Request: Map Tile Transform

[Satori]

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Script Title:
Map Tile Transform

Detailed Description:
I'm tinkering with a farming game like the Harvest Moon games. Imagine the following scenarios:

1. [Hero] has [Till] equipped and hits the Action Button in the direction of [Dirt Tile]
Result: [Dirt Tile] is now [Tilled Tile]

2. [Hero] has [Till] equipped and hits the Action Button in the direction of [Grassy Tile]
Result: [Grassy Tile] remains [Grassy Tile]

3. [Hero] has [Seed] equipped and hits the Action Button in the direction of [Tilled Tile]
Result: [Tilled Tile] now has a [Seed]-relevant Common Event added to it.

Thus, PCs are given license to rip up the terrain in various screens throughout their little world. All that's really lacking is the means of checking and swapping terrain tags, and Common Events should be able to handle the rest. Yes?

No screenies; this is a request for something that probably doesn't exist yet.

This has to be possible with RGSS. Is there a more efficient means of achieving this effect?

 

[Atoa]

HM system?
Go eventing.

 

[zchin]

If I were to create this there would be only two ways I would think of:
1. Place events all over the map, downside is, it will cause lagging.
2. Create different maps and common events that respond to your needs, downside is, you would have to make a map for every single combination.

I would probably ask for a script eventing it is possible but would take up a lot of space...

Thank you and have a nice day!

 

[Satori]

HM system?
Go eventing.

That was my first thought, but I want viable field tiles everywhere, in various maps throughout the game. Lag city.

If I were to create this there would be only two ways I would think of:
1. Place events all over the map, downside is, it will cause lagging.

Agreed.

2. Create different maps and common events that respond to your needs, downside is, you would have to make a map for every single combination.

Agreed. This would be less than optimal.

I would probably ask for a script eventing it is possible but would take up a lot of space...

Yes, the actual map array itself can actually be altered - to contain additional variables, and so forth. This could get quite large, so the options from here would seem to be:

1. Have a script to alter the existing terrain tiles, and another to add Common Events to given tiles.

2. Alter the map structure so that each tile contains an additional switch by default. When the switch is thrown, the tile has become "special" in some way and gets added to a short list (hash) of active special tiles that are checked at regular intervals.

Some combination of the two would probably be optimal, as hashing the special tiles optimizes the process and prevents lag, and the first approach does not allow for Common Event execution while the player is in other maps.

Wait... 3. Maybe a global array, and one uniform Common Event in each map to add tiles to it (including co-ordinates, map name and special variables), and to go through the tiles in the list at intervals? This would seem to accomplish the global tileswapping efficiently (with very little lag) as well as prevent the need to mine every tile in the world with a Common Event.

This could be the ideal approach, actually. Of course, it would depend on the ability to perform a tileswap... which still needs a script.

Thank you and have a nice day!

You as well, zchin131 and Atoa. Thank you for replying.