Campsite Tutorial
You people may be thinking The Tent item sux because it heals and thats all. Whoop-tee-do. Well here is your solution. I am going to show you how to make it so when you use the Tent item, you go to a campsite (reminds you of the first campout in Breath of Fire III). This is only hard if you know absolutely NOTHING!
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Requirements
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First learn about switches (the information will help.)
Second you need to know a little about Common Events
Lastly you need to know Choices (The Show Choices command).
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The Beginning
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First off, make a map for your soon-to-be campsite. I will walk you through the Map Properties to get the right tiles to work with. Create a new map with the dimensions 20x15 (the smallest you can get.) Make the Chip Set Fasade. Set the BGM to whatever you want it to be. Put a check in Disable under Teleport and Save.
Click the fill bucket and make the ground Grass, Snow, etc. (Mine is snow). Then click the pencil icon so that it will not fill the screen with the next item. Now put some trees, woodpiles, etc. but NOT a campfire (we will get to that later). Now go to the Upper Chip Set mode. Scroll all the way down and look for a little white tent looking thing. Copy all of that and put it on your map somewhere.
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The Campfire
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Now this is probably the easiest event you will have to do. Double click on where you want the campfire. Now for the picture choose the campfire one (its in Chip Set 1). Pick By its Route for the Movement Type. Set the frequency to 3. Click on Edit Route. Now put Trans. Up, Wait, Trans. Down, Wait. Make sure that Repeat Action is checked. Click Ok. Also put the Position Same Level as Hero. Click Ok. Thats all for this Event. Easy huh? Now for something harder.
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The Inside
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Make a map for the inside of your Tent. Once thats done its gonna get harder. We will come back to here.
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Use of the Item
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Go into the Database (F8). Go to Items. Go to the Tent item and change the item type to Switch. Make it only useable on the Field. Make sure to set a Switch to turn on when the item is used. Go to Common Events. Name a Common Event Tent. Make it Auto Start with the switch you made for the Tent item. Now make a new command Erase Screen make it Instant. Then Memorize Place with 3 variables. Next Teleport to your campsite. Set the Screen Tone to whatever you want (mine is 10,10,10,70). Next Show Screen Instant. Now turn off the switch for the Tent. This is what it should look like:
Appearance Condition: Switch:
Auto Start Tent
<> Erase Screen: Instant
<> Memory Place: [0001], [0002], [0003]
<> Teleport (Map Name)
<> Set Screen Tone [R010,G010,B010,S070],0.0sec
<> Show Screen: Instant
<> Change Switch: [xxxx: Tent]-OFF Set
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Thats the hard part over. One more hard event inside of the Tent.
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Inside Tent 2
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Make sure that there is a desk chip in your tent (you will need it). Now make a new event on top of the desk. Make the picture a closed book or an open book (both in Chip Set 2). Next make a message that will show when the player examines the book (Push Key for Event Start). After the message you need a Show Choice Command. Put it so that the player can save and sleep, not save and sleep, or neither. Under the save and sleep choice put Call Save Menu, Inn Cost 0, Set Screen Tone to normal (all 100), and Go To Memorized Place using the three variables used to save the position in Common Events. Under the sleep without saving choice put the same except for the Call Save Menu. Under Neither case put nothing.
It should look like the following:
<> Messg: (ex. Will you save and turn in?)
<> Show Choice: Save and sleep/Sleep without saving/Neither
: [Save and sleep] Case
<> Call Save Menu
<> Call Inn: Cost 0
<> Set Screen Tone [R100,G100,B100,S100],0.0sec
<> Goto Memorized Place: [0001], [0002], [0003]
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: [Sleep without saving] Case
<> Call Inn: Cost 0
<> Set Screen Tone [R100,G100,B100,S100],0.0sec
<> Goto Memorized Place: [0001], [0002], [0003]
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: [Neither] Case
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:END Case
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Not as difficult as it seems. Now for the teleporting between the two maps.
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Teleporting
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This is easy. Going into the tent, put the screen tone to normal after teleporting with 0.0sec change rate. Going out put it at whatever you picked for the night (whether its mine {10,10,10,70} or your own.)
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Appearance of Party Members
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This can be easy. Make an event wherever you want the people to be at. Make a new page. On the first page dont put a picture or anything else, leave it as is. On the second page put the switch that made the member be in your party in the condition thing at the top left of the event. (ex. If you put a dude named Bob in your party and a switch was involved, put that switch there.) It can be hard.
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In the Future
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I am currently trying to make random events happen during the night like a monster comes along and you have to fight it, or a thief comes and steals something. It will be WAY more advanced than this one was.
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Thanks
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I would like to thank Don for his excellent translation of RM2K. Also my boredom which led to this. I thank everybody that reads this and uses this (and puts my name in the credits).
If you have any questions, problems, suggestions, complaints, alien abductions, etc. e-mail me at demonicghost@hotmail.com
Thanx!!!
*Alien Abductions? What the hell?*