[Question] Making Pokemon start with low HP?

OpalHeart · Oct 15, 2020

I was thinking of having a Pokemon battle in my game where the player's Pokemon start with low HP due to a problem with their pokeballs in an important battle, and was wondering if that could even be done.

If it can, could someone point me in the right direction as to how I would script it? I'm not very good at ruby and mostly make simple lines of code/alterations. I would be very grateful.

Turn20Negate · Oct 15, 2020

Hi, this block in "PField_Battles" triggers at the start of each battle:

Code:

Events.onStartBattle += proc { |sender|
  # Record current levels of Pokémon in party, to see if they gain a level
  # during battle and may need to evolve afterwards
  $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
  for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
    $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels[i] = $Trainer.party[i].level
  end
}

Maybe add something along these lines:

Code:

Events.onStartBattle += proc { |sender|
  # Record current levels of Pokémon in party, to see if they gain a level
  # during battle and may need to evolve afterwards
  $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
  for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
    $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels[i] = $Trainer.party[i].level
    [B]$Trainer.party[i].hp - $Trainer.party[i].hp/2 if $game_switches[XXX][/B]
  end
}

This basically halves each of your Pokemon's current health. If you need further help be sure to ask. :)

OpalHeart · Oct 15, 2020

Turn20Negate said:

Hi, this block in "PField_Battles" triggers at the start of each battle:

Code:

Events.onStartBattle += proc { |sender|
  # Record current levels of Pokémon in party, to see if they gain a level
  # during battle and may need to evolve afterwards
  $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
  for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
    $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels[i] = $Trainer.party[i].level
  end
}

Maybe add something along these lines:

Code:

Events.onStartBattle += proc { |sender|
  # Record current levels of Pokémon in party, to see if they gain a level
  # during battle and may need to evolve afterwards
  $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
  for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
    $PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels[i] = $Trainer.party[i].level
    [B]$Trainer.party[i].hp - $Trainer.party[i].hp/2 if $game_switches[XXX][/B]
  end
}

This basically halves each of your Pokemon's current health. If you need further help be sure to ask. :)

Just to be sure I'm reading it correctly, I'm supposed to reserve a new switch and insert it where the XXX is, right? Just wanna be sure.

Turn20Negate · Oct 16, 2020

Just to be sure I'm reading it correctly, I'm supposed to reserve a new switch and insert it where the XXX is, right? Just wanna be sure.

Yip, that sounds right :)

OpalHeart · Oct 17, 2020

Turn20Negate said:
Yip, that sounds right :)

I've been trying to get it to work. It runs without any errors, but when I have the switch that I have it set to ON, my Pokemon's HP will still be full at the start of the battle. I even made a new switch to make sure it wasn't a reserved switch.

Events.onStartBattle+=proc {|sender,e|
$PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
$PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = $Trainer.party.level
$Trainer.party.hp - $Trainer.party.hp/2 if $game_switches[127]
end
}

Did I do something wrong when setting a switch to it?

Turn20Negate · Oct 17, 2020

Did I do something wrong when setting a switch to it?

Nope, it was my mistake. I forgot to finish the calculation. A simple "=" should suffice though. :)

Code:

Events.onStartBattle+=proc {|sender,e|
$PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels = []
for i in 0...$Trainer.party.length
$PokemonTemp.evolutionLevels[i] = $Trainer.party[i].level
$Trainer.party[i].hp -[COLOR="Red"]=[/COLOR] $Trainer.party[i].hp/2 if $game_switches[127]
end
}

OpalHeart · Oct 17, 2020

That's like the one place I didn't try putting the = when trying to fix it before asking, omg. XD well, I'll give this a shot.

OpalHeart · Oct 17, 2020

It works perfectly fine now! Thank you so so much!