Can't Change Character Graphic

[Mitsu101]

So in my game, I am allowing the player to pick their gender. When they select the female, the player's character changed the graphic to female. The script reads:

@>Change Actor Graphic: [Goddess of Fate], 'MC', 0, 'MC', 0  

(Goddess of Fate is the the 001 character and MC is the female graphic)

But whenever I go to change the graphic anywhere else (including in the same event as this same line) it reads:

@>Change Actor Graphic: [Male], 'MCM', 0, 'MCM', 0
(Male is the name of the character in 002 and MCM is the male graphic.)

I can only speculate that the code is trying to change the event/character graphic instead of the player's graphic. How do I get it to change the player graphic?

Bonus Question: How do you get AutoRun events to stop looping? I know how to stop it by having them change maps, but other than that it always loops. 

THANKS!

 

[Cadh20000]

No clue about the script, but the AutoRun events are easy enough.

"Erase Event" if you want them to run again when the player re-enters the map later, or either a "Switch" or "Self-Switch" with an empty tab that uses that as it's condition if you want to disable it until the player starts a new game. The difference between Switches and Self-Switches is that Self-Switches are completely contained in the event while a regular Switch can effect other events as well.

*EDIT Forgot to mention, regular Switches can also be deactivated by other events later in the game if you want it to be re-enabled after a certain point.

 

[Andar]

@>Change Actor Graphic: [Male], 'MCM', 0, 'MCM', 0


(Male is the name of the character in 002 and MCM is the male graphic.)


Bonus Question: How do you get AutoRun events to stop looping? I know how to stop it by having them change maps, but other than that it always loops.

1) you misread the command description and used it in the wrong way.
First you have to select which actor's pictures to change - in your second example above, you're telling the program you want to change the male actor grafic. To change the graphic of the actor [Goddess of Fate], you need to set the command to that actor as you did with your first example.


Then you click on the current pictures displayed below, and change them to the new picture you want that actor to have.


This second and third click in the command is what you had forgotten to do in both cases.


You need a switch to change an autorun event to a non-autorun page in order to switch the autorun off. Switches and multipage events are the basic building blocks of the engine, if you don't know them yet I suggest you follow the link in my signature and work through the tutorials.