Hitori-San
Member
Can someone please explain what the following things are and how to use them.
1) A control switch
and that's all for now, I thought there was more.
1) A control switch
and that's all for now, I thought there was more.
Umm Can Someone Please Explain...
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A Control Switch can substitute as a normal switch event, instead of making thousands of switches you can create another event page and make it a control switch. So on the first event page, at the end of everything put a control switch. So you won't have to use a normal switch, see what I mean. Sorry I'm horrible at explaining things, if you don't get it just say so, and I will try to see if I can explain it better.
Hitori-San
Member
Umm... I don't really understand because I'm new to using RPG Maker XP and don't know much.
I'm not sure what was meant by that, either.
Are you referring to the "Control Switch" event command? That lets you Control one or more switches, turning it/them on or off as you see fit.
The only kinds of switches that I'm familiar with in RMXP are Switches and Self-Switches, and Self-switches are tied to a specific event, and can only be checked by the event that they're tied to.
Did that help?
Are you referring to the "Control Switch" event command? That lets you Control one or more switches, turning it/them on or off as you see fit.
The only kinds of switches that I'm familiar with in RMXP are Switches and Self-Switches, and Self-switches are tied to a specific event, and can only be checked by the event that they're tied to.
Did that help?
Hitori-San
Member
Yeah but do you think that you can explain some ways to use switches because I don't get it. I only know how to use them to make a person disapear.
Boy, you just asked a big one.
Switches are perhaps the biggest single key to making plot happen in the game. (Up there with variables, but one step at a time here.)
Switches are simple on/off indicators built into the program. Once a switch is changed in a game, it stays changed until it's told to change again. Changing a switch is done with the Control Switches command (first page, top command on the right-hand column in RMXP.)
There are two common ways that a switch can be used in a game-- Conditional Branches and Event Pages. They work in very similar ways.
Conditional Branches are event commands that are classic If...Then...Else statements. IF switch 23 (Got Quest from King) is ON, THEN the guard says "Here's the way to the dungeon" and gets out of the road, ELSE nothing happens.
Event Pages are similar, but specialized-- an Event runs things on the highest-numbered page that the conditions are true for. So page one might be a guard saying "Nobody gets through here without a passport!", but page 2, which has the conditions "Switch 15 (Has a Passport)," has the guard saying "Right this way, sir" and moving out of the way when you talk to him, is the page that will activate if that switch is on.
I have neither the time nor the energy to list every possible use for switches-- they are such a basic tool in the game that it's like asking for the major uses of electricity.
However, to illustrate some examples, I'll link to a thread in which I gave a lot of screenshots illustrating a way to create a quest in the hopes that it'll be some use to somebody. (I presume it wasn't any help to the original poster in that thread, since they never replied...)
http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=50560.0
Switches are perhaps the biggest single key to making plot happen in the game. (Up there with variables, but one step at a time here.)
Switches are simple on/off indicators built into the program. Once a switch is changed in a game, it stays changed until it's told to change again. Changing a switch is done with the Control Switches command (first page, top command on the right-hand column in RMXP.)
There are two common ways that a switch can be used in a game-- Conditional Branches and Event Pages. They work in very similar ways.
Conditional Branches are event commands that are classic If...Then...Else statements. IF switch 23 (Got Quest from King) is ON, THEN the guard says "Here's the way to the dungeon" and gets out of the road, ELSE nothing happens.
Event Pages are similar, but specialized-- an Event runs things on the highest-numbered page that the conditions are true for. So page one might be a guard saying "Nobody gets through here without a passport!", but page 2, which has the conditions "Switch 15 (Has a Passport)," has the guard saying "Right this way, sir" and moving out of the way when you talk to him, is the page that will activate if that switch is on.
I have neither the time nor the energy to list every possible use for switches-- they are such a basic tool in the game that it's like asking for the major uses of electricity.
However, to illustrate some examples, I'll link to a thread in which I gave a lot of screenshots illustrating a way to create a quest in the hopes that it'll be some use to somebody. (I presume it wasn't any help to the original poster in that thread, since they never replied...)
http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=50560.0
Hitori-San
Member
That helps a lot but my problem now is that everytime I use a control switch on a person the person disapears. How do I make it where they don't vanish after I talk to them?