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

[Maruno]

This may be a silly problem, but I'm new to Pokemon Essentials and don't have much coding experience.

I wanted to change the resolution of the game screen, so I look around in the Notes and found that I had to change the @@width and @@height lines in Sprite Resizer. I did so, and got this problem:

EDIT: I just realised that I can't insert images which are hosted on Photobucket into my posts until I have made 15 posts or more, so it has been attached as a .pgn.

As you can see, the menus and text size/text boxes are too large and cover almost the entire screen, and you can't see the battle screen at all aside from a cropped look at Pikachu. Does anyone have any way for me to fix the menus, boxes, battle screen and text size? Or should I avoid changing the resolution until I either learn more about coding or get help from someone who knows RPGXP's language?

You can halve the size of all the message windows and the battle screen by going into SpriteResizer, finding the line "$ResizeFactor=1.0" and changing it to equal 0.5 instead.

There's a part of this problem that I'm confused by, though. The bottom left screenshot shows the maps have already been resized, but the message boxes have not. Either you've done more to the scripts that you're not telling us, or something dodgy's going on. Either way, don't change the screen size in the in-game Options menu, because that will just confuse things.

 

[Minorthreat0987]

So I did a little bit of research and the whole no day/night encounter thing has been around since like the January 13th release, but I was able to re-implement it so if any one wants it just replace your PokemonEncounter Script with this script!

To re-implement different encounters depending on the time of day replace your PokemonEncounter Script with this.

module EncounterTypes
 Land=0
 Cave=1
 Water=2
 RockSmash=3
 OldRod=4
 GoodRod=5
 SuperRod=6
 HeadbuttLow=7
 HeadbuttHigh=8
 LandMorning=9
 LandDay=10
 LandNight=11
 BugContest=12
 Names=[
   "Land",
   "Cave",
   "Water",
   "RockSmash",
   "OldRod",
   "GoodRod",
   "SuperRod",
   "HeadbuttLow",
   "HeadbuttHigh",
   "LandMorning",
   "LandDay",
   "LandNight",
   "BugContest"
  ]
  EnctypeChances=[
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1],
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1],
   [60,30,5,4,1],
   [60,30,5,4,1],
   [70,30],
   [60,20,20],
   [40,40,15,4,1],
   [30,25,20,10,5,5,4,1],
   [30,25,20,10,5,5,4,1],
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1],
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1],
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1],
   [20,20,10,10,10,10,5,5,4,4,1,1]
  ]
end

