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

[Yero]

Hi all, first of all, Maruno, thanks greatly for the new version you made. Remarkable! However, I wasn't able to fix a small comment problem I have. In my game, I included a sort of 'midgame encounters' in which the player face a wild/Legendary Pokemon directly, before turning it into a regular battle. In this, I use animations which need to be dodged. However, I can't get this right. I mean, the animation is there, but how do you create the game that the animation really has in impact on the player when touched.

On the other hand, you are able to make an event when the player touch an event, but can you either do something like Conditional Branch: if EV001 touch/hit EV002 then ...?

[pkmn.master]

Originally Posted by pkmn.master

Just updated my essentials version to the newest one. Everything seems to work well. Now I have the problem of updating my trainers. When I try to copy over my trainer PBS files (trainertypes, trainers, etc.), I get an error. Is there any way that I could properly copy over my trainers from my old file to the new version of Pokeessentials without getting an error? This is also important to know: I havn't updated my essentials version in 3 years.

Still need help with this problem. It is halting my game's production severely.

[P-Sign]

Originally Posted by pkmn.master

Still need help with this problem. It is halting my game's production severely.

It'd help if you posted the error

[pkmn.master]

I copied over Trainers.txt and trainertypes.txt from my old project and I get this error when I try to run the game:

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Project Crimson S
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Exception: RuntimeError
Message: Undefined species constant name: [MRMIME]
Name must consist only of letters, numbers, and
underscores and can't begin with a number.
Make sure the name is defined in
PBS/pokemon.txt.
File PBS/shadowmoves.txt, line 36
MRMIME=SHADOWSTORM,SHADOWSHED


Compiler:928:in `pbGetConst'
Compiler:947:in `parseSpecies'
Compiler:652:in `pbCompileShadowMoves'
Compiler:647:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:613:in `each_line'
Compiler:613:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:610:in `open'
Compiler:610:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:647:in `pbCompileShadowMoves'
Compiler:4016:in `pbCompileAllData'

This exception was logged in
C:\Users\Derek\Saved Games/Project Crimson S/errorlog.txt.
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[Maruno]

Originally Posted by Yero

Hi all, first of all, Maruno, thanks greatly for the new version you made. Remarkable! However, I wasn't able to fix a small comment problem I have. In my game, I included a sort of 'midgame encounters' in which the player face a wild/Legendary Pokemon directly, before turning it into a regular battle. In this, I use animations which need to be dodged. However, I can't get this right. I mean, the animation is there, but how do you create the game that the animation really has in impact on the player when touched.

On the other hand, you are able to make an event when the player touch an event, but can you either do something like Conditional Branch: if EV001 touch/hit EV002 then ...?

That's very much not an Essentials question. Any RMXP game could have something like that happen. It just requires clever eventing, since there's no way to decide whether an animation "touches" anything.

Originally Posted by pkmn.master

I copied over Trainers.txt and trainertypes.txt from my old project and I get this error when I try to run the game:

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Project Crimson S
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Exception: RuntimeError
Message: Undefined species constant name: [MRMIME]
Name must consist only of letters, numbers, and
underscores and can't begin with a number.
Make sure the name is defined in
PBS/pokemon.txt.
File PBS/shadowmoves.txt, line 36
MRMIME=SHADOWSTORM,SHADOWSHED


Compiler:928:in `pbGetConst'
Compiler:947:in `parseSpecies'
Compiler:652:in `pbCompileShadowMoves'
Compiler:647:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:613:in `each_line'
Compiler:613:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:610:in `open'
Compiler:610:in `pbCompilerEachCommentedLine'
Compiler:647:in `pbCompileShadowMoves'
Compiler:4016:in `pbCompileAllData'

This exception was logged in
C:\Users\Derek\Saved Games/Project Crimson S/errorlog.txt.
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In the latest version I renamed Mr Mime's internal name to MRMIME. It used to be MR_MIME. Make sure it shows as the new version (no underscore) in pokemon.txt, as well as in trainers.txt if any trainers use it.

[Ookiiushidesu]

I'm sorry if this has been asked before....

