[Eventing Question] CUT mechanic help?

[Gylanth]

Hello!

I've been working on my first game in RMXP with Pokemon Essentials v21.1, and had an idea that I'm finding hard to research.

Anybody know if there is a way to make the standard CUT event (I'm struggling with that, I got it to trigger the sound and animation, but the space still has collision after), but alter it a little to work differently?

I'd like the player to be required to catch a Pokemon that already knows CUT (I've put this Pokemon in game already, works fine) in order to cut down the first tree obstacle in my game. I'm not sure what series of conditions need to be met/scripted to allow this to be the condition in which CUT functions...also, hoping someone may know about the collision issue.

Still pretty new to this, but hoping this is fairly simple and I'm just missing something!

Thanks for taking a sec, if you do!

 

[Swdfm]

Funnily enough, this is not so simple for a new person!
However, I think it's possible, and I'll try and walk you through it

In the Pokemon class, @first_moves records the first moves a Pokemon learns

Now, we just have to change how CUT works. Change the parts of the script that you want to, but I have included the important part at the top

def pbCut
move = :CUT
# movefinder has been changed. Rest is same.
movefinder = false
for p in $player.pokemon_party
next unless p.first_moves.include?(move)
movefinder = true
break
end
if !pbCheckHiddenMoveBadge(Settings::BADGE_FOR_CUT, false) || (!$DEBUG && !movefinder)
pbMessage(_INTL("This tree looks like it can be cut down."))
return false
end
if pbConfirmMessage(_INTL("This tree looks like it can be cut down!\nWould you like to cut it?"))
$stats.cut_count += 1
speciesname = (movefinder) ? movefinder.name : $player.name
pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used {2}!", speciesname, GameData::Move.get(move).name))
pbHiddenMoveAnimation(movefinder)
return true
end
return false
end

To avoid the bump issue, try copying the sample event from the base game
If that doesn't work, try and contact me via Discord
Hope this helps!
Swdfm

 

[Gylanth]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond, means a lot to me. :D

I ended up finding a work around since the original post that seems to have done the trick, I'll link it for reference but basically just removed the line about badge requirements at all, and the rest of the function checked out. (Only needed a Pokemon with Cut, and the Ursaring in question has it glued to his moveset).

But despite having looked a few times, I had totally missed the CutTree event from the base game. Missed the tree for the forest or something, but was able to copy that over and it works! I'm in business, thanks for that.

I was struggling to build one from scratch and something is going wrong with how I'm entering conditional branches, but that's not important anymore. :D

Much appreciation,

Gylanth


def pbCut
move = :CUT
movefinder = $player.get_pokemon_with_move(move) # Check if any Pokemon has CUT
if !movefinder # If no Pokemon with CUT
pbMessage(_INTL("This shrub is simply too much. You'd need a rull mean Pokemon to hack it down."))
return false
end
if pbConfirmMessage(_INTL("You've got the meanest Pokemon in town!\nYou wanna maul this shrub?"))
pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used {2}!", movefinder.name, GameData::Move.get(move).name))
pbHiddenMoveAnimation(movefinder)
return true
end
return false
end

HiddenMoveHandlers::CanUseMove.add(:CUT, proc { |move, pkmn, showmsg|
facingEvent = $game_player.pbFacingEvent
if !facingEvent || !facingEvent.name[/cuttree/i]
pbMessage(_INTL("You can't use that here.")) if showmsg
next false
end
next true
})

HiddenMoveHandlers::UseMove.add(:CUT, proc { |move, pokemon|
if !pbHiddenMoveAnimation(pokemon)
pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used {2}!", pokemon.name, GameData::Move.get(move).name))
end
$stats.cut_count += 1
facingEvent = $game_player.pbFacingEvent
pbSmashEvent(facingEvent) if facingEvent
next true
})

def pbSmashEvent(event)
return if !event
if event.name[/cuttree/i]
pbSEPlay("Cut")
elsif event.name[/smashrock/i]
pbSEPlay("Rock Smash")
end
pbMoveRoute(event, [PBMoveRoute::WAIT, 2,
PBMoveRoute::TURN_LEFT, PBMoveRoute::WAIT, 2,
PBMoveRoute::TURN_RIGHT, PBMoveRoute::WAIT, 2,
PBMoveRoute::TURN_UP, PBMoveRoute::WAIT, 2])
pbWait(0.4)
event.erase
$PokemonMap&.addErasedEvent(event.id)
end