Conditional Branch

[d4rkb8n8na]

This is probably really easy, but I have a hard-to-explain problem that I can't figure out.

I essentially have 3 different maps, a beach house, a town, and a path connecting beach house to town.

There is a guard on the path that blocks the way into the town, to get to the town the character must retrieve itemA from the beach house and then the guard will move and you may proceed.  The only problem is when I want to go back from the town to the beach house, the guard won't move because the variable "get itemA" is already at 1 so the guard simply says "you may proceed" without moving. If I change this then the guard would move again when I go to the guard the first time, causing the guard to have a repeating cycle which could move the guard to unintended locations. (I doubt I explained this very well, but here are some screens of what I'm talking about)
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I am using RMXP and I have tried using a switch for when coming back from the town and changing variables when leaving the map, but it ends up with the same "guard repeating move cycle thing".  I probably just don't have an understanding of something or am overlooking/overthinking something, but please help D:

 

[Cheeze]

You wont get any help using a Pirated copy of RMXP

 

[d4rkb8n8na]

Pirated copy D:? Didn't know that, this games been on computer for a long time sorry about that >.>

 

[markGRIEVER]

I couldn't care less about piracy, so I will help...

Create two guards, one where the guard is normally ("Guard A") and one where the guard is supposed to move to ("Guard B"). At first, "Guard B" should be an invisible event that does absolutely nothing and "Guard A" should be stood where he is normally.

When you bring "Item A" to "Guard A", have him move out of the way like normal. Once his movement is over, activate a switch that turns "Guard A" off (i.e. makes him below hero and invisible) and turns "Guard B" on (i.e. changes his graphic to that of a guard and makes him same level as hero etc.).

Because of the switch, even when the "Guard A" event moves back to it's original place because you left the map, he is now below hero and invisible so will not get in the way. Equally, the "Guard B" event will be stood where the "Guard A" event moved to, giving the impression that he stayed there.

I hope that's well explained.

 

[Cheeze]

Yeah...That is the hard way...you could just use one event....-yawn-

 

[markGRIEVER]

I wouldn't call two events and one switch difficult to implement.

 

[Despain]

But it is seriously inefficient when you could do it much better with a single event.

 

[Cheeze]

e_e Just to show you, I will tell you him how to do it.

First off. Make another page on that Event and on that page, you might aswell go down to the Local switch and switch it to A.

Go back to the first page and move the Player movements, event's movements, and text (not the variable) into the "Clothes" C-branch then delete that whole "Guard 1" C-branch and variable.

Put a "wait for move's completion" at the end of the move commands and then put a "Local switch 'A'= On"

So far your event should look something like this

C-branch [Variable: Clothes] >= 1
     Message: Welcome to the Town!
     *Insert move whateverness here*
     wait for move's completion
     LOCAL SWITCH 'A'= ON
   Else
Message: Blah...something about clothes?
end


Okay, Now go to page two and Put "The town is just ahead." as a message....

That should be it...No waste of a variable.

 

[markGRIEVER]

...

And now the guard has to move everytime you return to the map. Hence, your event isn't doing the same thing as what I suggested.

 

[Cheeze]

He shouldn't.....and if you want him to not move every time, Just switch the local switch with a Real Switch

 

[markGRIEVER]

When you leave a map and return to a map, all events return to their original positions regardless of switches. Switches only dictate which page of the event is activated.

 

[Despain]

this topic is resolved he has two solutions stop arguing over shit that doesn't matter