Question about pictures and battles (RMVX) Options

[kriemhilde]

So I have a picture shown while I am in the sewers. It basically a black screen with a white middle circle with transparency fading the further from the center (so that when you play the game, it only makes the middle circle visible, and the outer areas around the circle black, to limit vision).

Now when I begin a battle, I am wondering how to get rid of this picture so it does not limit vision during the battle itself. I am using Tankentai Sideview Battle System if that is important.

Right now I am just making npcs that if you touch, begins the battle process. I tried "erase picture" before the "Begin Battle Process" in the event, but that is very abrupt and I would rather the picture go away smoothly like during the battlestart transition or something.

I imagine this will become even more complicated once I implement the Reedo's On Map Encounters, but I'm not going to worry about that just yet heh.

But yes, how do I get rid of the picture smoothly for the battles? Help would be very much appreciated ^-^

[Zenu_The_Druid]

For this, you will have to do a "Move Picture" command and affect the Transparency, like so.

1.) Go to the 2nd Tab while making a new event command, and select "Move Picture." (Only those circled in Blue matter at the moment)

2.) Change the "Picture Number to whatever your border picture was set as.
3.) Change the "Opacity" to 0.
4.) Change the Time to whatever you want. It will fade out over the course of this time.
60 Frames = 1 Second
120 Frames = 2 Seconds
180 Frames = 3 Seconds
And so on and so forth.

5.) Click "Okay."
6.) Go to the 2nd Tab again while making a new event command, and select Erase Picture. Then choose the number that you set your border to.
7.) Your picture will now Fadeout over the amount of time that you choose.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: This also works for fading pictures in. When you first set your picture, you make the opacity 0. Then you "Move" that picture to 255 Opacity over the course of however many seconds you want.

This post has been edited by Zenu_The_Druid: Jul 31 2010, 01:32 PM

[kriemhilde]

For this, you will have to do a "Move Picture" command and affect the Transparency, like so.

1.) Go to the 2nd Tab while making a new event command, and select "Move Picture." (Only those circled in Blue matter at the moment)

2.) Change the "Picture Number to whatever your border picture was set as.
3.) Change the "Opacity" to 0.
4.) Change the Time to whatever you want. It will fade out over the course of this time.
60 Frames = 1 Second
120 Frames = 2 Seconds
180 Frames = 3 Seconds
And so on and so forth.

5.) Click "Okay."
6.) Go to the 2nd Tab again while making a new event command, and select Erase Picture. Then choose the number that you set your border to.
7.) Your picture will now Fadeout over the amount of time that you choose.

Hope this helps!

EDIT: This also works for fading pictures in. When you first set your picture, you make the opacity 0. Then you "Move" that picture to 255 Opacity over the course of however many seconds you want.

thank you!

This post has been edited by kriemhilde: Jul 31 2010, 02:18 PM