[Archive] Pokemon Essentials: Starter Kit for RPG Maker XP

[Legendaries]

Pokemon Center script doesn't work for me. I copy it exactly as it is, don't change any line in event and there is an error during healing Pokemon:

 

[Great Mazinger]

Is it possible to expand the Metadata to support more playable characters?

 

[Maruno]

Is it possible to expand the Metadata to support more playable characters?

The player characters, as battlers, are defined just like any other trainer type, so this part should be easy enough. Decide how many trainers you need in total, and use trainer type IDs 0 to n-1 for your players (you'll need to bump the rest of the list down, or relocate the top few generic trainers to the bottom, e.g. Lass, Youngster - remember to move their sprites/sprite sheets as well in the Characters folder).

Now, despite the IDs 0 and 1 being "PkMnTRAINER_Male" and "Female", you can't use just these two for all your outfits. The reason is that the outfit being shown depends on the ID. Aside from the internal names, though, everything else can stay the same.

Go into trainernames.txt and add in the new trainer types as mentioned, then go into metadata.txt and copy-paste the "PlayerA" line with any necessary changes. Use "PlayerE" and so on - I doubt you'll be wanting more than 26 outfits anyway, but if you do just go for "AA", "AB", "AC" and so on.

Now into the scripts. In Compiler, search for "PlayerA", and add in the extra players with some copy-pasting. Remember to bump the numbers of the rest of the lines in that GlobalTypes array (e.g. "SurfBGM" is 12 by default).

Then go into the script section PokemonUtilities and search for "pbChangePlayer". There's a line that restricts the options to between 0 and 3, so change the upper limit there to n-1 (where n is the total number of outfits).

After that, just make sure you've got all the necessary picture files. This includes all the sprite sheets and the trainer's front sprites, to be put in the Characters folder, and the trainer back sprites, which are in the Pictures folder called "trback###.png" and are wide pictures with 4 frames (regular back, and 3 throwing frames).



I haven't done this myself, so I have no idea what will happen if you listen to me. However, it's a start.

 

[|Maximus|]

The player characters, as battlers, are defined just like any other trainer type, so this part should be easy enough. Decide how many trainers you need in total, and use trainer type IDs 0 to n-1 for your players (you'll need to bump the rest of the list down, or relocate the top few generic trainers to the bottom, e.g. Lass, Youngster - remember to move their sprites/sprite sheets as well in the Characters folder).

Now, despite the IDs 0 and 1 being "PkMnTRAINER_Male" and "Female", you can't use just these two for all your outfits. The reason is that the outfit being shown depends on the ID. Aside from the internal names, though, everything else can stay the same.

Go into trainernames.txt and add in the new trainer types as mentioned, then go into metadata.txt and copy-paste the "PlayerA" line with any necessary changes. Use "PlayerE" and so on - I doubt you'll be wanting more than 26 outfits anyway, but if you do just go for "AA", "AB", "AC" and so on.

Now into the scripts. In Compiler, search for "PlayerA", and add in the extra players with some copy-pasting. Remember to bump the numbers of the rest of the lines in that GlobalTypes array (e.g. "SurfBGM" is 12 by default).

Then go into the script section PokemonUtilities and search for "pbChangePlayer". There's a line that restricts the options to between 0 and 3, so change the upper limit there to n-1 (where n is the total number of outfits).

After that, just make sure you've got all the necessary picture files. This includes all the sprite sheets and the trainer's front sprites, to be put in the Characters folder, and the trainer back sprites, which are in the Pictures folder called "trback###.png" and are wide pictures with 4 frames (regular back, and 3 throwing frames).



I haven't done this myself, so I have no idea what will happen if you listen to me. However, it's a start.

Seriously? Hmm...I may try that.

EDIT: How I change the size of text on like the trainer card, or the options menu, etc.?

 

[lezebulon]

Hi
We are making some pokemon game using the starter's kit.
Can we consider the lastest release a "final" one ? Because I intent on modifying the engine and I won't be able to update the starter's kit after I do so.

So, what are the major points in the starter kit that are not done / missing ? Except the 4th gen stuff of course

 

[Short Range]

Hi
We are making some pokemon game using the starter's kit.
Can we consider the lastest release a "final" one ? Because I intent on modifying the engine and I won't be able to update the starter's kit after I do so.

So, what are the major points in the starter kit that are not done / missing ? Except the 4th gen stuff of course

I don't think the latest release could be considered final at all. There's still so many things to add and edit, including 4th generation content.

By the way, any idea when we'll see that kind of stuff?

 

[Maruno]

I don't think the latest release could be considered final at all. There's still so many things to add and edit, including 4th generation content.

By the way, any idea when we'll see that kind of stuff?

Probably never. I think that's the whole point of the kit - it's just a basis, and you add in what you want yourself, rather than have everything there to start with. Making a game shouldn't be too easy, and it wouldn't be "your" game if someone else programmed it all and all you did was draw some maps.

Besides, plenty of us modify the engine, and we don't wait until the hypothetical "final" version of Essentials comes out. I'm using a version that was released a year ago, for example. There's always a change log anyway, so you can add in whatever's changed between versions yourself.

