Help figuring out an idea.

[akemiakia]

Hello and thank you for any help. So I am wanting to make like a town map where it shows the buildings but, when you enter instead of transferring maps it just shows the interior and then the interior change back to the outer walls after the players leave. I was thinking of maybe combining the interior and exterior tile sets together and using events to reveal and hide the interior.
Any advice would be helpful thank you!

 

[Wavelength]

I would probably do this by having Pictures of the buildings' exteriors, which disappear as soon as you walk over the entrance to the house (and re-appear as soon as you walk back over the entrance to the outside).

The one catch is, as long as your maps are large enough to scroll (bigger than 17x13), you will need some kind of plugin which affixes Pictures to locations on the map (tiles), rather than to location onscreen. I think that there are plugins that do this; I just don't remember what they are called. Maybe someone who sees this will know, or you can ask on the Plugin Requests board.

• Alternatively, you could have large Event sprites with two pages (one visible and one not visible), with no event code within them, and have the not visible page be Page 2 and have a Condition Switch that is turned On/Off when you enter/leave the house by walking over certain tiles. This will allow you to get it working just fine without a plugin. The downside is that it can be a little finicky with where you place the event and the interior tiles below it, and if you already have lag the extra events on the map could exacerbate that lag.

 

[akemiakia]

I would probably do this by having Pictures of the buildings' exteriors, which disappear as soon as you walk over the entrance to the house (and re-appear as soon as you walk back over the entrance to the outside).

The one catch is, as long as your maps are large enough to scroll (bigger than 17x13), you will need some kind of plugin which affixes Pictures to locations on the map (tiles), rather than to location onscreen. I think that there are plugins that do this; I just don't remember what they are called. Maybe someone who sees this will know, or you can ask on the Plugin Requests board.

• Alternatively, you could have large Event sprites with two pages (one visible and one not visible), with no event code within them, and have the not visible page be Page 2 and have a Condition Switch that is turned On/Off when you enter/leave the house by walking over certain tiles. This will allow you to get it working just fine without a plugin. The downside is that it can be a little finicky with where you place the event and the interior tiles below it, and if you already have lag the extra events on the map could exacerbate that lag.

I like the picture idea I am making a game for a game jam and I want to make like a one map experience. So it will only be a single level game

Thank you so much!

 

[Wavelength]

Good to hear! If it's just for a game jam rather than a long-term project, the Event sprites route is probably the best way to go. Using the Show Picture commands, I think you'll have the exterior of the home sliding around your map unless your map is 17x13 or less

 

[akemiakia]

Good to hear! If it's just for a game jam rather than a long-term project, the Event sprites route is probably the best way to go. Using the Show Picture commands, I think you'll have the exterior of the home sliding around your map unless your map is 17x13 or less

So the event sprites would be like the exterior tiles turn into the interior when a switch is flipped then turn back to the outer tiles when the switch is turned off when the play leaves correct?

 

[Laconix]

It will be troublesome to make every tile with event haha

 

[Laconix]

So the event sprites would be like the exterior tiles turn into the interior when a switch is flipped then turn back to the outer tiles when the switch is turned off when the play leaves correct?

It will be troublesome to make every tile with event haha

 

[EpicFILE]

Maybe you can create buildings without roof, showing the interior.
Make the roof tiles as events above your character, turn it off when your character is entering a building.
Haven't tried it, but that's what I can think of for now.

 

[Wavelength]

You only need one event sprite per building; you can make it really large and place the event itself on the bottom-center tile of the building.

 

[akemiakia]

You only need one event sprite per building; you can make it really large and place the event itself on the bottom-center tile of the building.

How do you do 1 large sprite?

 

[Wavelength]

Copy whatever it is you want into a photo-editing program like Photoshop or GIMP, set the canvas width to be 12x the width of the object and 8x the height, set the Guidelines to be equal to the sprite's width and height, and then just make sure that the sprite fits cleanly within those guidelines. If you have other buildings of the same size, you can also put them on the same sheet, if you want. You can look at the "Large Monster" event sheets in the RTP for examples of event sprites that take up more than one tile.

If you don't like this approach you could also go with the Pictures approach, it's just that I don't think it will look right when the player moves around, unless you have a Plugin that binds pictures to specific locations on the map (instead of on the screen).

 

[estriole]

agree with above... it would be lot easier to use events instead of pictures.
FYI... using event method above you can also make the roof animated...
like smoke coming out of the chimney or weather vane turning around or something animated like that.
you can either make it easy loop using 'stepping' checkbox on events.
or if you have more animation frame you can use custom move route with loop instead.

 

[akemiakia]

I hope that embeded the GIF I tried just using pure events and switches but it made the graphics look all weird haha. That is the effect I am trying to give though. Before I get eaten by the sharks this is just a test map and the Game Jam challenge is to make a black and white game. Also sorry for the super fast GIF had to keep removing frames for the forum to let me upload it lol

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Copy whatever it is you want into a photo-editing program like Photoshop or GIMP, set the canvas width to be 12x the width of the object and 8x the height, set the Guidelines to be equal to the sprite's width and height, and then just make sure that the sprite fits cleanly within those guidelines. If you have other buildings of the same size, you can also put them on the same sheet, if you want. You can look at the "Large Monster" event sheets in the RTP for examples of event sprites that take up more than one tile.

If you don't like this approach you could also go with the Pictures approach, it's just that I don't think it will look right when the player moves around, unless you have a Plugin that binds pictures to specific locations on the map (instead of on the screen).
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[ShadowDragon]

you can also use events to create roofs, than make it dissapear when you hit a region or event to hide/show the roof.
so it will be sticked on the place where you set it instead of pictures.

there are many ways to create something nice. you just need to find the way that fit your needs best.

 

[Wavelength]

Looks like you've got the general idea of it down pat!

 

[akemiakia]

Looks like you've got the general idea of it down pat!

Not to figure out how to make it look nicer lol. Might honestly leave it all weird like that to go with the dark run down atmosphere.