- Pokémon Essentials Version
- v21.1 ✅
Type Matchup UI
Features
- Two versions of the Type Matchup UI, one for the types in general, and one for specific species.
- Easy implementation into the Essentials framework with few steps to get things going.
- Type chart will change based on the PBS files, so you can change to your hearts content and the UI will auto update.
Installation
Installing the plugin is as simple as dragging the folders into the base Essentials folder. You shouldn't need to overwrite anything.How to Use?
There are two methods you will call through the script action in order to get the UI to show up.pbTypeMatchUIThis brings up the type chart that will show you the weaknesses, resistances, and immunities for all types in the game.
pbSpeciesTypeMatchUI(custom_species)This will bring up a species-specific menu. There are a few options for this. Within the parentheses, you can specify an array of Pokemon and it will only show you those Pokemon.
For example, putting
[:PIKACHU, :CHARMANDER, :SQUIRTLE] will only show you those three Pokemon.If you leave out the parentheses, the UI will default to every species within the currently active Regional Dex. If you do not have a Regional Dex selected, it will use the National Dex.
Adding a Menu
Implementing a menu into the game is very easy. If you go inside the Script Editor of RPGMaker, you can find a script called UI_PauseMenu. Inside that, go to line 274 where you will find theMenuHandlers.add(:pause_menu, :options) section. Put the script below after that and before the debug menu.
Ruby:
MenuHandlers.add(:pause_menu, :type, {
"name" => _INTL("Type Lookup"),
"icon_name" => "Type",
"order" => 75,
"effect" => proc { |menu|
pbFadeOutIn {
pbTypeMatchUI
}
next false
}
})Implementing During Battle
The battle implementation will automatically create an array with the battlers currently active whenever the button is pressed. This means that you will only get a max of four Pokemon species at any one time.pbFrameUpdate method. You can replace it with the one below.Note: The current button that pulls up the menu in battle is
T. If you want to change that, you just need to simply change it within the Input.triggerex?(:T) call.
Ruby:
def pbFrameUpdate(cw = nil)
cw&.update
@battle.battlers.each_with_index do |b, i|
next if !b
@sprites["dataBox_#{i}"]&.update
@sprites["pokemon_#{i}"]&.update
@sprites["shadow_#{i}"]&.update
end
#This triggers the battle scene. Change :T to whatever button you want.
if Input.triggerex?(:T)
custom_species = @battle.battlers.map { |battler| battler.species }.uniq
pbSpeciesTypeMatchUI(custom_species)
end
endCredits
ThatWelshOne_ is the original creator of this script, and I have simply just made some edits to it and gotten permission to post about an update.
- Credits
