Pokemon Birthsigns

[Lucidious89]

Major Update 4/23/20: Script Overhauls and Zodiac Power Rebalancing
This update is focused around cleaning up the existing scripts, simplifying things, and making everything work more efficiently. The Zodiac Powers script in particular has gotten massive updates, with nearly every single Zodiac Power being fixed up and buffed with improved effects. The Birthsign Events script has similarly been completely overhauled, adding two new events to the project, as well as simplifying the entire process of setting up your events (say goodbye to fumbling with switches!). A host of smaller changes and additions have been added as well.

Changelist for Birthsings 2.9

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GENERAL

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Wild Birthsigns
The toggles for Wild Birthsigns have changed. The toggle numbers are now as follows:

• 0 - Pokemon will not spawn with birthsigns.
• 1 - Pokemon will spawn with the birthsign of the current month.
• 2 - Pokemon will spawn with either the Rival sign, or one of the two Partner signs of the current month at random.
• 3 - Pokemon will spawn with a random sign out of the zodiac.
• 4 - Pokemon will spawn with a random sign out of all possible birthsigns.

New Methods

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A variety of new methods have been added or changed, many of which may be useful when customizing your game.

• hasRivalsign?(value)[*]hasPartnersign(value)

Previously, these methods would return true whenever the Pokemon in question had the Rival/Partner to the current month's sign. These have been updated so that you may now put any value in the parenthesis, and this will return true if the Pokemon in question has the corresponding Rival/Partner sign of that value. For example, if you write this out like "$Trainer.party[0].hasRivalsign?(6)", then this will search Pokemon in slot 1 of the party, and return true if they have the rival sign to 6 (June). DON'T use these methods, however, if the (value) you're comparing this to is another Pokemon. For that, use these methods instead:

• pbShareRivalsign?(pkmn1,pkmn2)[*]pbSharePartnersign?(pkmn1,pkmn2)

Running this will compare the two Pokemon (pkmn1 and pkmn2) and return true if the two share a Rival/Partner sign. This may also be used to compare the Trainer's birthsign to something as well. An example of this could look something like pbSharePartnersign($Trainer,$Trainer.party[0]), which would return true if the player shares a partner sign with the Pokemon in slot 1 of the party.

• pbShareBirthsign?(pkmn1,pkmn2)[*]pbShareZodiacsign?(pkmn1,pkmn2)

These work exactly like the ones above, except these return true if the two objects being compared share identical birthsigns or zodiac signs, respectively.

• getCalendarsign[*]getRivalsign[*]getPartnersign(num)

Gets the calendar month number associated with a Pokemon/Trainer's zodiac sign.
Gets the calendar month number associated with the rival month to the Pokemon/Trainer's zodiac sign.
Gets the calendar month number associated with the partner months to the Pokemon/Trainer's zodiac sign. Set (num) to either 1 or 2 to return the first or second partner month, respectively.

• setRivalsign(value)[*]setPartnersign(value,num)

As you might expect, these can be used to set a rival or partner sign on a Pokemon, relative to what (value) is set to. So for example, if you use setRivalsign(7), it'll set whatever sign is the rival to July (7), which in this case be January (1). For setPartnersign, a second variable, (num), can be set to 1 or 2 in order to set the first or second partner sign on a Pokemon. If num is left blank, then setPartnersign will simply randomize between the two partner signs.

Birthsign Commands & Effects

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• The Parent
  This sign's command, "Incubate", has been changed.
  Previously, this would reduce an egg's remaining step count to 1 if it had under 1,000 steps remaining.
  Instead, this skill will now reduce an egg's remaining step count to 1, regardless of what its current step count is. However, this skill now works on a cooldown, and must be recharged between uses by walking 1,000 steps. This is a global cooldown, so all Pokemon with this skill are on the same recharge count. This is to prevent spamming the skill with multiple Pokemon, and bypassing the cooldown.
  
  In addition, this birthsign now also has a secondary, passive effect.
  While a Pokemon with this sign is in your party, eggs will require half as many steps to hatch, exactly like a Pokemon with Flame Body or Magma Armor functions.
  
  
  
• The Bard
  This sign's command, "Harmonize", has been changed.
  Previously, this would initiate a battle with a wild Pokemon in the area, mimicking the effects of Sweet Scent or Honey. Instead, this skill now has branching options with different effects. When selecting the command, you are given a list of three songs that the user may sing:
  
  
  • Alluring Aria: Produces the same effect as before, allowing the user to lure a wild Pokemon. However, this now has the additional effect of temporarily lowering the levels of wild Pokemon in the area, mimicking the effects of White Flute.
    
    
  • Repellent Rapture: The user sings a nasty tune that repels wild Pokemon for a certain number of steps. The duration of the repel effect depends on the user's level, scaling up to 250 steps (Max Repel) once the user is level 50 or higher. In addition to this, the levels of wild Pokemon in the area will be increased temporarily, mimicking the effects of Black Flute.
    
    
  • Mysterious Melody: The user sings an exotic tune that attempts to draw a foriegn species into battle. If successful, the wild Pokemon encountered will be pulled from the list of PokeRadar-exclusive species, rather than the normal pool of wild Pokemon in the area.
  
  This skill now also works on a cooldown, recharging after 400 steps. All three songs operate on the same cooldown.
  
  
  
• The Alchemist
  This sign's command, "Transmute", functions the same as before.
  However, its pool of item combinations have expanded, including even more items from Gen 7 such as Silvally's memories, and a slew of new items introduced in Gen 8 such as the Nature Mints, EXP Candies, and miscellaneous hold items. Some overlooked items from past gens have also been included.
  
  As always, there shouldn't be any issues if these new items aren't present in your game. If an unknown item is transmuted, the skill simply gives you a random junk item instead.
  
  
  
• The Soulmate
  Fixed a scripting oversight that may have prevented this sign's effects from working in rare situations. It should work properly now.
  
  
  
• The Vampire
  Previously, Pokemon with this birthsign would heal while walking at night, and take damage while outdoors during the day. The healing effect of this sign has now been changed to also only trigger while outdoors, to match the daytime's effect.
  
  Coding for this sign has also been slightly reworked to fix a possible bug.

BIRTHSIGN EVENTS

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Switch Removal
The code for this script has been greatly streamlined and a lot of the fat has been cut. Because of this, the switch numbers previously required to make the code work are no longer needed. To run one of the several birthsign events, all you need to do is plug a single method into an event, and it'll run whatever it is you'd like. I'll go into detail in how to set up an event further below.


New Event: Pokemon Matchmaker

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A new event has been added that I call a Matchmaker event. This is a flavorful event mostly designed to test the player's knowledge on sign match ups. An NPC is looking to set up a playdate between two Pokemon. The quality of the playdate depends on how the zodiac signs between his Pokemon and the one you offer match up.

• If your Pokemon has a complimentary partner sign to the zodiac sign of the Matchmaker's Pokemon, then the two Pokemon will have a great time together, and your Pokemon will become very happy (by the same amount as if it got a massage). It will also come back from the playdate with a gift for you, which will be an item that promotes growth in some way, such as a Lucky Egg or a Power Item.
  
• If your Pokemon has an identical sign to the Matchmaker's Pokemon, the two Pokemon will have an okay time together, but grow bored somewhat quickly. Your Pokemon will return to you from the playdate with their happiness increased by a little bit, and a random Incense item as a gift.
  
• If your Pokemon has a rival sign to the Matchmaker's Pokemon, the two Pokemon will have a terrible time together, and your Pokemon will actually return to you with decreased happiness. In addition, it'll bring back a "harmful" item to you, such as a Toxic Orb or Sticky Barb.

This is meant to be a minor daily event.

New Event: Fortune Teller

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Another new event has been added that I call a Fortune Teller event. This event is designed to give players a way to alter the signs of wild Pokemon they encounter, as well as giving the player a bit of knowledge about sign match ups. Unlike all of the other events so far, this event actually focuses entirely on the player's sign, not the Pokemon's. An NPC known as the Fortune Teller will ask to give you a reading based on your zodiac sign. If you agree, he will tell you which sign in the zodiac is currently strongest, and compare your sign to it. Depending on how the two signs pair up, this may temporarily influence the type of encounters you face.

• If your sign is a complementary partner to the Fortune Teller's sign, then for the next 2,500 steps any wild Pokemon you encounter will always spawn with one of the two partner signs relative to yours. They will also spawn with boosted happiness, and have a chance at holding a Zodiac Gem relative to their sign.
  
• If your sign is identical to the Fortune Teller's sign, then for the next 2,500 steps any wild Pokemon you encounter will share the same sign as your trainer does. No other effects.
  
• If your sign is a rival to the Fortune Teller's sign, then for the next 2,500 steps any wild Pokemon you encounter will share the rival to your sign, and spawn with half their usual level of happiness.

These effects override any other effect that would alter a wild Pokemon's birthsign. So even if you set WILDBIRTHSIGNS to zero, which would normally make no Pokemon spawn with a sign, the Fortune Teller's effect will temporarily override this. The exception to this is Celestial Bosses, who's sign cannot be altered when spawned.

After giving your reading, the fortune teller will gift you with a Zodiac Gem relative to his sign.

Setting Up an Event

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To set up a birthsign event, all you need to do now is input the following code into an event:

pbBirthsignEvent(eventnum,monthnum)

That's it. No more switches.
Instead of switches, now you may set up an event by simply setting "eventnum" and "monthnum" to specific numbers.


For eventnum:
This number chooses the specific event you want to run. This value can range from 1-5.

• When set to "1", this will run a Birthstone event.
• When set to "2", this will run a Birthpath event.
• When set to "3", this will run a Celestial Boss event.
• When set to "4", this will run a Matchmaker event.
• When set to "5", this will run a Fortune Teller event.

Additionally, if you set this number to 0, or leave it blank, this will just default to a Birthstone event.


For monthnum:
This number chooses the specific month you want to base your event around. This value can range from 1-12, representing each month of the year.

• For a Birthstone event, this number will decide which month's zodiac sign is given to a chosen Pokemon.
• For a Birthpath event, this number will decide which sign is required on a Pokemon to open the path.
• For a Celestial Boss event, this number will decide which boss you encounter, relative to the month it represents.
• For a Matchmaker event, this number will decide what sign the Matchmaker's Pokemon has.
• For a Fortune Teller event, this number will decide which sign the Fortune Teller compares yours to.

