Embarking on a Cruise Ship

[Echvinya]

I am trying to make a moment in a game, where you co mo up on a dock at the coast, then a large cruise ship pulls up, the party loads up, and they leaves the screen, Teleports the player to the next map and then dock the boat.

I can't thing anything in my looking like .that

 

[Heirukichi]

You need an event to act as your ship. Since you want your party to be able to walk on it it is better if you set the event with "Below Characters" priority. When the ship reaches the dock change your event graphic to show few wooden planks so the player can board the ship and set Through ON for the player with a move route. Everithing else is just a simple move route.

Since it is a very simple event I recommend you to take a look at Andar's tutorial, it is very well done and covers everything you need to start creating games with RPG Maker. After working around that for a bit you will be able to understand more about the engine.

 

[Echvinya]

You need an event to act as your ship. Since you want your party to be able to walk on it it is better if you set the event with "Below Characters" priority. When the ship reaches the dock change your event graphic to show few wooden planks so the player can board the ship and set Through ON for the player with a move route. Everithing else is just a simple move route.

Since it is a very simple event I recommend you to take a look at Andar's tutorial, it is very well done and covers everything you need to start creating games with RPG Maker. After working around that for a bit you will be able to understand more about the engine.

I was under the impression that events were single "square" graphics. The ship that I have is 8x14.

 

[Heirukichi]

Collision is always calculated by single squares but events sprites can actually be much bigger than 32x32 pixels. The only thing you have to remember when you create a bigger sprite is that the event square (the one used to calculate collisions) will always be the central bottom square.

Spoiler: Here is a little example:

Let's consider a 48x48 sprite. When you create an event with that graphic the engine places the collision square at the central bottom part of that sprite. After this happens you still have 48 - 32 = 16 pixels vertically that are not used to calculate collisions. This doesn't mean the engine cuts them. Your sprite will still be 48x48 so your graphic will occupy part of the square above.
Horizontally you have 48 - 32 = 16 pixels that do not fit your square. Since the collision square is at the centre of your image width you have 8 pixels exceeding from the right side of your square and 8 pixels exceeding from the left side.

With this knowledge is possible to move even bigger events. I hope my answer helped you a bit.

 

[Echvinya]

Collision is always calculated by single squares but events sprites can actually be much bigger than 32x32 pixels. The only thing you have to remember when you create a bigger sprite is that the event square (the one used to calculate collisions) will always be the central bottom square.

Spoiler: Here is a little example:

Let's consider a 48x48 sprite. When you create an event with that graphic the engine places the collision square at the central bottom part of that sprite. After this happens you still have 48 - 32 = 16 pixels vertically that are not used to calculate collisions. This doesn't mean the engine cuts them. Your sprite will still be 48x48 so your graphic will occupy part of the square above.
Horizontally you have 48 - 32 = 16 pixels that do not fit your square. Since the collision square is at the centre of your image width you have 8 pixels exceeding from the right side of your square and 8 pixels exceeding from the left side.

With this knowledge is possible to move even bigger events. I hope my answer helped you a bit.

Yes, it helped a lot.

Thanks!