[Elite Battle 2015 add-on] Change BGM on low HP

[rigbycwts]

Okay, so this shows how the BGM changes if the player's Pokemon are on low health, similar to the Gen 5 games.
Note that this requires Luka's Elite Battle System.

Step 1: In EliteBattle_Scene, inside the function pbStartBattle, add this line:

$lowHPbattle=false

Step 2: In EliteBattle_UI, inside the function update, below this:

@animatingHP=false if @currenthp==@endhp

Add these:

if (@battler.index==0 or @battler.index==2) && (@currenthp<=(@battler.totalhp*0.2) && !(self.hp<1)) && $lowHPbattle==false
        $game_system.bgm_memorize
        pbBGMPlay("lowhp-gen5.mp3")
        $lowHPbattle=true
      end   
      if (@battler.index==0 or @battler.index==2) && (@currenthp>(@battler.totalhp*0.2) or @currenthp<=0) && $lowHPbattle==true
        $game_system.bgm_restore
        $lowHPbattle=false
      end

What to fix next: if the HP is low at the very first turn of the battle, the BGM won't change.

 

[lolandbeer]

Neat, although I'll try to translate it to my vanilla battle system. Shouldn't be too hard, I hope.

 

[ShinxHero]

I'm just curious. Will this work even if you're not using the Elite Battle format?

 

[Kiedisticelixer]

I've been toying with it for a while to try and fix the first-turn issue, but no luck.

 

[rigbycwts]

I'm just curious. Will this work even if you're not using the Elite Battle format?

Probably not since I only happen to insert the code in one of Elite Battle's scripts.

 

[Sunbean]

Nice, thanks. I tried to implement this as well, but it never seemed to work correctly in-game.

 

[KillerMapper]

I myself tried to do this, it was somewhat good for 1vs1 battle but not in double battle, and I ran into some glitches too :p

I'll try your code asap. Thanks for sharing!

 

[KillerMapper]

So I tried your script and you have the same problem as me. Get a pokémon (with yellow / green bar) in a battle and make sure you take little damage (using lot of moves like growl or battling a weak pokémon). You'll reach the point when your HP bar becomes red but the BGM won't immediately change. It will after losing 1-2 more HP. Looks like there is a difference between the HP bar and the actual HP value used by the script to determinate when the BGM should change.
When I tried, I based my changes on the color change, but the same problem happened...

 

[Sunbean]

So I tried your script and you have the same problem as me. Get a pokémon (with yellow / green bar) in a battle and make sure you take little damage (using lot of moves like growl or battling a weak pokémon). You'll reach the point when your HP bar becomes red but the BGM won't immediately change. It will after losing 1-2 more HP. Looks like there is a difference between the HP bar and the actual HP value used by the script to determinate when the BGM should change.
When I tried, I based my changes on the color change, but the same problem happened...

It might work if you play around with the math and conditionals a little, but I haven't implemented it just yet to try this out.

 

[Letrax]

"What to fix next: if the HP is low at the very first turn of the battle, the BGM won't change."
Is this still a thing?

 

[Rot8er_ConeX]

What to fix next: if the HP is low at the very first turn of the battle, the BGM won't change.

Step 2: In EliteBattle_Battle, inside the function pbStartBattleCore, below this:

    #====================================
    # Initialize player in single battles
    #====================================
      sendout=pbFindNextUnfainted(@party1,0)
      if sendout < 0
        raise _INTL("Player has no unfainted Pokémon")
      end
      playerpoke=@party1[sendout]
      @battlers[0].pbInitialize(playerpoke,sendout,false)
      if getBattlerPokemon(@battlers[0]).namex != nil
        pbDisplayBrief(_INTL("Go! {1} and {2}!",getBattlerPokemon(@battlers[0]).name,getBattlerPokemon(@battlers[0]).namex))
      else
        pbDisplayBrief(_INTL("Go! {1}!",getBattlerPokemon(@battlers[0]).name))
      end
      pbSendOut(0,playerpoke)
    end

Add these:

if (@battler.index==0 or @battler.index==2) && (@currenthp<=(@battler.totalhp*0.2) && !(self.hp<1)) && $lowHPbattle==false
        $game_system.bgm_memorize
        pbBGMPlay("lowhp-gen5.mp3")
        $lowHPbattle=true
      end   
      if (@battler.index==0 or @battler.index==2) && (@currenthp>(@battler.totalhp*0.2) or @currenthp<=0) && $lowHPbattle==true
        $game_system.bgm_restore
        $lowHPbattle=false
      end

Still known issue: if using a healing item on your Pokemon, the music doesn't change back until your Pokemon is hit again.

 

[Letrax]

Hey Rot8er_ConeX.
Your method worked fine until the new update.
When I try to add your block of code below
it i get an undefined method error for "index".?

 

[Rot8er_ConeX]

Hey Rot8er_ConeX.
Your method worked fine until the new update.
When I try to add your block of code below
it i get an undefined method error for "index".?

The new update appears to have broken the ability to check for low HP and change the music. I have two trainers that cause the music to change when their ace is sent out - one changes to a different track and the other slows the music down tremendously - and those work fine, but for whatever reason I can't change the music based on my own HP.

I think we're going to have to wait for the OP to figure out the new update.

 

[BlackOutG5]

I'm not getting any errors and yet it's not working. I have EBS essentials with BW essentials.

 

[PikachuFans2018]

@rigbycwts Is there a way to do a Low HP type thing for a game, without the use of EBS?