Additionally, if this sign is set to "0", a random month number will be set instead. If you leave this number blank, it will default to whatever the current month's number is.

So some examples of what setting up an event would look like:

pbBirthsignEvent(3,8)

This would initiate a Celestial Boss event with August's celestial guardian.

pbBirthsignEvent(4)

This would initiate a Matchmaker event with the Matchmaker's Pokemon having the current month's sign.

pbBirthsignEvent(5,0)

This would initiate a Fortune Teller even where the Teller's chosen sign is random each time you speak to him.

pbBirthsignEvent

Not inputting any numbers would initiate the default Birthstone event with the current month's sign.

ZODIAC POWERS

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General
This section has received the bulk of the changes for this update, and most of the code has been streamlined and improved. Nearly every Zodiac Power has received some sort of rebalancing or touch up to improve performance, and an emphasis was placed on weaker and less interesting Zodiac Powers to make them shine a bit more.

Zodiac Powers

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Friend Boost
Previously, this power would grant an ally the Helping Hand effect in a double battle.
Now, this power is a bit more fleshed out. The user focuses all of its energy in aiding its ally, skipping its own turn to give them a Helping Hand. In addition to this, the user also negates the effects of all Protect moves used by opponents for this turn only, ensuring that the user's partner can make use of the helping hand boost.


Blinding Light
Previously, this power reduced the accuracy of all opponents by 2 stages.
Now, this power only reduces the accuracy of all opponents by 1 stage. However, as an additional effect, this power will also cause all foes to flinch on the turn this is used.


Feral Frenzy
Previously, the user would cut their HP to boost Attack, Sp.Atk, and Speed by 1 stage.
This effect remains the same, however, the user's stats will now be raised by 2 stages instead of 1 if their HP drops to 1 by this power's effect.


Ability Whiz
Previously, the user would attempt to copy the ability of the nearest opponent.
Now, this power works "smarter" in how it targets in a double battle, and will search for the first viable target to copy from. Before, only the nearest target would be chosen, and if this power's effect failed to copy their ability for some reason (uncopyable ability, like Multitype), the whole effect would just fail right there and then. Now, this power searches the nearest foe, and if the effect would fail on them, it moves on to the next target instead.
As an additional effect, this power will now also use the Gastro Acid effect on all foes, suppressing their abilities from activating.


Battle Cry
Previously, the user's Attack & Defense both increase one stage, and opponents become Taunted for 1 turn.
This effect remains the same, however, the Taunt effect now lasts for 2 turns.


Tour Guide
Previously, this power would force the opponent out with a U-Turn effect.
Now, this power uses a Roar effect, which makes more sense and fixes a lot of bugs from the previous version of this effect. Pokemon with Suction Cups or with the ingrain effect are immune to this effect. This power automatically targets the nearest viable target. This effect now automatically ends wild battles.


Hit & Run
Previously, the user would attempt to steal the held item of the nearest opponent. Successfully stealing would raise Speed.
Now, this power's targeting has been improved, much like with Ability Whiz. Before, only the nearest opponent would be targeted, and if this power would fail on them (unstealable item, no item, etc), then this whole effect would fail. Now, if you're in a double battle, both opponents will be searched to find a viable target for stealing from.
In addition, I also fixed an error that would replenish the user's Zodiac Gem after battle. Now, the user will properly consume their Zodiac Gem. Items stolen with this effect in wild battles will be kept, but items stolen from trainers will not (as is intended).


Pig Out
Previously, the user would heal up to half its max HP, but lower its Speed by 1 stage. Its weight would also increase.
Now, this power has been almost entirely changed and is far more creative than before. When activating this power, the user will begin gorging itself on a stockpile of random berries, activating their effects consecutively in one turn, until it is full. Up to 4 berries total can be consumed back to back, and include a variety of HP healing and stat boosting berries. If the user is suffering from a status condition, a Lum Berry will always be the final berry consumed. As like before, the user's weight is increased after it's done feasting.


Last Stand
Previously, the user would gain the Endure effect for one turn.
Now, this power has been entirely changed. When activating this power, the user turns itself into a wall in a last-ditch effort to outlast the opponent. Attack and Speed are dropped by 3 stages in order to put all its energy in fortifying itself with fully restored HP and +6 Defense.
If the user has the Contrary ability, they instead make their last stand with guns blazing, gaining +3 Attack & Speed, and Defense dropped to -6.


Quick Study
Previously, the user would gain the Snatch effect for one turn.
Now, this power has been expanded upon. In addition to the Snatch effect, the user pulls a fast one on its opponents and uses a multi-target Psycho Shift effect, allowing it to reverse its status condition to both opponents and removing it from itself.


Market Crash
Previously, the user would place the Embargo effect on both opponents for 3 turns.
Now, this has been buffed to 5 turns. In addition coins are scattered everywhere when this effect activates, and you can pick up cash equal to the user's level x100.


Great Purge
Previously, the user would heal itself and its partner of any status conditions.
Now, in addition to this effect, the user also consecrates the ground with a Misty Terrain to prevent further status conditions.


Untouchable
Previously, the user would gain the Magic Coat effect for 1 turn.
Now, in addition to this effect, this power will also cause the user to channel all of its energy, leaving it with just 1 HP. But in exchange, the user gains the Wonder Guard ability.


Spirit Guard
Previously, the user would set up Light Screen and Reflect for 3 turns.
Now, this has been increased to 5 turns.


Bodyguard
Previously, the user would gain the Follow Me effect for 1 turn.
Now, in addition to this effect, the user also gains the Parental Bond ability. The user skips its turn when it activates this power, however.


Corner Strike
Previously, the user would gain the Pursuit effect on their next attack, allowing them to strike an opponent switching out.
Now, in addition to this effect, this power now has new effects if the opponent is a wild Pokemon, or a trainer who is down to their last Pokemon. Because the target has no one to switch out to, they become cornered by the user and unable to defend themselves. Because of this, their Defense and Sp.Def both drop by 2 stages, and they suffer from the Quash effect for this turn, forcing them to move last.


Lottery
Previously, the user would randomly activate the effects of particular birthsigns.
Now, this power can activate the Zodiac Power of every single birthsign, and has new battle text to describe its activation. This power can only randomly select the effects of Friend Boost, Self Sacrifice, Bodyguard, and Star-Crossed while in a double battle, however.


Solidarity
This power's intended effect remains unchanged, and it inflicts the Pain Split effect on all battlers. However, the code for this power has been improved so that it's no longer so buggy, and HP is now split appropriately.


Mirror Image
Previously, the user would gain the Reflect Type effect, copying an ally or opponent's type.
Now, this power will instead use the Transform effect on the nearest opponent. The user will still keep their original moveset, however, so the change only applies to their stats/type/ability etc.


Transmogrify
Previously, the user would morph an opponent's held item into something else, potentially turning it into something useless or harmful.
Now, this power morphs both Pokemon's items in a double battle. More items have been added to the list of morphable items.


Star-Crossed
Previously, the user would gain the Rainbow effect for 4 turns for the entire party if the user and its ally have matching Partner signs.
Now, the Rainbow effect is increased to 8 turns. In addition to this, the user and its partner gain the Plus/Minus abilities, respectively, if they match. If the two Pokemon happen to share Rival signs, their bad luck brings an impending doom to the battle that puts the Perish Song effect on all battlers instead.

EBS Compatibility
The compatibility script for Luka's EBS received minor tweaks, but the old version should still work just fine. However, I did correct a minor graphical bug that has been annoying me. Previously, when pressing the Z button to toggle a zodiac power (or mega evolution, or Z-Move), the toggle would not reset if you chose to back out of the command before confirming. What this means is that the next time you opened the fight menu, the Z button toggle would still appear to be in the "on" position, even though it functionally wasn't. I've corrected this now, so backing out of the fight menu should now reset the Z button toggle.

OTHER

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Family Tree Compatibility
Compatibility with FL's Family Tree script has been improved further. A new graphic has been added that displays the Family Tree icon in the Summary while you have the birthsign page open, to maintain continuity. The birthsign script will automatically implement this graphic when SHOW_FAMILYTREE is set to "true".

Debug Pokemon
The debug menu has been expanded a bit with options to now automatically set a Rival or Partner signs on a Pokemon. If the Pokemon doesn't already have a zodiac sign, this will grant them the appropriate sign relative to the current month. If the Pokemon does have a zodiac sign, it will instead assign them a Rival or Partner relative to their current sign. In the case of Partner signs, the specific sign is chosen at random.

Debug Menu
Just like above, you can now set Rival or Partner signs on your trainer from the debug menu. This works identically to how it does for a Pokemon.

Trainer Signs
Chunks of this script became redundant when reworking the main birthsign script, so whatever was leftover in this script was just transferred back into the main script. As such, this script is no longer required, and should just be deleted. The Trainer birthsign event that allows you to grant the player a sign at the start of the game has simply been moved into the Birthsign Events script.

Birthsign Journal
Several small updates to the journal's display text to properly reflect changes made to birthsign and zodiac power effects.

Arceus Restrictions
Previously, Arceus was locked out from being given any birthsigns other than 'The Void', purely for "lore" reasons. These restrictions have been removed, since it just added pointless complications for a single Pokemon for not much reason.

Installation

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1) Firstly, you may delete your Trainer Birthsigns script, if you have that installed. It's no longer needed, and everything it added is just rolled into a different script now.

2) If you want a new menu graphic for more compatibility with FL's Family Tree script, you may install this into your Birthsigns/Other folder:
Zodiac Page (Family Tree)

3) The following scripts need to be reinstalled:

Required:
Pokemon Birthsigns
Birthsign Journal
Birthsign Events
Zodiac Powers

Optional:
EBS Zodiac Compatibility
Debug_Pokemon
Debug_Menu

 

[NoNoNever]

Seems like i did nothing wrong

 

[Lucidious89]

Actually I was already able to add the Dissonance skill, but I will for sure wait for the update, I changed a lot of things so Ill have to port your changes to mine, or add my changes to the update.

