[Question] Setting Encounter Pokemon In The Scripts?

[Jazzy]

I was just wondering if there was a way to set the encounter Pokemon in the game's scripts, rather than in the encounter.txt. Would this be possible?

 

[HarmonyConcept]

It's possible, although where you will do it depends on what you want to achieve. Most of the time you will probably use the script section PField_EncounterModifiers (it exists for that purpose). This is the example that comes with Essentials and that forces shiny pokemon to be generated: it indicates the structure to follow:

Events.onWildPokemonCreate+=proc {|sender,e|
   pokemon=e[0]
   if $game_switches[SHINY_WILD_POKEMON_SWITCH]
     pokemon.makeShiny
   end
}

Another use would be to change the form of the wild Pokemon encountered on a specific map:

Events.onWildPokemonCreate+=proc {|sender,e|
   pokemon=e[0]
   if $game_switches[X] && $game_map.map_id == X
     pokemon.form = 1
     pokemon.resetMoves
     pokemon.calcStats
   end
}

You can also entirely overwrite the encounters table defined in the encounters.txt file, if a specific switch is active, like this:

Events.onWildPokemonCreate+=proc {|sender,e|
   pokemon=e[0]
   if $game_switches[X]  && $game_map.map_id == X
     proba = rand(10) 
       if proba <3 
         newspecies = PBSpecies::RATTATA
       elsif proba >=3 && proba <6
         newspecies = PBSpecies::CATERPIE
       elsif probal >=6 && proba <8 
         newspecies = PBSpecies::PIDGEY
       else 
         newspecies = PBSpecies::SPEAROW
       end
      pokemon.species = newspecies
      pokemon.level = 5 + rand(3)
      pokemon.name = PBSpecies.getName(newspecies)
      pokemon.resetMoves
      pokemon.calcStats
   end
}

 

[Jazzy]

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for!