How to get a character to use an item/weapon on an object?

[thedoctor30]

Hi everyone,

I'm new here, and I'm a bit new to RPG Maker VX Ace, so I don't know much. I was just wonder how could you get a character to use an item or a weapon on an object through an event? Like in Pokemon when you have to use a move on a rock to destroy it, so you can advance onwards on you're pathway? I know how to create an event and all that, but I just got stuck and annoyed when I came up to this...

Thanks to all those who help in advance! 

 

[Andar]

You need to think from the other side - you don't use an item on an event, the event asks which item to use (select key item command) and then makes different results depending on which item was selected by the player (conditional branches)

If you're new, you might want to follow the link in my signature to the tutorials linked there.

 

[Zoltor]

Yea what Andar said. There's a line I like to tell new comers, you need to stop thinking from the perspective of a player, and think like a developer.

Developing a game, is a lot like directing a live action movie. What something looks like on screen, and what's actually going on, is two very different things. It's all about movie magic.

To add to Andar's post(to give an example), you put as a event's page condition, requires X item, and then if you want the char to lose said item, use the change item event command, -1 that item from inventory.

 

[Ultim]

You can use a Conditional Branch if you want that rock to be destroyed only if you have a specific Weapon/Item.This is how the event may look like :

ConditionalBranchTab1.png.bmp

BTW You need to make that Priority Same As Characters

The Second tab's screenshot was too big to upload so i'll upload in another post.

 

[thedoctor30]

You can use a Conditional Branch if you want that rock to be destroyed only if you have a specific Weapon/Item.This is how the event may look like :

ConditionalBranchTab1.png.bmp

BTW You need to make that Priority Same As Characters

The Second tab's screenshot was too big to upload so i'll upload in another post.

Thanks!