"Jumping" into an event to trigger it?

[shaynec1981 32]

I'd like to be able to trigger and event that the character jumps onto. For example, have an event with the graphic of a hole, the player in my game can jump onto a normally nonpassable tile if the region ID on that tile is 63. I thought that if I set the event to trigger with "player touch" that when the character lands on the event, it would trigger. However this does not work. How could I make this work? If the only feasible way is through scripting, thats no problem but I was wondering if there was another alternative?

[RetroExcellent 369]

Perhaps this tutorial will help? http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/blog/209/entry-567-lesson-one-ledges-and-jumping/

[shaynec1981 32]

Well, the event needs to trigger when the player actually jumps on it. For example, falling into a hole. With a little help, I realized that I could just check the players position (which I put into an array) in comparison with the event in questions postion ($game_maps.events(@event_id).x & y) and when those matched with a conditional cause whatever I wanted to happen. That works except it get VERY event heavy for what I need it for and lags the game. So I thought, instead of using an event in each position, why not just create a 2d array containing all holes in the current map and compare that to the players position array. This works too except that its too slow to check. I can stand in one of the latter entries in the 2D array and it could take a couple seconds for the script to cycle through all the available array elements until it gets to the one I'm currently standing on. So now I'm a little stuck again...

[+ dbchest 160]

i created a new project: used default starting position

converted water to grass: used world tileset: placed hole graphic at player start position y +1.

 

i created a new event: location (0, 0) : below character: parallel process; if A button being pressed, set player move route (jump y +1(wait for completion))

i created a new event: location (hole): below character: player touch      ; message "success."

 

ran playtest...pressed shift...message was shown.

i don't understand why you're having problems? it seems like jumping onto and event does work...