where are the switches in this game??

how do events work now in this game if you use variables?

how do you make events appear ect...........

What switches?

Welcome to the world of Variables. They're a very useful feature in programming, though they're unforunately quite restricted in potential in RPGM3.

Variables are pretty much numbers. Where a switch is either on or off, variables can be 1, 2, 3, etc. and in some cases -1, -2, -3, etc.. So not only could you have an event that does different things based on whether the variable is 0 or 1 (basically the numbers switches would represent), you could have events that do stuff if a variable is 2, 24, 19, 56, hike! Er, anyway... That's really the best I can explain it. If you want more in-depth explanation, please hold while we transfer you to a proper representative.

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Variables are nothing, without events to alter them, and
other events to respond to those alterations.

To change a variable with an event - Use the event
command (Property Control>Increase Shared Variable).
In this, set the variable in question, and the amount
that it will change. It REALLY helps to keep track of your
variables (what each is associated with) on a seperate
sheet of paper, because there's no way to 'label' them
in the editor.

To set another event to respond to an altered
variable - Use the event commands (Control>Val-
Conditional Branch), and set it to have 2-4 options. Now,
you can set each branch to respond, if a different criteria
is met.

Let's say this event ^ is 'event B'. Event A changed the
value of variable 01 (or whichever) from '0' to '1'. Now,
'event B' has a val-conditional branch which checks for
the value of that variable, and has three options.

option 1 - variable 01 = 0 (display msg. - 'TRY AGAIN')
option 2 - variable 01 = 1 ( " " - 'EUREKA!') etc.
option 3 - variable 01 > 1 ( " " - 'Nothing else...')



you'll need to use the event code Display>Display 'OFF/ON' on the event that you want to turn off/on. You can 'change' an item's display by having 2 or more invisible events stacked into the same space, and then changing those event's models to other things. One event starts out as 'ON', and the other 'OFF'...but after an event occurs, they switch. The effect is that one event turns into another, but really one is being turned on, and the other is turned off...they just happen to occupy the same space. It's a way around the inability to change an event's display, by using 2 seperate events.