Event help

[cameronp]

What I need is this, I have an event set up to event touch and what I want is the event to only trigger if a certain item is in the party possession, say a potion or map.  And this event I want it to only trigger once, the first time the char walks over it.  I set up control self switch A on page 1 and clicked self switch A under conditions on page 2 but the event does not trigger. The item given on page 1 I did with condition branch has Item: map.  Any ideas of what I am doing wrong?
Any help much appreciated.

 

[xgamexfreakx]

you want it set to player touch, not event touch... the event touch command activates when one event runs into another. The player touch command activates when the player runs into it.

Hope this helps!
~xgamexfreakx

 

[Durastik]

You'll need to use a global switch to make it occur only once.

Also, if you want help, please take the time to punctuate and make your message clear.

Peace

 

[Muffins .org]

I didn't understand what you said you were doing, so I'll just tell you how to do it from scratch:
set it in player touch:
Conditional Branch: switch Muffins! is on
  This thingy can only be triggered once!
else:
Conditional branch: player has item
do W\E you want
turn switch Muffins! on
else
you don't have the item!

 

[Unka Josh]

you want it set to player touch, not event touch... the event touch command activates when one event runs into another. The player touch command activates when the player runs into it.

I'm sorry, but that's incorrect.  Event touch activates when the event touches the player.  Player touch activates whenever the player tries to move onto the event.

 

[cameronp]

I'll give it another go, thank you all for your advice.

 

[PeteD2S]

If you're still having trouble with it here's a working example:

Spoiler

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3894/eventzn4.png[/img]

This will only trigger the commands you want whenever the player has a map and then does not trigger them anymore. I think that's what you wanted to do.

 

[Unka Josh]

That would work, but it's unnecessarily complicated.

It's pretty simple.  Add a second page.  Second page doesn't do anything.  Second page has Page Condition:  Self Switch A is ON.

Add the command to turn Self Switch A ON to the end of the first page.

Profit.

 

[cameronp]

Great!  Thanks PeteD2s, that worked perfectly and it was exactly what I was working for.
Thanks for your advice as well Unka Josh.
Thanks so much.
1 problem down, only 9,999,999 left to go! LOL
I really appreciate your help.

 

[xgamexfreakx]

you want it set to player touch, not event touch... the event touch command activates when one event runs into another. The player touch command activates when the player runs into it.

I'm sorry, but that's incorrect.  Event touch activates when the event touches the player.  Player touch activates whenever the player tries to move onto the event.

Really?? Huh. Well, I thought that was how it was. Thanks for the correction there though!

 

[Unka Josh]

Yeah, you might think that "event touch" would mean "touching another event," but... Well, that's Enterbrain for you.