graphic How do I make person appear and disappear?

[suvdonkey 0]

Long story short, I’m trying to make an event where if you touch it, a scary NPC appears in front of you along with a scream and then it disappears and doesn’t come back. I thought it would be really easy but I’ve been working on it for an hour and it still won’t work right. I keep fiddling with it but it’s not working. Could I get some help, please? Thanks.

[Darkanine 116]

Try using the wait command on event page 2.

[Pryde 17]

This should be a simple event.  What part are you having trouble with?  To make an event disappear, all you need is a switch or, if you won't need to interact with it again, a self-switch.

[Elder71 14]

Two events:

Place these where relevant, i.e. where you want the triggering 'step' to be and where you want the NPC to appear.

 

1.  The one that is actually "touched", this activates the second event by turning on a switch (lets call it "NPC SCARY") and then deactivates itself with a Self Switch.

2.  The scary NPC:

 

Three event pages on this one: 1; blank, does nothing.

                                                   2: the page that is activated by the first event. When NPC SCARY is turned "ON" by the first event, this page runs (set to "Autorun".) After the NPC appears and the scream sound effect plays, this event also deactivates itself with a Self Switch.

                                                   3; blank, does nothing, activated by the Self Switch in step 2. If you do not assign this page a sprite, it will appear as though the NPC disappeared again.

 

Once this process has run, the Self Switches stop the action from repeating if the triggering event is stepped on again.

 

Any help? I THINK I understood your quandary.

[suvdonkey 0]

I'll try it. Thanks.