A little bit ago, I released the initial version of Essentials Team Builder (ETB) on GitHub and Eevee Expo. It isn’t perfect, but it solves a personal pet peeve I have. I very much dislike the built-in editor to Essentials, and this tool pretty much aims to be that, but in a more user-friendly UI. With this upgrade from Showdown to Essentials Converter (StEC) comes a brand new UI, as well as a more optimized codebase. ETB uses a lot less code than what StEC did before, as initially, StEC had almost 2000 lines of code for JUST the code generation. With ETB, I compacted the generator into its own script which has just under 300 lines of code, and the calls it can receive can be done in as few as 1 line per entry!

On top of that, there also was a major code migration as during the initial development, StEC was using .NET Framework, but has since to moved to .NET, meaning it uses a more well structured code base, as well as taking up less space! And, on top of all of that, I managed to migrate it from version-to-version of Essentials, meaning I can handle Essentials 17, all the way up to 20+, and I can add more to it as needed! Though, the change between the 17 codebase, 18 codebase, and 19 codebase was so dramatic I might end up having to create new functions for newer versions as well… Ah well.

Oh, and the project is all open-source too! Feel free to poke around the inner workings of the program, and suggest fixes! Or, if you wish, the program now supports multiple languages, feel free to fork and open a PR for your language!

Screenshot and Logo by TheCrafters001. This is a fan-made tool. Pokémon is not owned by TheCrafters001; Pokémon is owned by GAME FREAK Inc. This tool does not allow you to create your own fan-games, rather it is to help aid you. The Poké Ball symbol is a trademark of GAME FREAK Inc.