[Other] Tile script

[Wolfie x]

Hey guys I need your help because i'm stuck on a script im trying to make. So I'm trying to make a script where when you step on a specific tile the script will activate only if a certain flag has been activated. Kind of like in fire red how if you try to leave pallet town without a pokemon you'll be confronted by a person which tells you not to go in wild grass without one. I'm not sure how I would set this up but I think I have it down. Pretty sure I'm just confused on where i'm supposed to place the script in A-map, but if something's wrong with my script please don't hesitate to tell me.

#dynamic 0x800000

#org @start
checkflag 0x601
if 0x1 goto @done
msgbox @brother 0x6
release
end

#org @done
msgbox @1 0x6
applymovement 0x06 @move
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox @2 0x6
closeonkeypress
trainerbattle 0x1 0x006 0x0 @before @after @later
end

#org @before
= Lets go!

#org @after
= Very nice!

#org @later
msgbox @3 0x6
msgbox @4 0x4
closeonkeypress
msgbox @5 0x6
givemoney 0x2710 0x00
fadescreen 0x1
setflag 0x610
hidesprite 0x6
fadescreen 0x0
release
end

#org @brother
= Hello passerby! Have a nice day.

#org @1
= ???: Hey! I saw you battle my\nbrother

#org @move
#raw 0x10
#raw 0x13
#raw 0xFE

#org @2
= Steve: Hey man I saw you over\nthere! You looked great but my\pbrother's a real jerk. He took\nyour money huh?\pI'm real sorry about that. I'll\ngive it back to you on one\pcondition... battle me for it!

#org @3
= What a great battle! You're good.\nHere's your money back. My bro is\psuch an embarrassment sometimes...

#org @4
= \v\h01 Got his money back!

#org @5
= Catch you later maybe, eh?

Thanks!

 

[Mana1]

For these kinds of scripts, you don't actually need a flag to control it! :D

Grab a green script tile in A-Map (one of the event options when you go to add one) and edit your script slightly. Instead of using flags, we'll use variables.

#org @start
lockall
msgbox @1 0x6
applymovement 0x06 @move
waitmovement 0x0
msgbox @2 0x6
closeonkeypress
trainerbattle 0x1 0x006 0x0 @before @after @later
end

#org @before
= Lets go!

#org @after
= Very nice!

#org @later
msgbox @3 0x6
msgbox @4 0x4
closeonkeypress
msgbox @5 0x6
givemoney 0x2710 0x00
fadescreen 0x1
setvar 0x4011 0x1
setflag 0x610 <--- Recommend you change to 0x200~
hidesprite 0x6
fadescreen 0x0
releaseall
end

You can see I got ride of your checkflag section, and went straight for the main event. What allows me to do that? Well, it's the SETVAR I have put at the end. Variables are slightly different to flags - they cannot be used to hidesprites, but they can count multiple values.

You can see I have used 4011 in my demonstration - to get this script to work you would go to A-Map and edit the details of this event so that:

var number = 4011
var value = 0000 (activates when variable is zero)

Since zero is the default of a variable, this script will act straight away, when the player stands on the tile. Once they battle this person, and get to @later, the variable is set to 1 - the script will not activate if they step on the tile again.

Similarly, if you want this battle to not take place straight away, you could put the varnumber in A-Map to 0001 and the setvar 0x4011 to 0x2.

Any questions, fire away! Here is a useful tutorial on flags, variables and script tiles.

 

[Wolfie x]

For these kinds of scripts, you don't actually need a flag to control it! :D

Grab a green script tile in A-Map (one of the event options when you go to add one) and edit your script slightly. Instead of using flags, we'll use variables.



You can see I got ride of your checkflag section, and went straight for the main event. What allows me to do that? Well, it's the SETVAR I have put at the end. Variables are slightly different to flags - they cannot be used to hidesprites, but they can count multiple values.

You can see I have used 4011 in my demonstration - to get this script to work you would go to A-Map and edit the details of this event so that:

var number = 4011
var value = 0000 (activates when variable is zero)

Since zero is the default of a variable, this script will act straight away, when the player stands on the tile. Once they battle this person, and get to @later, the variable is set to 1 - the script will not activate if they step on the tile again.

Similarly, if you want this battle to not take place straight away, you could put the varnumber in A-Map to 0001 and the setvar 0x4011 to 0x2.

Any questions, fire away! Here is a useful tutorial on flags, variables and script tiles.

This helped a lot! I understand vars and tile scripts now so thank you. It was a bit confusing for a beginner but we all have to start somewhere huh ;P.

One question though. Is there a way for the tile script to activate only if another script was activated.

Example: You battle somebody thus activating the tile script a couple spaces ahead of you. Where as if you didn't battle the person the tile script would do nothing and you'd simply walk over it. I feel like I'm making it complicated and there's a more simpler way of doing this but thank you!

 

[Mana1]

Yes :) sequence the script with variables.

Script 1: sets var to 0x1
Script 2: (tile var value 0001) activates only after script one, pushes value to 0x2

You could continue that on further ^^.