Whirlpools

[Skystrike]

I need some help creating HM Whirlpool for my game. I've looked on the wiki, and it says that I'd need two new procedures, one that's like pbFacingEvent which checks if the player is on an event, and an Events.onStepTaken procedure, similar to Events.onAction, which checks if the player is moving or going onto an event called "Whirlpool". I think I have the Events.onStepTaken covered, but the pbFacingEvent scriptlet deeply confuses me. May someone give me help on creating Whirlpools?

 

[Nickalooose]

I'm assuming you have everything done, besides facing the event, use:

facingEvent.name=="Whirpool"

In your script and name the event Whirlpool.

As long as everything else is scripted properly, that's everything done.

 

[Skystrike]

Thanks for trying to help, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for.

Whirlpool

• As mentioned above, Whirlpool is just like Cut, except you can surf onto it (and when you do it knocks you back). The whirlpool itself will be an event placed on water, set to passable (i.e. the "Through" option is ticked). Add into the scripts an "Events.onStepTaken" procedure (like an "Events.onAction" procedure) that checks whether the player is standing on an event called "Whirlpool" - if they are, spin them around and set a move route back off it. The hardest part here is figuring out whether the player is standing on an event at all (checking its name is easy once you have that, though) - see how the def "pbFacingEvent" works and copy it to make something similar but which checks the player's current coordinates, not whatever's in front of them."

This is what I mean, I need help implementing this.

 

[Nickalooose]

Okay, What have you got so far?

 

[Skystrike]

Spoiler:

#===============================================================================
# Whirlpool
#===============================================================================
def Kernel.pbWhirlpool
if ($DEBUG && Input.press?(Input::CTRL)) ||
(HIDDENMOVESCOUNTBADGES ? $Trainer.numbadges>=BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL : $Trainer.badges[BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL])
movefinder=Kernel.pbCheckMove(:WHIRLPOOL)
if $DEBUG || movefinder
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("It's a whirlpool. It's unsafe to Surf across it.\1"))
if Kernel.pbConfirmMessage(_INTL("Would you like to cross the whirlpool?"))
speciesname=!movefinder ? $Trainer.name : movefinder.name
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used Whirlpool!",speciesname))
pbHiddenMoveAnimation(movefinder)
return true
end
else
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("It's a whirlpool. It's unsafe to Surf across it."))
end
else
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("It's a whirlpool. It's unsafe to Surf across it."))
end
return false
end

HiddenMoveHandlers::CanUseMove.add(:WHIRLPOOL,proc{|move,pkmn|
if !$DEBUG &&
!(HIDDENMOVESCOUNTBADGES ? $Trainer.numbadges>=BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL : $Trainer.badges[BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL])
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Sorry, a new Badge is required."))
return false
end
facingEvent=$game_player.pbFacingEvent
if !facingEvent || facingEvent.name!="Whirlpool"
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Can't use that here."))
return false
end
return true
})

HiddenMoveHandlers::UseMove.add(:WHIRLPOOL,proc{|move,pokemon|
if !pbHiddenMoveAnimation(pokemon)
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used {2}!",pokemon.name,PBMoves.getName(move)))
end
facingEvent=$game_player.pbFacingEvent
if facingEvent
facingEvent.erase
$PokemonMap.addErasedEvent(facingEvent.id)
end
return true
})

I could always go the simple route and just erase it, but I'd like the G/S/C effect.

 

[Nickalooose]

That works perfect for me... I use SURF, I go over to my event (which I have no whirlpool character set, so I didn't spin it or myself, however...) I click the event, it says the speech about how it's unsafe... I use Whilrpool... And the event disappears... What's the problem you're getting?

EDIT: Are you trying to make them spin around and such?

 

[Skystrike]

The spin animation if you go on the whirlpool event. Basically, it needs code to check if the player's on an event, and if the player's on the whirlpool event

 

[Maruno]

Whirlpool

• As mentioned above, Whirlpool is just like Cut, except you can surf onto it (and when you do it knocks you back). The whirlpool itself will be an event placed on water, set to passable (i.e. the "Through" option is ticked). Add into the scripts an "Events.onStepTaken" procedure (like an "Events.onAction" procedure) that checks whether the player is standing on an event called "Whirlpool" - if they are, spin them around and set a move route back off it. The hardest part here is figuring out whether the player is standing on an event at all (checking its name is easy once you have that, though) - see how the def "pbFacingEvent" works and copy it to make something similar but which checks the player's current coordinates, not whatever's in front of them.

That's an extract from my "To Do" file, isn't it? I wrote that off the top of my head, going solely on what I vaguely remember of how whirlpools worked in Gen 2. I haven't experienced a Gen 4 whirlpool so I don't know what's different (I gather they're larger), and I'm sure there's a better way of doing it if you put more than 5 seconds' thought into it.

