[EM] Battle Engine Upgrade (On Halt, Will undergo reboot!)
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Could you please explain this in detail?
Was fixed in the last update. :)
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I have some questions about the engine:
* If I want that new moves boost their power with iron fist ability, I add the move name to ironfist_moves_table in battlescripts.c file, correct? Or I must edit something more?
* If I add new moves the AI knows how using them? I mean if the AI uses the moves ID or the moves effect ID.
* And the last one, the critical system's chances and stages are similar to gen VI or previus gens?
* If I want that new moves boost their power with iron fist ability, I add the move name to ironfist_moves_table in battlescripts.c file, correct? Or I must edit something more?
* If I add new moves the AI knows how using them? I mean if the AI uses the moves ID or the moves effect ID.
* And the last one, the critical system's chances and stages are similar to gen VI or previus gens?
That's all you have to do.
Depends what you mean by new moves. If you don't create a new battlescript then yes, it will know. It reads moves from effect IDs(mostly)
It's the one from GenVI.
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Thank you! I would refer to create a new move with existing moves effects so according to your explanation there would be no problem with AI. I glad to hear that :)
About what I wrote in a past post, is there any chance that you change the config ITEM_STEAL and ITEM_SWAP options in order to they only affect to trainer battles when they set true?
Fixed it. Now the defines only affect trainer battles and items will be always possible to steal if used on wild pokemon.
Hi DizzyEgg, I was wondering if any of these features could feasibly be isolated. For example if I wanted to only use the Wild Double Battles hack, would I just have to edit the "config.h" file to have only that set as 'True', and/or make some other simple changes? Or are these features interconnected to a point where that wouldn't be such a good idea? I understand this is meant to be a type of overhaul of the battle system, but I wanted to keep my hack more faithful to Gen III in terms of battle function except for a few things, Wild Double Battles being one of them if possible.
If it's a no-go, is there any other way to get this kind of functionality working fully?
Thank you.
EDIT 7: It appears there are still a few file dependencies that are keeping this from working right, and I'm thinking it has to do with whatever file(s) handles the progression of battles, maybe like one of the 'battle system' C files or something. I tried tinkering with the other stuff over the past few days to see if I could get it on my own by narrowing it down from from scratch and am not making much progress. But I am learning how to intepret/fix cmd errors though LOL. Can you point me to where those codes are located? I actually might be able to get this working from there since it's pretty close now.
EDIT 8: I've even tried leaving everything in those files before compiling (after removing all 'c' and 's' files from the 'src' folder and all folders inside besides the two DWB ones (but I left all 'h' files)). Whatever is missing seems to be whatever tells the game what to do after catching a Pokémon (such as giving EXP and keeping the battle music going until the end), but I'm not really sure. My best guess, since it still will not work even if I don't change the other files, is that it's one or more of the other 'c' and/or 's' files that is needed but I don't know what lines to look for in the code.
If it's a no-go, is there any other way to get this kind of functionality working fully?
Thank you.
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EDIT 7: It appears there are still a few file dependencies that are keeping this from working right, and I'm thinking it has to do with whatever file(s) handles the progression of battles, maybe like one of the 'battle system' C files or something. I tried tinkering with the other stuff over the past few days to see if I could get it on my own by narrowing it down from from scratch and am not making much progress. But I am learning how to intepret/fix cmd errors though LOL. Can you point me to where those codes are located? I actually might be able to get this working from there since it's pretty close now.
EDIT 8: I've even tried leaving everything in those files before compiling (after removing all 'c' and 's' files from the 'src' folder and all folders inside besides the two DWB ones (but I left all 'h' files)). Whatever is missing seems to be whatever tells the game what to do after catching a Pokémon (such as giving EXP and keeping the battle music going until the end), but I'm not really sure. My best guess, since it still will not work even if I don't change the other files, is that it's one or more of the other 'c' and/or 's' files that is needed but I don't know what lines to look for in the code.
