How can you make an item reward random?

wodolo · Nov 27, 2015

Hi guys, as you knwo from my toher posts I'm pretty new to pokemon essentials and I was wondering if there's a way to make a reward random generated (or random froma list), I mean, for example, a guy asked me to bring him a potion, then when I give it to him it can give me a pokeball, or a berryjuice, or something else random. Is there a way to make a reward random generated or randomly picked from a preselected list? I have been trying with variables and switches but my programming skills seems to be as good as a jellyfish ones. Thanks in advance guys :D.

Rot8er_ConeX · Nov 27, 2015

Code:

bob=[:POKEBALL,:BERRYJUICE,:GREATBALL]
brenda=bob[rand(bob.length)]
reward=getConst(PBItems,brenda)

wodolo · Nov 28, 2015

Excuse my ignorance... but... what? lol, I cannot understand a single line of what you said. By the way, thanks a lot man!

Rot8er_ConeX · Nov 28, 2015

wodolo said:
Excuse my ignorance... but... what? lol, I cannot understand a single line of what you said. By the way, thanks a lot man!

The first line, you place all the possible rewards into an array. Those are "symbol characters" that are the items' internal names.
The second line randomly chooses from the array. This is like picking a name from a hat.
The last line converts from a symbol to a number, because items are actually stored as numbers.

wodolo · Nov 29, 2015

Rot8er_ConeX said:
The first line, you place all the possible rewards into an array. Those are "symbol characters" that are the items' internal names.
The second line randomly chooses from the array. This is like picking a name from a hat.
The last line converts from a symbol to a number, because items are actually stored as numbers.

I see... Thanks a lot man, really! thanks for taking a bit of your time on cleanse my stupideness lol.

Phigo · Nov 29, 2015

There is an alternative, which requires a little more "effort", just for the record:

You let the event generate a random number with any variable you like (you could make a "RNG Variable" or whatever). And then you make a conditional branch for every item, you want to be generated.

Example:

Spoiler:

Works just as fine. Only needs a little more writing.
Just wanted to mention it. For the record.

PS: If this is for an NPC to give you a random item, change "Kernel.pbItemBall" to "Kernel.pbReceiveItem".

PPS: You can easily do this with Pokémon as well or even both. And you can also let the NPC say something different for every item/Pokémon you receive.
Just exchange Kernel.pbItemBall(PBItems::INTERNALITEMNAME) with pbAddPokemon(PBSpecies::INTERNALPOKEMONNAME,POKEMONLEVEL) and add a textbox :)

wodolo · Nov 29, 2015

Phigo said:
There is an alternative, which requires a little more "effort", just for the record:

You let the event generate a random number with any variable you like (you could make a "RNG Variable" or whatever). And then you make a conditional branch for every item, you want to be generated.

Example:

Spoiler:

Control Variables: [0037: RNG] = Random No. (0...2)
Conditional Branch: Variable [0037: RNG] == 0
Script: Kernel.pbItemBall(PBItems::HYPERPOTION)
Else
Conditional Branch: Variable [0037: RNG] == 1
Script: Kernel.pbItemBall(PBItems::ULTRABALL)
Else
Script: Kernel.pbItemBall(PBItems::NUGGET)
Branch End
Control Self Switch: A =ON

Works just as fine. Only needs a little more writing.
Just wanted to mention it. For the record.

PS: If this is for an NPC to give you a random item, change "Kernel.pbItemBall" to "Kernel.pbReceiveItem".

PPS: You can easily do this with Pokémon as well or even both. And you can also let the NPC say something different for every item/Pokémon you receive.
Just exchange Kernel.pbItemBall(PBItems::INTERNALITEMNAME) with pbAddPokemon(PBSpecies::INTERNALPOKEMONNAME,POKEMONLEVEL) and add a textbox :)

WOW!! Amazing reply man, while both methods works I'm doing this one for sure. Thanks guys, really, you helped me a lot! :D