hold the map position?

[dolarmak 23]

I feel kinda stupid because i'm sure i should know this but look as i might i couldn't find what I wanted.

 

I want to hold the position of the camera so that when the character moves the screen doesnt, but I also want the map to be bigger than 15X20.

 

Basically what I want to do is when the character moves to the border of the map, it pans over only when the player touches a specific event tile, like the early Legend of Zelda games. I also plan to physically blocking the areas they can not go.

 

anyway, any insight into this would be nice, thanks.

Edited June 10, 2011 by dolarmak

[Kiriashi 117]

What you want to do is make a new event on the map that sets the player's graphic to blank. (Make a Set Move Route Command and click the Change Character Graphic button in the bottom right)

 

Then add a wait for move's completion event. After that, make a new event where you want the player to be, and give it the player's graphic. Now the player can be controlled just like an event.

 

Use the Set Move Route and Scroll Screen Commands in combonationt to do whatever you want after that. :3

 

 

EDIT: As you can see, this can be done with events, so I'm moving it from the Script Request forum. You'd be surprised what you can do with events..

[dolarmak 23]

Okay, i did that, and it worked out fairly well. When the sudo-character event reaches the border i designate the screen pans to the next area and they can move back to the previous area just as easily.

 

a note for the panning, i used a parallel script to track the location of the sudo-character, when they reach X20 or Y15 the screen pans to the next area.

 

Now my problem is, how do i get this sudo-character to interact with other events like NPCs? My PC is trapped up at the top left corner of the screen and doesn't touch anything.