 

[lezebulon]

Thank you, but you are not really helping me...
I'm just wondering, what is not implemented in the kit, besides the 4th gen stuff ?
From what I have seen everything is here except the poffin
What else is missing ?

 

[Short Range]

...You realize Poffins are 4th Gen right?

 

[lezebulon]

I don't, I don't really play pokemon much. I was talking about the thing you need to feed Feebas to make it evolve.

 

[venom12]

Hi someone can tell me how to get animated pokemon icon? I try AnmatedBitmap, and two others methods but still i getting errors or pokemon not animate please help me.

 

[|Maximus|]

EDIT: How I change the size of text on like the trainer card, or the options menu, etc.?

Any help on this problem that I have?

 

[ichimaxru]

I everyone, already im new whit this engine, but i have some questions.
Its possible to make pokemons drop items?
and how can i animate the pokemons in battle?

 

[pbellosom]

Hi, I was running the original version of Pedapp and whenever I went to a trainer battle, a certain error occurred. I managed to fix it and I cannot remember how, when Pedapp V1 was cancelled I went back to just normal Pokestarter and I'm now getting the same error as before and I have no idea what I'm doing wrong as all the scripts I'm using are the ones that came with Pokestarter. The error goes like this:

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Pokemon Essentials
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 19, map 17 (Foamwander Allotments):

Section066:644:in `pbFromPBMove'(eval):1:in `pbFromPBMove'uninitialized constant PokeBattle_Move::PokeBattle_Move_FE

***Full script:

pbTrainerBattle(PBTrainers::BULLY,"GARY",_I("Wha? But how could I lose to a loser like you?"),false,3,true)

Interpreter:238:in `pbExecuteScript'

PokeBattle_Battle:338:in `eval'

PokeBattle_Move:644:in `pbFromPBMove'

PokeBattle_Battle:338:in `initialize'

PokemonTrainers:457:in `new'

PokemonTrainers:457:in `pbTrainerBattle'

(eval):1:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:789:in `eval'

Interpreter:238:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:789:in `command_111'



Interpreter:279:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:789:in `command_111'

Interpreter:322:in `execute_command'

Interpreter:190:in `update'

Interpreter:104:in `loop'

Interpreter:195:in `update'

Scene_Map:100:in `update'

Scene_Map:98:in `loop'

Scene_Map:111:in `update'

Scene_Map:67:in `main'

I don't suppose anyone can tell me what's going wrong could they?

 

[Dark_Soull]

I have a problem with the game not how to explain it in words so I put in a video:

I have not moved anything or changed anything in the essentials of Poccil pokemon, the overnight pass me that.

I hope you help me thanks.

 

[Legendaries]

I have a problem with autotiles' transparency in Starter Kit. Example: I have flowers autotile, I put it on the map and test the game. And I see motionless first frame of autotile and flowers covering it and moving. The same with waterfall.

 

[maaddogg]

ok so im scripting a new menu system thats going to use custom graphics that i made,so heres the problem,when i start my game the menu works fine but scince i made part of the graphics transparent,the transparent part(where the map is suppose to be}just shows a black background behind the graphics.

could someone please tell me how to make the background show the map instead of just the black background.

 

[Maruno]

I have a problem with autotiles' transparency in Starter Kit. Example: I have flowers autotile, I put it on the map and test the game. And I see motionless first frame of autotile and flowers covering it and moving. The same with waterfall.

If I understand you correctly, the in-game flowers look like they have two layers - the bottom layer is static (the first frame of the moving flowers only), and the top layer is the moving flowers as normal.

Have you put the flowers in the map twice, on two different layers? Or done anything weird in the mapping? I'm not sure where the problem lies with only that little information.

ok so im scripting a new menu system thats going to use custom graphics that i made,so heres the problem,when i start my game the menu works fine but scince i made part of the graphics transparent,the transparent part(where the map is suppose to be}just shows a black background behind the graphics.

could someone please tell me how to make the background show the map instead of just the black background.

So essentially your menu screen is one big picture that covers the entire screen, with parts transparent.

I'm not sure what's going on here. It must be the way you coded it that's causing the problem, because the default menu frame is just a picture itself, and it works fine with its transparent corners. All I can suggest is that you mimic the original code as much as possible.

Then there's the stupidly obvious question of: Are you sure it's transparent?

 

[~JV~]

I have a problem with autotiles' transparency in Starter Kit. Example: I have flowers autotile, I put it on the map and test the game. And I see motionless first frame of autotile and flowers covering it and moving. The same with waterfall.

The problem is that RMXP has problem with animated autotiles with a transparent background. just use put the grass tile as background for the autotile and it will work.

ok so im scripting a new menu system thats going to use custom graphics that i made,so heres the problem,when i start my game the menu works fine but scince i made part of the graphics transparent,the transparent part(where the map is suppose to be}just shows a black background behind the graphics.

could someone please tell me how to make the background show the map instead of just the black background.

For my menu, I added that to the initialize Def so it use the map as background:

@spriteset = Spriteset_Map.new

Just add that to any line in thei def and it should work, and don't forget to add it to the dispose list as well!

 

[Legendaries]

The problem is that RMXP has problem with animated autotiles with a transparent background. just use put the grass tile as background for the autotile and it will work.

But there was no problem without starter kit...