Resource Starter "heart", Mega stone and Z-crystal graphics in the party screen 1

[Mr. Gela]

Mr. Gela submitted a new resource:

Starter "heart" graphic in the party screen - Displays the pink heart given to the special LGPE starters in the party screen.

How does it work?!
You can make any Pokémon have a "special" flag through code. If the Pokémon is detected to have such special trait in them, then it will display that pink heart in the Party screen.



Show me the goods!

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Animated (the heart stays in place):

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[Mr. Gela]

Mr. Gela updated Starter "heart", Mega stone and Z-crystal graphics in the party screen with a new update entry:

Support for Mega Stone and Z-Crystal sprites in the party screen

V2 is out!
What does this do?
It adds support for a Mega Stone and Z-Crystal sprite, which replaces the default item sprite when the Pokémon is holding a Mega Stone or a Z-Crystal. See the main post for details.

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[WolfPP]

Nice to show Z-Crystals! Congratz!!!

Thanks to share with us, Gela!

 

[Ulithium_Dragon]

Really nice job! Though a lot of people make edits to their script sections.

So if it's not too much to ask, could you maybe say what individual parts of PScreen_Party you edited instead of asking people to replace the entire section?

EDIT: Nevermind, I ran a script comparison against an unedited copy to find out what was changed. Still, it's probably a good idea to explain what you edited anyways. It's not like there's many sections that got amended.

 

[Mr. Gela]

Really nice job! Though a lot of people make edits to their script sections.

So if it's not too much to ask, could you maybe say what individual parts of PScreen_Party you edited instead of asking people to replace the entire section?

EDIT: Nevermind, I ran a script comparison against an unedited copy to find out what was changed. Still, it's probably a good idea to explain what you edited anyways. It's not like there's many sections that got amended.

For the heart sprite, it's just a copy of the @helditemsprite, using a different file and only when a certain flag is on.
As for the mega/z-crystal sprite, it's using @helditemsprite and uses similar methods to "pbIsMail?" to determine the type of item and then use a different filename. It will also set a "@mode". This mode is just a variable to base the X and Y coordinates of the graphic, as using the default cords as the default item sprite would make the two new ones off-center.

I figured if someone wants to check for the individual changes, they probably already have the skill and knowledge in using a text compare tool :-p Otherwise, they probably haven't changed the screen that much, and I'd rather keep the instructions straight-forward (the one for the starter heart is a bit messy imo) but I see your point crystal clear.

 

[WolfPP]

Gela, i want to use only mega stone and z-crystal (to show in my party screen0... How can i edit for it?

 

[Mr. Gela]

Gela, i want to use only mega stone and z-crystal (to show in my party screen0... How can i edit for it?

Remove all code that mentions "@startersprite".

 

[Mr. Gela]

Mr. Gela updated Starter "heart", Mega stone and Z-crystal graphics in the party screen with a new update entry:

V2.1

Made the instructions more straight-forward and completely plug and play.

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[WolfPP]

Gela. unfortanely for me doenst appears mega stone:
Party Folder:

icon_mega_zoroanite

item.txt:

723,ZOROANITE,Zoroanite,Zoroanites,1,1000,"One of the mysterious Mega Stones. Have Zoroark hold it, and this stone will enable it to Mega Evolve in battle.",0,0,0,

I have its Mega Evolution in 'pokemonforms.txt' and put your Party script above Main.

Thanks!

EDIT: DONE!

in my item.txt was wrong: the last number was "0" (as a common item), the correct one being "12" (like a mega stone identified by the script itself).

Wrong:

723,ZOROANITE,Zoroanite,Zoroanites,1,1000,"One of the mysterious Mega Stones. Have Zoroark hold it, and this stone will enable it to Mega Evolve in battle.",0,0,0,

Correct:

723,ZOROANITE,Zoroanite,Zoroanites,1,1000,"One of the mysterious Mega Stones. Have Zoroark hold it, and this stone will enable it to Mega Evolve in battle.",0,0,12,

Thanks, cya!

