[-Beginner/General-] Beginner's Guide to RPG Maker VX Ace

[bladezuez]

just wanted to say thank you for posting this guide.  I am a RPG Freak that has always wondered what makes these great games tick and finally got my hands on RPG Maker XP and VXAce and now am gonna be able to make games myself.  With this guide it will make my life a bit easier and I won't look so bad asking silly questions all the time. 
BD

 

[sanspants]

I would like to add in a huge "thank you" for this as well. It's a fantastic 'all in one' reference guide that taught me things in minutes that would have taken me hours or days to learn on my own. 

 

[voymasa]

I hope this is the right forum for it. I'm trying to help somebody on another forum about elemental weakness for enemies. Their setup is correct (they posted screenshots of their configuration). When I do the same setup (elemental weapon [Fire], enemy taking 150% [Fire] damage, and a spell dealing [Fire]; the attack and test spell [Fire] have the same formula, and the actor and enemy have the exact same stats). I tested it on my VX Ace and it worked, but they keep telling me that the spell works but not the weapon attack (for the elemental weakness). Here is a link to the conversation:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/649030-rpg-maker-vx-ace/67018007?page=1

I even had them erase and remake it. Anyone that can give any ideas?

(I posted under beginner's because elemental weapons/weaknesses is pretty basic stuff)

 

[Raybrite]

 I cannot get out of the store I made on page 29 without the computer shutting down the game. How do I fix that.

The sequence goes buy something and then buy something.

 There is no option to leave the store or stop buying.

Ken

 

[Loren Helgeson]

Thank you. The 'official' tutorial series can take one only so far.

 

[BNyte]

Are you able to transfer RPG Maker VX games over to Ace?
If so, how does one go about doing this?

 

[Celianna]

BNyte don't post support questions in another person's tutorial thread. Make your own thread for this.

 

[Alusair1]

Putting in my thanks for this guide.  While I appreciate the official tutorials on this site, this was the most comprehensive guide that I could find when I discovered RPG Maker a few months ago.  There are a few spots where that could use some work where I lost track of just what needed to be done for a few things (the event with the mage that joins comes to mind immediately).  All in all though this is very well done.

 

[The_Shack_Keeper]

downloading now and looking forward to it.  Thank you in advance.

 

[Corto]

I'm only 20 page in and I am exited to read the rest.

So far your book is one of the best resource I found to get started with RPG Maker.

So just wanted to say thanks!

 (I'll report back after reading the whole thing!)

 

[Kaiser Knight]

That is what I need dude, Thanks for support and keep up !   

 

[Caelumamittendum]

This has so far been a great starting point for me. I'm at page 75 or so, and it has really helped me getting to know Ace. Thank you!

 

[tmacaula]

I am a computer programming/Game Design teacher for High School students in BC, Canada. I started using VX ace last year with my classes, but could not find a good complete tutorial set. The tutorials on the official site are incomplete, and are difficult for the students to follow, as they are no written in a step-by-step format. I recently found your Guide to VX Ace, and have read many reviews which are all great. I am wondering if you have a sense of how much time it takes to complete the entire tutorial set and make the sample game? I am trying to plan a timeline for my students. Thanks for the GREAT resource. 

 

[Kaiser Knight]

Greeting

Can you help me for  how make Village and City...etc by video guides, I will be thank you for forever.

Best regards

 

[Gary9450]

I just started using your tutorial and right off the bat I had a problem locating the red roof tiles you show on page 13. I verified I had the right map & Tileset and I checked all three tabs, so I must be doing something else wrong. Oh well. But other than that, your tutorial is helping me a lot! Many thanks.

 

[Andar]

I had a problem locating the red roof tiles you show on page 13. I verified I had the right map & Tileset and I checked all three tabs, so I must be doing something else wrong.

Both red roofs are in the first line with roof tiles on the exterior tileset, the seventh line of tiles when you're counting every tile.
They may look differently in the tilelist because they're autotiles that will change their visible parts depending on how they're placed on map...

 

[Gary9450]

So far I am failing miserably at the tutorial. I still can't find those red (or blue) roof tiles even with your detailed explanation, I thought I'd found them in the Outside_A3 Tileset, but they were wrong, too. Good grief. But thanks for your help anyway.

 

[Andar]

So far I am failing miserably at the tutorial. I still can't find those red (or blue) roof tiles even with your detailed explanation, I thought I'd found them in the Outside_A3 Tileset, but they were wrong, too. Good grief. But thanks for your help anyway.

They ARE in outside_A3 (first and fifth Autotile in the first row), but they are AUTOTILES - that means that the display on screen is different than the display in the tilesheet if exported from the editor.
For example, the tile in the editor tilewindow is always displayed as 32x32 pixel size, but autotiles are either 96x64 or 64x64 pixels large in the tilesheet pictures themselves. So they WILL LOOK DIFFERENT - but those are the tiles you're looking for and the tiles that have been used in the tutorials.


I suggest you follow the link in my signature to work through the tutorials, and if you have questions then ask them in a new topic in the support forum.

 

[Gary9450]

In the guide you mention on page 13 that there are four buildings, all of which are visitable by the player. However, in the next steps you only give instructions for the creation of three of the building interiors. Did you leave the final one up to the guide readers?

 

[Kelsper]

In the guide you mention on page 13 that there are four buildings, all of which are visitable by the player. However, in the next steps you only give instructions for the creation of three of the building interiors. Did you leave the final one up to the guide readers?

I was originally going to do something with it, but I neither went back and edited it, so that's an error. I just used a locked door - I go onto this on page 21.