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Hello everyone. I've been stuck on this problem for a while now and was hoping I could get a couple answers of what I need to do.
So basically for my fan game I want to change the sprites during battle. Since I'm not good at making animated sprites, I thought I could just temporarily change the battle sprites to like, a "fainting" sprite when a Pokémon is knocked out, an "attacking" sprite when the Pokémon uses a move, and a "damaged" sprite when the Pokémon takes damage (I guess it'd be more like a "flinching" sprite). Then they'd change back to the normal sprites if none of those things are happening. I don't have any examples put together right now cuz I don't know if that's even possible to do, but I could throw something together real quick if that would help.
I dug around the scripts and found a couple places where the sprites are being drawn but I'm not 100% sure what I actually need to change or how to define the new sprites . I tried to see how Illusion handles changing the sprites but I couldn't figure out where the sprite is actually being drawn. I might just be looking in the wrong section of code, I was mostly looking in PokeBattle_Scene. I've coded a lot of other things but I can't find any examples of how the sprites are changed during battle. I was thinking I could use pbChangePokemon or pbChangeSpecies but I want them to be the same species, just a different version of the sprite, kinda like how the shiny sprites or the male/female sprites are.
Also I'm using EBS so I don't know if changing anything in the default scripts will actually work. I'd rather not use the default battle graphics because I like how EBS looks and seeing full back sprites (rather than say…just the back of the Pokémon's head) is really nice. I just can't animate well but if there's no way to make this happen with EBS I might just have to suck it up and try to make some decent animations, since I feel like having static sprites all the time would be kinda dull and this could be a nice compromise if I could actually get it to work.
Sorry if this doesn't make sense, this is the first time I've asked for help on my game so I may not have worded stuff right. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.
So basically for my fan game I want to change the sprites during battle. Since I'm not good at making animated sprites, I thought I could just temporarily change the battle sprites to like, a "fainting" sprite when a Pokémon is knocked out, an "attacking" sprite when the Pokémon uses a move, and a "damaged" sprite when the Pokémon takes damage (I guess it'd be more like a "flinching" sprite). Then they'd change back to the normal sprites if none of those things are happening. I don't have any examples put together right now cuz I don't know if that's even possible to do, but I could throw something together real quick if that would help.
I dug around the scripts and found a couple places where the sprites are being drawn but I'm not 100% sure what I actually need to change or how to define the new sprites . I tried to see how Illusion handles changing the sprites but I couldn't figure out where the sprite is actually being drawn. I might just be looking in the wrong section of code, I was mostly looking in PokeBattle_Scene. I've coded a lot of other things but I can't find any examples of how the sprites are changed during battle. I was thinking I could use pbChangePokemon or pbChangeSpecies but I want them to be the same species, just a different version of the sprite, kinda like how the shiny sprites or the male/female sprites are.
Also I'm using EBS so I don't know if changing anything in the default scripts will actually work. I'd rather not use the default battle graphics because I like how EBS looks and seeing full back sprites (rather than say…just the back of the Pokémon's head) is really nice. I just can't animate well but if there's no way to make this happen with EBS I might just have to suck it up and try to make some decent animations, since I feel like having static sprites all the time would be kinda dull and this could be a nice compromise if I could actually get it to work.
Sorry if this doesn't make sense, this is the first time I've asked for help on my game so I may not have worded stuff right. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.
