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As I understand you mean add a common event and to these row events a trigger for calling it (or how you suppose to activate it). But usually row events consist only of one movement and one text box, will doing this actually change anything?
Also I assume parallel events are having more impact on the game performance as it’s constantly keeps checking if the trigger is activated in the background, unlike touch/action triggers, and I’ll have to add dozens - it’ll only load the performance, won’t it?

Also clarify what that phrase “function can be made in one event but not graphics” actually mean. Change the graphics inside the row event and call common event for the rest?

For Lina home these two are used for changing their image to things when she drops them from the chest.

But clickable objects mostly have different texts, how it can be turned in one event?

ZEkA100002 years ago (1 edit)

Mostly in RPG Maker count of events impacts on game performance because RPG Maker always updates information about events. I checked that when I ported my VXA project to MV. In VXA 200 events on map don’t influence on performance. MV project starts lags. And I think better to use one parallel event than 50 events.

With “function can be made in one event but not graphics” I mean you can use event’s script in one event instead of 2 (or more) but there will be a problem with graphics. I just used to do regions and conditions (if you checked my translation which I sent in DMs in gamejolt). For different objects you can use conditions about region and coordinates. And I think update in one event will be more comfortable than in 10+

Maybe I’ll start to optimize this game again.

DicPic Studio2 years ago

If you looked through the programming, maybe you got any idea about flowing bug during/after the spike traps? I can’t clearly understand what’s the issue and couldn’t catch it, but several people told something isn’t working

ZEkA100002 years ago (1 edit)

DicPic Studio2 years ago

I use it in cellar event 4 and for the spikes. Why I chose to use row events is lagging: there are parallel event to get player id and then another parallel event to check if these coordinates meet the event trigger. As result I faced an issue when the player runs he may reach the next tile after the one that should trigger (as parallel events don’t freeze the player like autorun). For example if you run into the pit on spikes location you could get one more tile forward, that is not a hole and “fall” through the floor. Can it be solved?

ZEkA100002 years ago (3 edits)

I solved that with Move Route (Player): Wait 100 frames

Sorry for late answer.

P.S. I’m against that war too (because I’m Moldavian).

DicPic Studio2 years ago

Thank you, I’ll try adding it

ZEkA100002 years ago

No problem

ZEkA100002 years ago (4 edits)

and yeah sometimes easier to use

@> IF : Script : $gamePlayer.regionId() == 1

than

@> Variable : 0001 PX = Player’s X

@> Variable : 0002 PY = Player’s Y

@> Get cell info: 0003 PR, Region ID ({PX}, {PY})

@> IF : PR = 1

DicPic Studio2 years ago

Also it works instead of player touch events, but is there a better solutions for several action button events? (Aside from the facts they usually should have an image which requires event for each one)

ZEkA100002 years ago

What do you mean?

DicPic Studio2 years ago

For example entrance to the cave with three events with stars. Can it be made in a more fancy way?

ZEkA100002 years ago (1 edit)

When I listed events you made as row of sparks I thought about making graphics which will be same as sparks row. For example 3 sparks in a vertical row. And graphics 144x48 for each sprite.

ZEkA100002 years ago (5 edits)

And press button with

@> If Button X Press
@> Loop
@> . If Putton X Press
@> . .
@> . Else
@> . . Break Loop
@> . End
@> . Wait : 1 Frame(s)
@> End

Loop needed for not lauch dialogue again after pressing Z button

DicPic Studio2 years ago

Also I’m going to make animations through the looped parallel event (all animation frames are shown as pictures one after another after a few frames wait), as the scripts for playing videos weren’t working for iOS. What I don’t like is the size of wait time between each image can be 3-4-5 frames only, which means the amount of frames in animation can be 20-15-12 per second only.

Maybe you have a more fancy idea?

ZEkA100002 years ago (5 edits)

I checked one method for showing images.

It can sounds hard but it works.

I just used Move Route for animating image, and prepared image before animating.

In my example 3FPS animation (It can be faster)

Demonstrated in empty project

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