XSHOBUX'S PROFILE

author=Dyhalto
You're right. Because you're using common events, the Parallel Process continues even though you've changed maps. The only reason it doesn't visually show it continuing is because when you changed map, Picture:1 (or whichever number) only Showed at the very start, and the instructions thereafter are Move and Erase for a picture that doesn't exist in the new map.

The cleanest solution is to make an Event for each map and plop it in the same location (top left corner, bottom right corner, etc). Then all you have to do is make it a Parallel Process as normal, and turn it's own cancellation Switch ON at the very end of it's Picture shenanigans. That way if the player immediately exits, then when they come back, the Process will still be obligated to play. This method also keeps potential bugs localized to each map.

Really, the only advantage I can see to a Common Event is in case you want to change the fade and show timings of every single banner later on. That's not really worth the headache involved in adding a hundred conditional branches and switches to make sure everything plays properly though.

Okay, that sounds pretty much what I was planning on doing. Thanks for the clarification.

author=Darken
Are you using the Official RM2K3? You can just tie the transparency to a variable (starting at 100), negate or add to the variable, and use show picture command to update it constantly. Should carry over to the next map.

No, I'm using the 1.08 version.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the advice. I actually ditched the bars idea because they hang around even when battle sub menus are opened, and it looks ugly.

This is for the non official version using the pics in battle patch. So I have some pictures being displayed during battle, namely bars under the ATB bars that show an additional resource system that I created. However, there's no way to erase those pictures until the game shifts back to the field from the battle scene. Is there any way at all to trigger events when all enemies are dead or something similar, or heck, even a better way would be some way to stop the bottom battle menu from disappearing when a battle ends?

So this is the chain of events: boss event is a normal event that is triggered by touch with some dialogue > battle event is called which handles what battle to display, what kind of battle, etc (this hasn't been an issue) > after battle a victory handler is called to determine XP/money gained with any multipliers > victory handler calls a battle results initiation event that sets up variables to be shown, etc and turns on the battle results switch > battle results is an auto start that activates upon battle results switch to display the results window, portraits, and text (with the text plugin), after that continually in a label loop which decrements the XP gained into each individual party members' displayed TNL value by continually calling a separate event for each party member to check their Exp and TNL and update the display accordingly (sorry this is explained horribly. Think FF7 battle results screen if you want a visual example) 'and then switches to another screen showing any money and spoils gained (does the same countdown thing as the XP does), then finally turns off the battle results switch after a wait for key press which erases all the text and pictures.

I'm not near my computer and won't be for a while so this is the best I could explain. Sorry if it's not clear, I'll try to clarify better where you have any questions.

Hi everyone,

So I made a custom battle results screen that appears after a battle ends. Without getting into too much detail, it uses several pictures and then gives control back to the player. When battling against normal enemies, it works just fine since there aren't any additional event commands that happen after the enemy is fought. However, for scripted battles and bosses where there is usually dialogue following the battle, whatever events proceed the battle results screen will happen first, and then once those are done, THEN the battle results events occur. I think this may be because of the patch that I applied that allows picture commands to be executed while messages are displaying. Anyone know how I could somehow alleviate this? If you need a better explanation of what's going on or pictures, let me know.