[Scripting Question] Ability Contrary crashes the game

Tortussa · Nov 25, 2018

In a battle in my game the opponent has an inkay with contrary, i tested against him arcanine but the game crashes

mgriffin · Nov 25, 2018

You're gonna have to post the whole error message to have any hopes of getting help.

Tortussa · Nov 25, 2018

so this is the error message:

Code:

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Pokemon G
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 3, map 36 (Tetto Arceus Re):

Exception: NameError

Message: Section077:1016:in `pbReduceAttackStatStageIntimidate'undefined local variable or method `attacker' for #<PokeBattle_Battler:0xc2dfb50>

***Full script:

pbTrainerBattle(PBTrainers::LEADER_Misty,"Pseudo",_I("Acc..."),false,0,false)

Interpreter:243:in `pbExecuteScript'

PokeBattle_Battler:1160:in `pbAbilitiesOnSwitchIn'

PokeBattle_Battler:1158:in `each'

PokeBattle_Battler:1158:in `pbAbilitiesOnSwitchIn'

PokeBattle_Battle:2362:in `pbOnActiveAll'

PokeBattle_Battle:2361:in `each'

PokeBattle_Battle:2361:in `pbOnActiveAll'

PokeBattle_DynamicBattle:183:in `pbStartBattleCore'

PokeBattle_Battle:2602:in `pbStartBattle'

PTrainer_NPCTrainers:497:in `pbTrainerBattle'



Interpreter:276:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:794:in `command_111'

Interpreter:320:in `execute_command'

Interpreter:193:in `update'

Interpreter:106:in `loop'

Interpreter:198:in `update'

Scene_Map:103:in `update'

Scene_Map:101:in `loop'

Scene_Map:114:in `update'

Scene_Map:68:in `main'

The thing i just noticed is that the most of the 6/7 gen abilities are not working: this one crashes but for example galvanize doesnt make the game crashing but doesnt change the normal moves to electric type

mgriffin · Nov 25, 2018

Yeah well this error seems reasonable to me. At least in my copy of Essentials pbReduceAttackStateStageIntimidate only takes opponent as a parameter. What even is an attacker in the context of "opponent's attack stat being reduced by Intimidate"?

It's possible that "self" might be what you want instead of "attacker", I guess that this is the Pokémon who has Intimidate.

Tortussa · Nov 25, 2018

mgriffin said:
Yeah well this error seems reasonable to me. At least in my copy of Essentials pbReduceAttackStateStageIntimidate only takes opponent as a parameter. What even is an attacker in the context of "opponent's attack stat being reduced by Intimidate"?

It's possible that "self" might be what you want instead of "attacker", I guess that this is the Pokémon who has Intimidate.

I'm not really good about scripts, can you explain me a bit easier how to solve this problem? or maybe a link to working 6/7 gen abilities because a lot of them don't work(for example also galvanize and grass pelt)

mgriffin · Nov 25, 2018

Tortussa said:
I'm not really good about scripts, can you explain me a bit easier how to solve this problem? or maybe a link to working 6/7 gen abilities because a lot of them don't work(for example also galvanize and grass pelt)

Code:

Section077:1016:in `pbReduceAttackStatStageIntimidate'undefined local variable or method `attacker' for #<PokeBattle_Battler:0xc2dfb50>

This says "attacker" doesn't exist on line 1016 of your script. Try replacing "attacker" with "self". But I have no idea if this will work, because obviously I can't see your code.

As for links to abilities, I'm afraid I have no idea where to find them. Maybe try asking on the Discord?

Tortussa · Nov 25, 2018

Ill try, btw can you give me the discord link?

mgriffin · Nov 25, 2018

Tortussa said:
Ill try, btw can you give me the discord link?

It's literally on the home page.

Tortussa · Nov 25, 2018

Thank you, now contrary works correctly, but now i have to solve the problem with like 70 other abilities

NewAgeSteel · Nov 25, 2018

Tortussa said:
Thank you, now contrary works correctly, but now i have to solve the problem with like 70 other abilities

If you're going to work on editing abilities or scripts or adding anything into the scripts in general I'd highly recommend doing them one at a time, especially if you're not comfortable with scripting yet. It's extremely easy to lose track of things you've changed when you're not aware of everything you're doing and it could lead to your game having unfixable errors later on or force you to back track and undo current progress with your game. Just something to be careful about.

Tortussa · Nov 26, 2018

NewAgeSteel said:
If you're going to work on editing abilities or scripts or adding anything into the scripts in general I'd highly recommend doing them one at a time, especially if you're not comfortable with scripting yet. It's extremely easy to lose track of things you've changed when you're not aware of everything you're doing and it could lead to your game having unfixable errors later on or force you to back track and undo current progress with your game. Just something to be careful about.

I am, i've backuped scripts and i test every ability one by one