[pokeemerald] How to make move animations

[PLMMJ]

I've been implementing Fairy type into pokeemerald and with it I had to add some moves (not all are Fairy type):

- Brave Bird
- Bullet Punch
- Magnet Bomb
- Baby-Doll Eyes
- Dazzling Gleam
- Draining Kiss
- Fairy Wind
- Light of Ruin
- Play Rough

I've mostly implemented them properly, but there's still the matter of animations. I have no clue how they work and don't have the knowledge to rip them from pokeemerald-expansion like I did the type icon. Can someone tell me how they work and/or how to make them?

 

[Anon822]

I've been implementing Fairy type into pokeemerald and with it I had to add some moves (not all are Fairy type):

- Brave Bird
- Bullet Punch
- Magnet Bomb
- Baby-Doll Eyes
- Dazzling Gleam
- Draining Kiss
- Fairy Wind
- Light of Ruin
- Play Rough

I've mostly implemented them properly, but there's still the matter of animations. I have no clue how they work and don't have the knowledge to rip them from pokeemerald-expansion like I did the type icon. Can someone tell me how they work and/or how to make them?

Surprisingly I couldn't find any tutorials on making custom move animations that I could link.

But basically gBattleAnims_Moves in data/battle_anim_scripts.s assigns animations to each move, and those animations are defined in that same file using a dedicated scripting language. Often these animation scripts will also reference different AnimTasks and SpriteTemplates, which are defined in the various src/battle_anim_*.c files.

Hopefully that will help you copy animations from pokeemerald-expansion.