But is there a way to put an animation for puddles like there is with the grass? I have the animation made and stuff.. Just not sure how to apply it and all that.

Any help/tutorials?

[Maruno]

Originally Posted by Ookiiushidesu

I'm sorry if this has been asked before....

But is there a way to put an animation for puddles like there is with the grass? I have the animation made and stuff.. Just not sure how to apply it and all that.

Any help/tutorials?

Putting the animation in is as easy as making grass rustle while walking through it. However, the trick is to make the ripple animation appear below the player. I don't know how to do that, which is the main reason I haven't already done it.

Said technique would also be useful for making footprints in sand/snow.

[Evil Arms]

I couldn't find an example, so I was just wondering how to correctly buy a Pokémon from a vendor (similar to the Magikarp Salesman in RBY). I figure it's simple, and I made a makeshift event that's kind dinky. Any help here?

[Ho-oh 112]

Originally Posted by Evil Arms

I couldn't find an example, so I was just wondering how to correctly buy a Pokémon from a vendor (similar to the Magikarp Salesman in RBY). I figure it's simple, and I made a makeshift event that's kind dinky. Any help here?

Conditional branch if money is Greater than or equal to price subtract the money then use an Add Pokemon Script with the pokemon and level

[thepsynergist]

Hey guys, I've a question for you all.

I'm trying to make a push block puzzle for Pokemon Pyrite, and I've hit a bit of a snag.

I have a block that is set to Event Touch, and an event that tells it to move away from the player by one square. This works great but for one thing. When I am up against a wall, and I continue to push it, it stays there. This is what I want it to do, but, when I move away from it, up or down for example, it then moves away from me.

This can be problematic, as this means you could push the block when its stuck in a corner.

Any thoughts?

[Ratty524]

Hello. For my game, I am trying to give the player a starter that is holding an Oran Berry. When I attempted it, following the wiki, I got this error:

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Pokemon PC Version
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 14, map 89 (lecture1):

Exception: SyntaxError

Message: (eval):4:in `pbExecuteScript'compile error
(eval):2: syntax error
(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
                        ^

***Line '(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)' shouldn't begin with '(', try

putting '(' at the end of the last line

***Full script:

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)




Interpreter:275:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:1592:in `command_355'

Interpreter:493:in `execute_command'

Interpreter:193:in `update'

Interpreter:106:in `loop'

Interpreter:198:in `update'

Scene_Map:103:in `update'

Scene_Map:101:in `loop'

Scene_Map:114:in `update'

Scene_Map:68:in `main'



This exception was logged in 

C:\Users\Jordan\Saved Games/Pokemon PC Version/errorlog.txt.

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This is the exact script I have in the event:

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)

Did I do something wrong here? D:

[Maruno]

Originally Posted by Ratty524

Hello. For my game, I am trying to give the player a starter that is holding an Oran Berry. When I attempted it, following the wiki, I got this error:

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Pokemon PC Version
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Exception: RuntimeError
Message: Script error within event 14, map 89 (lecture1):
Exception: SyntaxError
Message: (eval):4:in `pbExecuteScript'compile error
(eval):2: syntax error  (PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
                        ^
***Line '(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)' shouldn't begin with '(', try
putting '(' at the end of the last line

***Full script:
poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)

Interpreter:275:in `pbExecuteScript'
Interpreter:1592:in `command_355'
Interpreter:493:in `execute_command'
Interpreter:193:in `update'
Interpreter:106:in `loop'
Interpreter:198:in `update'
Scene_Map:103:in `update'
Scene_Map:101:in `loop'
Scene_Map:114:in `update'
Scene_Map:68:in `main'

This exception was logged in
C:\Users\Jordan\Saved Games/Pokemon PC Version/errorlog.txt.
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OK   
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This is the exact script I have in the event:

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)

Did I do something wrong here? D:

The error message you deftly posted contains both the error, cause and solution. I would say what you did wrong was not read it.

