CUSTOM MUSIC AND EVENT SPAWNERS? RPGMAKER2003

Event spawners like you're talking about are not possible in rpgmaker 2003.

Music needs to be set in the map properties, or changed via an event.

Event spawning might be possible using DynRPG if you are willing to program in C++...

I would reccommend using RPG Maker XP if you want to do this (then you will need to program in Ruby however).

There really should be an event command for event spawning!

Exactly, replacing spawned knights with generated randomly ones is the only thing impossible in RPG Maker 2003. Unless you use pictures, which I'm SURE you would very well know to avoid. It can't actually spawn an event out of no where. So to get around that, you need to "recycle" the events to counter masses upon masses of separate events and lag. 20 events of knights which die and then respawn is a perfect amount to simulate a battle with a large group for example. Having 10 - 14 on the field fighting against the others is enough to simulate a large battle field.

The way to define how they would die, I guess is to make a variable which is set to both of those knights. So 20 v 20 knights = 20 seperate variables.

Upon two events being touched, you would have these events call a common event which sets a "timer" on that variable which you called through events. You would then have that variable constantly being like this.


Label 1
Set VAR:(0000:Knightcombat) equal to: Random Number Between 4 - 9.
Wait 2 Seconds
Branch If VAR:(0000:Knightcombat) is 8
<>>>You could then add your own death sequence with a respawn here.<<
: Else Handler
<>Jump to Label 1
: End
<>

Basically, that is like a clock timer between the knights in combat. It will keep setting itself to a random number until it reaches 8. If not, it will wait 2 seconds then try again until it gets it. Think of it as if two knights were fighting each other until death. The event I just explained simulates them fighting till one dies.

Once the event is triggered you would simply set another variable to both the knights, and set it between the random numbers 1 and 2. If its 1, Knight I dies and respawns. If its 2, Knight II dies and respawns. While the other joins in another or something.

Again I'm just throwing ideas out there. It certainly is possible. I guarantee you that. But the amount of coding for that one battle is going to cost you at least 90% of your braincell count. I've never seen it in RPG Maker as a result of this. You'd be the first, and I'm sure you'd get highly appraised for pulling it off.

author=Col_izual_Zephyr
That would mean that the "death" will always be by chance, no health to it? Not that I care if health isn't involved.

Yep. Adding separate HP variables would take way longer. Let alone one event, there's two, and ontop of that, there's 20 others. A timed decider is better than a variable which is held for attack damage, HP and miss chances.

author=Col_izual_Zephyr
By another you mean when the knight respawns then they fight again? If there is a variable that is specifically set to only two knights, I don't think I can make the knights switch targets unless there was a way to reset the variable to be associated with the living knight and another knight whom is set to nobody else, or the nearest enemy if the former isn't currently available.

Again, another batch of long coding, you need to set variables equal to a knights co-ordinates. I guess you could turn on a switch which is called "Passive" which means any knight touched while this switch is on engages battle with another.

author=Col_izual_Zephyr
But it's possible, that's all I care about. (unless I find this much too difficult, then I would most certainly give up)

Possible, extremely difficult, those are the two roads. The difficulty isn't making all the coding, it's always stringing it together so that it works properly.

author=Col_Izual_Zephyr
And how would they ever even make contact? And if they ever do by some miracle, how would I make them call the common event under the condition that they made contact at that moment only?

Co-ordinate variables. You would set 1 "Moving" Variable to One, and Another "Moving" Variable to another you then need to put a conditional branch which checks if they can't move any more. This is the one thing that I wouldn't know how to do via simple coding. I guess you would have to use some sort of path finder. (I would recommend the pathfinder patch from DynRPG).