[Scripting Question] Giving the player a random pokemon with random level

[omakikami]

Hello, Essentials/RPG maker xp noob here
So i have this event (see image attached)
The goal is to give a random Pokemon at a random level to the player .
Handling a random level is quite easy, i just use control variables to give me a number between 1 and 100 and asign it to a variable (26 in this case).
To handle the random pokemon i use this code

$game_variables[27] = PBSpecies.getName(1+rand(PBSpecies.maxValue)).upcase

I then display this text :

Hey \PN, take this \v[27], level  \v[26] .

Which actually displays a random pokemon name and random number.
the issue stems from this last piece of code:

pbAddPokemon(:$game_variables[27],$game_variables[26])

which displays this error message

---------------------------
Pokemon Essentials
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[Pokémon Essentials version 17.2]

Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 2 (coords 8,10), map 42 (Starting Lab):

Exception: SyntaxError

Message: (eval):1:in `pbExecuteScript'compile error
(eval):1: syntax error
pbAddPokemon(:pbGet(27),pbGet(26))
                    ^

***Full script:

pbAddPokemon(:pbGet(27),pbGet(26))




Interpreter:276:in `pbExecuteScript'

Interpreter:1606:in `command_355'

Interpreter:494:in `execute_command'

Interpreter:193:in `update'

Interpreter:106:in `loop'

Interpreter:198:in `update'

Scene_Map:163:in `follow_update'

Scene_Map:161:in `loop'

Scene_Map:170:in `follow_update'

PokemonFollow:1551:in `update'

I can make this work if I

 

[omakikami]

Hello, Essentials/RPG maker xp noob here,
How can i use the pbAddPokemon function by passing variables through it?
For example, you would usually do

pbAddPokemon(:PIKACHU,20)

But what if i want to do something like this ?

pbAddPokemon(:$game_variables[27],20)

where $game_variables[27] contains the string "PIKACHU"
The game keeps crashing when I try this, however it doesn't seem to mind however getting an Integer variable for the level argument

pbAddPokemon(:PIKACHU,$game_variables[26])

 

[Vendily]

Your issue stems from that stray colon.

pbAddPokemon([COLOR="Red"][U]:[/U][/COLOR]$game_variables[27],20)

Assuming that game variable 27 does contain the correct value, then removing that colon would allow this code to work correctly.

 

[omakikami]

OMG it worked, thanks a ton!