[Ratty524]

It's not that I didn't read it, is that usually when I get that message, there is something more fundamentally wrong with the way I called the script. Anyway, I removed the parenthesis at the beginning, and got another syntax error:

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Pokemon PC Version
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 14, map 89 (lecture1):

Exception: SyntaxError

Message: (eval):2:in `pbExecuteScript'compile error
(eval):2: syntax error
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
                       ^

***Full script:

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)




Interpreter:275:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:1592:in `command_355'

Interpreter:493:in `execute_command'

Interpreter:193:in `update'

Interpreter:106:in `loop'

Interpreter:198:in `update'

Scene_Map:103:in `update'

Scene_Map:101:in `loop'

Scene_Map:114:in `update'

Scene_Map:68:in `main'



This exception was logged in 

C:\Users\Jordan\Saved Games/Pokemon PC Version/errorlog.txt.

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[Nickalooose]

Originally Posted by Ratty524

It's not that I didn't read it, is that usually when I get that message, there is something more fundamentally wrong with the way I called the script. Anyway, I removed the parenthesis at the beginning, and got another syntax error:

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Pokemon PC Version
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Exception: RuntimeError
Message: Script error within event 14, map 89 (lecture1):
Exception: SyntaxError
Message: (eval):2:in `pbExecuteScript'compile error
(eval):2: syntax error
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
                       ^
***Full script:
poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer) 
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)
Interpreter:275:in `pbExecuteScript'
Interpreter:1592:in `command_355'
Interpreter:493:in `execute_command'
Interpreter:193:in `update'
Interpreter:106:in `loop'
Interpreter:198:in `update'
Scene_Map:103:in `update'
Scene_Map:101:in `loop'
Scene_Map:114:in `update'
Scene_Map:68:in `main'
This exception was logged in 
C:\Users\Jordan\Saved Games/Pokemon PC Version/errorlog.txt.
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OK

The highlighted red needs to be;

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new(
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)

notice where the bracket starts... The error itself soley explains, as Maruno so nicely said... Again, all you needed to do was READ the error... Although error messages are quite cryptic, the solution is sometimes within the error, I fix LOTS of my errors by reading them. x

[Ratty524]

Originally Posted by Nickalooose

The highlighted red needs to be;

poke=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new(
PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)
poke.item=PBItems::ORANBERRY
pbAddToParty(poke)

notice where the bracket starts... The error itself soley explains, as Maruno so nicely said... Again, all you needed to do was READ the error... Although error messages are quite cryptic, the solution is sometimes within the error, I fix LOTS of my errors by reading them. x

Isn't that back to what I originally did? Anyway, I'll try that.
EDIT: It actually worked. It's weird, though. So it makes a difference if the bracket starts at the top line as oppose to the same one as pbwhatever. When the error states "Line '(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)' shouldn't begin with '('" I figured it meant that I was to move the beginning bracket to the last line on the bottom and the beginning bracket shouldn't be before PB at all.

[Ho-oh 112]

Ok, a new one.... The Pokemon/levels get screwed up after it reaches 100+ (3 digits)

Spoiler:

def pbWriteGift
shiny = 1 # shiny 1 anything else no
form = 0 # which form it is
species=pbChooseSpecies(1)
if species!=0
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("{1}", species))
params=ChooseNumberParams.new
params.setRange(1,PBExperience::MAXLEVEL)
params.setInitialValue(5)
params.setCancelValue(0)
level=Kernel.pbMessageChooseNumber(
_INTL("Set the Pokémon's level."),params)
if level>0
end
end
dat1=[species, level, shiny, form]
dat2=dat1.pack("CvM^*07")
filename="Gifts/Gift.MG"
File.open(filename,"wb"){|f|
f.write(i)
f.write(dat2)
}
end

def pbLoadMGift
data = nil
if $Trainer.party.length==6
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Sorry, you have 6 pokemon in the party."))
return
end
File.open("Gifts/Gift.MG","rb"){|f|
data=f.read
}
if data == nil
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Data is corrupt."))
return false
end
# decompiles
species=dat[0]
level=dat[1]
shiny=dat[2]
form=dat[3]
# checks
if level > PBExperience::MAXLEVEL || level < 0
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("gift is corrupt. {1}", level))
return false
end
if species > 493 || species < 0
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Gift is corrupt. {1}", species))
return false
end
# the gift passed
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("A gift was found"))
p=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new(species,level,$Trainer)
p.form = form
if shiny = 2
p.makeShiny
end
pbAddToParty(p)
end