Perhaps do it similar to how pushable boulders work, except move the player forward X tiles rather than erase the event. If in Gen 4 you're not allowed to randomly surf onto a whirlpool (and be knocked back), then that's even easier and would work exactly like boulders.

 

[Nickalooose]

I would probably not even use scripts anyways, I'd use the event itself, because I have no idea how to move the player, other then using PBMoveRoute, within a script... I'd probably use PlayerTouch, or make it so you can't surf over for the moment, unless you do a quick check for Whirlpool upon touch, if Whirlpool is not found, set move route to spin, if it is, ask if Whirlpool is wanted to be used.

 

[Skystrike]

Thanks for the replies, I'll try both methods ^^

That's an extract from my "To Do" file, isn't it? I wrote that off the top of my head, going solely on what I vaguely remember of how whirlpools worked in Gen 2. I haven't experienced a Gen 4 whirlpool so I don't know what's different (I gather they're larger), and I'm sure there's a better way of doing it if you put more than 5 seconds' thought into it.

Perhaps do it similar to how pushable boulders work, except move the player forward X tiles rather than erase the event. If in Gen 4 you're not allowed to randomly surf onto a whirlpool (and be knocked back), then that's even easier and would work exactly like boulders.

Doing that kind of confused me. I'll try Nickalooose's method.

Edit: I made it. I'll post what I did later

 

[zingzags]

You don't get pushed back, in the new HG/SS, and the animation doesn't like G/S/C, the animation stays with the move. I have done it already I released it awhile ago.

EDIT:
Wait I didn't release it, I might if I get some time to look for it.

 

[Skystrike]

You don't get pushed back, in the new HG/SS, and the animation doesn't like G/S/C, the animation stays with the move. I have done it already I released it awhile ago.

EDIT:
Wait I didn't release it, I might if I get some time to look for it.

Oh wow. Oh well, I already made it. Now I just need to figure out spinning

OK, here's HGSS styled Whirlpools! (Well they won't be as big)
First, in PokemonHiddenMoves, put this piece of code under Cut's code:

Spoiler:

#===============================================================================
# Whirlpool
#===============================================================================
def Kernel.pbWhirlpool
if ($DEBUG && Input.press?(Input::CTRL)) ||
(HIDDENMOVESCOUNTBADGES ? $Trainer.numbadges>=BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL : $Trainer.badges[BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL])
movefinder=Kernel.pbCheckMove(:WHIRLPOOL)
if $DEBUG || movefinder
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("There's a raging whirlpool in the way.\nIt can't be Surfed across.\1"))
if Kernel.pbConfirmMessage(_INTL("Would you like get across\nusing Whirlpool?"))
speciesname=!movefinder ? $Trainer.name : movefinder.name
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used Whirlpool!",speciesname))
pbHiddenMoveAnimation(movefinder)
return true
end
else
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("There's a raging whirlpool in the way.\nIt can't be Surfed across."))
end
else
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("There's a raging whirlpool in the way.\nIt can't be Surfed across."))
end
return false
end

HiddenMoveHandlers::CanUseMove.add(:WHIRLPOOL,proc{|move,pkmn|
if !$DEBUG &&
!(HIDDENMOVESCOUNTBADGES ? $Trainer.numbadges>=BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL : $Trainer.badges[BADGEFORWHIRLPOOL])
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Sorry, a new Badge is required."))
return false
end
facingEvent=$game_player.pbFacingEvent
if !facingEvent || facingEvent.name!="Whirlpool"
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("Can't use that here."))
return false
end
return true
})

HiddenMoveHandlers::UseMove.add(:WHIRLPOOL,proc{|move,pokemon|
if !pbHiddenMoveAnimation(pokemon)
Kernel.pbMessage(_INTL("{1} used {2}!",pokemon.name,PBMoves.getName(move)))
end
return true
})

Then, in an event called Whirlpool, have it like this

Spoiler:

https://i.imgur.com/3s75k.png
The first half

As you see, the Up event is finished so copy one of the other direction conditions change it to force the player up, and in the else section of the conditional branch don't put anything ;)

Thanks

 

[Nickalooose]

That's a nice event, but make the speed level 1 or 2 ;)

 

[Maruno]

You could greatly simplify that event by just making the player do a number of "1 Step Forward"s instead of figuring out the directions.

 

[Skystrike]

You could greatly simplify that event by just making the player do a number of "1 Step Forward"s instead of figuring out the directions.

...oh. Okay. Thanks, Maruno! Any way to spin the player?

 

[zingzags]

...oh. Okay. Thanks, Maruno! Any way to spin the player?

Make a condition if player is ON, the whirlpool, you spin back to the direction you came from.