Also, I was wondering;

I wanted to make all these signs badsigns=(0 || 1 || 4 || 7 || 8 || 12 || 19 || 27 || 30 || 34), unavailable, but I was unable to make it work, did I do something wrong?
They still appear.

I'm not really sure how the method you were attempting was supposed to work, but it doesn't really matter because I've simplified how randomization works in the last update. You can accomplish what you're attempting to do in a more straight forward way.

def getSignList(month)
  return [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,
          19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,31,33][month-1]
end
if ZODIACSET==3 # Zodiac uses random signs
  rndm=rand(32)
  JAN_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList(rndm)
  FEB_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+6)%33)
  MAR_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+11)%33)
  APR_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+2)%33)
  MAY_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+8)%33)
  JUN_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+3)%33)
  JUL_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+7)%33)
  AUG_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+4)%33)
  SEP_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+10)%33)
  OCT_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+1)%33)
  NOV_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+9)%33)
  DEC_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+5)%33)
end

This is how the randomized zodiac looks in the newest updated. If you want to delete particular signs from being selected at random, then simply remove the numbers corresponding to that birthsign from the "getSignList" array. Note that sign 0 is already ignored by default.

After that, you need to change "rand(32)" to reflect the total number of variables left in the getSignList array after you removed the undesirable ones. So if you removed 10 signs from the array lets say, then you'd use "rand(22)" instead. Next, you'll have to do the same thing with each "%33", and subtract that same number from each instance (making it %23 in this scenario).

Remember however that randomized zodiac sets will re-randomize each time you load the game.

 

[Lucidious89]

I tried it again 2 times, but unfortunately the result is the same, I think the best is if I record a small video of me installing it, maybe then you can see if I do something wrong with the installation

https://youtu.be/fADJrNparc4

Ignore the moment with double POKEMON BIRTHSIGNS, EPI pushed it up

Seems like i did nothing wrong

I watched your video, and it seems like what the problem is is that you're simply ordering the scripts wrong. All of Luka's stuff needs to be placed AFTER my birthsigns scripts. Because my scripts are built with Essential's default battle layout in mind, and his scripts change that. So if you place mine after, its basically reverting certain things back to default and overwriting his, which is probably why certain graphics aren't appearing as they should. This is my guess.

So basically, the script order should look like

------------------------------
Pokemon Birthsigns
Zodiac Powers
------------------------------
Luka Utilities
EliteBattle_0
EliteBattle_1
EliteBattle_2
EliteBattle_3
Zodiac Compatibility
EliteBattle_4
etc....
-----------------------------
Main

That should fix the problem.

 

[Lucidious89]

Minor Update:

I caught an error with 'The Cultist' Summon command that would not initiate battles properly due to something I was playing around with and forgot to change back. I've now gone back and fixed it. Copy over the fixed version of the code for the Summon command if this is important to you.

 

[NoNoNever]

Now its working yeaah thx

 

[TheBIGFriv]

I'm not really sure how the method you were attempting was supposed to work, but it doesn't really matter because I've simplified how randomization works in the last update. You can accomplish what you're attempting to do in a more straight forward way.

def getSignList(month)
  return [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,
          19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,31,33][month-1]
end
if ZODIACSET==3 # Zodiac uses random signs
  rndm=rand(32)
  JAN_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList(rndm)
  FEB_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+6)%33)
  MAR_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+11)%33)
  APR_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+2)%33)
  MAY_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+8)%33)
  JUN_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+3)%33)
  JUL_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+7)%33)
  AUG_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+4)%33)
  SEP_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+10)%33)
  OCT_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+1)%33)
  NOV_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+9)%33)
  DEC_BIRTHSIGN = getSignList((rndm+5)%33)
end

This is how the randomized zodiac looks in the newest updated. If you want to delete particular signs from being selected at random, then simply remove the numbers corresponding to that birthsign from the "getSignList" array. Note that sign 0 is already ignored by default.

After that, you need to change "rand(32)" to reflect the total number of variables left in the getSignList array after you removed the undesirable ones. So if you removed 10 signs from the array lets say, then you'd use "rand(22)" instead. Next, you'll have to do the same thing with each "%33", and subtract that same number from each instance (making it %23 in this scenario).

Remember however that randomized zodiac sets will re-randomize each time you load the game.

Oh man, I am an idiot then.
I wanted to make it so that Wild Pokémon can't obtain some specific signs, not the Zodiacs. My bad.

elsif WILDBIRTHSIGNS==4
# Generates wild Pokemon with completely random signs
genwildpoke.setRandomsign

then this would be the thing I need to change, no?

 

[Lucidious89]

Oh man, I am an idiot then.
I wanted to make it so that Wild Pokémon can't obtain some specific signs, not the Zodiacs. My bad.

elsif WILDBIRTHSIGNS==4
# Generates wild Pokemon with completely random signs
genwildpoke.setRandomsign

then this would be the thing I need to change, no?

I see. Yes, that would be correct. You could probably just incorporate the same idea I outlined before more or less by using an array. I'd just make a new toggle under WILDBIRTHSIGNS==4 and set it to 5, that way you dont have to fiddle with the pre-existing toggles in case you end up needing them for some reason.

elsif WILDBIRTHSIGNS==5
        # Generates wild Pokemon with random signs out of a specified array
        signs=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
        genwildpoke.setBirthsign(signs[rand(9)])

Something like this would probably work. I listed signs 1-10 just as an example, but you could incorporate whichever sign numbers you like. You could do the same thing to set a random zodiac sign too, by using "genwildpoke.setZodiacsign(signs[rand(x)])" (instead of making it random out of every possible birthsign), but in that case instead of having the array list numbers associated with birthsigns (0-33), you'd use month numbers instead (1-12). This would ensure the randomly chosen signs are only ones found within your active zodiac set.

 

[TritraSerpifeu]

Is there a method i can easily call something like pbismonth(JAN) so i can make month based events?

 

[Lucidious89]

Is there a method i can easily call something like pbismonth(JAN) so i can make month based events?

Hmm...could you explain a bit on what you're attempting to do with this? If you're trying to check for a particular month, Time.now.mon will call the current month. That's not a birthsigns thing, that's just something essentials has by default. You can set that to a particular month like "if Time.now.mon==4" to check for April, for example.

 

[TritraSerpifeu]

Thanks, I did not knew that

 

[Lucidious89]

Minor Update 5/13/20: Bug Fixes and Polishing
I made a second pass through all of the scripts in the last big update to comb through any potential bugs and errors, and I found several small ones (and one or two big ones) that I was able to fix. They're too minor and numerous to bother listing, but I'd recommend reinstalling the scripts again. The Zodiac Power script in particular had the bulk of the bugs, and all of the powers have been re-tested and polished up where needed. Some of the battle text has also been changed to be more clear in certain niche situations. The main birthsigns script has had a few unnecessary things trimmed that was causing errors in other areas, and the two new events added in the events script have been slightly changed to better match the existing events in the script.

 

[Lucidious89]

Update 5/22/20: Birthsign Journal Overhaul
The Birthsign Journal is personally one of my favorite things I've worked on, mostly because unlike most elements of this project, it's entirely there for flavor which makes working on it different than my other scripts. Despite this, the Journal script is probably the most outdated out of all the scripts in this project, and has undergone by far the least amount of changes and upgrades. Because of this, I thought I'd make an update dedicated entirely to sprucing up the Journal script to a higher standard of quality, and add a ton of new features to improve it. Nearly the entire script has been reworked to function more efficiently.

What's new:

Spoiler:

GENERAL
The script now generally performs better, and comes with several QoL improvements as well as full compatibility with Luka's Easy Mouse Module.

Spoiler:

• Smoother Transitions
  Opening and closing a page in the Journal will transition more smoothly now. Previously, it would just suddenly open a page without a fade out transition, and would make it feel very jumpy.
  
  
• Quick Select
  When scrolling through the zodiac wheel with the up/down arrow keys, you may now also use the left arrow key to immediately jump to the rival sign relative to the sign you're currently highlighting. Similarly, pressing right will jump you to the nearest partner sign.
  
  
• Mouse Compatibility
  The Birthsign Journal can now be fully controlled via mouse inputs by clicking the icons on screen. Mousing over a token on the zodiac wheel will now highlight that token, and clicking it will move the cursor to that sign. Clicking a highlighted sign on the wheel will open up the info page of that birthsign. Mousing over the center of the wheel will highlight the exit button, which can then be clicked to back out of the journal.
  While on an info page, you can now click the on-screen X button to exit the page, and clicking the on-screen Z button will open the Zodiac Power panel. Clicking anywhere will toggle the panel off.
  
  If you don't have mouse functionality installed in your project, the script will still function perfectly fine.
  
  
• Page Scrolling
  While an info page for a particular birthsign is open, you can now use the up and down arrow keys to cycle through to the previous or next pages, without having to close the current page and select a new one. This is similar to how you can scroll through Pokemon Summary screens in the party with Up/Down.
  
  In addition to this, whenever you press the Left arrow key, the page will skip to the Rival birthsign of the page you were just on. So if you had January's birthsign page open, for example, pressing Left will skip to July's birthsign page. Similarly, pressing the Right arrow key will jump you to the nearest Partner birthsign page relative to the current sign's page you have open. This is useful to quickly reference compatible birthsigns.
  
  Mouse Controls:
  If controlling the journal with a mouse, you can now simply click the Partner/Rival tokens that appear on the info pages to jump to those respective pages. You can also click the up/down arrow icons at the top of the screen to scroll backwards/forwards through pages, as if you pressed the up/down arrow keys. Alternatively, you may also simulate this by scrolling up/down with your mouse, if you have that feature enabled.

DISPLAY
The first thing you'll notice after installing this update is that the home screen for the birthsign journal is packed with new graphics and information. I'll break down all the new additions.

Spoiler:

• Current Date
  
  
  
  
  In the top left hand corner of the home screen, the current date will now be displayed.
  
  
  
• Current Sign
  
  
  
  
  In the top right hand corner of the home screen, there is now a graphic that displays the birthsign token of the current month's birthsign. This is handy as a quick reference when you're curious about what the current month's sign is, without having to scroll through the list.
  
