Character graphic not showing during event??

[Master-chan]

   I'm rather new to RPG Maker VX Ace, so lately I've been trying to work on a small game to get acquainted with the software. I was doing well, until I ran across a problem when importing a larger character graphic that I've made. I saw on other forums and posts that you can basically import any size of a character as long as it follows that 3x4 aspect ratio. So I thought I'd give it a try.

   In the game, the character I'm having problem with is an NPC, and in the game you encounter him the moment you enter the Kitchen map. His event is set on autorun, so once you enter the map you immediately encounter an interaction with him. But because he doesn't show up in-game, his event doesn't run in-game. He's just... not... there. Nothing happens when you go into kitchen. Not even walking over the area he was supposed to be in and pressing the action button brings him up magically.

   I've imported his sprite game with a $ sign in the file. It worked at first, so I thought, cause the program read him as one character. But because of the issue with him not even appearing in game I thought I had to perhaps put an ! in the file. Honestly though I'm not familiar as to what "!" does, I was just trying to see if that was the problem.

  Obviously not though, because even that hadn't worked.

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or... if he's too big for the game for him to even appear or what.

Each sprite of him is 64x64, so his whole sprite sheet is 192x256.

[ Please don't mind the unshaded sprites and blank areas tbh. Not entirely done, just wanted to see what things looked like in-game with what I already have. ]

*** I have uploaded screenshots on my deviantArt stash since I over-exceeded my limit. ***

http://sta.sh/2jdjl2aq7zv?edit=1

 

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to VX Ace Support. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.


You should generally not put ! at the start of file names for characters. That's for something different (which you can find out about in the help file).


That is a screenshot of the Actors tab in the database - you put characters there if they are going to be in your party, NOT if they are just NPCs and you're using events.


"His event not running" has nothing to do with whether there's an image or not.


Please indicate whether he's meant to be your player character when you start the game, or if you've got him set up in an event, and show us a screenshot of the event itself - the WHOLE event window, not just the commands, and if you have several event pages, show us all pages.


It could be one of several problems, but we need to know what you're trying to do and how you're trying to do it in order to help you figure out where you went wrong.

 

[Master-chan]

Ah I'm super sorry! I pressed the post button instead of preview before I even got to finish explaining my problem!! D: I need to edit it.

 

[Shaz]

lol! Okay, post back here when you've got the rest of it, and we'll see what you've done.

 

[Master-chan]

There we go, I've edited it. Hopefully that helps. :')

 

[Shaz]

What's on the 4th event page?


If there is nothing - no sprite, no condition - that is the page that will be active.


When refreshing events, it looks at the pages starting with the highest number and works its way back. As soon as it finds one whose conditions are met (or that has no conditions), that becomes the active page.


So a "spare" page that you plan on adding stuff to later, if you have not set any conditions, will cause previous pages to not be active.

 

[Master-chan]

Ohhh! O: Is that so? The page is indeed blank; I was trying to figure a different issue previously.

Wowie, I didn't know it did that. Now that I've deleted it he appears now. c: Thanks so much!!