[Maruno]

Originally Posted by Ratty524

Isn't that back to what I originally did? Anyway, I'll try that.
EDIT: It actually worked. It's weird, though. So it makes a difference if the bracket starts at the top line as oppose to the same one as pbwhatever. When the error states "Line '(PBSpecies::TADOLEDON,5,$Trainer)' shouldn't begin with '('" I figured it meant that I was to move the beginning bracket to the last line on the bottom and the beginning bracket shouldn't be before PB at all.

I pre-empted your confusion, and changed that error message in future versions to be a bit clearer.

The opening bracket tells the game to expect some parameters, so it looks to the next line to find them, rather than assume the next line is a separate command in itself. It will only stop looking for parameters once it hits the closing bracket at the end of the second line. In effect, it treats the two lines as one as required.

Or, y'know, use the Extend Text thingy.

[Maruno]

Line 87, which reads File.open(Gifts/Gift.MG,"rb"){|f|. Put quote marks around "Gifts/Gift.MG" like I just did.

I may just be reading this wrong, but it looks like your pbWriteGift will end up writing the details of the gift Pokémon over 8 million times (899*8999). I can't help but think that's not right.

Finally, one of your checks is if @level < 101 || @level < 0, when it probably should be if @level > PBExperience::MAXLEVEL || @level < 0. And you don't need PBSpecies:: when adding the new Pokémon, because species is a number.

Just a few observations.

[Ho-oh 112]

Originally Posted by Maruno

Line 87, which reads File.open(Gifts/Gift.MG,"rb"){|f|. Put quote marks around "Gifts/Gift.MG" like I just did.

I may just be reading this wrong, but it looks like your pbWriteGift will end up writing the details of the gift Pokémon over 8 million times (899*8999). I can't help but think that's not right.

Finally, one of your checks is if @level < 101 || @level < 0, when it probably should be if @level > PBExperience::MAXLEVEL || @level < 0. And you don't need PBSpecies:: when adding the new Pokémon, because species is a number.

Just a few observations.

Wow lot's of errors, anyways I'll try them.

[Ratty524]

Originally Posted by Maruno

I pre-empted your confusion, and changed that error message in future versions to be a bit clearer.

The opening bracket tells the game to expect some parameters, so it looks to the next line to find them, rather than assume the next line is a separate command in itself. It will only stop looking for parameters once it hits the closing bracket at the end of the second line. In effect, it treats the two lines as one as required.

Or, y'know, use the Extend Text thingy.

Oooh-kay. It's helpful that I understand how the compiler is reading these things, thank you.

[Nickalooose]

I have a 2 questions... not sure if this one is supposed to be here;
my extendtext.exe, doesn't want to work! Any reasons why, you think?
It doesn't do anything with a text box open... For those smart asses out there haha!

Also, I'm trying to do and learn something new! Learning the way Abillities and Moves work, by checking how to read .txt files, but I can't seem to get my game to read the text within my .txt file, and print in-game...

I have my file, I add which ever name to my pokemon.txt file, it does absolutely nothing, but if I remove my .txt file, it errors because it can't find said name in suchandsuch.txt...? And the new line within pokemon.txt causes an error due to an extra "unneccassary" line... So to speak! Any help on how this works is well apprechiated. X

[Maruno]

Originally Posted by Nickalooose

I have a 2 questions... not sure if this one is supposed to be here;
my extendtext.exe, doesn't want to work! Any reasons why, you think?
It doesn't do anything with a text box open... For those smart asses out there haha!

Simply double-clicking extendtext.exe while a text box or script box in RMXP is open should work. I don't know why it isn't, unless you're missing out some important piece of information (but I don't even know what that might be).

