Fake Characters

[Deeth Irteen]

I was working on a dungeon when I got this idea. I placed a locked door in front of a 3x3 room. Then I placed an invisible event in front of the door named "Prisoner". I set the trigger to "button", and then I set up messages (Using the "Direct Data" option), creating the illusion that the player is talking to someone on the other side of the door. The only problem is if you forget to set up the key to the door and the player somehow gets past the invisible event.

EDIT: I messed up. I meant to say button

[Dusk Raven]

Re: Fake Characters

Sounds reasonable to me. It can be done.

There's really nothing for me to say, I just wanted to acknowledge this.

[Libby]

Re: Fake Characters

Same here, I dig this. What's going to happen once the player gets past the door?

[Pagerron]

Re: Fake Characters

Yeah, nice idea, and a good way to save from using one of the precious 100 characters.

One way that you can assure that the player won't get past the invisible event is by having the invisible "touch" event move the character away from the door at the end of its event code.

[Deeth Irteen]

Re: Fake Characters

Same here, I dig this. What's going to happen once the player gets past the door?

Well, I think this is what the player will say if he/she gets past the door:

"WTF? where'd he go?"

[162]

Re: Fake Characters

I was working on a dungeon when I got this idea. I placed a locked door in front of a 3x3 room. Then I placed an invisible event in front of the door named "Prisoner". I set the trigger to "button", and then I set up messages (Using the "Direct Data" option), creating the illusion that the player is talking to someone on the other side of the door. The only problem is if you forget to set up the key to the door and the player somehow gets past the invisible event.

EDIT: I messed up. I meant to say button

Ooo, das ist ein gut Idee! (Translation: "Ooo, that's a good idea!" Why I'm speaking German is beyond me.)

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: Fake Characters

i dont think its possible but ill say it anyway in the possibility that it could work. when the door opens have the char on the other side appear as a ghost then vanish. or something along those lines. in castlevania a door to a washroom swings open and a ghostly image disappears.

[Stormy]

Re: Fake Characters

Thats a pretty good idea, very clever nerd god

Karr's idea is cool too, but I think he (she?) is right about it not working. I think in RM2 you could control opacity, and just decrease the opacity to 0% over a few seconds, making it seem like they faded away... that'd be creepy, and awesome