Adding a new form to pokemon

Dustborn · Oct 3, 2015

Basically I want to include a type in my game called Corrupted. In the Corrupted form, the pokemon loses its primary typing and it is replaced with Corruption typing. These pokemon will not be wild and will only be used by certain NPCs in the game, as well as having their own sprites. Any ideas on how I would go about setting this up?

Kiedisticelixer · Oct 3, 2015

Dustborn said:
Basically I want to include a type in my game called Corrupted. In the Corrupted form, the pokemon loses its primary typing and it is replaced with Corruption typing. These pokemon will not be wild and will only be used by certain NPCs in the game, as well as having their own sprites. Any ideas on how I would go about setting this up?

If there is a simpler way, I don't know, but you should manually make one new form for every Pokemon that you plan the trainers to use. See the MultiplesForms script for help. Check Castform for a change in typing, Deoxys for a BST and movelist change, Giratina for ability and... that's it.

Rot8er_ConeX · Oct 3, 2015

A few questions:
1.) Is Corruption type added to the PBS file types.txt?
2.) You said "loses its primary typing"? Does that mean it keeps it's secondary type? For example, Corrupted Gallade, would he be Corruption/Fighting or pure Corruption?
3.) Are you also planning to have Shadow Pokemon in addition to Corrupted Pokemon?

TheTrain2000 · Oct 3, 2015

It's funny this is asked. I have the exact same thing in my game, except for the fact that mine is called Tainted Pokémon.

You can see a question I posted here about adding an icon to Pokémon.

What I did is I added a whole new Pokémon in pokemon.txt, and I didn't create a type for it. For the graphics, I just changed the hue of the Pokémon I wanted to make "Tainted".

Examples:

Spoiler:

Hope this helped!

Dustborn · Oct 3, 2015

Rot8er_ConeX said:
A few questions:
1.) Is Corruption type added to the PBS file types.txt?
2.) You said "loses its primary typing"? Does that mean it keeps it's secondary type? For example, Corrupted Gallade, would he be Corruption/Fighting or pure Corruption?
3.) Are you also planning to have Shadow Pokemon in addition to Corrupted Pokemon?

The corruption typing is added to the typex.txt
Yes for example Gallade would be Corruption/Fighting
I do not plan to have Shadow Pokemon

Rot8er_ConeX · Oct 3, 2015

Okay, then:

1.) In PokeBattle_Pokemon, find this line. Add the red line below it:

Code:

  attr_accessor(:shinyflag)   # Forces the shininess (true/false)
[COLOR="Red"]  attr_accessor(:corruptflag)   # Forces the corruption (true/false)[/COLOR]

2.) Add this code within PokeBattle_Pokemon:

Code:

################################################################################
# Corruption
################################################################################
  def isCorrupted?
    return @corruptflag if @corruptflag!=nil
    return false
  end
  
  def makeCorrupt
    @corruptflag=true
  end
  
  def makeNotCorrupt
    @corruptflag=false
  end

3.) Find the following code and add in the red line:

Code:

# Returns this Pokémon's first type.
  def type1
    [COLOR="Red"]return getConst(PBTypes,:CORRUPTION) if self.isCorrupt?[/COLOR]
    dexdata=pbOpenDexData
    pbDexDataOffset(dexdata,@species,8)
    ret=dexdata.fgetb
    dexdata.close
    return ret
  end

4.) Next up, move to the script section PTrainer_NPCTrainers. Find this code, and REMOVE the red part:

Code:

      if poke[TPSHADOW]   # if this is a Shadow Pokémon
        pokemon.makeShadow[COLOR="Red"] rescue nil
        pokemon.pbUpdateShadowMoves(true) rescue nil
        pokemon.makeNotShiny[/COLOR]
      end

Then change the line that reads "pokemon.makeShadow" so that it instead reads "pokemon.makeCorrupt".

5.) Now, move to the script section PSystem_Utilities and find the function "def pbLoadPokemonBitmapSpecies(". In it, there's two instances of "pokemon.isShadow?". Change both to "pokemon.isCorrupt?".

6.) Find the function "def pbCheckPokemonBitmapFiles(". There are two instances of

Code:

tshadow ? "_shadow" : ""

.
Change both to

Code:

tshadow ? "_corrupt" : ""

.
LEAVE ANY OTHER REFERENCES TO SHADOW POKEMON AS THEY ARE.

7.) Find the function "def pbPokemonIconFile(". There's one instance of "pokemon.isShadow?". Change it to "pokemon.isCorrupt?"

8.) Find the function "def pbCheckPokemonIconFiles(". There's two instances of

Code:

tshadow ? "_shadow" : ""

.
Change both to

Code:

tshadow ? "_corrupt" : ""

.
LEAVE ANY OTHER REFERENCES TO SHADOW POKEMON AS THEY ARE.

Now, you can make a sprite for a Corrupted Pokemon the same way Essentials has sprites for Shadow Pokemon. For example, the sprite for a Corrupted Gallade would be labelled "475_corrupt". The icon for a Corrupted Gallade would be "icon475_corrupt".

You can make any trainer's Pokemon Corrupt the same way Pokemon become Shadow, by putting the word "corrupt" in a certain place in the trainers.txt PBS file.

The Pokemon's first type is replaced with the Corruption type (assuming that you made its internal name CORRUPTION.

...and this took hours to type. Mostly because my girlfriend kept distracting me with errands.

Dustborn · Oct 4, 2015

Wow man this is actually really helpful. I am really thankful for this. Adding your name to the special thanks area of my credits ^^. I didnt actually expect you to go and write the code. I owe you big time man

Rot8er_ConeX · Oct 4, 2015

Dustborn said:
Wow man this is actually really helpful. I am really thankful for this. Adding your name to the special thanks area of my credits ^^. I didnt actually expect you to go and write the code. I owe you big time man

You're welcome. I did a similar thing in my own game to avoid writing stuff for every single Pokemon in the Multiple Forms section when I included Delta Pokemon.

Dustborn · Oct 4, 2015

Ok. I dont know if this has to do with scripting or not. Corrupt pokemon are immune to Fairy type moves. Whenever I use a Fairy type move against a Corrupt pokemon I get this error

Spoiler:

The game doesnt crash, and the Fairy move doesnt do damage. The battle continues after closing the error message. However there is no "It didnt affect ____" message.Any ideas on how to fix this?

Also the sprite is not showing up. Does this have something to do with EBS? Ive been thinking about pulling it and more and more things seem to point towards making this so much simpler without it