Making moogles

[Ellie]

Making Moogles

This Event Scripting tutorial will guide you through how to make World Map Moogle events. Similar to Final fantasy IX, where you press [square] to show a moogle!

1.

First of all we need our moogle event. Place this in the bottom-left corner of your world map map.

Have it's graphic as "none", it's speed as 6 and it's frequency as 6. Set it to "through". (Thanks Chaosg1)

2.

Now create a second event, anywhere on the screen, as a parallel process. Put in this event:

<>Conditional branch: L button is pressed. # Change L to any key you like.
: <>Set move route: [moogle (event 1)]
: : <>Change graphic: "mooglecharset"
: : <>SE: 010-system10 # Running SE, works well for this.
: : <>Move towards player
# There is probably a better way to do this, but measure the diagonal size of your map, then put move towards player that many times.
<>Wait for move's completion
Label: Restart_e
<>Message: Moogle:
: : : : : : : : You called, kupo?
<>Show choices: Save?, Tent?, Mognet?, Cancel
: <>When [Save?]
: : <>Message: Let's save, kupo!
: : <>Call save screen
: : <>Jump to label: Restart_e
: <>When [Tent?]
: : <>Conditional branch: [Tent] is possessed
: : : <>Message: Tent was used.
: : : <>Remove item: Tent
: : : <>Change HP: Whole party, max
: : : <>Change SP: Whole party, max
: : <>Else
: : : <>Message: You have no tents left!
: : <>End
: : <>Jump to label: Restart_e
: <>When [Mognet?]
: : <> # You'll have to do this bit.
: : <> Jump to label: Restart_e
: <>When [Cancel]
: : <>Message: Moogle:
: : : : : : : : : : Seeya, kupo!
: : <>Set move route: [Moogle (event1)]
: : # I haven't worked out a better way to do this either. ':|
: : <>Move down (the amount of tiles your map is high)
: : <>Move left (the amount of tiles your map is wide)
: : <>Change graphic: None
: :<>Wait for move's completion
: <>Else
:
<> Branch end
:



And that's it!

A complete FFIX style moogle event on the world map.

 

[Swordhunter]

Good tut'. was done very well.
I think I will use it some time =D

 

[Chaosg1]

You forgot to put the event as through, anyway nice tut wyat.

 

[xXDarkDragonXx]

: <>When [Tent?]
: : <>Message: Tent was used.
: : <>Remove item: Tent
: : <>Change HP: Whole party, max
: : <>Change SP: Whole party, max
: : <>Jump to label: Restart_e

Don't you have to make a Conditional Branch stating that if player has Tent, then do that else do nothing?

Anyways, good tutorial, might find use for this.

 

[Ellie]

Good point, I missed that bit.

 

[EmuMaster2002]

The way it is now, that moogle could take 2-3 minutes just to reach the player, depending on the map's size and location

 

[Crescent]

It wouldn't be exactly the same as FF IX, but it'd work better if the Moogle would teleport near the player.

But I'm not exactly sure.

 

[Anonymous]

Indeed. It would be better to move the event to just out of visible range using Set Event Location, then move it to player.

 

[Double_Clawshot]

Too bad you don't really tell us WHAT a moogle is. So there's really no point to this.

 

[Ellie]

Urgh... I said similar to Final Fantasy IX, meaning if you haven't played FFIX you wont know what one is.

You can't say there's no point just because you don't know what a moogle is, that's like not knowing what a car is and saying "I don't know what a car is so there is no point in people teaching people to drive".

A moogle is a little critter that allows you to save, use tents, and do something called "mognet" to contact other moogles. It is a vital part if FFIX instead of save points. When [square] is pressed on the world map (in this case, L) a moogle appears running towards you.

@above people: I see what you mean... My brain has gone numb and I can't think how to move the event to just out of vision. I'll sleep on it.

 

[Brandonn]

take the player x and y then set the x, -15 maybe, then teleport the moggle there and bam, move from there. YOu'll need error handeling if your at the edge of the map, to make sure he comes for the other side, and if there was water, you'd still have the issue of the mog walking on water

 

[Trance]

You could always just keep it simple and use an animation.

 

[Mr.Poofy]

This looks very handy.

 

[Jason]

Wouldn't it be easier if you just got the 8 direction script? so if you were at x: 15, y:15, you could make it run straight diagonal instead of right 15 then up 15? (Only a Suggestion.)