[Scripting Question] do plugins ovewrite the original code? something odd...

[Umbrellasia]

I always think plugins will ovewrite the original code, so I do all my job through plugins, but today something odd happened, I just can't figure it out by myself.
I simply copy a .rb file into my plugin folder, but I found one method seems can't overwrite the original one.
This is the file:


This seems doesn't work: (because it doesn't print "---------------------------------")

I searched:

If I delete def pbInitPokemon in the original file, then run:

If i put "-----------------" in another place above def pbInitPokemon:

It worked:

If I move this file into Generation 9 Pack Scripts folder, it also works.


I am puzzled...
Need help...

 

[Jbsundown]

Someone more well versed in how the compiler works can correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm pretty certain they do overwrite.
If you're writing the method that is in the same class it'll overwrite. So by the looks of it, your pbInitPokemon for your plugin is not being declared in the scope of Battle::Battler or whatever the class is for the original.
Hope that helps!

 

[Lucidious89]

They absolutely do overwrite, that's what allows plugins to even work in the first place. Most plugins would be pretty pointless otherwise.

The issue is that def pbInitPokemon needs to exist in the base Essentials files, because the Shadow Pokemon script depends on it existing so that it may edit it for Shadow Pokemon properties. That's why you get that error you posted. You can overwrite it, you can alias it, but you cannot remove it.

 

[Umbrellasia]

They absolutely do overwrite, that's what allows plugins to even work in the first place. Most plugins would be pretty pointless otherwise.

The issue is that def pbInitPokemon needs to exist in the base Essentials files, because the Shadow Pokemon script depends on it existing so that it may edit it for Shadow Pokemon properties. That's why you get that error you posted. You can overwrite it, you can alias it, but you cannot remove it.

It should overwrite, but it doesn't, that's what I can't understand.
I wanna make sure if I did it right:
1.There is a file called 002_Battler_Initialize in Data\Scripts\011_Battle\002_Battler, I simply copy it and paste it in my plugin called [01] Demanding Yellow Custom Scripts.
Let's call the original one ORIG, and the paste one COPY, so now the COPY will overwrite ORIG completely, right?
2.There are two methods in COPY(def pbInitialize and def pbInitPokemon), and I want it to print something, then run the game:


It seems def pbInitialize overwrote, but def pbInitPokemon didn't.
I searched ensure that there is no other over-overwrite.

3. Now if I move COPY from my plugin into Generation 9 Pack Scripts, both method worked.


def pbInitialize and def pbInitPokemon both overwrote properly.
What's the problem of the method def pbInitPokemon...I can't get it...

 

[Umbrellasia]

Fix it. But I still can't exactly get the overwrite ordering things.