Substitute move animation

[MattCatDad]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to adjust the animation that plays every time your pokemon switches places with the substitute doll or vice-versa.
It would be neat if the transition happened faster, like if there was a way to make both sprites move at the same time as they switch.

I think I found the animation here:

pokeemerald/src/battle_anim_effects_3.c at 51b000860be6d26da989c8b2e51a3f66c664083e · pret/pokeemerald

Decompilation of Pokémon Emerald. Contribute to pret/pokeemerald development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Does anyone have advice for me on this one?

 

[Anon822]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to adjust the animation that plays every time your pokemon switches places with the substitute doll or vice-versa.
It would be neat if the transition happened faster, like if there was a way to make both sprites move at the same time as they switch.

I think I found the animation here:

pokeemerald/src/battle_anim_effects_3.c at 51b000860be6d26da989c8b2e51a3f66c664083e · pret/pokeemerald

Decompilation of Pokémon Emerald. Contribute to pret/pokeemerald development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Does anyone have advice for me on this one?

The code you linked is for the animation of using the move substitute. For the place switching animation you'd want to look at AnimTask_SwapMonSpriteToFromSubstitute.

In that function's switch statement case 0 slides the sprite off-screen, case 1 swaps the sprite and case 2 slides the sprite back on-screen. Since the substitute doll and mon are the same sprite object, showing them both at the same time would require changing how the animation is implemented. A simpler way to speed it up is to just increase the speed at which the sprite slides:

diff --git a/src/battle_anim_throw.c b/src/battle_anim_throw.c
index 956020b30..fd4ec6d58 100755
--- a/src/battle_anim_throw.c
+++ b/src/battle_anim_throw.c
@@ -2121,7 +2121,7 @@ void AnimTask_SwapMonSpriteToFromSubstitute(u8 taskId)
     {
     case 0:
         gTasks[taskId].data[11] = gBattleAnimArgs[0];
-        gTasks[taskId].data[0] += 0x500;
+        gTasks[taskId].data[0] += 0x1400;
         if (GetBattlerSide(gBattleAnimAttacker) != B_SIDE_PLAYER)
             gSprites[spriteId].x2 += gTasks[taskId].data[0] >> 8;
         else
@@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ void AnimTask_SwapMonSpriteToFromSubstitute(u8 taskId)
         gTasks[taskId].data[10]++;
         break;
     case 2:
-        gTasks[taskId].data[0] += 0x500;
+        gTasks[taskId].data[0] += 0x1400;
         if (GetBattlerSide(gBattleAnimAttacker) != B_SIDE_PLAYER)
             gSprites[spriteId].x2 -= gTasks[taskId].data[0] >> 8;
         else

 

[MattCatDad]

That was a great suggestion, thank you!!!!