Originally Posted by Nickalooose

Also, I'm trying to do and learn something new! Learning the way Abillities and Moves work, by checking how to read .txt files, but I can't seem to get my game to read the text within my .txt file, and print in-game...

I have my file, I add which ever name to my pokemon.txt file, it does absolutely nothing, but if I remove my .txt file, it errors because it can't find said name in suchandsuch.txt...? And the new line within pokemon.txt causes an error due to an extra "unneccassary" line... So to speak! Any help on how this works is well apprechiated. X

Abilities/moves/items/Pokémon/etc. are defined by writing them in the PBS files. When the game is compiled, it reads this information, converts it into another form it can use later on, and writes it to one (or more) of the VCD files in the Data folder. When running the game, it is actually using these VCD files to get the required information about a move or ability.

Now, that will only define a "thing" in the game (e.g. Quick Feet is a "thing" it calls an "ability"). It does not define what a particular "thing" actually does (i.e. what the effect of Quick Feet is). Those effects need to be scripted, and are not part of the PBS files.

The PBS files need to remain where they are, because they are checked whenever the game is run from RMXP to see if they've changed. If they've changed, the game recompiles itself. If it can't find a PBS file in the first place, it throws a wobbly.

What the game does when it compiles (i.e. how it moves information around) is very complicated, and easy to muck up. I don't like to touch it, and I'm running the kit!

That's all just for your interest.

You've been unhelpfully non-specific in what you've been trying to add, and what errors you end up with. The best I can guess is that you're trying to give a Pokémon a new move or ability, but it's saying such a move/ability doesn't exist. You need to define them in their respective PBS files as well. You can't just type "GIGADRILLBREAKER" into a Pokémon's moveset and expect it to work - what makes Giga Drill Breaker a move is being defined in moves.txt.

When the game is compiled, there is a specific order to which PBS files are compiled. Moves are compiled before Pokémon (for instance), because the latter depends on having an up-to-date former. First Giga Drill Breaker becomes a "thing" known as a "move", and then the Pokémon are compiled where the moves are checked for the existence of a move called Giga Drill Breaker.

Basically, define your "things" in the appropriate PBS files first (moves in moves.txt, etc.), and then assign moves/abilities to particular Pokémon species (in pokemon.txt).

[Nickalooose]

Originally Posted by Maruno

Simply double-clicking extendtext.exe while a text box or script box in RMXP is open should work. I don't know why it isn't, unless you're missing out some important piece of information (but I don't even know what that might be).



Abilities/moves/items/Pokémon/etc. are defined by writing them in the PBS files. When the game is compiled, it reads this information, converts it into another form it can use later on, and writes it to one (or more) of the VCD files in the Data folder. When running the game, it is actually using these VCD files to get the required information about a move or ability.

Now, that will only define a "thing" in the game (e.g. Quick Feet is a "thing" it calls an "ability"). It does not define what a particular "thing" actually does (i.e. what the effect of Quick Feet is). Those effects need to be scripted, and are not part of the PBS files.

The PBS files need to remain where they are, because they are checked whenever the game is run from RMXP to see if they've changed. If they've changed, the game recompiles itself. If it can't find a PBS file in the first place, it throws a wobbly.

What the game does when it compiles (i.e. how it moves information around) is very complicated, and easy to muck up. I don't like to touch it, and I'm running the kit!

That's all just for your interest.

You've been unhelpfully non-specific in what you've been trying to add, and what errors you end up with. The best I can guess is that you're trying to give a Pokémon a new move or ability, but it's saying such a move/ability doesn't exist. You need to define them in their respective PBS files as well. You can't just type "GIGADRILLBREAKER" into a Pokémon's moveset and expect it to work - what makes Giga Drill Breaker a move is being defined in moves.txt.

When the game is compiled, there is a specific order to which PBS files are compiled. Moves are compiled before Pokémon (for instance), because the latter depends on having an up-to-date former. First Giga Drill Breaker becomes a "thing" known as a "move", and then the Pokémon are compiled where the moves are checked for the existence of a move called Giga Drill Breaker.

Basically, define your "things" in the appropriate PBS files first (moves in moves.txt, etc.), and then assign moves/abilities to particular Pokémon species (in pokemon.txt).

