[Custom Feature Question] How to make a Third Gender

[dolphin2]

Hello there
I need someone who knows how to put a third gender in my fangame (you knpw, like in Pokemon Uranium), especially how to give it a Sprite
Some help?

 

[Vendily]

No worries, it's actually pretty easy, though there's some extra stuff you probably will want to adjust.

So the only changes you REALLY need to make is creating a PlayerC entry in metadata.txt, with a new trainertype of course. in the Trainer types, you can set it to Mixed/X/2, which are all the third gender option. That'll let you set up all the sprites needed for a new player (you of course need to sprite them).
Then it's just a matter of editing the intro to have a third gender option in the gender selection, and do pbChangePlayer(2) (as boy is 0, and girl is 1 by default.)

Now while that is basically all you NEED to do, there's some extra stuff that would add a dash of quality. These mostly involve text colours that references the trainer gender. There's like 4 big spots involving text colour, the continue panel in UI_Load, the save panel in UI_Save, the first page of the Pokemon Summary UI_Summary, and the text color code \pg in Messages. If you don't change these, the third gender will default to black or the male colour in the case of the save screen.
There's also the trainer card and pokegear, which also change colour on player gender, that would require similar changes to the above, otherwise the third gender will use the male graphic.
Of course, I have no proper replacement colours/graphics, so no code sample here, but feel free to ask for more clarification if you have trouble doing these extra changes if you want them.

 

[dolphin2]

No worries, it's actually pretty easy, though there's some extra stuff you probably will want to adjust.

So the only changes you REALLY need to make is creating a PlayerC entry in metadata.txt, with a new trainertype of course. in the Trainer types, you can set it to Mixed/X/2, which are all the third gender option. That'll let you set up all the sprites needed for a new player (you of course need to sprite them).
Then it's just a matter of editing the intro to have a third gender option in the gender selection, and do pbChangePlayer(2) (as boy is 0, and girl is 1 by default.)

Now while that is basically all you NEED to do, there's some extra stuff that would add a dash of quality. These mostly involve text colours that references the trainer gender. There's like 4 big spots involving text colour, the continue panel in UI_Load, the save panel in UI_Save, the first page of the Pokemon Summary UI_Summary, and the text color code \pg in Messages. If you don't change these, the third gender will default to black or the male colour in the case of the save screen.
There's also the trainer card and pokegear, which also change colour on player gender, that would require similar changes to the above, otherwise the third gender will use the male graphic.
Of course, I have no proper replacement colours/graphics, so no code sample here, but feel free to ask for more clarification if you have trouble doing these extra changes if you want them.

I'm not pretty sure about how to do the other changes ( you know, text colours, trainer card, etc) I'd like to know how to do that

 

[Vendily]

not a problem!
Though I can't really tell what version you're on. The changes are almost the same regardless, but I'll be using v19 as reference.

UI_Load

Spoiler:

in UI_Load, we'll find this bit, near the top

        if @trainer.male?
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,MALETEXTCOLOR,MALETEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        elsif @trainer.female?
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,FEMALETEXTCOLOR,FEMALETEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        else
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,TEXTCOLOR,TEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        end

and change it to

        case @trainer.gender
        when 0 # Male
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,MALETEXTCOLOR,MALETEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        when 1 # Female
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,FEMALETEXTCOLOR,FEMALETEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        when 2 # NB
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,NBTEXTCOLOR,NBTEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        else # just as insurance, probably won't ever run tbh
          textpos.push([@trainer.name,56*2,29*2,0,TEXTCOLOR,TEXTSHADOWCOLOR])
        end

We also add two new colour constants NBTEXTCOLOR and NBTEXTSHADOWCOLOR at the top with the other constants.
the specifics of the colour don't really matter much to me.

UI_Save

Spoiler:

Find this line

    textColor = ["0070F8,78B8E8","E82010,F8A8B8","0070F8,78B8E8"][$Trainer.gender]

we just need to change the second "0070F8,78B8E8" to the new main and shadow colours. it's RGB hex, very easy to get from Paint or similar programs

UI_Summary

Spoiler:

Find this bit.

      ownerbase   = Color.new(64,64,64)
      ownershadow = Color.new(176,176,176)
      case @pokemon.owner.gender
      when 0
        ownerbase = Color.new(24, 112, 216)
        ownershadow = Color.new(136, 168, 208)
      when 1
        ownerbase = Color.new(248, 56, 32)
        ownershadow = Color.new(224, 152, 144)
      end

and make it

      ownerbase   = Color.new(64,64,64)
      ownershadow = Color.new(176,176,176)
      case @pokemon.owner.gender
      when 0
        ownerbase = Color.new(24, 112, 216)
        ownershadow = Color.new(136, 168, 208)
      when 1
        ownerbase = Color.new(248, 56, 32)
        ownershadow = Color.new(224, 152, 144)
      when 2
        ownerbase = Color.new(248, 56, 32)
        ownershadow = Color.new(224, 152, 144)
      end

Make sure to fix the colours, since I don't fix the colours here, and just copied the female colours.

UI_TrainerCard/UI_Pokegear

Spoiler:

Find this bit (looks slightly different in the pokegear script)

    cardexists = pbResolveBitmap(sprintf("Graphics/Pictures/Trainer Card/card_f"))
    @sprites["card"] = IconSprite.new(0,0,@viewport)
    if $Trainer.female? && cardexists
      @sprites["card"].setBitmap("Graphics/Pictures/Trainer Card/card_f")
    else
      @sprites["card"].setBitmap("Graphics/Pictures/Trainer Card/card")
    end

change it as this

    @sprites["card"] = IconSprite.new(0,0,@viewport)
    card_bg = sprintf("Graphics/Pictures/Trainer Card/card_%d",$Trainer.gender)
    if pbResolveBitmap(card_bg)
      @sprites["card"].setBitmap(card_bg)
    else
      @sprites["card"].setBitmap("Graphics/Pictures/Trainer Card/card")
    end

This does change the file scheme for the backgrounds, as female would now be "card_1" instead of "card_f", and the new gender is now "card_2". technically the male can be "card_0", but if it doesn't exist, it'll just use "card".

Messages

Spoiler:

CTRL + F for \\pg, which will bring you down to the right spot.

  text.gsub!(/\\pg/i,"\\b") if $Trainer && $Trainer.male?
  text.gsub!(/\\pg/i,"\\r") if $Trainer && $Trainer.female?

change it to

  text.gsub!(/\\pg/i,"\\b") if $Trainer && $Trainer.male?
  text.gsub!(/\\pg/i,"\\r") if $Trainer && $Trainer.female?
  text.gsub!(/\\pg/i,"\\c[9]") if $Trainer && $Trainer.gender==2

This just makes \pg use colour code 9, which should be purple, for lack of a better colour.
Just below it is the \pog command, but I don't really know what you'd consider to be the opposite gender, so I elect to ignore it.