event trigger another event?

[gensaturn]

hi! i made an account here just for this I'm kinda new to rpgmaker vx ace, so bear with me. srry if this was asked before.

here's the situation:
i need an npc to appear only after i take a specific item. they shouldn't be on the map before that.
how do i do that? i tried switches and conditional branches. they work, kinda. the dialog i want the npc to have appears after i take the item, but they're on the map before i do that, just walking around doing nothing. pls help?

 

[Heirukichi]

Hello and welcome. Regarding your issue you just need to set up the event so that its first page has no graphic. You can have a second page for that event with the NPC graphic that uses a certain switch as condition. All that is left is just turning on the switch when the player obtains the item you mentioned.

 

[gensaturn]

Hello and welcome. Regarding your issue you just need to set up the event so that its first page has no graphic. You can have a second page for that event with the NPC graphic that uses a certain switch as condition. All that is left is just turning on the switch when the player obtains the item you mentioned.

Thank you so much!

 

[Shiro-chan]

Actually, unless you want events to roam the map and thus give the initial empty page the "Through" flag, you don't even need the empty page to begin with; the page that uses the requirement would be sufficient. Saves you some processing due to how the engine is coded.