Confusion with making a trainer battle against an NPC you can name

[runforrestrun21]

Hey everyone,
I don't know why I am having so much trouble creating the rival battle. I was able to set it up just fine when I made the Rival's name, but now I am allowing the player to type in the name. Every time I test the battle, the game asks me if I want to add this trainer, but I believe that I already did. I've tried messing around with the PBS trainer file, the script editor, and the event code, and I'm not sure which one(s) are causing the problem for me. I've included some screenshots of what my scripts look like. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Nickalooose]

change "rival1,12" in your conditional branch script to "rival1"...

pbTrainerBattle(PBTrainers::RIVAL,"rival1",_I("You win."),false,0,true)

The strange thing with your request is, you're trying to make a standard trainer... It's pretty basic Essentials knowledge, especially if you want to make a Pokémon game... Check the Pokémon Essentials Wiki if you're confused with anything.

 

[runforrestrun21]

Thanks Nickalooose,
After I changed "rival1,12" to "rival1" the game allowed me to start the battle. But when the battle starts the game tells me "RIVAL rival1 wants to battle!" I need the game to pull the rival's player chosen name, which is why I thought I needed the ,12, so that it could pull the global variable. I did look at the Wiki when trying to do this and I didn't quite understand it.

Long story short: How do I make the game pull the global variable containing the rival's player chosen name?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Savordez]

By default, the rival's name is stored in Global Variable slot 12. Read the comment above the RIVALNAMES array (in your third image).
For example, when you use

pbSet(12,pbEnterText("Rival's name?",1,7,"Gary"))

the variable number 12 is set to whatever the player inputs.

 

[runforrestrun21]

Thank you everyone! It works as intended now. I appreciate the help! =)