[Scripting Question] Make shiny without forcing the shiny flag

[Xeleron]

How do you force a pokemon to be shiny without forcing the shiny flag?

 

[Vendily]

Well, you can force a specific pokemon's shinyness with poke.makeShiny, where "poke" represents the pokemon to be edited. That can by found with several methods:

poke=$Trainer.party[0]
poke=pbFirstAblePokemon
poke=$Trainer.lastPokemon
poke=pbGetPokemon(1)

Wiki on Editing Pokemon

 

[Xeleron]

Well, you can force a specific pokemon's shinyness with poke.makeShiny, where "poke" represents the pokemon to be edited. That can by found with several methods:

poke=$Trainer.party[0]
poke=pbFirstAblePokemon
poke=$Trainer.lastPokemon
poke=pbGetPokemon(1)

That's exactly what I said that I don't want. Isn't it possible to set the personalID to a value that will make it shiny?

 

[Vendily]

Sorry, sorry, I thought global switch when you said flag.

You can set the PID with poke.personalID, but I don't know the formula to that so, good luck on finding a value that gives a shiny.

 

[Rot8er_ConeX]

Sadly, you can't. The PersonalID also controls a lot of other things like natures and gender. Plus, there's not really a way to reverse the formula that makes a Pokemon shiny.

  def isShiny?
    return @shinyflag if @shinyflag!=nil
    a=@personalID^@trainerID
    b=a&0xFFFF
    c=(a>>16)&0xFFFF
    d=b^c
    return (d<SHINYPOKEMONCHANCE)
  end

which means you would need to solve this:

((@personalID^@trainerID)&0xFFFF)^(((@personalID^@trainerID)>>16)&0xFFFF)<SHINYPOKEMONCHANCE

for @personalID

 

[Xeleron]

Sadly, you can't. The PersonalID also controls a lot of other things like natures and gender. Plus, there's not really a way to reverse the formula that makes a Pokemon shiny.

  def isShiny?
    return @shinyflag if @shinyflag!=nil
    a=@personalID^@trainerID
    b=a&0xFFFF
    c=(a>>16)&0xFFFF
    d=b^c
    return (d<SHINYPOKEMONCHANCE)
  end

which means you would need to solve this:

((@personalID^@trainerID)&0xFFFF)^(((@personalID^@trainerID)>>16)&0xFFFF)<SHINYPOKEMONCHANCE

for @personalID

What's the formula for personalID and trainerID?

 

[Rot8er_ConeX]

What's the formula for personalID and trainerID?

"generate random number from 0 to 256^4"

There's no formula. It's a completely random number.

 

[Xeleron]

"generate random number from 0 to 256^4"

There's no formula. It's a completely random number.

Yeah I figured it out myself and also how to make a shiny.