  Note: Clicking on this token with mouse controls will instantly highlight this sign's token on the zodiac wheel. If the token is already highlighted, it will open that sign's page.
  
  
  
• Trainer Sign
  
  
  
  
  In the bottom left hand corner of the home screen, there is now a graphic that displays the birthsign token of your trainer's birthsign. This is handy as a quick reference if you don't remember what your character's sign is, and an alternative (and probably more useful) place to display this than the Trainer Card. If your Trainer has been blessed, a golden blessed token graphic will be displayed instead.
  
  Note: Clicking on this token with mouse controls will instantly highlight this sign's token on the zodiac wheel. If the token is already highlighted, it will open that sign's page.
  
  
  
• Party Signs
  
  
  
  
  In the bottom right hand corner of the home screen, there is now a new display with 6 Pokeballs, representing your Pokemon party slots. While you scroll through the zodiac wheel, this display will be updated every time you highlight a new birthsign. If any Pokemon in your party have the same birthsign as the one you are currently highlighting, their sprite will appear over the pokeball relative to their place in the party. This is a handy way of quickly referencing which Pokemon in your party have a particular birthsign while you scroll through the journal.
  
  Note: Clicking on a Pokemon's sprite will play its cry.

FEATURES
The journal now has a bonus functionality that ties in with the Celestial Bosses found in the Birthsign Events script.

Spoiler:

• Celestial Boss Counter
  
  
  
  
  In the top left hand corner of the home page, underneath the display for the date, there will be a new display that unlocks after the first time you encounter a Celestial Boss. This display will keep track of how many Celestials you have encountered, essentially keeping a tab on your progress and making it easier for you to keep track of how many you've defeated.
  
  
  
• Celestial Tokens
  
  
  
  
  In addition to the counter, whenever a Celestial Boss is defeated, the birthsign token on the zodiac wheel relative to that defeated boss will be replaced with a golden blessed token. This will be a visual indication of which particular bosses you have defeated, and which ones still remain to be discovered. There's just something so rewarding about collecting all 12 tokens.
  
  
  Note: All Celestial features in the journal are disabled when utilizing ZODIACSET=3. This is because set 3 uses a randomly generated zodiac that changes each time you load the game, making it impossible to keep an accurate account of which particular bosses have been defeated. If you want to utilize the Celestial features of the journal, you need to maintain a constant zodiac set. Changing out signs will likely mess up the counter.
  
  However, if you ever do find yourself in a position where the counter is broken and you want to reset everything back to square one, you can run this script:
  

  pbBossCountReset

  
  
  
• Here's a final example picture to show off what a full screen might look like (all bosses fought, full party with a sign, trainer blessed)
  
  

Installation:

Spoiler:

1) A new graphic needs to be installed into the Birthsigns/Other folder, and one old one needs to be replaced. These has already been updated in the link in the main post.
Journal Info Graphic
Journal Selection


2) Minor changes to both the Pokemon Birthsigns and Birthsign Events scripts need to be made. You may either follow the instructions below, or simply redownload the entire scripts found in the main post.

Spoiler:

• In Pokemon Birthsigns, paste this anywhere in the upper portion of the script. I recommend right under the code for pbLastMonthDay.
  

  # Returns the total number of defeated Celestial Bosses
  def getBossNum
    ret = 0
    for i in 0...12
      ret+=1 if $Trainer.celestialcheck[i]!=nil
    end
    return ret
  end
  
  # Resets celestial boss counter
  def pbBossCountReset
    for i in 0..12
      $Trainer.celestialcheck[i]=nil
    end
  end

  
  
• In Pokemon Birthsigns, find the line "class PokeBattle_Trainer", and paste this directly below it:
  

  attr_accessor(:celestialcheck)

  
  
• Not much further down, find the line "@zodiacflag=$PokemonGlobal.startTime.mon" and paste these lines directly below it:
  

  @blessed=false
      @celestialcheck=[]
      for i in 0..12
        @celestialcheck[i]=nil
      end

  
  
• In the Birthsign Events script, scroll down to the section under the heading "Celestial Boss Event", and from there, find both instances of "pbDoubleWildBattle" and "pbWildBattle". For both cases, make sure the final three variables of each are:
  

  1,false,true

  
  
• Then a few lines down, search for "if pbSetSelfSwitch(thisEvent.id,"A",true)". Paste this line directly below it:
  

  if $game_variables[1]==4 || $game_variables[1]==1
                $Trainer.celestialcheck[monthnum-1] = poke.birthsign if ZODIACSET!=3
              end

  
  
  
• OPTIONAL: If you want even more birthsign functions in your Debug_Menu script make these following changes below. Note that all these changes are already present in the Debug_Menu script found in the main post.
  
  
  • In the "Birthsigns - Debug Options" section, find the last line "_INTL("Toggle a blessing on your sign."))", and paste the following below it:
    

    commands.add("birthsigns","maxcounter",_INTL("Max Boss Counter"),
            _INTL("Max out journal counter for Celestial Bosses."))
        commands.add("birthsigns","resetcounter",_INTL("Reset Boss Counter"),
            _INTL("Reset journal counter for Celestial Bosses."))

    
    
  • Further down, after all of the code for when "blessing", paste this:
    

    #=============================================================================
      # Birthsigns - Max Boss Counter
      #=============================================================================
      when "maxcounter"
        if ZODIACSET!=3
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[0]=JAN_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[1]=FEB_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[2]=MAR_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[3]=APR_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[4]=MAY_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[5]=JUN_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[6]=JUL_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[7]=AUG_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[8]=SEP_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[9]=OCT_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[10]=NOV_BIRTHSIGN
          $Trainer.celestialcheck[11]=DEC_BIRTHSIGN
          Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Boss counter maxed."))
        else
          Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Can't apply boss counters when a randomized zodiac is active!"))
        end
      #=============================================================================
      # Birthsigns - Reset Boss Counter
      #=============================================================================
      when "resetcounter"
        pbBossCountReset
        Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Boss counter reset."))
      #=============================================================================

3) Reinstall the Birthsign Journal script.

 

[TritraSerpifeu]

Uhm... how can I make a event to set the players birthsign, I knew that there was once a addon for this but now the addon is gone, can you help me?

 

[Lucidious89]

Uhm... how can I make a event to set the players birthsign, I knew that there was once a addon for this but now the addon is gone, can you help me?

It's rolled into the main script by default. All the trainer functions still exist as they did before - in fact, they've been greatly expanded upon. If you're just looking for the event that assigns one at the beginning of the game (where you pick your birthday month), that has been moved into the Events script and can be called upon with pbTrainerSignEvent.

 

[Lucidious89]

Major Update 6/7/20: New Signs and Zodiac Swapping
It's been a long time since I added new birthsigns to this project. One, because I just didn't have any good ideas, but mostly because it just takes so much work now to add any since each sign now needs to include its own unique graphics, journal entry, a Zodiac Power, a Celestial Boss, on top of its actual effects. Because of that, I figured I'd let the cap sit at 33 and focus on updating things in other ways.

Well boys and girls, quarantine changed all that, and you can probably tell from the pace of the updates lately that I've got a whole lot of time to kill. I've added three brand new signs to the project, bringing the total up to 36 - meaning that there are now enough birthsigns to create three whole zodiacs worth without any repeats. Because of that, I decided why not add in a feature some people have been asking for - the ability to swap between zodiacs in-game? I had to restructure how a lot of things work to make this happen, but it's done. I've created a slew of nifty debug tools to show this off.

A ton of other things have been updated as well that I'll get into detail about below. This is a huge update, so there's a lot to go over. I've detailed all of the changes below.


*YOU MUST START A NEW GAME AFTER INSTALLING*

What's New:

Spoiler:

New Birthsigns

Spoiler:

• 34. 'The Racketeer'
  
  
  
  Constellation: Honchkrow
  Type: Party Lead
  Effect: When born under this sign, the Pokemon's mere presence intimidates others around it. When leading the party, you'll find that merchants and shop owners are likely to grant you a 25% discount on their goods. They'll also buy your goods at a 25% markup as well.
  
  Effect Details
  
  Spoiler:

  To balance this effect, shop owners become more difficult to persuade as you progress in the game. You'll need a higher and higher level Pokemon for this discount to appear. This is to prevent this effect from being abused by simply pulling out a level 2 Rattata or something with this sign every time you go shopping. Before you get any badges, the minimum level your Pokemon needs to be to get a discount is lvl 10. Starting with the second badge, the user's level needs to be at least 7x the number of badges you own for shopkeepers to be persuaded into giving you a discount. The level cap for this effect is 55 at 8 badges, and won't continue to rise beyond that (in case your game has more than 8 badges).
  
  Also, when shopping, you will see a new window whenever this sign's effect is active, as seen below. If this window doesn't pop up, then your Pokemon is probably underleveled and not intimidating enough for the shop owner to be persuaded.
  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  
  Zodiac Power: Bribery
  
  Spoiler:

  When this sign's Zodiac Power is unleashed in battle, it becomes Bribery. The user slips a target some of your cash as a bribe, and if successful, the target will pretend not to hear its orders and skip its turn instead of attacking. When used on a wild Pokemon, they'll pretend not to notice you that turn. The amount of cash your Pokemon bribes the opponent with is equal to 20x their level. If you don't have enough money for the bribe, this effect fails.
  
  If an NPC trainer uses this Zodiac Power against you, you'll get whatever money they bribed you with after the battle.
  
  In-Battle Example:
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  
  Celestial Boss
  
  Spoiler:

  

  
  Gangkrupt
  'The Racketeer'
  

  

  

  
  Pressure​

  
  Gangkrupt loves to boss others around. When encountered, it'll boost itself up with Bulk Up to make itself more intimidating, and then utilize those boosts to attack with Power Trip. Its colors are more vibrant than most of the other Celestials who tend to be more muted, as it likes to show off.
  
  
  
  
• 35. 'The Scavenger'
  
  
  
  Constellation: Sableye
  Type: Movement
  Effect: When born under this sign, this Pokemon may occasionally find items in the area as you walk with it in your party. The type of items it may find depends on the environment. For example, if walking through a forest, you'll likely find seed or herb items, while diving underwater you'll find scales and sunken relics.
  