class PokemonEncounters
 def initialize
  @enctypes=[]
  @density=nil
 end
 def stepcount
  return @stepcount
 end
 def clearStepCount
  @stepcount=0
 end
 def hasEncounter?(enc)
  return false if @density==nil || enc<0
  return @enctypes[enc] ? true : false  
 end
 def isCave?
  return false if @density==nil
  return @enctypes[1] ? true : false
 end
 def isGrass?
  return false if @density==nil
  return (@enctypes[0] || @enctypes[9] || @enctypes[10] || @enctypes[11] || @enctypes[12]) ? true : false
 end
 def isEncounterPossibleHere?
  if $PokemonGlobal && $PokemonGlobal.surfing
   return true
  elsif self.isCave?
   return true
  elsif self.isGrass?
   return pbIsGrassTag?($game_map.terrain_tag($game_player.x,$game_player.y))
  else
   return false
  end
 end
 def pbEncounterType
  if $PokemonGlobal && $PokemonGlobal.surfing
   return EncounterTypes::Water
  elsif self.isCave?
   return EncounterTypes::Cave
 elsif self.isGrass?
   hour=Time.now.hour
   enctype=EncounterTypes::Land
   if pbInBugContest?
    if self.hasEncounter?(EncounterTypes::BugContest)
     enctype=EncounterTypes::BugContest
    end
   elsif hour<6 || hour>=20
    if self.hasEncounter?(EncounterTypes::LandNight)
     enctype=EncounterTypes::LandNight
    end
   elsif hour<12
    if self.hasEncounter?(EncounterTypes::LandMorning)
     enctype=EncounterTypes::LandMorning
    end
   else
    if self.hasEncounter?(EncounterTypes::LandDay)
     enctype=EncounterTypes::LandDay
    end
   end
   return enctype
  else
   return -1
  end
 end
 def setup(mapID)
  @density=nil
  @stepcount=0
  @enctypes=[]
  begin
   data=load_data("Data/encounters.dat")
   if data.is_a?(Hash) && data[mapID]
    @density=data[mapID][0]
    @enctypes=data[mapID][1]
   else
    @density=nil
    @enctypes=[]
   end
  rescue
   @density=nil
   @enctypes=[]
  end
 end
 def pbMapHasEncounter?(mapID,enctype)
  data=load_data("Data/encounters.dat")
  if data.is_a?(Hash) && data[mapID]
    enctypes=data[mapID][1]
    density=data[mapID][0]
  else
    return false
  end
  return false if density==nil || enctype<0
  return enctypes[enctype] ? true : false  
 end
 def pbMapEncounter(mapID,enctype)
  if enctype<0 || enctype>EncounterTypes::EnctypeChances.length
   raise ArgumentError.new(_INTL("Encounter type out of range"))
  end
  data=load_data("Data/encounters.dat")
  if data.is_a?(Hash) && data[mapID]
    enctypes=data[mapID][1]
  else
    return nil
  end
  return nil if enctypes[enctype]==nil
  chances=EncounterTypes::EnctypeChances[enctype]
  rnd=rand(100)
  chosenpkmn=0
  chance=0
  for i in 0...chances.length
   chance+=chances[i]
   if rnd<chance
    chosenpkmn=i
    break
   end
  end
  encounter=enctypes[enctype][chosenpkmn]
  level=encounter[1]+rand(1+encounter[2]-encounter[1])
  return [encounter[0],level]
 end
 def pbEncounteredPokemon(enctype)
  if enctype<0 || enctype>EncounterTypes::EnctypeChances.length
   raise ArgumentError.new(_INTL("Encounter type out of range"))
  end
  return nil if @enctypes[enctype]==nil
  chances=EncounterTypes::EnctypeChances[enctype]
  rnd=rand(100)
  chosenpkmn=0
  chance=0
  for i in 0...chances.length
   chance+=chances[i]
   if rnd<chance
    chosenpkmn=i
    break
   end
  end
  encounter=@enctypes[enctype][chosenpkmn]
  return nil if !encounter
  level=encounter[1]+rand(1+encounter[2]-encounter[1])
  return [encounter[0],level]
 end
 def pbGenerateEncounter(enctype)
  if enctype<0 || enctype>EncounterTypes::EnctypeChances.length
   raise ArgumentError.new(_INTL("Encounter type out of range"))
  end
  return nil if @density==nil
  return nil if @density[enctype]==0 || !@density[enctype]
  return nil if @enctypes[enctype]==nil
  @stepcount+=1
  return nil if @stepcount<=3 # Check three steps after battle ends
  encount=@density[enctype]*16
  if $PokemonGlobal.bicycle
   encount=(encount*4/5)
  end
  if $PokemonMap.blackFluteUsed
   encount/=2
  end
  if $PokemonMap.whiteFluteUsed
   encount=(encount*3/2)
  end
  if $Trainer.party.length>0
   if isConst?($Trainer.party[0].item,PBItems,:CLEANSETAG)
    encount=(encount*2/3)
   else
    if isConst?($Trainer.party[0].ability,PBAbilities,:STENCH)
     encount=(encount*1/2)
    elsif isConst?($Trainer.party[0].ability,PBAbilities,:ILLUMINATE)
     encount=(encount*2/3)
    end
   end
  end
  return nil if rand(2874)>=encount
  encpoke=pbEncounteredPokemon(enctype)
  return nil if !encpoke
  if $PokemonGlobal.repel>0 && 
     $Trainer.party.length>0 &&
     encpoke[1]<=$Trainer.party[0].level
   return nil
  end
  return encpoke
 end
end

However let it be known, I haven't been able to make it so you can add LandMorning/LandDay/LandNight encounters using the Editor, so you must add them by hand.

I hope this helps anyone who was having issues with that whole thing.

 

[~Frozen Darkness~]

Still looking for an answer to my question on the previous page, since Crazyninjaguy's idea didn't work. It gave me a NoMethod Error for "onStartBattle"

Question:

Is it possible to use the PokemonShadow and PokemonPurifyChamber scripts in an older version? (Late 2009)

 

[thepsynergist]

Hey Crazyninjaguy, your script worked flawlessly now. Thank you again for your help.

 

[Mrchewy]

Hey folks, I've been recently trying to edit my battle scene to allow for Pokémon animations. I've had somewhat limited success, so was wondering if anyone could offer any suggestions.

Basically, I want the sprite of the enemy Pokémon, once it slides in/pops out of its ball, to alternate between it second frame (which has the prefix "ani_" in the battlers folder) 2-3 times. The actual scripting seemed fairly simple, but after almost two hours of tweaking I've experienced little luck working it out.

 

[Crazyninjaguy]

Luka S.J released a tutorial around christmas time on this, here you go :)

 

[Mrchewy]

That was... entirely unexpected =o. I've never seen such third-party documentation for the SK before, lol.

I got -very- close to successful replicating this effect by the looks of things. This system is a lot better, however xD. Many thanks Crazyninjaguy.

 

[lezebulon]

Hi

What is the best way to have a NPC walking to some place, followed by another NPC, followed by the player ?
I usually use the "set moveroute" event, but is there a simpler way (or another way) ?

 

[Minorthreat0987]

does anyone know how to change the screen size of the editor? I changed my game screen size to the DS size, but the editor is still GBA size.

