Changing Shiny rate temporarily

[nieveso]

(Sorry, I'm a half tard. Please bear with my utter stupidity. Because as Einstein said. It is infinite)
I've recently implemented FL's random egg generator into my game to give the player a random egg. But I wanted to make it sort of like the egg given in pokemon crystal with a significantly higher chance to be shiny. How would I go about changing the shiny rate to about 1/32 (Which I believe would be setting the value in settings to 2048) before the egg is handed over, and changing it back as soon as the egg is given?

(I don't want this to be implemented into the Random egg generator code. As I want to be able to call upon it later, for instance if I wanted it to trigger when I entered a certain area. (So I could just set it as an invisible event that would trigger on touch)).

 

[mej71]

You could add a conditional branch to the utility that generates the egg, that activates on a switch.

def pbGenerateEgg(species,text="")
  return false if $Trainer.party.length>=6
  if species.is_a?(String) || species.is_a?(Symbol)
    species=getID(PBSpecies,species)
  end
  # Get egg steps
  dexdata=pbOpenDexData
  pbDexDataOffset(dexdata,species,21)
  eggsteps=dexdata.fgetw
  dexdata.close
  # Generate egg
  egg=PokeBattle_Pokemon.new(species,EGGINITIALLEVEL,$Trainer)
  egg.calcStats
  egg.name=_INTL("Egg")
  egg.eggsteps=eggsteps
  egg.obtainText=text
  [COLOR="Red"]if $game_switches[XX]==true #XX is whatever switch number
   if rand(32)==1 #1 in 32 chance
   egg.makeShiny
   else
   egg.makeNotShiny
   end
  end[/COLOR]
  # Add egg to party
  $Trainer.party[$Trainer.party.length]=egg
  return true
end

This way, you can make this effect apply to egg generating other than just FL's, when you turn the switch on

 

[nieveso]

Works, Thanks a bunch man :)