[Scripting Question] Curing Burn Before Move

[LullabyForDedenne]

Hello! I'm sorry if this question seems obvious, I've been trawling forms and can't seem to figure it out. I want to create a move which functions like scald, but rather than curing the user's frozen status before acting, cures the user's burn before moving. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the best way to get this to happen before damage is calculated might be. If anyone might know a possible solution, I'd appreciate it immensely. Cheers!

 

[Nanulak]

Hello! I'm sorry if this question seems obvious, I've been trawling forms and can't seem to figure it out. I want to create a move which functions like scald, but rather than curing the user's frozen status before acting, cures the user's burn before moving. I cannot for the life of me figure out what the best way to get this to happen before damage is calculated might be. If anyone might know a possible solution, I'd appreciate it immensely. Cheers!

I don't know anything about coding or anything, however I could do a suggested order!

1. Cures burn: The reason this goes first is because for moves like Scald, it cures the freeze first
2. Deals damage: Then you, of course, deal damage. If this is a Physical move, it'll deal normal damage because the burn was removed beforehand
3. Might burn: After dealing damage, there's the chance to burn, as like Scald

I hope this helps!

 

[Jbsundown]

Hello!

It's been a while since I've looked at moves so this is how I would investigate the way to do it.
We know that the functionality exists in Scald already to perform something before the damage. So, it probably has a Flag set something like ThawsUser. From there we can look at how this flag is implemented.
In Battle_Move we can define the flags that exist something like:

Spoiler:

def unburnsUser?;        return @flags.any? { |f| f[/^UnburnsUser$/i] };        end

Then I would check the instances you find a move.thawsUser and try to mimic the functionality but instead check for burns.
So you'll probably want to check in Battler_UseMove, Battler_UseMoveSuccessChecks, Battler_UseMoveTriggerEffects. Then you probably want to investigate the AI code too though I've not looked in there forever so I won't provide any useful information on that!

Hope that helps!