[Pokemon Essentials] Call Species

... Hrm. Been a while since I've been here...

Well, I'm using Version 11 of Poccil's Pokemon Essentials kit, found here.

And I'm trying to figure out how to call the Pokemon's species, rather than name (that is, having the pokemon called a charmander, rather than "ZIPPO"), but I am having a rough time...

I simply want the NPCs to be able to comment on the first Pokemon in your party by species, but the closest I have come is this:

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$game_variables[2]=
$Trainer.pokemonParty[0].species

which, while technically working, doesn't return a name. Instead, it returns that Pokemon's number in the Pokedex, and I have no clue on how to get that to transfer over to Pokemon name...

EDIT: yeah, I accidently switched where I put the word here and the address... been a while since I've been on a forum... haha

The link you provide only works if you copy/paste it, otherwise it leads to a "http://here/" url.

I don't have XP so I won't be of much help, but if this system has a menu that displays the names of the Pokemon in your party then you could check how it's displayed there to see how it gets the name from the "$Trainer.pokemonParty" array.

Or you could try:

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$Trainer.pokemonParty[0].name


Another thing you could try is to print all the methods and try what looks useful, like:

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print $Trainer.pokemonParty[0].methods.sort


Let me know if any of that works, if it doesn't I'll see if I can somehow extract the scripts to read them.

Have a nice day.

after a re-invigored search, I have found this snippet of coding in the pokedex script...

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        # Pushing national species, name, height, weight, index number
        dexlist.push([nationalSpecies,
           PBSpecies.getName(nationalSpecies),height,weight,i])

of course, I now have a method of displaying the species, however, when I input the method of finding the species in, i get the following error.

Spoiler for:

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Pokemon Essentials
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Exception: RuntimeError

Message: Script error within event 5, map 6 (Apartment):

Exception: ArgumentError

Message: (eval):3:in `getName'wrong number of arguments(0 for 1)

***Full script:

$game_variables[1]=
$Trainer.pokemonParty[0].species
$game_variables[2]=PBSpecies.getName
(pbGet(1))



which tells me that pbGet(1) will give me the Kanto Pokedex number of my pokemon, but will not convert it into a physical number in the same way I couldn't get a different dialogue to pick an actor name based on a variable (btw, if you can tell me how to swing that too... that'd be great, seeing how it is too small an issue to make a thread for)... So what happens, then, is they try to call the species with the phrase pbget(1) which crashes the game... Any ideas how to circumvent?

I have tried to give another variable the value printed by pbGet(1), using $global_variable[1]=pbGet(1), but it doesn't give the result, only the actual phrase...

PS. Unfortunately, those other two options didn't work