I figured it's this stupid laptop, Windows Vista, I hate the program, I prefer XP... Anyways...

Okay, say for arguments sake, I want;

Spoiler:

[1]
Name=BULBASAUR
InternalName=BULBASAUR
Kind=SEED
Pokedex=BULBASAUR can be seen napping in bright sunlight. There is a seed on its back. By soaking up the sun's rays, the seed grows progressively larger.
Type1=GRASS
Type2=POISON
BaseStats=45,49,49,45,65,65
Rareness=45
BaseEXP=64
Happiness=70
GrowthRate=Parabolic
StepsToHatch=5120
Color=Green
Habitat=Grassland
EffortPoints=0,0,0,0,1,0
Abilities=OVERGROW
Likes=RUNNING
Compatibility=1,7
Height=0.7
Weight=6.9
GenderRate=FemaleOneEighth
Moves=1,TACKLE,4,GROWL,7,LEECHSEED,10,VINEWHIP
EggMoves=LIGHTSCREEN,SKULLBASH,SAFEGUARD,CHARM
Evolutions=IVYSAUR,Level,16
BattlerPlayerY=17
BattlerEnemyY=15
BattlerAltitude=0

Then, within a text file called, likes.txt, it looks somewhat like this

1,RUNNING,Running,The Pokemon may attack first.
2,BANANAS,Bananas,The Pokemon may become confused.
3,SOCKS,Socks,The Pokemon will defrost itself if frozen.

I know adding Abillities is a pain, and you say make edits of already scripted abillities if you are goin to add any... So using how Quick Attack would work would be how this is easily scripted obviously with some edit so the Pokémon doesn't always attack first... But the problem I am getting, everything compiles and errors correctly, if RUNNING is spelt wrong or .txt file is missing, but the game itself, is not registering the info about the "thing" or the name, within the Pokédex and the move itself doesn't do anything... For the Pokédex thing, i literally just replaced the "Abillity" scripts with "Likes" info to check if this works, but nothin comes up, if I rename my likes.txt, to abillities.txt... It works! X

[Maruno]

You're trying to do what I feared you might be trying to do: create a new "thing".

The effects of these Likes aren't important, and can be scripted just fine. That would be the very very easy part.

PBS files aren't things you just write and they'll be compiled just because they're in the PBS folder. Search the scripts for "pokemon.txt", and you'll see it mentioned in the Compiler script section. The scripts know beforehand which PBS files it expects, and there are extensive scripts that deal with them and do the compiling. Any files in the PBS folder that it doesn't expect aren't looked at at all.

The same goes for lines within pokemon.txt. The scripts don't say what to do with a line beginning "Likes=", so it ignores that line. The information in the Likes line is never compiled and saved elsewhere for actual use. You can write whatever nonsense you want in pokemon.txt, but the only lines that are actually looked at are the ones beginning "blah=", where "blah" are the words in the tables in the wiki's Defining a species page.

You can add some code to make the game recognise a "Likes=" line, and say what to do with the information therein. However, this requires that the information is meaningful (a number or an already-defined "thing"), and that you also know the data structure of a Pokémon species to make sure you save the information correctly and in the right format. You would then need to load the appropriate information later on using this knowledge, and find the appropriate sub-information (i.e. the description based on the ID number), and then display it/use it to determine an effect. That's at the very least. If you want to define a new "thing" for Likes, that's a whole new and much larger kettle of fish in itself.

The reason you got something to work when you renamed "likes.txt" to "abilities.txt" is because the game decided that Bananas and Socks were abilities, and you just happened to use the same PBS data structure to "define" them. That's not a sign that you've done anything right, just that you can edit the list of possible abilities (which frankly, isn't hard).

My point is that there's a lot more involved than you think, and you shouldn't be trying to do anything like this. At all. It's way too easy to mess up, even for me who just explained all this.

[Cilerba]

@Ho-oh 112 - I've moved your thread into the Essentials thread, where it belongs. Post one more thing in the wrong section and it'll just get locked.