how do i make a player touch event only happen once?

[lolipownu]

Okay, so I know how to make something happen when your character walks into it but i have it in a box around my player so when he moves it tells him something eg. a sentence of text, but after that i want to disable all of those events after he has bumped into one so it doesn't happen everytime i walked into it.. does anybody know how?
Thanks!

 

[Jason]

In the event, make a new page, on the first page, add a Control Self Switch A = ON
And on the second page, on the left where it says Conditions, tick Self Switch, and make sure it says A is ON

That should work.

 

[Unka Josh]

Second page for the events, triggered by a Switch. Have the first page of the events show the text, and then trigger the switch.

If this was only one event, of course, I'd use a Self Switch, to save switches.

 

[lolipownu]

Thanks, but i have multiple squares which i want to disable the events from touching only one of them, any ideas?

 

[Jason]

Do what Unka Josh said, except make a second page on ALL the squares with a condition of that switch being turned on.

 

[Ellie]

As it's more than one event of course a self switch won't work as Unka suggested though, so use a normal switch (the same switch for every event).

 

[Jason]

As it's more than one event of course a self switch won't work as Unka suggested though, so use a normal switch (the same switch for every event).

But he DID suggest to use a switch;

Second page for the events, triggered by a Switch. Have the first page of the events show the text, and then trigger the switch.

Lol.

 

[lolipownu]

Okay, but can somebody explain to me the steps to disable certain events while only stepping on one? Thanks

 

[Ellie]

But he DID suggest to use a switch;
Lol.

Yes, well done for missing out the line I was referring to. I was saying that while a self switch is ideal for single events, in this case a standard switch should be used.


I.e. just do exactly the same but make the second pages of the events require a switch to be on, and set that switch to on when then trigger occurs.

 

[Jason]

Okay no need to be a smartarse cause I misread your post, I thought you said Unka was suggesting that he use a self switch;

"As it's more than one event of course a self switch won't work as Unka suggested though"

...

 

[xgamexfreakx]

OK, well while you two are bickering about who said what, I'm actually going to help this guy....

Ok, so on the first page of all your events, you have your text, well at the end of your event, turn a switch on. For now, I'll call it switch 5. So then on the second page of all your events, you leave it blank, but turn on the condition that switch 5 is on. This way, once you step on one of the events, you will see all your text, but then the switch will turn on so that none of the other events will run anymore. (Unless you turn that switch back off)...If you need pictures, I'd be glad to do them for you...(though I hope you don't need them...)

Hope this helps!
~xgamexfreakx

 

[lolipownu]

Okay, hopefully this picture will help you understand what my problem is xD
Image coming one minute
Thanks guys!

 

[lolipownu]

 

[Fusty]

Make every event look like this:

@> [Your text]
@> Control Switches [001] On

Then make a 2nd page and check the switch box in the upper-left corner and select the switch you activated.
Leave the rest blank and it should work.

 

[lolipownu]

Thank you so much!!! You are the best!

 

[Unka Josh]

...of course, you could also use one event set to Autorun, in this case. Unless it's important that the player move before the text prints.

 

[lolipownu]

Thanks guys! This has helped me alot and i am getting more used to RMXP as i am trying out events on test files