[Eventing]RPG Maker XP 2 Player (Essentially), I discovered a way to allow a 2nd person to control a NPC with events. Options

[Despair From The...]

Using Conditional Branches, I found a way to control an NPC using W,A,S,D. I wasn't sure if this was something that's already been done. So I figured I'd let you know, and post a bit of an example. It isn't a demo, I haven't really added instructions or anything. Figured I'd do that in this thread. First of all, the main character is still controlled as usual. The 2nd person uses: W=Up, A=Left, S=Down, and D=Right. Because of the way it is done, if you press any button for more then a split second, you'll walk 2 spaces instead of 1. I'm still working on a way to fix that. Also, I made it so if you press Q, the 2nd player will automatically run through all obstacles, and go straight to player 1. I figured this would be useful, seeing as 2nd player moves slightly slower then player 1. Player 2 cannot activate events, as far as I'm aware. Haven't really tested it. But Player 2 is also physical, so it will interrupt the movement of both player 1, and other events. This could be an issue, unless taken into account. Anywho, this is something I thought other people could use, and advance. So instead of listening to me ramble on, I'll just post the example game I made. If you have any questions just ask. Until then I'll probably continue to work on it.

 2_Player.zip ( 187.56K ) Number of downloads: 162


You'll need a program to unzip it, but that's the only way I can think of to post it. Tell me what you think, and feel free to ask any questions.

[Nuque]

Well, the only bad part is this can't be done on VX wihtout a script, conisdering the lack of a Button Input fundtion.

This post has been edited by Shantanu: Jul 6 2009, 01:37 PM

[Oko]

Well, the only bad part is this can't be done on VX wihtout a script, conisdering the lack of a Button Input fundtion.

VX has a Button Input function. It's on page 4 of the conditional branch menu--if Button [x] is pressed. There's Up, Down, left, Right, A, B, C, X, Y, Z, L, and R.

[Nuque]

Well, the only bad part is this can't be done on VX wihtout a script, conisdering the lack of a Button Input fundtion.

VX has a Button Input function. It's on page 4 of the conditional branch menu--if Button [x] is pressed. There's Up, Down, left, Right, A, B, C, X, Y, Z, L, and R.

Yea, but how do you make a game with 2 players with only those buttons? 8 for moving, 2 for selection, 2 for deselection, 0 for anything else.

[Imsosupafly]

Ill try it and mess with it, I might be able to fix a few of those problems, if so Ill post back, if not I will probably hang my head in shame. . .

I made some progress. I switched it to common events and set it so instead of turning he just moves directly left, and then both players move at the same speed. I tried to make it so player two could touch events too, but I couldn't get it to work so I tried to script a little bit and here is what I tried.

I tried to copy almost the entire Game_Player script, except edit the class and functions so It would work for player two, I also took away the screen moving scripts so it wouldn't interfere with the other script with player one.

Unfortunately I messed something up and I kept getting syntax errors, but Im sure if I would have been able to get that to work, it would have ran a lot better than having player two as an event, but instead as another player.

Maybe its not possible though, but it could be. Im very new to scripting, and Im sure there were other scripts that I needed to make that work, but if you could figure it out, it would be a pretty good script to use. (If its possible)

Anyways, Im going to have to hang my head on this one

This post has been edited by Imsosupafly: Jul 23 2009, 07:53 PM