[Scripting Question] Set weather for next battle

[princessyiris]

I need to know what the code is that causes the next battle to have a specific weather.

Context:
The main character is playing a battling simulator on his PC.
He's fighting a virtual opponent, and it is supposed to have Hail throughout the fight.
I can't have the weather appear in the overworld, because it doesn't make sense for it to be snowing in his room.

I figured out how to change the battleback using

$PokemonGlobal.nextBattleBack = "Mountain"

but I can't find any information on how to set actual weather for the next battle.

 

[Vendily]

Weather is set up in def pbPrepareBattle. You'd just have to add a condition after the normal set weather to set the weather to your desired one.

 

[princessyiris]

Weather is set up in def pbPrepareBattle. You'd just have to add a condition after the normal set weather to set the weather to your desired one.

I don't wanna sound like a simpleton, but I don't actually know how to do that. Pretty much everything I've needed to do in the games so far was something I could basically copy and paste from the wiki.

 

[Vendily]

Hey no worries, I was just pointing you in the right direction for if you did know. fish thing.

If I'm gonna show you though, I might as well go all the way and set up a nextBattleWeather while I'm at it!

First things first, we go to script section PField_Metadata to edit class PokemonGlobalMetadata to add a new attr_accessor, nextBattleWeather. You can put that beside attr_accessor :nextBattleBack.

next in the def initialize under @nextBattleBack = nil, we add @nextBattleWeather = nil

That was phase 1. Phase 2, we edit def pbPrepareBattle. Above battle.shiftStyle = ($PokemonSystem.battlestyle==0) put

  if $PokemonGlobal && $PokemonGlobal.nextBattleWeather
    battle.weather         = $PokemonGlobal.nextBattleWeather
    battle.weatherduration = -1
  end

Finally, Phase 3, add in the parts that turn off these effects because the battle was activated and done. It's just a matter of finding all the places $PokemonGlobal.nextBattleBack = nil is set and putting $PokemonGlobal.nextBattleWeather = nil. There are 3 spots, 2 in PField_Battles, def pbWildBattle and def pbDoubleWildBattle, and one in PField_Visuals in def pbBattleAnimation

Finally, in the event, you can call $PokemonGlobal.nextBattleWeather = PBWeather::HAIL (or the desired PBWeather) to make the next battle do that.