[Essentials Tutorial] How to Add Save Character Scene Animation

[WolfPP]

Let's make this happen:

First, inside your metadata.txt you need add a new sprite to save scene, like below:

PlayerA=POKEMONTRAINER_Red,trchar000,boy_bike,boy_surf,boy_run,boy_surf,boy_fish_offset,[COLOR="Red"]boy_save[/COLOR],xxx

Also, you need a character OW to that. So, take mine for example and model:

P.S: Save inside Character folder like boy_save, or like you wrote inside 'metadata.txt'.

Now, open your script and search to 'PScreen_Save' script, then, find 'def pbSaveScreen' and paste in right order:

Spoiler:

  def pbSaveScreen
    ret=false
    @scene.pbStartScreen
    if Kernel.pbConfirmMessage(_INTL("Would you like to save the game?"))
      [COLOR="red"]if !pbCommonEvent(SAVEBEGINCOMMONEVENT)
        patternb = 2*$game_player.direction - 1
        meta = pbGetMetadata(0,MetadataPlayerA+$PokemonGlobal.playerID)
        oldpattern = $game_player.fullPattern
        num = 7
        if meta && meta[num] && meta[num]!=""
          charset = pbGetPlayerCharset(meta,num)
          4.times do |pattern|
            $game_player.setDefaultCharName(charset,patternb-pattern,true)
            2.times do
              Graphics.update
              Input.update
              pbUpdateSceneMap
            end
          end
        end
      end[/COLOR]
      if safeExists?(RTP.getSaveFileName("Game.rxdata"))
        confirm=""
        if $PokemonTemp.begunNewGame
          Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("WARNING!"))
          Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("There is a different game file that is already saved."))
          Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("If you save now, the other file's adventure, including items and Pokémon, will be entirely lost."))
          if !Kernel.pbConfirmMessageSerious(
             _INTL("Are you sure you want to save now and overwrite the other save file?"))
            [COLOR="red"]$game_player.setDefaultCharName(nil,oldpattern)[/COLOR]
            @scene.pbEndScreen
            return false
          end
        end
      end
      $PokemonTemp.begunNewGame=false
      if pbSave
        Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("\\se[]{1} saved the game.\\me[GUI save game]\\wtnp[30]",$Trainer.name))
        [COLOR="red"]$game_player.setDefaultCharName(nil,oldpattern)[/COLOR]
        ret=true
      else
        Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("\\se[]Save failed.\\wtnp[30]"))
[COLOR="red"]        $game_player.setDefaultCharName(nil,oldpattern)
[/COLOR]        ret=false
      end
    end
    @scene.pbEndScreen
    return ret
  end
end

Finally, add the red line, inside 'Settings' script:

[COLOR="red"]SAVEBEGINCOMMONEVENT      = -1[/COLOR]
FISHINGBEGINCOMMONEVENT   = -1
FISHINGENDCOMMONEVENT     = -1

New ATT:
Inside 'PScreen_Load' script, find 'def pbStartLoadScreen' and past the red lines:

Spoiler:

        File.open(savefile){|f|
          Marshal.load(f) # Trainer already loaded
          $Trainer             = trainer
          Graphics.frame_count = Marshal.load(f)
          $game_system         = Marshal.load(f)
          Marshal.load(f) # PokemonSystem already loaded
          Marshal.load(f) # Current map id no longer needed
          $game_switches       = Marshal.load(f)
          $game_variables      = Marshal.load(f)
          $game_self_switches  = Marshal.load(f)
          $game_screen         = Marshal.load(f)
          $MapFactory          = Marshal.load(f)
          $game_map            = $MapFactory.map
          $game_player         = Marshal.load(f)
          $PokemonGlobal       = Marshal.load(f)
          metadata             = Marshal.load(f)
          $PokemonBag          = Marshal.load(f)
          $PokemonStorage      = Marshal.load(f)
          [COLOR="red"]oldpattern           = $game_player.fullPattern[/COLOR]
          magicNumberMatches = false
          if $data_system.respond_to?("magic_number")
            magicNumberMatches = ($game_system.magic_number==$data_system.magic_number)
          else
            magicNumberMatches = ($game_system.magic_number==$data_system.version_id)
          end
          if !magicNumberMatches || $PokemonGlobal.safesave
            if pbMapInterpreterRunning?
              pbMapInterpreter.setup(nil,0)
            end
            begin
              $MapFactory.setup($game_map.map_id) # calls setMapChanged
            rescue Errno::ENOENT
              if $DEBUG
                Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Map {1} was not found.",$game_map.map_id))
                map = pbWarpToMap
                if map
                  $MapFactory.setup(map[0])
                  $game_player.moveto(map[1],map[2])
                else
                  $game_map = nil
                  $scene = nil
                  return
                end
              else
                $game_map = nil
                $scene = nil
                Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("The map was not found. The game cannot continue."))
              end
            end
            [COLOR="red"]$game_player.setDefaultCharName(nil,oldpattern)[/COLOR]
            $game_player.center($game_player.x, $game_player.y)
          else
            [COLOR="Red"]$game_player.setDefaultCharName(nil,oldpattern)[/COLOR]
            $MapFactory.setMapChanged($game_map.map_id)
          end
        }

And done!

It was a lot of work to study and do this script for a layman like me, so if you use this script, give me credits for that.

 

[WolfPP]

Fixed Load Screen Scene. Please att your code if you are using.

 

[FloofyPanthar]

Thank you for this! I had no idea how to do this!

 

[RayCoracini]

Thanks for share, now I can make a perfect game like originals. Simplesmente perfeito!!

 

[Serticop]

Really nice !

 

[ShinyObstagoon88]

Really, useful!

 

[REALMUGEN]

Thank you so much for this script :)

Very Useful

 

[REALMUGEN]

Hi! Has anyone managed to get this script working in V 19.1? It is a beautiful detail and I am migrating my game so it would be ideal not to lose it...

Thanks :D