[Scripting Question] Custom Ability

[Kcluuqczeas]

Hi! I tried to add an ability, but I cant. Its very easy: when ur pokemon enters the battle, the enemy gets poisoned. Like intimidate, but with poison instead. How I add this ability? How would be the code? Thanks very much.

 

[Marin]

If you're just starting out with code, it's probably best to learn the basics of Ruby, the language RMXP uses. If you've done that, you should be able to "translate" Ruby into "English". With that I mean, being able to understand in a sentence what a line of code does, that will really help in the future. You want an ability that activates when a Pokémon is switched in, for which is already a method inside PokeBattle_Battler that's called "def pbAbilitiesOnSwitchIn". Whenever a Pokémon is switched in, it will look through all the lines below it and check if the Pokémon that's switched in meets any of the statements. If your Pokémon has the ability "CUSTOMABILITY", it will check to see if the first opponent can be poisoned and if so, poison it. If there is a second opponent and it can be poisoned, it will poison that as well. There are also other handy methods in PokeBattle_Battler, "def pbEffectsOnDealingDamage", which activates whenever a Pokémon is hit.

As for the actual script you wanted, here it is (Paste underneath Intimidate in PokeBattle_Battler):

# CUSTOMABILITY
    if self.hasWorkingAbility(:CUSTOMABILITY) && onactive
      if pbOpposing1.pbCanPoison?(nil,false)
        pbOpposing1.pbPoison(pbOpposing1,_INTL("{1} was poisoned!",pbOpposing1))
      end
      if pbOpposing2.pbCanPoison?(nil,false)
        pbOpposing2.pbPoison(pbOpposing2,_INTL("{1} was poisoned!",pbOpposing2))
      end
    end

In the future, you could look at other pieces of abilities or code in general and copy what you need and copy things from other abilities to get something that works.

 

[Kcluuqczeas]

If you're just starting out with code, it's probably best to learn the basics of Ruby, the language RMXP uses. If you've done that, you should be able to "translate" Ruby into "English". With that I mean, being able to understand in a sentence what a line of code does, that will really help in the future. You want an ability that activates when a Pokémon is switched in, for which is already a method inside PokeBattle_Battler that's called "def pbAbilitiesOnSwitchIn". Whenever a Pokémon is switched in, it will look through all the lines below it and check if the Pokémon that's switched in meets any of the statements. If your Pokémon has the ability "CUSTOMABILITY", it will check to see if the first opponent can be poisoned and if so, poison it. If there is a second opponent and it can be poisoned, it will poison that as well. There are also other handy methods in PokeBattle_Battler, "def pbEffectsOnDealingDamage", which activates whenever a Pokémon is hit.

As for the actual script you wanted, here it is (Paste underneath Intimidate in PokeBattle_Battler):

# CUSTOMABILITY
    if self.hasWorkingAbility(:CUSTOMABILITY) && onactive
      if pbOpposing1.pbCanPoison?(nil,false)
        pbOpposing1.pbPoison(pbOpposing1,_INTL("{1} was poisoned!",pbOpposing1))
      end
      if pbOpposing2.pbCanPoison?(nil,false)
        pbOpposing2.pbPoison(pbOpposing2,_INTL("{1} was poisoned!",pbOpposing2))
      end
    end

In the future, you could look at other pieces of abilities or code in general and copy what you need and copy things from other abilities to get something that works.

Hii! I could make something like.. When the poke enters, he poisons the enemy. But my code had nothing about double battles, or if the opponent was poison type. Yours is much better, but it shows me an error.. 'Argument Error', wrong number of arguments (2 for 1)
What is that? ;_;
Thanks very much for the code by the way!! I love you ;____;