Autostart or parallel event - please help understand

[Nasedo]

Dear Members,


Before I registered I read many threads about events, including autostart or parallel, None of them really answers my question and solve my problem.


I would like to make intro - without any movement of my hero. Obviously I would like to use an autostart and I would like to prevent this event to repeat itself.


I read already about autoswitches, about creating next pages - but maybe I couldn't understand it.


1. I can't use any conditions, as none of variables or switches have been set yet.


2. Let's say, i would like to use text "Once upon a time..." once and don't want to reappear again. I can do this manually, creating an event when my hero will step on the tile (where's nowhere else to go) - set one variable to "99", create another event when I make next step, where the event will use condition variable 1 is 99 or above, will display my text, set the variable 1 to 0, and place unpassable stone on first event, where I set value 99. I got it. It's possible - but I would like to avoid this complication and I would like to create it simpler way.


I've read post written by @Shaz

If it's something you want to happen only once then never again, either use a switch (if other events will behave differently after this event runs) or a self switch (if nothing else depends on this running), then create a second tab that's conditioned by that switch or self switch (do NOT change the trigger on the second tab - leave it as Action Button).

Maybe I done something wrong. My first tab in the event: Control Self Switch: A=ON (trigger: autorun), second tab: Conditions: Self Switch A is on, Trigger: action button, Content: Show Text. It's not working at all.

 

[Andar]

Maybe I done something wrong. My first tab in the event: Control Self Switch: A=ON (trigger: autorun), second tab: Conditions: Self Switch A is on, Trigger: action button

Then please show the screenshots of those two event pages, because that is the correct way.


Perhaps a few added things where you might have misunderstood the context:


The first page contains no conditions at all, and whatever you want to happen on autorun. The control self switch command has to be placed after that, at the point where you want the autorun to stop from repeating.


The next page (and it needs to be a page with a higher page number than the autorun page, it cannot work if the autorun comes last) will contain the condition of that self-switch and nothing else. Because that "nothing" is what you want to happen after the event is switched off

 

[bgillisp]

The problem is the last part. You can't have the first tab be self switch A ON as nothing has turned it on yet. Instead, the first page has to have no conditions. The ret of it looks like it should work, except the show text needs to be in the first page (else it will never show).


You may wish to work through the tutorials in my link too. It will take about a month or so to work through them well, but it should answer most of these questions in the end.

 

[Nasedo]

Thank you, now I understand. I didn't understand before and I've done wrong. It works!