[Eventing]Using Pictures in VX (effectively), who needs a plot when you have lots of visuals? Options

[Alt_Jack]

As we have seen by now, my two favorite systems are event variables and pictures. They're also probably the two worst systems in VX. There's a fix for the former, so I'm going to explain the latter. I use the busts from my resource album for this, and you're welcome to do the same (just don't go claiming credit). Pick a nice one, because this process is ugly.
This is how you display a picture, then have it move to the center of the screen:

display picture 1
position: upper left (I don't know who screwed this up, either the maker or the translator, but they're reversed in the ones I've used)
y = 0 (unlike in jumping (also terrible/confusing), where a positive Y value makes them jump down , they got this right. Y is the verticle value )
x = -600 ( X is the horizontal value, and this puts it waaaaay off to the left, far out of the field of vision, so that it's off-screen. Putting off to the right is 700-ish, and the Y co-ordinates vary with image height)

move picture: 1 (if you have more than one picture, you can move them, too. 1 is actually the top layer, 2 the second, etc )
position: upper left (again, I kid you not, they got them backwards)
Y = 0
X = 150 (no joke. 150 is the co-ordinates for the middle/center of the screen. Not 0,0, because that would make sense)

Then put a text box. Yay captions!
...then "erase picture 1" . Unless you want to use my concept art viewer event . Yay image scrolling!

And that's how you coherently display pictures using events.

This post has been edited by Alt_Jack: May 16 2011, 05:01 PM

[sonic_Reaper]

I am having a REALLY hard time with this. I want to use an image in place of the background, but RPG Maker just. will. not. let. me. And I'm at the breaking point. The image is a battlefield. It's much too complicated to chop into a tileset, so I'm planning on using in as is. Now, the image itself is 1020 x 765. Which is quite large. Is this the problem? I have the even set to autorun, display picture, center, normal. I've played around with the size of the map, smallest to largest, and the coordinates. And when I start the game. Nothing. The image never appears. Ever. Anywhere. WTF is going on?

EDIT: Wow. Wow. Wooowww. RMVX just had a brain aneurysm. No matter what I plugged into that event, NOTHING would happen. So I copied another even from another map to make sure I wasn't going bat shit insane, and ... it worked! Wow. Just, wow. Never mind my inquiry.

This post has been edited by sonic_Reaper: May 19 2011, 01:58 PM

[Alt_Jack]

lol I told you that the picture system was terrible.

[kayden997]

Ok, You well know how the grid works:


So if you do (X = 0, Y = 1) Then the character will jump 1 tile down the y-axis.

I do agree with the main point about pictures, it's really difficult to understand at first.
But wut'ch you gonna do about it home boy?