Populating a town?

[harmic79]

Hello,

I'm somewhat new. I've played around a bit with XP. Made a dungeon, boss fight and a few other things (I know - not very impressive). Anyway, I'm trying to build a town now. I put the whole thing together, but how do I populate it with NPCs? Basically have people walking around (either randomly or patterned)?

Thanks.

(if this is a scripting question - I apologize)
:neutral:

 

[Tindy]

Scripting? Heck no. 

Step 1: Make an event.  Pick a character for the event (under "graphic".)  Next to "graphic" you'll see "autonomous movement."  Select "random" and pick a speed.
Step 2: Do that again, but with a different graphic.
Step 3: Repeat.  Serves 1-900.

You can type what people will say when you action button them by adding an event command ("Show Text"), or add a sound effect the same way ("Play SE").  You can also make it so that they'll approach you, or walk away from you after you talk to them ("Set Move Route").

Ta-da! 

EDIT: Oh, and vary it up.  Shop keepers oughtn't move very much, and people talking to each other won't move either.

 

[harmic79]

is that for XP or VX? I'm using XP and cannot find the Graphic button.

edit: I'm a moron. Found it. I was looking for it in the even command list.

 

[Tindy]

That's for XP.  It's not a button - it's in the lower lefthand corner of the event box. It's a big white box and it says "graphic" above it.

EDIT: Well...middle lower left.

 

[harmic79]

thanks!

 

[Tenmou]

If you have lots of NPCs on one map is it likely to get laggy?

 

[gRaViJa]

Only if you have really a lot, with many switches going etc; But there are many Anti lagg scrips to fix that.

 

[Unka Josh]

If they're just wandering around until you talk to them, it's less laggy than if events are running the whole time.  Also, while it's unlikely that very many people will have a chance to make this particular mistake, having a parallel process event checking dozens and dozens of conditional branches at once can also be rather laggy.