:

Does it crash with an error message? If so, pasting the message here might help us identify the issue.

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Ongekibou said:

Nope, just freezes. No message.

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Vi-black said:

My Screen size?
1440*900 px? Do you mean this? But I can't change that.. if I do, everything looks just stupid -.-'
(When I change the screen size in the options menu of the kit, the window size changes, but the problem is still there)

Plan B:
What about changing the pictures? I looked at the sprites and noticed, that Charmander is really a space higher then piplup. If I changed all Poke to the same position in their pictures it would work, wouldn't it?
h ttp://poketeam.square7.ch/trick17.png

My (hopyfully) last question:
Imagine I would create a game with this and create the game file. I give it to someone and he/she installs the game, wants to play it. Will he/she see the game as I did?
Or does it again depend on his/her screensize/resolution? Because in that case, the picture work would be waste of time.

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Vi-black said:

(I watched, that most Poke like Piplup and Chelast don't have this problem. Pikachu is about 2 point too high and Shiggy/Charmander are way too high... I'm confused.)

Here are 2 screens. When battle begins and the Poke comes out its ball, it's at the right place. As soon as I can command, it switches to the high position (where it bumps up and down as it should). When I am about to switch it out, the pic is shortly shown at the starting (right) position.

Screen 1 - calling Charmander out:
h ttp://poketeam.square7.ch/charmander1.png

Screen 2 - choose command
h ttp://poketeam.square7.ch/charmander2.png

Part of the script (I copied a bigger part, maybe it helps)

Code:

class PokemonBattlerSprite < RPG::Sprite
 attr_accessor :selected
 def initialize(doublebattle,index,viewport=nil)
  super(viewport)
  @selected=0
  @frame=0
  @index=index
  @updating=false
  @doublebattle=doublebattle
  @index=index
  @spriteX=0
  @spriteY=0
  @spriteYExtra=0
  @spriteVisible=false
  @_iconbitmap=nil
  self.visible=false
 end
 def selected=(value)
  if @selected==1 && value!=1 && @spriteYExtra>0
   self.y=@spriteY-@spriteYExtra
   @spriteYExtra=0
  end
  @selected=value
 end
 def visible=(value)
  @spriteVisible=value if !@updating
  super
 end
 def x=(value)
  @spriteX=value if !@updating
  super
 end
 def y=(value)
  @spriteY=value if !@updating
  super
 end
 def update
  @frame+=1
  @updating=true
  if ((@frame/9).floor&1)==1 && @selected==1 # When choosing commands for this Pokémon
   @spriteYExtra=2
  else
   @spriteYExtra=0
  end
[COLOR=Green]if ((@frame/9).floor&1)==1 && @selected==1 # When choosing commands for this Pokémon
   self.x=@spriteX
   self.y=108
   self.visible=@spriteVisible
   elsif @selected==1
   self.x=@spriteX
   self.y=110
   self.visible=@spriteVisible
  elsif @selected==2 # When targeted or damaged
   self.x=@spriteX
   self.y=@spriteY
   self.visible=(@frame%10<7)
  elsif 
   self.x=@spriteX
   self.y=@spriteY
   self.visible=@spriteVisible
  end[/COLOR]
  if @_iconbitmap
   @_iconbitmap.update
   self.bitmap=@_iconbitmap.bitmap
  end
  @updating=false
 end
 def dispose
  @_iconbitmap.dispose if @_iconbitmap
  @_iconbitmap=nil
  self.bitmap=nil if !self.disposed?
  super
 end
 def setPokemonBitmap(pokemon,back=false)
  @_iconbitmap.dispose if @_iconbitmap
  @_iconbitmap=pbLoadPokemonBitmap(pokemon,back)
  self.bitmap=@_iconbitmap ? @_iconbitmap.bitmap : nil
 end
 def setPokemonBitmapSpecies(pokemon,species,back=false)
  @_iconbitmap.dispose if @_iconbitmap
  @_iconbitmap=pbLoadPokemonBitmapSpecies(pokemon,species,back)
  self.bitmap=@_iconbitmap ? @_iconbitmap.bitmap : nil
 end
end

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Maruno said:

The green part in your code (the bit you added) describes where the back sprites are when they're bobbing up and down. This is different to where the back sprite appears from the Poké Ball. Your problem here is that your 108 (in the green code) and the back sprite's "@spritey" are different.

Find where "@spritey" is set for the back sprites. You'll find this towards the top of "class PokeballPlayerSendOutAnimation". If I'm right, it's initially set to 96 but then is changed by a few other things (for me, it's +Graphics.height-320, +metrics*2, +128). Figure out what 96 + 128 comes to, and replace your 108 with "224+(Graphics.height-320)". Here we're assuming a metric of zero (steps 2 and 3 make this true). Your other number in green (110) is just the first number plus 2.

That's step one. Step two is to edit every back sprite picture so that it's sitting on the bottom of the picture (i.e. no gap at the bottom). Aside from it being tedious, there should be no problem here.

Step three is to edit pokemon.txt and set all "BattlerPlayerY" to zero. This means you don't have to worry about the metrics value in the calculation above.

This is by no means an explanation of what's going on. It's a description of what you should do. Note that this only works in theory - I haven't tried exactly this myself. If I'm right, it should work fine regardless of how big the game window is (so you can change the game's resolution in the Options menu without worrying about messing up the battle screen).

When KingCharizard mentioned "screen size", he meant how big the game's window is (default 320x240), not how big your monitor is.

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Wichu said:

Of course it's possible; how do you think the Mystery Gift function in Raptor works? :P

You should use a regular expression to find the text you need. For example, if your text doesn't contain the symbol '#', you could enclose the code in '#'s, like so: #XdQ8sK9X#
Then, use a regular expression to search for a string in between two '#'s:

Code:

string[/#(.*?)#/]
code=$1

The '/'s around a string mean the string is treated as a regular expression. In a regular expression, '.' stands for any character, '*' means repeat the previous character an arbitrary number of times, and '?' after the '*' means it stops as soon as it gets to the second '#' (without the '?', it would continue as '#' falls under 'any character'). The brackets around part of the regular expression in this case are used to save the contents of the brackets (the code) into a global variable ($1, as it's the first pair of brackets. If you had another pair, their contents would be in $2 and so on). After using the regular expression, it's a good idea to copy the contents of the $1 variable to your own variable, as next time you use a regular expression, the $1 variable is overwritten.

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Thanks a lot! I am still confused where to put the codes though. What exactly would be the script to put. So sorry for being a pain :\

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Cilerba said:

I still need help with what to use for a code.

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KingCharizard said:

I'm curious why are you trying to add a feature to your project beyond your skill level? Why does everyone try to do this? If i cant figure a certain feature out i'd rather not bother to use it.

But anyways i'm going to try to help, but in order to do that I need to know exactly what your asking. Are you asking for the script? If you are unless some1 is gonna copy and paste theirs I believe your gonna have to write 1 yourself if you cant then i suggest you learn. If you dont wanna learn or cant learn then I suggest you forget about the feature.

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