You may remember a brief foray into this from last time, when we set the player’s start position. Open up our project and make sure you’re switched to Event mode, not Map mode. Let’s start by populating the town with a few NPCs. Last time, we created two simple maps: a hand-crafted town and a randomly generated dungeon. All you need is an ability to think things through in a logical manner and an awareness of the options you have available to you. These are lists of commands that are attached to an object on a map, coupled with a trigger of some sort, be it the player walking up to an NPC and pressing the action button, or the number of flatulent wombles the player is carrying in their bag being greater than 13.Įvents are essentially a simple form of programming, but don’t run away screaming - you don’t have to memorise lots of different commands, define functions or anything complicated like that. In RPG Maker, you add interactivity through Events. It’s time to breathe some life into our world! you’ll have to draw it by hand or find some templates that fit.This article is one chapter of a multi-part Cover Game feature!
Once it’s the right size, just stick it into the project’s img/characters folder.īecause of their dimensions, the sprites obviously won’t work with the character generator if you want to add hair, clothing, etc. The fix is detailed in the original post - by doubling the vertical dimension of the image’s canvas from 340px to 680px, and leaving the bottom half empty (or pasting the second sheet in the post into the bottom half, if you’d like), RPG Maker is able to properly separate the sprites for a character to use. The sprites in that sheet are only one row of character sprites - properly twelve images wide, but only four tall. RPG Maker handles the separation of those into individual segments on its own.
Basically, a grid that’s eight characters tall by twelve characters wide. The original post pretty much says it all - basically, RPG Maker expects there to be two four-image-tall rows of character animations, each with four three-image-wide columns that define the animation.
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