Help with cavern light ( Solved)

[Cait]

I will attempt to say this the right way. In my game, you start out in a cavern, I want it to be dark, with only a little bit of light. I got a picture of a light, but for the life of me, I can't get it to start on him. I've tried everything I can think of, but it just won't work. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've tried variables!

 

[Brewmeister]

Use "Center" as the origin of your picture, then set 2 variables to the character (player) to "Screen_X" & "Screen_Y"
then use those variables to show/move the picture.

 

[Cait]

I tried what you said, but all I got was this:

This is what I have on my screen....

What am I doing wrong? I can handle everything else, but I just can't figure this one thing out. Never have in all the years I've been playing with RPG maker.

 

[Jason]

Maybe you should show the picture after you've set the variables instead, maybe that could be the reason why ?

 

[Cait]

Okay, worked like a charm, but now the light won't follow him, if he moves around something.

 

[Brewmeister]

create another page, with the Condition: Switch:0017 is ON
Parallel process.
Use the same variable commands
Then a "Move Picture" using those variables
then a "Wait 1 frame" # to help prevent lag

 

[Cait]

Thank you so much! It worked like a charm, normally I can figure things like that out, but I have a slightly hard time at understanding variables.

 

[Brewmeister]

The pages are a little wierd too. Pages get evaluated from right to left. If the condition on the right-most page is 'false', then it evaluates the next page to the left, etc...
You can use a condition on the first page, or a single page event to make the event 'lie dormant' until the condition is met.
But we build the pages left to right. seems backwards to me.

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