v21.1 Following Pokemon EX 2.4

• Added a toggle to prevent followers from always changing their direction, to closely mimic HGSS.
• Added an option to add a key to cycle through the player's Party Pokemon in the overworld.
• Rearranged almost all the scripts to make it easier to edit and keep track of changes.
• Made the rate of animation of the Following Pokemon's overworld FPS Agnostic.
• The status condition tones now have a pulsing effect, and the colors have been improved. They aren't bright and annoying to look at anymore.
• The Following pokemon now gets 3x the friendship boost than it did earlier from being first in the party.
• Fixed alot of the "map connection jump" bugs that Following Pokemon had.
• Fixed some of the animation bugs when Followers were forcefully toggled off.
• Added support for regular boolean arguements for toggling following pokemon on and off.
• Made the maximum height for Pokemon to follow you in interior maps be 3m.
• Removed alot of fluff that was needed for refreshing the following Pokemon after interacting with the party screen.
• Removed compatibility for Generation 8 Project v1.0.4 and below.

Instructions under Usage of Script have also been updated to detail the new configuration constants as well as the dialogue and disappear conditions better.
If you are updating from an older version, please make sure to delete the original plugin, so that the old changes don't overwrite the new changes.

Fixed Follower appearing on top of player when warping from a map using "Transfer Player"
Fixed Debug Warp moving player to impassable tiles
Fixed many interactions of Following Pokemon with regular Dependent events
Fixed bugs with Ball Open/Close Animations
Fixed follower stranding the player on single tile islands in the water.
Fixed man bugs related to surfing and the Ball open close animation
Made time taken for follower to get an item and/or increase its friendship be FPS agnostic
Improved the code for the Following Pokemon sprite renamer
Removed compatibility for Essentials v19.0 and Generation 8 Project v1.0.2 and below.

Made the "stepping animation speed" for Followers independent of Player speed
Added fixes for followers interacting with bridges
Fixed a crash with followers when surfing
Changed alot of things related to surfing followers
Added a failsafe incase people miss the 1st step in the instructions and don't close RMXP when installing the script

Incase you're wondering, yes the script is compatible with Essentials v19.1

Added a failsafe incase sprites aren't properly named
Added Compatibility for new Sprite Renamer from the Gen 8 Project v.1.0.1

Fixed uninitialised constant error
Fixed Sprite Renamer being dumb

Added Compatibility for Essentials v19
Fixed many bugs and optimized the code even further
Added accurate HGSS animations with sound effects
Rewrote the instructions to be more helpful and descriptive

Note: The method "followingMoveRoute" has been renamed to "follower_move_route" so make changes in your events accordingly, to reflect these changes.

Note: v18 compatibility has been dropped and I wont provide links to the v18 version anymore.

Fixed a gamebreaking bug with starting over.
Readded animations back to some places where they were missing.

Many gamebreaking crashes and a few tiny inconsistencies have been fixed.

Instructions have been updated

The script has been updated to fix the Following bugs:

• Some fixes with Enhanced Stairs compatibility
• Fixed a few animation related bugs with surfing
• Starting over has been thoroughly tested and has no bugs
• Fixed forms not reverting after battle