Change the playspace ?

[Jason]

Please note, if this is in the wrong section, don't flame, just report for it to be moved, thankyou.

This probably makes NO sense at all, but would there be a way to make it so that onscreen you could only see say 8x8 sqaures and not 20x15 ? By this I don't mean just put a black picture, as you'd be able to walk under the picture, I mean so you can physically only see 8x8 sqaures around your character and have like a fog or something around it so it looks like a Fog of War effect, this would be a really nice addition to my game.

 

[shiroun]

You could event each tile, have seperate switches, but the lag!

Theres a script somewhere, maybe it wasn't released tho.

 

[silver wind]

you can use a common event for that.
make a picture of 600x800.
fill it with black, and make a hole at the size of 8x8 tiles(256x256 pixels) , in the middle.
make it "follow" the player. simply show the picture at the player's X and Y positions, on parallel process. http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m151 ... gofwar.jpg[/img]

 

[Jason]

Sorry, but that doesn't work, when you walk to the top left or bottom right of the screen, it moves away from you, and if you come to the edge, you can walk out of it, Any idea ?

 

[mtgmaster]

If you mean what I think you mean, couldn't you just add a 4 or 5 black border around your maps?

 

[Brewmeister]

I just did this not too long ago.....

Here's the controlling event:

Control Variables: [0001: screen X] = Player's Screen X
Control Variables: [0002: screen Y] = Player's Screen Y
Show Picture: 1, 'spotlight', Center (Variable[0001][0002]), (100%,100%), 255, Normal
Control Self Switch: A =ON

Control Variables: [0001: screen X] = Player's Screen X
Control Variables: [0002: screen Y] = Player's Screen Y
Move Picture: 1, @1, Center (Variable[0001][0002]), (100%,100%), 255, Normal

Here's the image I used:

http://home.comcast.net/~bridge161/spotlight.png[/img]

This goes in the pictures folder.  Modify it to have a square in the middle if you want.

Remember to erase the picture when you leave the map.

Be Well

 

[Jason]

Ah, thats alot better, thanks lol :P

 

[Reives]

There was an awesome Fog of War script (by Wachunga, I think?) that I used to use for an older version of a project. Here's how it looked:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v385/ ... QTBV-5.jpg[/img]

The semi transparent fog part you can't see any events. It works like the fog of war in Age of Empires games. Can't seem to find it though, but perhaps you might if you search around for Wachunga Fog of War.