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

[FL]

No matter what I do, neither of those options are working for me.

You receive any error message or the effect won't show up after some tests?
Let's try to test the reverse thing: change "user.pbConfuse(target)" to "pbConfuseSelf"

 

[thepsynergist]

The effect won't proc, no crashes. I'll test that.

I have:

if isConst?(target.ability,PBAbilities,:HYSTERIA) && self.pbRandom(10)<3 && 
      user.pbCanConfuse?(false)
   pbConfuseSelf
   pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} confused {3}!",target.pbThis,
      PBAbilities.getName(target.ability),user.pbThis))
  end

Still no dice...

 

[FL]

The effect won't proc, no crashes. I'll test that.

I have:

if isConst?(target.ability,PBAbilities,:HYSTERIA) && self.pbRandom(10)<3 && 
      user.pbCanConfuse?(false)
   pbConfuseSelf
   pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} confused {3}!",target.pbThis,
      PBAbilities.getName(target.ability),user.pbThis))
  end

Still no dice...

Change the "pbConfuseSelf" to "user.pbConfuseSelf".
If you are doing the tests correctly I can't think on other solution.

 

[thepsynergist]

I'm testing it by fighting a level 11 Onix. He only has physical attacks. So he's hitting me with Tackle and Bind. Hysteria refuses to activate. I have no idea what's wrong... I changed the code to what you said, still nothing. No idea why it's not working. It's the same code for Flame Body, and Flame Body works...

 

[luxuriate]

Wow, I can't believe I missed that part of the tutorial. Thanks FL!
I ended up disabling it; don't really need it anyway.

I looked all over, but I can't seem to find something on how to match a Trainer's gender (or oppose) accordingly to Player A or B. Hint?

 

[luxuriate]

Haha, I meant something different... for instance, I want the Rival to be a girl if the player chooses to be a girl, or to be the opposite, a boy for a girl, etc.

I also noticed, where is the PokeDex?

 

[KitsuneKouta]

Haha, I meant something different... for instance, I want the Rival to be a girl if the player chooses to be a girl, or to be the opposite, a boy for a girl, etc.

I also noticed, where is the PokeDex?

I'm assuming you probably need clarification on what to do after you do what Daedalus said. In the trainers.txt file, you'll want to set up your rival twice. One for each gender. Then using the variable that Daedalus mentioned, check what the value of it is and set up the event to start a trainer battle with the correct rival. You may have to put the two rival trainers on separate pages of the same event, with the page conditions checking the variable. Or, you may be able to put them on the same page in a conditional branch. I'm not 100% sure on how the compiler would handle that though.

 

[luxuriate]

Okay thanks guys, I gotcha crystal clear!
Those two topics weren't in the Wiki or the notes.html.

 

[thepsynergist]

Hey, Kitsune, any idea on what to do with my custom Pokemon Ability? My friend, CrazyNinjaGuy couldn't figure it out (he hates Poccil's coding structure xP).

 

[luxuriate]

Sorry, I'm back so soon but another question: why am I being asked to add a Trainer when I've done everything I needed to in adding a Trainer? I did the proper scripting, I edited in the text files. I even went ahead and added it again, but no difference. I looked all over notes.html, the wiki, and 300 pages of this thread. Headache... Only thing I found similar was around page 50, and that wasn't answered yet... any idea why this is a problem?

 

[TACHAN]

Hi!
Does someone know what is this?

The message goes out always on having trodden on the grass of a route.

---------------------------
Mapeo
---------------------------
Exception: TypeError

Message: Symbol as array index

PokemonRoaming:170:in `[]'

PokemonRoaming:170

PokemonRoaming:168:in `each'

PokemonRoaming:168

PokemonRoaming:162:in `call'

PokemonField:25:in `trigger'

PokemonField:24:in `each'

PokemonField:24:in `trigger'

PokemonField:779:in `pbOnStepTaken'

Game_Player_:447:in `update_old'



This exception was logged in errorlog.txt.

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---------------------------
Aceptar
---------------------------

 

[Maruno]

Sorry, I'm back so soon but another question: why am I being asked to add a Trainer when I've done everything I needed to in adding a Trainer? I did the proper scripting, I edited in the text files. I even went ahead and added it again, but no difference. I looked all over notes.html, the wiki, and 300 pages of this thread. Headache... Only thing I found similar was around page 50, and that wasn't answered yet... any idea why this is a problem?

Make sure you're always using the internal name to refer to your trainers. Also, make sure you're spelling them correctly.

Without knowing what the pop-up message says, I would guess the cause is one of these things.

It's kind of assumed that you do things correctly (correct names, compile all the time, etc.), which is why it wouldn't be written anywhere.

Hi!
Does someone know what is this?

The message goes out always on having trodden on the grass of a route.

