Elevator doors

[kiriyubel]

Good day, all. I hope this is the right place to post this:

I'm using RPG Maker VX Ace and I'm trying to make an elevator:
1. The player press the button to call the elevator.
2. the elevator door opens.
3. the player take a step or two from the elevator button and into the elevator.
4. the player is transferred into the elevator map.
- If the player doesn't enter the elevator in a few second, the doors will close and the player will have to press the button again.
5. In the elevator: the player choose which floor they wants to go to.
6. the player get to the floor they want and are in front of the elevator.

How should I event this?

 

[Heirukichi]

You have different ways to handle this. The one I recommend would be using a parallel process to handle the elevator door.

1. The player interacts with the button to call the elevator. A switch is set to true and a variable is set to N (N is the number of seconds the door should stay open times 60, aka the number of frames the door should stay open). In the same event, create a move route for the elevator door to let it open.
2. When the switch is set to true, the parallel process runs (I recommend it being the second page of your button event). The parallel process subtracts 1 from the variable each time it runs. If the variable becomes 0 or less, turn off the switch and start a move route to let the door close.

everything else is just proper usage of basic transfer events and show choices, if you have trouble with that part I strongly recommend reading the tutorial in my signature as it contains a lot of useful information that can help you in the future.

 

[EthanFox]

As you've had some good advice about how to do it above, I would make a small recommendation - consider simplifying it, and just having them press the button and select a floor. In NALE, I originally did something like this for Nina's office elevator, but in the end I removed it and just had the view fade-to-black, then play relevant sound FX before loading the next floor map.

I just suggest this because for most players, the distinction will not be important (unless you have a game mechanic which somehow uses it) and it's much simpler to do.

 

[kiriyubel]

I decided to take EthanFox's advice and simplify things.
Heirukichi and EthanFox, thank you very much for your replies.

 

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