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I get this kind of question once in a while and the answer has always been a no. However, in this particular case, yes, you could add just this one feature.
How to do it may seem a bit complicated, but it's really simple.
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Thank you very much! I really wanted to use this feature without it affected to wild battles.
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Suggestion that is battle-engine-related but may still fall out of the scope of this project.
Functionality for Totem Pokemon-style auras. The ability to set some variable and have wild battles have a stat boost aura corresponding to what you set the variable to. Could define them in a table somewhere for number of boosts and which stats (including Evasion, Accuracy, and critical hit ratio). I know that this is sort of out there, but the ability to do something like this would be great for certain boss battles (in combination with some of the other changes that have already been done). It would even work well for harder wild Legendary Pokemon, as they'll have a better chance to wreck your team before you can catch them. I can think of a few instances in the canon games where this would've been great to have like the Ghost Marowak battle, the Kecleon you scare out of their camouflage around Fortree's routes, awakening the Regis, any place there are groups of wild Unown as they canonically amplify their power when there's a ton of them around (+6 Sp. Atk anyone?), etc.
Functionality for Totem Pokemon-style auras. The ability to set some variable and have wild battles have a stat boost aura corresponding to what you set the variable to. Could define them in a table somewhere for number of boosts and which stats (including Evasion, Accuracy, and critical hit ratio). I know that this is sort of out there, but the ability to do something like this would be great for certain boss battles (in combination with some of the other changes that have already been done). It would even work well for harder wild Legendary Pokemon, as they'll have a better chance to wreck your team before you can catch them. I can think of a few instances in the canon games where this would've been great to have like the Ghost Marowak battle, the Kecleon you scare out of their camouflage around Fortree's routes, awakening the Regis, any place there are groups of wild Unown as they canonically amplify their power when there's a ton of them around (+6 Sp. Atk anyone?), etc.
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While we're on the topic, has anybody suggested the implementation of shadow pokemon? So far no GBA hack has ever accomplished this in a meaningful way because there was no decent base on which to create it, but I think we may see a huge amount of variety if it was implemented as an option. Not something that should take priority at all (for example, every move having a unique animation should come first) but could be something to consider? I dunno.
That's pretty interesting. I like that idea and implementing it seems very easy. Give me a week or so and I should be done with it.
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Don't see how shadow pokemon are related to battling. It's more a matter of switching stats and palettes between shadow and normal pokemon.
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It's easily doable with something like this. I think it's outside of the scope of this project though. I'm thinking of doing a fork that adds shadow Pokemon in the future.
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The ability to catch them as they belong to trainers, berserk mode etc. The shadow animation when they enter battle. Those are the things I was talking about as they're all battle-focused.
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Not only that, the various (mostly) battle related mechanics involved in purifying them. You'd have to set something in the data structure to track their Heart Gauge. I'd honestly just reuse happiness, and harder Shadow Pokemon start with lower happiness. Once they hit neutral they can be purified. But most of the triggers to lower the Heart Gauge to allow for purification happen in battle, if I remember correctly. Sending them out, calling them out of Hyper/Reverse Mode, etc. You'd also have to deal with unlocking moves upon hitting a certain point in the Heart Gauge, having the ability to accrue experience but not have it count until purified, etc., etc.
It's a combination of battle and outside of battle mechanics. Probably better as its own separate project, honestly, but it doesn't seem to be particularly horrible to do. Most of the little things are already done somewhere else (like catching enemy Trainer's Pokemon). You'd also have to decide which Shadow Pokemon system to copy. XD and Colosseum handle things differently.
EDIT: Also, the inability to learn TMs, switch the positions of attacks, evolve at all. So maybe more tedious than anything.
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Something important? Reapplying the patch kills most of my work, which is actually adding attacks on more or less 600 new pokemon (I've done about 200 in 3 months)... Don't ask why, I don't even know why it happens.
It's easy to solve
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But if I can avoid it for now...
Either way, great work! My project is going well, but it'll take it's time...
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