It looks like one of your roaming Pokémon has a dodgy name. Make sure the arrays at the top of PokemonRoaming are written properly, with commas in all the right places. Remember to use the internal names for Pokémon, which should be all caps and nothing fancy like gender symbols.

Your scripts appear to be very different to the recent versions of Essentials, so it's impossible to guess at anything else.

 

[luxuriate]

Wahaha, you were exactly right.
I had put a number next to the internal name, forgot to edit it out.

 

[KitsuneKouta]

Hey, Kitsune, any idea on what to do with my custom Pokemon Ability? My friend, CrazyNinjaGuy couldn't figure it out (he hates Poccil's coding structure xP).

I don't blame him. It's a bit messy, and there's not enough comments to really tell you what's going on. Anyways, onto the ability. You have it set up right in the .txt file, so next is the part in PokeBattle_Battle. Replace the red portions:

if isConst?(target.ability,PBAbilities,:HYSTERIA) &&
    self.pbRandom(10)<3 &&
    user.pbCanConfuse?(false)
    [COLOR=DarkRed]pbConfuseSelf[/COLOR]
    pbDisplay(_INTL("{1}'s {2} confused {3}!",[COLOR=DarkRed]user[/COLOR].pbThis,
    PBAbilities.getName(target.ability),user.pbThis))
end

with user.pbConfuse(target) and target respectively. That doesn't actually do anything yet, as you now need to define pbConfuse(attacker). I set it up like the statuses (confusion is treated as and coded an effect instead of a status inherently) like so:

  def pbConfuse(attacker)
    if self.effects[PBEffects::Confusion]==0 && 
      self.effects[PBEffects::Confusion][email protected](4)
      @battle.pbCommonAnimation("Confusion",self,nil)
    end
  end

It should be pasted in PokeBattle_Effects (I put it just below the pbBurn(attacker) method). I think this will do what you were intending.

 

[thepsynergist]

You are a lifesaver Kitsune. Thanks a bunch, it works flawlessly. The ability is for my fakemon Xiades. I based him off of some of H.P. Lovecraft's old horror creatures, like Cthulhu (looking at him drives you insane). I wanted to have an ability that reflected that. Thanks again, Kitsune.

 

[TACHAN]

It looks like one of your roaming Pokémon has a dodgy name. Make sure the arrays at the top of PokemonRoaming are written properly, with commas in all the right places. Remember to use the internal names for Pokémon, which should be all caps and nothing fancy like gender symbols.

Your scripts appear to be very different to the recent versions of Essentials, so it's impossible to guess at anything else.

I believe that it is the Pokemon Essential of January 2009.

The only thing that I changed some time ago into PokemonRoaming was this:

RoamingAreas={
#mapa 538 = ROUTE 24 KANTO
#mapa 539 = ROUTE 25 KANTO
538 => [539, 538],
539 => [539, 538]
}
# Example:
# (Species, level, switch number)
#AL ACTIVARSE SWITCH 148 Y 149 APARECEN LATIOS Y LATIAS EN LOS MAPAS DE ARRIBA AL NIVEL 50
RoamingSpecies={
:LATIOS => [50,148],
:LATIAS => [50,149]
}
end

 

[KitsuneKouta]

You are a lifesaver Kitsune. Thanks a bunch, it works flawlessly. The ability is for my fakemon Xiades. I based him off of some of H.P. Lovecraft's old horror creatures, like Cthulhu (looking at him drives you insane). I wanted to have an ability that reflected that. Thanks again, Kitsune.

Glad I could help. FL . had it pretty close, and it probably wouldn't have taken 15 minutes if I had payed closer attention to his whole post. I haven't done much with Essentials lately though, so this was a good excuse to try and start again.

 

[AmaranthProject]

Did some searching and I couldn't really find anything that helped.

I set my game resolution by changing the @@width and @@height values in SpriteResizer

module Graphics
  ## Nominal screen size
  @@width=256
  @@height=192

I want to go for that zoomed out feeling, Pokemon Forever Lost is the perfect example of what I'm trying to achieve, so I'll use them as an example.

I assume by design that the $ResizeFactor is what I should be using to achieve this, I set it a few values (0.5,0.25, 2.0) but I couldn't see any noticeable changes.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Abnegation]

What you're looking to find is the Width and Height lines in module Graphics but, you need it to remain double the size, so for Forever Lost I used:
@@width=512
@@height=384

But you need to go to line 132 or so and change it to $ResizeFactor=1.0 instead of $ResizeFactor=2.0 I think, in the same script.

 

[Atomic Reactor]

For the day/night tinting i have this.
HourlyTones=[
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(0,0,0,0),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(17,-34,-51,17),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),
Tone.new(-85,-68,-17,68),

but at 8 o clock PM, it still has the evening tint instead of night
The first time is at midnight right? Or am i off by an hour?