I need help with my intro event.

[1Girl3Balls 0]

I'm pretty new to this app, and I needed help with my intro event. Basically, the pictures I selected either aren't showing, or are showing in the wrong times, even when I put them in the right order.

 

 

 

 

This is my current intro. I want the first picture (The Song of Dragons one) to be displayed first (after the fade in and BGM), then the first 12 lines of text to play. After that, I wanted the picture to be replaced with the next one (the Parallax Floresta one), then that picture would be the one for the next 8 lines of text.

After that, the screen would fade to black and the character creation event would happen (where they input their character's name).

 

How would I make it like that? When I'm playtesting it, the pictures, as i said, either don't show up at all, or are out of place. What am i doing wrong?

 

Also, how do I make my character go to another map at the end of the event? That would be where the starting location is.

[dinhbat3 57]

Hey 1Girl

With the way you are setting up the event, you won't get anything but a black screen.

 

Here are a few important points:

1. Fade Out will create a black screen over any pictures

          - This means your pictures are showing, but they are underneath the blackscreen

2. The "Show Picture, Center, (0,0)" will make the center of the picture show at the (0,0) coordinate

          - The best case scenario is that u will only see the bottom right part of the picture at the top left of the screen

          - The "Center" option does NOT center it on the screen.

3. Your page 2 will not do anything since it requires action button to activate, so the event is not erasing itself.

4. To move the character to a new screen, you would use the "Transfer Player" function

5. If Picture 1 is going away at the same time that Picture 2 is going up you can simply have it Show Picture 1 - New Picture Name

          - This is not important, but saves you from needing to erase picture 1 only to show picture 2

          - Basically it will replace picture 1 with your new picture and saves you 1 line of event as well as having to keep track of pictures.

 

Overall you SHOULD do the following:

1. Turn ON player transparency at the start of the game via the System tab in the Database (F9)

2. Start the player on a blank map

3. Auto run the event with the pictures and text

4. Process your player name selection

5. Fade OUT screen

6. Turn OFF player transparency

7. Transfer player to the starting point

8. Fade IN screen

 

My recommendation:

I would suggest working on some tutorials as this is some of the basics of eventing. There are a lot of features and wonderful things the engine can do, so play around with it, make lots of mistakes and ask lots of questions. The tutorials are a great way to get started on some base knowledge though.

 

Hope this helps.

~ Dinhbat3

Edited April 10, 2017 by dinhbat3

[1Girl3Balls 0]

Hey 1Girl

With the way you are setting up the event, you won't get anything but a black screen.

 

Here are a few important points:

1. Fade Out will create a black screen over any pictures

          - This means your pictures are showing, but they are underneath the blackscreen

2. The "Show Picture, Center, (0,0)" will make the center of the picture show at the (0,0) coordinate

          - The best case scenario is that u will only see the bottom right part of the picture at the top left of the screen

          - The "Center" option does NOT center it on the screen.

3. Your page 2 will not do anything since it requires action button to activate, so the event is not erasing itself.

4. To move the character to a new screen, you would use the "Transfer Player" function

5. If Picture 1 is going away at the same time that Picture 2 is going up you can simply have it Show Picture 1 - New Picture Name

          - This is not important, but saves you from needing to erase picture 1 only to show picture 2

          - Basically it will replace picture 1 with your new picture and saves you 1 line of event as well as having to keep track of pictures.

 

Overall you SHOULD do the following:

1. Turn ON player transparency at the start of the game via the System tab in the Database (F9)

2. Start the player on a blank map

3. Auto run the event with the pictures and text

4. Process your player name selection

5. Fade OUT screen

6. Turn OFF player transparency

7. Transfer player to the starting point

8. Fade IN screen

 

My recommendation:

I would suggest working on some tutorials as this is some of the basics of eventing. There are a lot of features and wonderful things the engine can do, so play around with it, make lots of mistakes and ask lots of questions. The tutorials are a great way to get started on some base knowledge though.

 

Hope this helps.

~ Dinhbat3

 

 

It worked! Thank you

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