  Effect Details
  
  Spoiler:

  This effect supports exotic environments like Volcano, Graveyard, Space, etc. Each environment type has its own scavenging table. You'll even have a chance at finding something if you're indoors in a building. The Pokemon may find more man-made objects in environments like this, such as Poke Balls or Vitamins. The rate of finding items should be fairly uncommon, but you'll be able to do some pretty reliable farming if you have an entire squad of scavengers. You'll be alerted whenever the Pokemon finds something, so you won't have to keep checking.
  
  
  Zodiac Power: Natural Selection
  
  Spoiler:

  When this sign's Zodiac Power is unleashed, it becomes Natural Selection. The user adapts itself to its environment, changing its type and ability, and also picking up a random type-reducing berry that suits its new type. The new attributes it gains depends on its environment, but other things such as weather, terrain effects, or time of day may also influence things.
  
  Here's a list of the possibilities:
  
  ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
  

  • Environment: Forest
    Type: Bug
    Ability: Tinted Lens
    Item: Occa, Coba, or Charti Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Tall Grass
    Type: Poison
    Ability: Poison Touch
    Item: Shuca or Payapa Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Normal Grass
    Type: Grass
    Ability: Sap Sipper
    Item: Occa, Yache, Coba, Kebia, or Tanga Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Water or Underwater
    Type: Water
    Ability: Storm Drain or Water Absorb (Underwater)
    Item: Rindo or Wacan Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Sand
    Type: Ground
    Ability: Filter
    Item: Passho, Rindo, or Yache Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Rocky (Outdoors)
    Type: Fighting
    Ability: Guts
    Item: Coba, Payapa, Roseli Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Cave
    Type: Rock
    Ability: Solid Rock
    Item: Passho, Rindo, Chople, Shuca, or Babiri Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Snow
    Type: Ice
    Ability: Refrigerate
    Item: Occa, Chople, Charti, or Babiri Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Volcano
    Type: Fire
    Ability: Heatproof
    Item: Passho, Shuca, or Charti Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Sky
    Type: Flying
    Ability: Aerilate
    Item: Wacan, Yache, or Charti Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Graveyard
    Type: Ghost
    Ability: Scrappy
    Item: Kasib or Colbur Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Space
    Type: Dragon
    Ability: Victory Star
    Item: Enigma Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Indoors (Buildings)
    Type: Steel
    Ability: Battle Armor
    Item: Occa, Chople, or Shuca Berry
    
    
  • Environment:Outdoors (Night)
    Type: Dark
    Ability: Insomnia
    Item: Chople, Tanga, or Roseli Berry
    
    
  • Environment: Outdoors (or when no other environment is available to pick from)
    Type: Normal
    Ability: Adaptability
    Item: Chilan Berry

  
  
  TERRAIN CHANGES
  

  • Terrain: Electric Terrain
    Type: Electric (if no environment)
    Ability: Galvanize
    Item: Electric Seed
    
    
  • Terrain: Grassy Terrain
    Type: Grass (if no environment)
    Ability: Grass Pelt
    Item: Grassy Seed
    
    
  • Terrain: Misty Terrain
    Type: Fairy (if no environment)
    Ability: Pixilate
    Item: Misty Seed
    
    
  • Terrain: Psychic Terrain (Not yet implemented in Essentials)
    Type: Psychic
    Ability: Magic Guard
    Item: Psychic Seed

  
  
  WEATHER CHANGES
  

  • Weather: Hail
    Ability: Snow Cloak
    
    
  • Weather: Sandstorm
    Ability: Sand Veil
    
    
  • Weather: Strong Winds
    Ability: Aerilate
    
    
  • Weather: Sun/Harsh Sun
    Ability: Solar Power
    
    
  • Weather: Rain/Heavy Rain
    Ability: Rain Dish

  
  Many of these effects will mix and match if there are multiple conditions in play. For example, if you're fighting in a sandy desert with Grassy Terrain up while Sunny Day is in play, the user will become a Ground-type with Solar Power and find a Grassy Seed. If you're fighting on a rocky mountain top while it's hailing, the user will become a Fighting-type with Snow Cloak and a random type-reducing berry that suits Fighting. If you're fighting indoors at say a power plant, and Electric Terrain is up, you'll become a Steel-type with Galvanize and an Electric Seed.
  
  How this works is that the environment will always take priority when determining a type. Then the game checks for any active Terrain, and if so, the terrain will take priority when determining Ability and Item, and only change type if there is no environment available. Then finally it checks for weather, and the weather takes highest priority when determining Ability. So when all 3 are in play, type will always be determined by the environment, ability will always be determined by the weather, and item will always be determined by the terrain. Every single Pokemon type is represented here, and has the possibility of appearing with the right conditions (with the exception of Psychic, because Psychic Terrain is not implemented in Essentials as of now).
  
  
  Celestial Boss
  
  Spoiler:

  

  
  Gemineye
  'The Scavenger'
  

  

  

  
  Pick Up​

  
  Gemineye is the most mischievous of the Celestials, and has pulled pranks on humanity for eons without them even knowing it. Despite its bright coloration, it can shift and blend into its environment seamlessly, which is why it is never seen. It thrives in any environment by taking on its characteristics. In battle, Gemineye can absorb the power of its environment with Geomancy, making it a formidable foe.
  
  
  
  
• 36. 'The Timelord'
  
  
  
  Constellation: Celebi
  Type: Self Skill
  Effect: When born under this sign, the Pokemon has access to the "Timeskip" skill; allowing it to travel forwards in time to its evolution, immediately allowing it to evolve. Doing so requires Stardust as a reagent. This can be used to circumvent the Pokemon's normal evolution methods, such as trading or hold items, and essentially allows you to use Stardust as a substitute for their normal evolution requirements. If the user has multiple evolutionary branches, you will be able to select which "timeline" it should jump to by selecting a specific evolution from a list.
  Example:
  
  Spoiler:

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  
  If the Pokemon is already fully evolved, the Pokemon's skill instead becomes "Rewind". This skill allows the Pokemon to travel backwards in time to its previous evolutionary state, and essentially allows it to immediately "de-evolve". This also requires Stardust as a reagent. This can be used to perhaps change the user to a different evolutionary branch if you changed your mind, or just for fun if you for some reason prefer its previous stage.
  
  If the Pokemon is a single-stage species with no evolutionary family, then neither the Timeskip or Rewind skills will be displayed. Instead, this sign will have a secondary passive effect that will allow the user to jump forwards in time a little bit while leveling up, allowing it to learn level-up moves 1 level earlier than usual. This only takes effect when leveling up in battle, and not through the use of items or other means. This secondary effect will also be present for fully-evolved Pokemon, so that the sign isn't completely useless on them if you have no intention of de-evolving them.
  
  Effect Details
  
  Spoiler:

  • Cost
    Using either the Timeskip or Rewind skill comes with a pretty hefty cooldown timer that will require a great number of steps to recharge. This, along with the Stardust cost, are there as methods to prevent the spamming of this effect. While in Debug mode, you can ignore this cooldown by holding CTRL while selecting these skills again from the menu.
    
    
  • Branched Evolution - Exclusions
    Some Pokemon that have branched evolutions will be unable to select different branches with Timeskip if they'd normally be unable to do so. For example, a female Kirlia will always evolve into Gardevoir, and will not be able to select Gallade as a path (as intended). This is true for the other niche cases where this would be an issue (Snorunt into Froslass, Burmy into Wormadam/Mothim, etc). Pokemon who cannot evolve at all if they lack certain attributes (male Combee/Salandit) are also taken into account, and treated as single-stage species. Each case is coded individually, so this skill will not take custom Pokemon with evolutionary conflicts into account. I also made it so that Nincada always evolves into Ninjask, and cannot select Shedinja as a possible branch. This is because Shedinja is more of a byproduct of Ninjask, not really a "branch" for Nincada itself. Because of this, I also made it so that Shedinja does not have access to the Rewind skill to revert into Nincada. It's instead simply treated as a single-stage Pokemon. However, you can still create Shedinja when you Timeskip evolve Nincada if you have an open slot in your party and a free ball in your inventory, just like normal.
    
    
  • Forms
    The Pokemon's form is also taken into account when using Timeskip/Rewind. So a Pokemon like Alolan Rattata will properly evolve into Alolan Raticate, and a Sandy Cloaked Wormadam will properly revert into a Sandy Cloaked Burmy, etc. I also made sure to take specific cases, like Rockruff into account, so that it will properly evolve into the different Lycanroc forms depending on the time of day (and Ability, for Dusk Form). The only small issue to this is Pokemon with regional forms whose base species don't have regional forms. As of now, this list consists of Pikachu, Exeggcute, Cubone, and Koffing. Because Alolan/Galarian mechanics aren't present in Essentials by default, I don't have a way of knowing which methods other devs are using to decide how to handle regional forms, or if they even have them implemented at all. Because of this, I decided the most generalized way I could implement this is to simply have a true/false toggle at the top of the script. If you set the ALOLANREGION or GALARIANREGION toggles to "true", using the Timeskip/Rewind skills will always return the Pokemon's regional evolution. If set to false, this will instead always return their base evolutionary form. Koffing is the only Pokemon (as of now) that the GALARIANREGION toggle applies to, since all the other Galarian form Pokemon (Ponyta, Slowpoke, etc) already have a different form in their base stages.
    
    
  • De-Evolving with Rewind
    Also, when you Rewind a Pokemon back to its previous form, its moves will be reset to whatever they would be at that form at their current level. This is to prevent Pokemon from having moves they shouldn't be able to access yet, or moves that would cause issues due to the fact that they're designed to only be used by a specific species.
    
    
  • Summary Display
    When viewing this sign's info in the Pokemon's summary, the description will change depending on whether the user can evolve or not. Pokemon that can evolve will display info about the skill effect, while Pokemon incapable of evolving will instead display the info about this sign's secondary effect where it learns moves one level earlier.
  
  Zodiac Power: Borrowed Time
  
  Spoiler:

  When this sign's Zodiac Power is unleashed, it becomes Borrowed Time. If the user can evolve, it will travel forwards in time to borrow the strength of its evolved form during battle, changing its type, ability, and base stats (except for HP) to reflect its evolved form. This will select a random evolution if the user has multiple branches. This will not actually evolve or transform the Pokemon, but simply set its attributes to what its evolved form's type/ability/stats would be. These effects will end whenever the user is switched out. This can be great in a tough battle against a Gym Leader or something, where your pathetic Magikarp suddenly has Intimidate, immune to Ground moves, and launching Tackles with the base Attack of a Gyarados.
  
