HOW TO MAKE A CHARACTER GENERATION SCREEN?

If you are just starting out, I would just present the play with a series of SHOW CHOICES.

I'd make a message box say:
"Please select you race"
...and then show them a Show Choice with:
"Elf"
"Dwarf"
"Changeling"
"Hobbitses"
...and then chain downwards until I finished asking all the info I need and then applying their final choice to their character.

ie-
"Thief"
"Knight"
"Mage"
->
"Elf"
"Dwarf"
"Changeling"
"Hobbitses"
->
"Male"
"Female"
->
"Fat"
"Skinny"
->
Apply "Skinny Female Hobbitses Mage" class to Player1


That's all I did for Hero's Realm at first and then came back later and implemented a graphical class selection system. You should download Hero's Realm </hype>

It wouldn't be hard to make a mini custom menu to do pretty much what Kentona said. Lemme find and explain some code for it.

First, make a 320x240 blank image. Place where you want the menu to show up in. I do this so I don't have to worry about coordinates.

So, say you have the options:
-Dumb Elf
-Stuck up annoying Elf
-Santas Elf
-Keebler Elf
-A good Elf (a dead one (you start out and it's a game over))

I'd make a menu image with each of those options. Since I'm lazy, I put the cursor image on there too, at the first position. Then, use that same menu image, but change the cursor position in the image to the 2nd position. Do that with all of them, and you should have 5 images.

Then, in an autostart event:

if variable is 0
Show picture 1: Dumb Elf option
If variable is 1
Show picture 2: Stuck up annoying Elf option
Blah blah blah repeat until you use up the images.
Key input process: (Wait until key is pressed, check off all the keys). Store to a variable, I'll call it variable 002: menu key press
If variable is 1 (Down key is pressed)
add 1 to menu position
if menu position is greater than the amount of options you have, set it to 0.
If variable is 4 (Up key is pressed)
subtract 1 to menu position
if menu position is less than 0, set it to the max amount of options you have.
If variable is 5 (enter key pressed)
Set a switch so you can make a new autostart. Set the menu position to a new variable so you can remember which option they picked.
If variable is 6 (escape key pressed)
Turn off the current switch set for this. If it's the first menu, then you shouldn't have a switch, so no need to do anything there.

Make more pages in this autostart event, each with a new switch precondition (that you set in menu key press 5). Then repeat the process over but for classes/gender and all that stuff. Once you get the first one working, the rest is pretty much copy/paste and changing a few values around. Of course you have to make new images for them too. Then in the last one, you just ask if that's okay, then teleport to a new map and start. Create the character based on the variables chosen.

I did kinda shorten this because I'm lazy and it's 100000 degrees here, but feel free to ask me questions. Obviously there's more efficient ways of doing this, but I feel this is simple enough, and I'm too lazy to deal with coordinates.

that's the screensize for Rm2k/3

VX plays at 544x416 (weird, I know).

OK, it should be pretty similar for RMVX. For key input processing, instead change that to Conditional branch: When button is pressed. The commands are otherwise similar and similarly named (Though instead of show picture, it's display picture and stuff).

So yeah, 544x416 or whatever they said. You could also most likely pull this off with scripting, but I've not used RGSS2 yet since I'm trying to finish my RM2k3 project before I go off to play with RMVX.