[Scripting Question] Alternate wild encounters?

[Arachnee]

I'm trying to create alternate wild encounters. The idea is that when a switch is activated, the game would take encounters from a different file in the PBS than
"encounters.txt". There seemed to have been a tutorial on the Pokémon Essensials Wiki before that explained this, but I can't read it now. Does anyone know how this is done? My first guess at this looked like this

 if $game_switches[100]
    FileLineData.file = "PBS/alternate_encounters.txt"
    File.open("PBS/alternate_encounters.txt","rb"){|f|
  else
    FileLineData.file = "PBS/encounters.txt"
    File.open("PBS/encounters.txt","rb"){|f|
  end

But I get a syntax error that way. I also tried duplicating the section that reads "encounters.txt" and substituting "alternate_encounters.txt", and adding
"if $game_switches[100]" to it. That method doesn't give syntax errors, but nothing happens.

Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[mgriffin]

You're kinda on the right track, but as you noticed you can't have |f| at the end of a line without its associated block of code, try something like:

if $game_switches[100]
  filename = "PBS/alternate_encounters.txt"
else
  filename = "PBS/encounters.txt"
end
FileLineData.file = filename
File.open(filename,"rb"){|f|

 

[Arachnee]

Thank you for the help, mcgriffin. The fix did stop the syntax errors. I was shown the tutorial by someone, and now have alternate encounters working.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[WolfPP]

Thank you for the help, mcgriffin. The fix did stop the syntax errors. I was shown the tutorial by someone, and now have alternate encounters working.
Thanks for the reply.

Oh, can you share to us? :D

 

[Poq]

Oh, can you share to us? :D

I'll PM you.

 

[Marin]

I'll PM you.

It'd be appreciated if you shared the answer publicly too. The question was asked publicly after all.

 

[Poq]

The solution I provided was one I found on an archived copy of the essentials wiki, which I was uncertain about posting publicly. But now that the new Essentials wiki is up and also links to an archived copy here and there, I figure there's less harm in posting it here.
This is the link I shared with Arachnee: a tutorial posted by Vendily, originally for v16.2.

 

[Marin]

Linking to either the new wiki or the old one is fine. There aren't any downloads there.