 

[MillaLya]

Strangely when I applied the script to a clean Essentials there's an error.
When I close the party screen and return to the pause menu, the following error message was displayed

Exception: NoMethodError
Message: undefined method `dispose' for nil:NilClass
PScreen_Party:369:in `dispose'
SpriteWindow:497:in `pbDisposeSprite'
SpriteWindow:486:in `pbDisposeSpriteHash'
SpriteWindow:485:in `each'
SpriteWindow:485:in `pbDisposeSpriteHash'
PScreen_Party:623:in `pbEndScene'
PScreen_Party:1451:in `pbPokemonScreen'
PScreen_PauseMenu:176:in `pbStartPokemonMenu'
PScreen_PauseMenu:173:in `pbFadeOutIn'
PScreen_PauseMenu:173:in `pbStartPokemonMenu'

I tried to look into the code but still no clues... Do you have any idea how it could be?

Sorry for the inconvenience!

 

[Mr. Gela]

Strangely when I applied the script to a clean Essentials there's an error.
When I close the party screen and return to the pause menu, the following error message was displayed

I tried to look into the code but still no clues... Do you have any idea how it could be?

Sorry for the inconvenience!

I can't seem to replicate this... Could you try reinstalling it following all of the steps? Try to install it in a fresh new Essentials folder first, please.

 

[MillaLya]

I can't seem to replicate this... Could you try reinstalling it following all of the steps? Try to install it in a fresh new Essentials folder first, please.

Sloved! I commented out line 369 in the replacement Pscreen_Party.

   # @startersprite.bitmap.dispose

Don't know why it works, but seems that the code tried to dispose something non-existent for a Pokémon without the "special" flag.

 

[Mr. Gela]

Sloved! I commented out line 369 in the replacement Pscreen_Party.

   # @startersprite.bitmap.dispose

Don't know why it works, but seems that the code tried to dispose something non-existent for a Pokémon without the "special" flag.

Was the save file from before you installed the script? There's a good chance that, since the "special" flag didn't EXIST (not just being true or false) it can't create (or omit the creation of) the startersprite properly. Please let me know if that was it.

 

[MillaLya]

Was the save file from before you installed the script? There's a good chance that, since the "special" flag didn't EXIST (not just being true or false) it can't create (or omit the creation of) the startersprite properly. Please let me know if that was it.

Nope it was a new save. The crash happens when there're mons with the flag at false in party, regardless of the intended "starter" was distributed or not. I added an event in the player's room which gives a "special" ditto first activated and a non-special one every time after (actually copying from what you've wrote in the demonstration), and turns on the debug quick start. The game crashes when I attempt to close the party screen with two dittoes obtained in this manner.

Seems to me that commenting out that line makes the system treat the heart sign in the same way as the sign for held items, as there's no corresponding .bitmap.dispose command for handling held item icons in the same section.

Edit: I skipped the part defining the “special” flag (i.e. deleted line “p.special = true”) when giving the non-special ditto. Will look into whether this have something to do with what I experienced tomorrow - it’s late night in my time zone now.

Ok here's more experiment:
I set up two events with the same first page,

and different 2nd pages.

Works perfectly when we only got the "starter" ditto, but both setup would crash on closing when the 2nd, "non-special" ditto's is on the party screen if line 369 of PScreen_Party is uncommented.
The essential is a clean new one, so is the save.

 

[Juno and Ice]

For some reason, I'm getting this error. I started a new game and everything and the error still persists. Any idea why?

 

[Zerame]

I got an error with the Script this is the error log https://pastebin.com/JcF07iw7
I'm not sure why I got the error considering it was a new save...

 

[REALMUGEN]

Thanks for sharing. It's a beautiful script I used in my project in 17.2. Now I'm migrating to V19.1 and lost compatibility.

Any chance to upgrade?

Thank you very much!