How to make a graphic appear, move, then disappear?

[BirthdayDog]

In my ideal game your character is walking in a storm and when they reach a certain point on the street the wind swoops the umbrella out of their hand and it flies down the road.

So I have a version of the character's sprite that holds an umbrella, and when they get to that point of the event the sprite will change to the normal version, and a graphic of the umbrella will appear behind the character and it will move down the street as if it is flying with the wind, then it will exit off the map.

What I don't understand is how can I make a graphic appear out of nowhere (as if the character dropped it), then make it move on the map, then disappear. I'm just really confused and I haven't been able to get help from tutorials.

I know I need to use autonomous movement, but everything I try seems to not work, and I've been struggling with this for a while.

Can someone please explain how I can do this?

 

[Andar]

You need to use switches to make an event with that sprite appear and move.


The exact solution depends on a lot of details - please post screenshots of your current events and we can tell you what you need to change.

 

[VarmintLP]

Well its very easy.

If charakter reach position X then start the event by switch Button A to on.

Add an event slide and put the graffic of your umbrella in.

Then you can move it with a while loop.

After finishing the final position of your umbrella switch Button B to on and add an event slide with no graffic, so the graffic disappear.

It s easy in my mind, but if you really struggle I will record you a small tutorial, how it will look. BTW I made a scene where charakters appear then move and then disappear. BTW btw I m still a new with the RPG Maker VX Ace but I did a simple scene.

 

[Metropixel]

You can place you umbrella somewhere in your map, where the players don't see it.

Then, teleport it at the place and set it up a move path !

 

[BirthdayDog]

Well its very easy.

If charakter reach position X then start the event by switch Button A to on.

Add an event slide and put the graffic of your umbrella in.

Then you can move it with a while loop.

After finishing the final position of your umbrella switch Button B to on and add an event slide with no graffic, so the graffic disappear.

It s easy in my mind, but if you really struggle I will record you a small tutorial, how it will look. BTW I made a scene where charakters appear then move and then disappear. BTW btw I m still a new with the RPG Maker VX Ace but I did a simple scene.

Sorry, I'm still really not understanding. When I try to walk into the event the graphic disappears and the character is unable to move.

A video would be appreciated? Here's a screenshot of my of my event page. I'm sure I'm doing something really wrong and stupid, but I'm really new to this program. If someone could explain I would appreciate it. 

 

[VarmintLP]

What does EventPage 1 look like?

I wrote Button but I meaned selfswitch. ^^

Sorry I got my programm on german. ^^'

BUT this doesn t look that bad. On eventpage one you just need to have a self switch set A to on and on page 2 you have to add the condition self switch A to on and set the trigger to automatic so you can run the second page the same is for the third page but with self switch B and with no graphic but I will try to do a quick tutorial to show you how it goes.

But it could take me some time to record it properly. ^^

 

[GrandmaDeb]

Hi Varmint. Did you try the Switches tutorial game linked in my signature? (with the bunny)


It covers things like this.


If the tutorials in the beginners list in my signature aren't helping you I would really appreciate a PM with a note about which ones you trued and what you wish they would explain better =] so I can improve the list. Thanks!

 

[Orsalak]

Welcome BirthdayDog!

Your event is set to Priority = SameAsCharacter and the through is off. That would cause your event to get stuck on the character. I'm assuming Page1 has the event image blank and the issue occurs once you step on it.

Hope that helps.

 

[VarmintLP]

Ok Birthdaydog. Here is my quick tutorial. Sorry for the german terms but my programm is in german. But I wrote everything on the screen so you can read it.



So you can see how it works and then how to do it yourself.
For that production a spider must die because I hate spiders and it was crawling on my wall next to the screen. Just so you know.
brrrrr Spiders TwT

 

[Shaz]

Check the THROUGH box on the event.


The character is unable to move because you have a move route with Wait, so your character will not be able to move until the event has gone where it needs to go. And the event apparently can't move (maybe because your character is standing on the same tile or on the tile it wants to move to, or the tile it wants to move to is occupied by another event or an impassable tile).

 

[VarmintLP]

Check the THROUGH box on the event.

The character is unable to move because you have a move route with Wait, so your character will not be able to move until the event has gone where it needs to go. And the event apparently can't move (maybe because your character is standing on the same tile or on the tile it wants to move to, or the tile it wants to move to is occupied by another event or an impassable tile).

Well I m still a newbie in VX Ace but I just made a Quick Tutorial. As the name say quick. XD

That means I just give a **** about the quality it s just to show Birthdaydog how to let something appear then move and finally disappear. If Birthdaydog need something better then I m the wrong person but this is a simple solution and I just try to help. ^^

Btw Birthdaydog I really hope, I helped you with my quicktutorial. I will maybe do more Tutorials but with a better quality in everthing. That will probably take a lot of time but if it helps. fine.

 

[Shaz]

Um - I wasn't talking to you?

 

[VarmintLP]

Um - I wasn't talking to you?

haha sorry XD Thought you meaned me XD