 

[Crazyninjaguy]

does anyone know how to change the screen size of the editor? I changed my game screen size to the DS size, but the editor is still GBA size.

Do you really need the editor DS size lol?
If you resize it, it wont be any different, just longer.

But if you really want to, then do this:

1. Go into the Data folder.
2. Rename Scripts.rxdata to ScriptsORIGINAL.rxdata
3. Rename EditorScripts.rxdata to Scripts.rxdata
4. Load up the project.
5. Edit the scripts.
6. Rename the .rxdata files until they are as they were.

 

[incognito322]

Eh, whenever I test play the game, it seems to erase the file I saved previously. Any help?

 

[Cilerba]

Hmm...Is it possible to create a script that generates a circular shadow such as D/P/Pt/HG/SS?

 

[Crazyninjaguy]

Well a script for that really isn't needed, just add a shadow below the sprite on the Charsets.

 

[Trikeboy]

Checked all of that and updated, nothing changed.

@CrazyNinjaGuy: I don't really know how to do that, it just made the player be stuck in one spot not moving...

I thought I'd give an image example of the problem:

When you were making the map did you put something on the third layer and use a blank tile to cover it up. If you do that RMXP reads the top most passage settings for the tile. Try deleting the house on layer 3 and putting it back in on layer 2. I once ruined an entire map by trying to fix errors by putting blank tiles on the third layer.

 

[Cilerba]

Well a script for that really isn't needed, just add a shadow below the sprite on the Charsets.

I have tried that, but it is a pain, since MS Paint doesn't have layer support, and photoshop creates a new layer everytime I copy+paste the shadow.

 

[Crazyninjaguy]

Hrm, well it could be possible, as i said before though, i have alot of requests at the moment so i'll have to do it when i've finished them.

 

[Cilerba]

Hrm, well it could be possible, as i said before though, i have alot of requests at the moment so i'll have to do it when i've finished them.

Alright, thanks a lot. Sorry, if I was acting like a n00b, or am just a pain in the neck >.<

 

[Minorthreat0987]

Do you really need the editor DS size lol?
If you resize it, it wont be any different, just longer.

But if you really want to, then do this:

1. Go into the Data folder.
2. Rename Scripts.rxdata to ScriptsORIGINAL.rxdata
3. Rename EditorScripts.rxdata to Scripts.rxdata
4. Load up the project.
5. Edit the scripts.
6. Rename the .rxdata files until they are as they were.

It just makes using the Reposition sprite feature in the editor more accurate which is important because I would hate to have to edit all those by hand using trial and error. Thank you for the help though! :)

Anyway new question, does anyone know how to fix this?

When the opponent pokemon dies it goes infront of the Hero's hp bar for the most part which is cosmetically unappealing...Thanks for the help!

 

[Crazyninjaguy]

Again, i haven't tested this but it should work.

1. Find this script part in Pokebattle_ActualScene (line 497 - 533)

  if doublebattle
   case @battler.index
    when 0
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doublePlayerBox")
     @spriteX=256
     @spriteY=124+yoffset
    when 1 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doubleEnemyBox")
     @spriteX=26
     @spriteY=10+yoffset
     @spritebaseX=0
     @spritebaseY=0
    when 2 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doublePlayerBox")
     @spriteX=280
     @spriteY=174+yoffset
    when 3 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doubleEnemyBox")
     @spriteX=2
     @spriteY=60+yoffset
   end
  else
   case @battler.index
    when 0
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/singlePlayerBox")
     @spriteX=254
     @spriteY=148+yoffset
     @showhp=true
     @showexp=true
     @statusCX=40
     @statusY=44
    when 1 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/singleEnemyBox")
     @spriteX=26
     @spriteY=32+yoffset
   end
  end

2. Replace it with this:

  if doublebattle
   case @battler.index
    when 0
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doublePlayerBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=256
     @spriteY=124+yoffset
    when 1 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doubleEnemyBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=26
     @spriteY=10+yoffset
     @spritebaseX=0
     @spritebaseY=0
    when 2 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doublePlayerBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=280
     @spriteY=174+yoffset
    when 3 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/doubleEnemyBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=2
     @spriteY=60+yoffset
   end
  else
   case @battler.index
    when 0
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/singlePlayerBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=254
     @spriteY=148+yoffset
     @showhp=true
     @showexp=true
     @statusCX=40
     @statusY=44
    when 1 
     @databox=AnimatedBitmap.new("Graphics/Pictures/singleEnemyBox")
     @databox.z = 999999999
     @spriteX=26
     @spriteY=32+yoffset
   end
  end

So yeah, should work but i haven't tried it.

 

[Mrchewy]

Well a script for that really isn't needed, just add a shadow below the sprite on the Charsets.

Well, I was trying to do this recently and at first I thought it was the easy solution... until I realized that it looks ridiculous whenever you jump a ledge (the shadow sticks with you). A script for this would be great.