  In-Battle Example:
  

  Spoiler:

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  

  
  
  

  • Fully Evolved Pokemon
    If the user is fully evolved, it will instead travel backwards in time, reverting its type, ability, and base stats to that of its previous evolutionary stage. This may not seem useful at first, but because the Pokemon is traveling BACK in time, it also reverts back to a time before it took any damage in battle, so its HP and status are fully healed, and any stat reductions are returned to normal. This essentially works as a panic full heal, but comes at the cost of greatly weakening your Pokemon's stats (in most cases). Of course, these drawbacks may simply be negated by switching out. This could also be a useful strategic tool in some niche cases, say in situations where the previous stage had a more useful ability to utilize, or different typing that would give it a useful immunity.
    
    
  • Single-Stage Pokemon
    If the user is a single-staged Pokemon with no evolutionary family, then it will also travel backwards in time to heal its HP, but at a shorter distance. Because of this, its HP is only healed by half instead of full. Its status condition has a 50% chance of being cured, but confusion and stat drops are still cleared. Its ability will also re-trigger as if it just entered the battle for the first time (if it has a switch-in effect, like Intimidate).
    
    
  • Ability Inheritance
    The ability that the Pokemon inherits from its evolution/previous stage will be the same ability slot of its current form. So for example, if you have a Magikarp with Rattled (Ability 3), it will inherit Gyarados's Moxie (Ability 3). In cases where an ability isn't present, like say an Eevee with Adaptability (Ability 2) inheriting from one of its evolutions (who do not have an ability in slot 2), then it will default to Ability 1 of that Pokemon. In cases where the species the user is inheriting from only has a single ability that cannot be copied due to hard-coded gimmicks (Cherrim's Flower Gift), the user will simply keep its original ability instead.
    
    
  • Branched Evolutions
    Like with the Timeskip/Rewind commands, this Zodiac Power will select the appropriate branched evolution relative to the species. So a male Snorunt will never randomize between Glalie or Froslass, it will always choose Glalie while a female will randomize between both. Like before, I decided to make it so Nincada will only select Ninjask, and never Shedinja. When Shedinja uses this power, it will act as if it's a single-staged Pokemon, and thus only gain the healing effect (lol) and status/stat cure. This is also true for Pokemon like male Combee who cannot evolve. The Pokemon's form is also taken into account, so a Pokemon like Alolan Vulpix will take the attributes of Alolan Ninetales.
    
    
  • Forms
    Rockruff will gain the stats and ability of one of its three forms depending on if it meets their specific criteria (ability/time of day). Pokemon that don't have regional variants, but have Alolan/Galarian evolutions will always pick the base form by default. However, setting the ALOLANREGION or GALARIANREGION toggles to "true" will have them always return their regional variants instead.
  
  Celestial Boss
  
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  Pandorica
  'The Timelord'
  

  

  

  
  Forewarn​

  
  Pandorica is an eternal watcher, traveling through the ages and keeping time in tact. Its very mild natured and hardly ever fights, but when it does, it holds no punches. It will use moves like Perish Song and Future Sight and sit idly by as time itself becomes your enemy.

Swapping Birthsigns & Zodiacs In-Game

Spoiler:

A big new feature of this update includes the ability to change the signs that make up your 12 month zodiac in-game. Previously, this was accomplished by setting the ZODIACSET toggle within the script itself to a specific number, which meant it was locked-in once set and the only way to change it was to close out the game and open up the script. This is all a thing of the past. Now, you can change individual signs or even swap whole zodiacs out on the fly during actual gameplay, which opens up brand new options for devs and players alike.

Zodiac Signs
The ZODIACSET toggle still exists, but now all this is used for is determining which zodiac you want to start the game off with as your default Zodiac. Once in-game, zodiac signs may be changed freely and will not reset to default when closing the game.

These are the numbers you may set the ZODIACSET toggle to in order to set your default zodiac:
0 = Null set. Your zodiac will be empty.
1 = Birthsign Set 1. Forms a zodiac with birthsigns 1-12.
2 = Birthsign Set 2. Forms a zodiac with birthsigns 13-24.
3 = Birthsign Set 3. Forms a zodiac with birthsigns 25-36.
4 = Random Set. Forms a semi-randomized zodiac out of all signs. (Unlike before, the signs chosen will not reset each time you load the game)
5 & 6 = Custom Sets. Forms a zodiac out of the signs you manually inputted into the script.

Again, this toggle is only relevant when concerning your initial zodiac. You can swap to completely different sets, or manually change specific signs at any point during gameplay.

In order to change your zodiac signs, you may run these scripts in an event, depending on what you want to change:

pbSwapZodiac(setnum)

Running this script will allow you to change your entire zodiac at once. Make "setnum" equal to a number (the same numbering system found in the above list) to change your zodiac to the set of signs associated with that number.

pbSwapSign(monthnum,signnum)

Running this script will allow you to change the sign for a specific month in the zodiac. Make "monthnum" equal to the number of your desired month to change (1-12), and set "signnum" equal to the birthsign number you desire that month's sign to be (1-36).


Wild Birthsigns
Much like with changing zodiacs, you are now also able to change the signs wild Pokemon spawn with in-game. Again, as with zodiacs, the WILDBIRTHSIGN toggle still exists, but its now only used for determining which initial signs wild Pokemon will spawn with at the start of a new game. After that, this can be freely changed in-game without needing to fiddle with the toggle.

These are the numbers you may set the WILDBIRTHSIGNS toggle to in order to set the default signs on wild Pokemon:
0 = No signs.
1 = Current month's sign.
2 = Random Parter/Rival sign of the current month.
3 = Random sign out of the zodiac.
4 = Random sign out of all birthsigns.

Again, this toggle is only relevant when concerning the initial signs Pokemon spawn with. This can be changed at any point during gameplay.

In order to change what signs wild Pokemon spawn with, you may run this script in an event:

pbSetWildsigns(sign,override=false)

Running this script will allow you to change the signs for wild Pokemon based on what "sign" is set to (using the same numbering system as the list above). So if you want Pokemon to spawn with random zodiac signs, you would write this out as "pbSetWildsign(3,false)". However, that's not all. When "override" is set to "true" instead of false, the number you input for "sign" no longer references the list above, and instead references a specific sign number. So for example, if you run this script as "pbSetWildsign(21,true)", then this will force wild Pokemon to spawn specifically with Sign #21 ('The Assassin') and nothing else. By setting override to true/false, you can completely change how to use this script based on your needs.

Birthsign Updates

Spoiler:

Many old signs and effects have received changes. As this project has gone on, its become clear that some sign's effects have a greater effect on gameplay than others, or are just too abusable when spammed. I've done my best to go through them all and nerf those that I think are too easily abused, while buffing some I think weren't really cutting it. I've also expanded the effects of some signs that would be completely useless on some species, so that the sign still has some gameplay relevance even if it doesn't quite suit that particular species. Some bugs have also been cleared up in the process.

Many birthsigns that grant new commands for the Pokemon to use have received nerfs in how often they can be used. This is usually done in one of two ways (or both, in some cases). The first way is through Stardust, which signs like 'The Alchemist' and the newly-added 'Timelord' signs already utilize. The second way is through a cooldown period that requires you to walk a certain distance before it may be used again, which signs like 'The Parent' and 'The Bard' already use. For extreme cases where a sign's effects are way too good, like 'The Timelord', the sign might require both methods.

However, a Star Piece item may be used to circumvent any of this, if you have one. Star Pieces can be used to bypass a sign's cooldown, or be used as a substitute for Stardust if you don't have any. Selecting a sign command while its on cooldown or if you're out of dust will ask you if you'd like to consume a Star Piece to reuse the sign's effect. Star Pieces are rarer and more valuable than dust, so it becomes a harder decision to make and forces the player to think conservatively if it's worth waiting or using a skill immediately.

Alternatively, if you're playing in Debug mode and a skill is on cooldown, holding the CTRL key while selecting the skill will ignore the cooldown.

Changelist:
Summary of the significant changes made to each birthsign.

Spoiler:

• 'The Prodigy'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign granted the user with the "Ability Swap" command, allowing it to switch to one of its other abilities on the fly. This is a pretty nifty perk for most species, but the sign is just dead weight on a Pokemon that only has a single ability.
  
  To address this, I made it so that this sign now grants a secondary command, called "Ability Lure." This command replaces Ability Swap on species that don't have more than one ability to swap to. When using Ability Lure, wild Pokemon you encounter will have a 25% chance of spawning with their Hidden Abilities. This effect is very brief, and only lasts for 200 steps. After use, the Ability Lure command is put on a 1,000 step cooldown before it may be used again.
  
  Ability Lure is not meant to be a sure-fire way of obtaining Hidden Abilities, merely an extra tool at your disposal. It's not meant to outright replace other methods of HA acquisition, such as breeding. That's why I thought the brief duration and long cooldown made sense for this skill. It's a fun perk to play with if you happen to find a Pokemon with it, but it isn't something you should rely on. The main appeal of 'The Prodigy' is still the Ability Swap, but this new command should now at least make it an interesting option on species who would otherwise make no use of it.
  
  When looking at the Pokemon's birthsign info in the Summary, the description of this sign's effect will now display differently depending on whether or not they have the Ability Swap or Ability Lure command.
  
  
  
• 'The Martyr'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign granted the user with the "Rescue" command, which allowed them to heal other party members by sacrificing HP. The command for this sign has now been renamed to "Charity", which is more accurate to its theme. In addition, this skill may now be used on fainted Pokemon to revive them. This should give Pokemon with this sign some extra utility as party healers during the adventure.
  
  I've also fixed a bug with this command when used by Shedinja. Previously, if Shedinja used this skill to heal a party member, nothing would happen. This command will now work in a unique way when used by Shedinja; it will drain Shedinja's total PP by 1/5th for all of its moves in order to heal a party member's HP equal to half Shedinja's level. So a level 50 Shedinja will be able to heal a party member for 25HP a pop (up to a maximum of 100 or so HP before running out of PP). Shedinja's PP is functionally the same as its HP anyway (since Shedinja will automatically die with a single Struggle), so I feel this is an appropriate solution.
  
