How to make a Typical Special/What goes on in the Action Tab

[ABloodyCanadian]

To those newbies starting with PSA, you may encounter troubles when working on the Special Attacks. You may think that you have to follow and obey the rules that the Special Originally has, so you have to change up your ideas. In my case, that's not entirely true. Don't get me wrong, there are some limitations, but they don't have to limit as far as following the same setup. In this tutorial, we will start from a blank slate, and build up from there. These are some methods I know to creating specials. (This Tutorial Assumes you have SubActions ready for use.)

Okay for now, let's assume that our Special Tab is empty. (Though preferably, you want to modify existing Events...)

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1st thing we gotta remember is that this will work both on the ground, and in mid-air. So what we should start off is some If Statements to decide whether it's on the ground or in mid-air.

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Basically what this is saying right now is "If on the Ground, _____. Else, _____." There are blanks in the statement, and we need to fill those in. If you're not aware already, Actions lead to SubActions. So what we have to do now is fill the missing blanks with which SubActions will be used.

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Now the statement says "If on the Ground, go to SubAction FF. Else, go to SubAction FF." So now we managed to tell the game if it'll be used on the Ground or in the air, and directed them to different SubActions. However, we are still not done! You may encounter problems if you test it out as is (assuming you finished working on the SubActions). Even though we told the game if it'll be on the ground or in the air, we haven't told it how to act. So to do that, we will add edge slide events, and Air/Ground Events to both situations.

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Air/Ground Event (0E000100)

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So we got the basics of how a Special works when executed. But what happens after the Special is done? We haven't told the game what it will do after. So at the top of the list, we will add Change Action, and Additional Requirement Events.

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Alright great! But what were to happen if you used it in the air, and you landed on the ground? Or if you use it on the ground, but the ground you were on disappears for some reason? Unless you want to use Pass Frames, Let's add more Change Action Events!

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From here on you can add more things to the special like additional Change Action Events. What you just made is a typical special that uses 2 SubActions. Hopefully this gives you an idea of what goes on in the Actions Tab.

[BlueBrain]

really nice tut, easy read, great for semi-noobs (considering a noob who knows NOTHING at all)

[ABloodyCanadian]

I simply made this because I've seen people asking for help on how to make a Special Attack. So seeing that there's no tutorial on it, I simply made one... lol.

Now I can tell these noobs to read this so I don't have to try to explain everything to those asking for help!

[Battleon469]

thanks your a really helpful friend!

[Kagemaru]

Hm... very helpful.

I never considered the change in air/ground state part. But I had a grasp on normal specials like that. I just seem to be coming across strange issues that aren't normal. D:

Oh well.

[Yusif]

Great TUT, helped alot, thanks.

[law_law]

Alot of help :P thanks