Storing movedata in a global variable?

[Acquiescence]

Hi... I'm kind of new here, picked up RPGMXP about a month back and recently started playing around in Essentials.

So what I'm trying to do is store multiple moves learned by a storyline event into a seperate variable that can be accessed by a modified move relearner script and taught to a pokemon that way, with each event happening at different times.

To do that, I edited the script for the pbgetRelearnableMoves to call its movelist from a global variable $transcriberglobal rather than using the pokemon.getMoves method.

But my question is, how do I store movedata in the variable $transcriberglobal? I tried making an on-map event with the following script as a proof of concept:

$transcriberglobal = []
$transcriberglobal=$transcriberglobal.push(PBMoves::VINEWHIP)
print "#{$transcriberglobal}

But the displayed dialogue box is empty. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[lolandbeer]

I can't help but... Maybe looking at Secret Power / Natural Gift /other of those item or environment reliant moves might help you figure it out.

 

[Acquiescence]

Changed the Question.

 

[Maruno]

Changed the Question.

Don't do that. You're allowed to make as many posts as you want, so if you have a different question, ask it in a different post. Any responses made to the original question will just be nonsensical if you completely rewrite it (which you did).

Here's the original post for reference:

Need help with custom Sketch-like move

Hi... I'm kind of new here, picked up RPGMXP about a month back and recently started playing around in Essentials.

I have a move I'd like to create, and I'd like some help in doing it. The idea is for the move to check for the enemy Pokemon's ID, then replace itself with a new move based on the enemy it's facing. So assuming I'm up against a Venosaur, the move would check that opponent.species is PBSpecies :: VENUSAUR, then replace itself with the move VINEWHIP.

Since the concept is similar to what Sketch does, I used Sketch as a base and came up with this:

################################################################################
# This move permanently turns into a new move based on the ID of the target.
################################################################################
class PokeBattle_Move_XXX < PokeBattle_Move    ### NOTE: change func code indicator



  def pbEffect(attacker,opponent,hitnum=0,alltargets=nil,showanimation=true)
   

################################################################################
# defines variables to check species of opponent and move to learn
################################################################################
  transcribe = 0
  speciesCheck = opponent.species
################################################################################
# Case statement when SpeciesCheck = a, Transcribe = b
################################################################################
  case speciesCheck
    when 1     #BULBASAUR
        transcribe = 208 ##VINEWHIP
        return 0
    when 2     #IVYSAUR
        transcribe = 208
        return 0
    when 3    #VENOSAUR
        transcribe = 208
        return 0
    else
        @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("But it failed!"))
        return -1
    end

################################################################################
# Checks if the battler already has the move attempting to be learned.
################################################################################
    for i in attacker.moves
      if i.id==transcribe
        @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("But it failed!"))
        return -1 
      end
    end

    pbShowAnimation(@id,attacker,opponent,hitnum,alltargets,showanimation)
    for i in 0...attacker.moves.length             ## check each move known by attacker ##
      if attacker.moves[i].id==@id                 ## if current move being selected is this move ##
        newmove=PBMove.new(transcribe)                ## gets movedata from PBMove, stores in variable newmove ##
        attacker.moves[i]=PokeBattle_Move.pbFromPBMove(@battle,newmove)                    ## changes this move in-battle to newmove ##
        [email protected](attacker.index)                                              ## identifies the move user within out-of-battle  party, designates it as party ##
        party[attacker.pokemonIndex].moves[i]=newmove                                      ## changes the move with the same name as this move of  the actor in the party with same name as attacker to newmove ## 
        movename=PBMoves.getName(transcribe)                             ## checks name of copied move ##
        @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("{1} sketched  {2}!",attacker.pbThis,movename))            ## displays text {1} = name  of this attacker, {2} = movename of copied move ##
        return 0                   ## returns 0: move successful ##
      end
    end
    @battle.pbDisplay(_INTL("But it failed!"))       ## generic Else  statement. If for some reason no other conditionals fulfilled, this will  display. (each for counts as an elsif statement I guess) ##
    return -1
  end
end

So what I'd like is if anyone could take a look at this chunk and tell me if there's anything I did horribly wrong...?

EDIT: Tested and failed. No error message, not "But it failed!" Just that nothing happened at all. Anyone can point out where I went wrong?

RESOLVED: Issue was that I returned 0 prematurely.

Now lolandbeer's comment makes sense.

 

[Acquiescence]

Ah okay. I was under the impression that it was bad manners to post up multiple Question threads. Okay, will note this for future.