  When looking at Shedinja's sign info in the Summary, the description of this effect will also make note that this skill will deplete PP rather than HP.
  
  
  
• 'The Maiden'
  
  Spoiler:

  All of this sign's effects remain the same. However, it now has an additional function while on the field. If your party lead with this sign is female, the odds of encountering wild Pokemon that are male become much higher. This is similar to the field effect of the Cute Charm ability.
  
  
  
• 'The Gladiator'
  
  Spoiler:

  All of this sign's effects remain the same. However, much like 'The Maiden', it now has an additional function while on the field. If your party lead with this sign is male, the odds of encountering wild Pokemon that are female become much higher. This is similar to the field effect of the Cute Charm ability.
  
  
  
• 'The Thief'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, if your lead Pokemon had this sign, it had a 10% chance of encountering wild Pokemon holding common treasures, such as Nuggets and Pearls. Finding a Pokemon holding an item from the rare loot table had a 5% chance of occurring, and finding something from the epic loot table has a 1% chance of occurring.
  
  While the odds of the epic loot table is fine, I felt that the other two tables would be far too common over the course of the game. Mostly because this effect can happen on EVERY wild encounter, and not just on specific species like other rare items. Because of this, I've nerfed the odds for the base loot table to 5%, and the rare loot table down to 3%. This should make it less abusable to farm items for easy cash with this effect.
  
  On a side note, you may now also find regular and Gold Bottle Caps on the rarer loot tables.
  
  
  
• 'The Wishmaker'
  
  Spoiler:

  I changed how the calculation for shinyness works with this sign. Now it simply copies the effect of Shiny Charm when the Pokemon is created, and calculates the odds of it being shiny. This will stack with an actual Shiny Charm if you have one.
  
  
  
• 'The Phoenix'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign granted the user with the Rebirth command, allowing them to revive themselves with 1/16th their max HP. This has been increased to revive them with 1/8th their max HP. In addition, this command now has a 1 in 5 chance to fully revive the user when used. As another fun bonus, whenever you revive a Pokemon with Rebirth, it has a 1 in 100 chance of finding Sacred Ash upon revival. This is automatically added to your bag.
  
  
  
• 'The Cleric'
  
  Spoiler:

  Much like with 'The Martyr', this sign wouldn't behave properly when used by Shedinja. This bug has been addressed, and Shedinja may now use this command properly, in much the same way as 'The Maiden'. Instead of sacrificing HP to heal the party's status ailments, Shedinja will sacrifice 25% of its total PP for each move. Similarly, when used by other Pokemon, they will sacrifice 25% of their total HP per use.
  
  The cost is a bit steeper than the Charity's command, because needing to heal statuses is rarer than needing to heal HP, so there needs to be a greater cost involved to prevent this from being too easily spammed and invalidating statuses altogether.
  
  When looking at Shedinja's sign info in the Summary, the description of this effect will also make note that this skill will deplete PP rather than HP.
  
  
  
• 'The Monk'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign granted the user with the "Trance" command, which allowed them to relearn past moves without needing to visit a move relearner. This is an extremely convenient and useful skill for most Pokemon in the game, but there are a handful of Pokemon where this effect is virtually worthless because they don't learn enough moves to ever need to use this. Because of this, I expanded upon this sign so that it's more universally useful in a way that keeps in line with its theme.
  
  Now, when this command is selected, you will be asked to pick one of three mantras for your Pokemon to focus on during its trance. Each mantra applies a different effect.
  
  Mantra of Strong Will: The user meditates to find strength within itself. After coming out of its trance, the PP of all of its moves will be fully restored.
  
  Mantra of Reflection: The user meditates to reflect on the knowledge of its past. If the Pokemon has any old moves to relearn, it may recall one of them during its trance.
  
  Mantra of Clear Mind: The user meditates to empty its thoughts and unburden its mind. If the Pokemon has more than one move, it may choose to delete one of them.
  
  After meditating, the Trance skill is put on a cooldown for 1,000 steps. This is to make it so that you can't just replenish all your PP after every battle. You still could if you feel like walking in circles for a few minutes after every fight, but it's hardly efficient. This cooldown also makes the move relearner less obsolete, since you can relearn multiple moves in succession from them, while this skill makes you wait between each learned move.
  
  
  
• 'The Ancestor'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign made it so that Pokemon could pass down their EV's to eggs when breeding. To make this sign worthwhile on unbreedable species, I implemented a unique command skill exclusive to unbreedable Pokemon called "Inherit" that would manually pass along EV's to party members.
  
  After considering it, I felt that there was no real need to divide these effects. Now, any Pokemon with this skill has both the breeding bonus, and the command skill. Obviously, Pokemon that cannot breed will only be able to utilize the command skill portion of this sign's perks. All other Pokemon, however, can utilize both. However, some changes were made.
  
  Firstly, the command skill was renamed from Inherit to "Endow". This just makes more sense, since "inherit" seems to imply that the user is receiving something, when in fact the opposite is happening. Secondly, the usage of this command skill now requires Stardust as a reagent. This puts a cap on how often this skill can be used, and prevents potential abuse. It also encourages the use of the breeding effect to pass down EV's (which has no cost, and may be passed down infinitely) rather than the skill. This keeps it more in line with the theme of the skill, since the command effect is only really there for species who cannot breed, anyway. Lastly, using the Endow skill now requires the user to have a certain amount of EV's before they can pass them along. The amount is equal to 5x the user's level. So a level 20 Pokemon will need at least 100 EV's before it can Endow a party member, for example.
  
  When looking at the Pokemon's sign info in the summary, the description will now change depending on whether the Pokemon can breed or not.
  
  
  
• 'The Specialist'
  
  Spoiler:

  This birthsign grants the user with the "Re-roll" skill, which allows them to reshuffle their IV's for a different Hidden Power type. This effect remains exactly the same, except the usage of this skill now requires Stardust as a reagent with each use. This is to prevent this skill from being too abusable (rerolling over and over until you get perfect IV's, for example), and makes it more about the Hidden Power type rather than trying to roll for good IV's.
  
  
  
• 'The Eternal'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign grants the user with the Reincarnate command, which allows them to reset itself back to level 1 in order to change its birthsign to whatever the current month's sign is. The usage of this skill now also requires Stardust as a reagent. While using this skill already comes with a heavy cost, I felt that some other tangible currency should be required for an effect this drastic. Although there are a variety of ways to change a Pokemon's sign (Reincarnate, Birthstones, Celestial Blessings, debug tools, scripts), I still feel like changing a Pokemon's sign during actual gameplay should be a rare and costly thing that shouldn't be so freely administered. Adding an extra cost on top of this command's effect emphasizes this a bit more.
  
  
  
• 'The Bard'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign remains the same, but I've fixed a bug that seemed to crash the game for some reason after battling a lured Pokemon.
  
  
  
• 'The Empath'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign grants the user with the Bond command, which allows them to change its nature to match a party member's. This remains exactly the same, however each use of this skill now requires Stardust as a reagent. This makes each use of the skill a calculated decision, rather than just spamming it to get a slight advantage for every situation.
  
  
  
• 'The Tactician'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign grants the user with the Gambit command, which allows them to manually reset their EV spread by inputting the exact numbers they'd like. This skill now also requires Stardust as a reagent for each use (noticing a theme here?). This effect is just too good to allow to be used freely, and demanding a cost helps mitigate that somewhat. I've now also added a new option when selecting EV's to allow you to back out and revert to your original EV spread if you change your mind (previously you had to either re-enter the spread, or it'll reset to zero EV's).
  
  
  
• 'The Fool'
  
  Spoiler:

  Previously, this sign grants the user with the Lunacy command, which allows them to reduce their own level by 3 to randomly raise a chosen party member by 1-5 levels. This effect can't be used on Pokemon that are already higher level than the user. The user must be at least level 5 to use this effect.
  
  This is another effect that I felt had too much potential for abuse. To tone it down somewhat, I made it so that the minimum level requirement for this skill scales with your progression. Until your second badge, the minimum level required for a Pokemon to use this skill is now 10. From your second badge onward, the minimum level requirement is 7x your badge count. So Lvl.14 with two badges, 21 for your third, and so forth. This level requirement caps at level 55 at 8 badges or higher. This should help prevent this effect from being too easily abused to farm levels.
  
  
  
• 'The Alchemist'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign remains the same, but a bug which would crash the game in some cases if certain items were created has been addressed.
  
  
  
• 'The Vampire'
  
  Spoiler:

  Any Pokemon with this sign gradually recover HP as well as their status as you walk around with them outdoors in the nighttime, but if any Pokemon with this sign leads the party during the day, they will become burned and take damage as you walk instead. This effect remains the same, however the nighttime healing effect has been slightly buffed. Now, in addition to the healing done per step, Pokemon with this sign will heal PP as well. However, the PP healing is much more gradual, and recover +1 with every 50 steps taken.
  
  
  
• 'The Cultist'
  
  Spoiler:

  This sign grants the user with the Summon command, which allows them to initiate a battle with a powerful shadow Pokemon at the cost of sacrificing their IV's based on the quality of the Pokemon summoned. Pokemon can only be summoned at night.
  
  This is another sign with an effect that is far too abusable if you happen to capture a Pokemon with excellent IV's early on in the game, you could theoretically summon several fully evolved species or even an Arceus on the first route in the game. To prevent this skill from being spammed in this way, it now requires Stardust as a reagent for each use. In addition to this, this command has a hefty cooldown after usage, requiring 3,000 steps to recharge. This means it can only be used so many times in a single sitting, since it can only be used at night to begin with. This should help balance this skill a lot more.
  
  
  
• Celestial Blessings
  
  Spoiler:

  While not a birthsign effect, the Blessing command usable by Celestial Pokemon has also been nerfed to prevent spamming of the skill. Each blessing now requires Stardust as a reagent, and comes with a cooldown period of 5,000 steps between uses. Again, this is to try and emphasize the idea that it should not be so easy to change a Pokemon's sign during normal gameplay. Being able to freely bless Pokemon with a new sign is the reward for capturing Celestial Bosses, but even then it shouldn't be something so easily spammed that essentially invalidates the birthsign mechanic.

