[MZ]How to allow background NPCs to keep moving during events?

[nametaken121]

I want the player to be able to talk to an NPC and have other NPCS still follow their movement routes during dialogue. Is this possible? I am on RPG Maker MZ

 

[Beregon]

I think that's the default behavior. You would need to do something special only if you wanted it to be the other way around.

 

[Andar]

@nametaken121
how are you moving the events? There are several different ways to move events, with different behaviours.
And unless you are in a cutscene most events should be moved by autonomous movement, not set move route.

 

[nametaken121]

I think that's the default behavior. You would need to do something special only if you wanted it to be the other way around.

Huh, that's interesting when I first tried it before it didn't behave like that. Let me check again.

 

[nametaken121]

So I have this NPC set to walk from one end to another back and forth, as his Autonomous Movement

However whenever I try to talk to an NPC like so, he finishes the step he's on then pauses.
The NPC just runs a simple text box, so I don't know why he doesn't continue moving.

 

[nametaken121]

@nametaken121
how are you moving the events? There are several different ways to move events, with different behaviours.
And unless you are in a cutscene most events should be moved by autonomous movement, not set move route.

It would be in autonomous movement- would it be possible to have autonomous movement persist? I'm using this to have an NPC essentially cycle between going from one end of the map to the other, go transparent, wait 500 frames, turn off transparent and walk back. to simulate city traffic. Is there a way to do this?

 

[Beregon]

It would be in autonomous movement- would it be possible to have autonomous movement persist? I'm using this to have an NPC essentially cycle between going from one end of the map to the other, go transparent, wait 500 frames, turn off transparent and walk back. to simulate city traffic. Is there a way to do this?

I just tested it and movement routes work normally during events. So most likely, you made some mistake in the move route.

Also, Event movement doesn't update when they are off-screen without a plugin, but not sure if that could be responsible.

 

[nametaken121]

I just tested it and movement routes work normally during events. So most likely, you made some mistake in the move route.

Also, Event movement doesn't update when they are off-screen without a plugin, but not sure if that could be responsible.

I don't know where a mistake could of been made. He pauses during the first section,
with just "move left" commands. Any suggestions?

Do you know of any plugins that fit the off-screen thing as well. I appreciate the response!

 

[Andar]

EDIT: forget what I posted here before, I didn't see the screenshots were added farther above.

What you have is something else - during messages the game is always paused to give the player time to read without causing other problems.
There are ways around this, but you have to be carefull on how to use them or they might break your game.

 

[nametaken121]

EDIT: forget what I posted here before, I didn't see the screenshots were added farther above.

What you have is something else - during messages the game is always paused to give the player time to read without causing other problems.
There are ways around this, but you have to be carefull on how to use them or they might break your game.

I think this is everything, not sure what else to screenshot.

 

[Beregon]

I don't know where a mistake could of been made. He pauses during the first section,
with just "move left" commands. Any suggestions?

Do you know of any plugins that fit the off-screen thing as well. I appreciate the response!

Ok, I just noticed, why do you have the NPC event as Autorun?

 

[nametaken121]

Ok, I just noticed, why do you have the NPC event as Autorun?

I think I must of accidentally switched that, I switched back to action button, but it still has the same behavior if you're wondering :X

 

[Beregon]

I think I must of accidentally switched that, I switched back to action button, but it still has the same behavior if you're wondering :X

Ok, make another NPC, give it the following movement - Left, Left, Left, Right, Right, Right. Then test out if that NPC moves while the text box is up.

 

[Andar]

please read my edited post above.
and you don't have to quote everyone when its obvious who you answer to.

 

[oriongates]

Visustella's Event and Movement Core plugin has a setting to allow event movements during text or other events.

 

[Beregon]

I'm pretty sure you only need that if you don't want the events to move during text messages, the OP has the opposite problem. I've tested this in MZ many times and the events keep moving even during autorun events and dialogue.

I also recreated the move route the OP had (as well as I could) and it works fine even when a text box is up, leading me to believe that the problem is somewhere else.

 

[oriongates]

Then my guess would be that the OP has this plugin, or a similar one, and has this setting enabled without realizing it. Because it's the default setting for the Event and Movement core and I didn't realize it was enabled in my system until just now, because I had tested the issue as well and found the opposite (the events stop during conversations). It was only just now that I realized that the VS plugin was designed to turn that off rather than turn it on.

 

[nametaken121]

@oriongates This solved my issue, I'm still new to rpg maker so thank you for catching this!

 

[Beregon]

@oriongates This solved my issue, I'm still new to rpg maker so thank you for catching this!

Glad to see that your issue was resolved. But next time, please mention that you are using plugins beforehand.