Spoiler:

Command Costs:
Summary of all the birthsign commands that come with a cost/cooldown.

Spoiler:

These are all the birthsigns/commands that require Stardust as a reagent to use their effect, going forward:

• 'The Ancestor' (Skill: Endow)
• 'The Specialist' (Skill: Re-roll)
• 'The Eternal' (Skill: Reincarnate)
• 'The Empath' (Skill: Bond)
• 'The Tactician' (Skill: Gambit)
• 'The Alchemist' (Skill: Transmute)
• 'The Cultist' (Skill: Summon)
• 'The Timelord' (Skill: Timeskip/Rewind)
• Celestial Pokemon (Skill: Blessing)

*Keep in mind that Star Pieces may be used as a substitute for Stardust.


These are all the birthsigns/commands that come with a cooldown after using their effects, going forward:

• 'The Prodigy' (Ability Lure Cooldown: 1,000 steps)
• 'The Monk' (Trance Cooldown: 1,000 steps)
• 'The Parent' (Incubate Cooldown: 1,000 steps)
• 'The Bard' (Harmonize Cooldown: 400 steps)
• 'The Cultist' (Summon Cooldown: 3,000 steps)
• 'The Timelord' (Timeskip/Rewind Cooldown: 10,000 steps)
• Celestial Pokemon (Blessing Cooldown: 5,000 steps)

*Keep in mind that Star Pieces may be used to bypass a skill's cooldown.
*You may also bypass this in Debug mode by holding CTRL while selecting the skill.

New Event: Omega Boss

Spoiler:

I've added a new stand-alone event to the Events script that adds one more new boss encounter. This Pokemon isn't a Celestial, but instead the CREATOR of the Celestials. This is meant as a super boss that is only unlocked once all 12 Celestials have been caught/defeated. This Pokemon is, of course, Arceus, but like with the Celestial Pokemon, it has a brand new form and combat abilities. In this form, it is known as "Omega", and its strength puts all of the Celestials to shame, by far.

Celestial Creator

Omega
Level: 85
Item: Divine Plate

Wonder Guard​

Omega's Base Stat total is a game-breaking 1,015. Not only that, but it is completely type-less (the ??? type), AND has the Wonder Guard ability. As you know, Wonder Guard only allows super effective moves to hit. Since Omega has no weaknesses thanks to not having a proper type, this essentially makes Omega all but invincible. On top of this, Omega comes packing some of the strongest moves in Pokemon history, with access to legendary-exclusive moves like Roar of Time, Bolt Strike, Doom Desire and more. At level 85, it will decimate unprepared parties even of fully trained, level 100 Pokemon. You will need to prepare extremely specific strategies to defeat this Pokemon.

You'll notice that Omega doesn't have a birthsign. This is because since it created the Celestials, it existed before they did, and thus cannot have been born under a sign. Omega is still flagged as "celestial" though, despite not having a sign. This means that Omega cannot be given a birthsign, since celestials are coded to be unable to have their signs changed. This is intentional, as I don't believe Omega should have any birthsign.

Another small thing to note: Omega will, by default, be carrying a Divine Plate item. This is a custom item related to my Legendary Breeding script (which is rolled into this Birthsigns Project by default). A Divine Plate is a special item that allows Arceus to create eggs depending on the item it holds (by running the pbArceusEggSpawn script). While holding a Divine Plate, Arceus is able to spawn an egg of another Arceus. This means that once Omega is captured, you would be able to create a normal Arceus in an egg by using Omega's Divine Plate.

If you don't have the Divine Plate item installed in your items PBS, then Omega will simply be holding a Star Piece instead.


Omega Event
I've prepared a basic event to act as a model for encountering Omega. The event will check if your Celestial Boss counter is maxed. If so, it'll initiate the battle with Omega. If not, it'll turn you away. You can trigger it by running this script in an event:

pbOmegaBoss

Birthsign Journal

Spoiler:

My last update focused on upgrading the Journal script, and I've continued to do so here with a few more extra touches.

The last update added a Celestial Boss counter in the upper lefthand corner of the script that would keep count of the number of Celestials you have defeated. In addition to this, there will also be a new display that shows you the name of the defeated Celestial as well. If you highlight a sign which has a Celestial you have not encountered yet, it will simply read as "?????". As with the boss counter, Celestial Boss names wont even show up in the Journal until after you've encountered at least one Celestial.

In addition to this, one more little unlockable appears once you clear all Celestials AND battled Omega. Your Journal display will get one final upgrade as a memento of your accomplishment.

Examples:

Spoiler:

Default Journal Display:

Maxed Boss Count Display:

Omega Display:

Also, while in Debug mode, you may now press the CTRL key while the journal is open. Doing so closes the script, but the next time you open it, the boss counter will be maxed out and all Celestials will be revealed. You may press the button again to clear the counter back to default.

As another small touch, you may now access the Birthsign Journal through a Pokemon's Summary. When you press the confirm button to open the options menu, a new option for "Sign Info" will be displayed, which opens up the journal. Only Pokemon with zodiac signs will have this option displayed. This should make it more convenient to quickly reference details about a Pokemon's sign.

Debug Options Revamp

Spoiler:

Because of all these new tools to play with, I went back and completely overhauled the player Debug tools in the Debug_Menu script to give you a ton of new features to play around with, as well as acting as examples in how to implement some of the new toys that come with this.

In the Debug Menu, Birthsign Options now has its own section. There, you will be able to find all your Birthsign-related tools.

On the next page, you'll find these options:

Although pretty straight forward, here's a run down of what each option allows you to do:

• Edit Zodiac
  This will allow you to change the signs of your zodiac. There are options to change to a completely different set of 12, or change specific month's signs individually.
  
  
• Player Birthsign
  This will open the menu related to your trainer's birthsign. From here you can change signs, restore it to default, bless your trainer, etc.
  
  
• Party Birthsigns
  This will allow you to apply a sign to your entire party at once. You can select specific signs, randomize, bless, and all the other options you'd expect.
  
  
• Wild Birthsigns
  This will allow you to select which signs wild Pokemon generate with. You can choose from all the normal options, select a specific sign, or remove signs from appearing.
  
  
• Celestial Bosses
  This will allow you to test battle any of your zodiac's Celestial Bosses. Their levels will scale with your badge count, as usual. Defeating/Capturing a boss will also register it into your Birthsign Journal. You can initiate a battle with the Creator Omega from this menu, too.

Other Changes & Bug Fixes

Spoiler:

• Trainer Sign: Starting Sign Error
  When starting a new game, your trainer's birthsign is meant to default to your adventure's starting month. I coded this incorrectly to where it only selected out of the first 12 signs when determining a default sign, rather than what your actual zodiac's signs were. This has been fixed.
  
  
• Birthsign Journal: Highlight Display Error
  In my last update, I made it so that the Journal now displays your trainer's sign and the current sign on the main page. There was as tiny graphical error when both your sign and the current sign were the same, and only one would be highlighted rather than both. This has been fixed, and they should both properly highlight.
  
  
• Celestial Bosses: "Kind" in Pokedex
  When viewing a Celestial's Form in the Pokedex, its "kind" should read "Constellation Pokemon". A typo in the PBS file made it so that this wouldn't display, and their "kind" would be the same as the base species' (ex: Zealos would be displayed as the "Mouse Pokemon", like regular Pikachu). This has been fixed, and "Constellation Pokemon" should be properly displayed.
  
  
• Form Glitch (Base Essentials glitch)
  There's a form glitch in base Essentials where Pokemon that are forced into a certain form (Arceus, Keldeo, Deerling, etc) will crash the game. My scripts copied this glitch without me realizing, and so I went ahead and fixed it here so that there shouldn't be errors for those Pokemon anymore.
  
  
• Zodiac Powers: Mirror Image
  This Zodiac Power forced the user to skip its turn after use. I'm not sure why I had it coded that way to begin with, but I removed this line so you no longer skip your turn.

Installation

Spoiler:

This update was so big I was finally forced to break the main birthsigns script up into two. There's just too much to have to scroll through now to find anything. But on the bright side, I've now simplified the installation process into a single folder containing all the scripts, graphics, audio, and pbs info you need. Follow the instructions after downloading.

If you're updating from a previous version of this project, you'll essentially need to re-install all of the scripts. Even if I didn't make explicit changes to some things, I did completely reorganize the scripts so things are in different places now. You'll need to re-install the birthsigns graphics as well, because all of the token images have been re-done and have new dimensions that changes where they are placed on screen. New Audio has been added, and the pokemonforms PBS file for Celestials has been updated.

Here's the link containing everything related to this project:
Pokemon Birthsigns Folder

 

[Pokeminer20]

Just installed the update, and I get this error on a new save upon sending out a pokemon

Script 'PokeBattle_Battle' line 1442: NoMethodError occurred.

undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

 

[Lucidious89]

Just installed the update, and I get this error on a new save upon sending out a pokemon

Script 'PokeBattle_Battle' line 1442: NoMethodError occurred.

undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

Can you describe to me in more detail what's going on? Like do any of the Pokemon you send out have anything in common like a particular sign or species or something? Because I'm not getting this error and I just double checked by installing this on a fresh copy of Essentials and everything seems to be working.

 

[Pokeminer20]

Can you describe to me in more detail what's going on? Like do any of the Pokemon you send out have anything in common like a particular sign or species or something? Because I'm not getting this error and I just double checked by installing this on a fresh copy of Essentials and everything seems to be working.

Honestly not a clue what could be causing it. the code it points to has something to do with AI and the game I Installed it on is notorious for being weird. we decided to postpone installing the update for now.

 

[Lucidious89]

Honestly not a clue what could be causing it. the code it points to has something to do with AI and the game I Installed it on is notorious for being weird. we decided to postpone installing the update for now.

That's unfortunate. Hope you figure it out.

By the way, this is unrelated, but I *did* find a bug when it comes to applying randomized Zodiacs. Just forgot to put parenthesis around things. It should be fixed now.