[Tutorial] Simple Puzzle

[Weylon Santana]

Hello everyone, I want to introduce a simple system, simply to teach how to use more events parameters and string variables for beginners

 

The goal is to create a gate that will open when where 4 switches are active. There are 4 switches in your world and their activation form will be in two different ways.

 

When the order of switches doesn't matter

Spoiler

Create a global variable and put it as a string

 

Make your gate event on map - no spawn condition - just with a message - choose your graphic

Okay, now our gate is always locked, let's create a switch to unlock it. Create an event on a map, choose your graphic and put a UNIQUE NAME --> this is very necessary,

and as a first command let's create a conditional branch

If our variable DOES NOT contain the event name (--> \evtparam{evtName} <--).

 

Logically, if it does not contain, it means that this switch is not active, so let's add, inside the conditional branch (right on the line below), create a command to set variable

 

Copy everything inside the arrow -->\pv{Gate}\evtparam{evtName} - <--

don't be scared we'll understand

\pv{Gate} = It will get the value of the current variable, we are taking whatever value it has, if the player has activated another switch
\evtparam{evtName} = It will add the name of this event to the value of the variable, so the event name must be unique

 

For the else (when the variable contains the event name), just shows a message that the switch has been activated. This is the final event

Save him, and save the map. Copy it and paste as many times as you need in the places in the world you need, when pasting make sure you change the event name. I will paste three more times:

 

Now that the switches are ready, we need to get the gate to open

In the event of the gate, create a new page, I put another graphic for and on conditions Let's check if the variable contains the 4 switches

 

and it's ready!
When interacting once, apparently nothing will happen, but the switch name has already been added to the gate variable.
if you interact again:

 

Before interacting with the last one look at the gate

 

After interacting with the switch

 

If you got this far, and did all correct, and tested it, everything worked normally. Just remember to teleport the player on the second page of the gate event, or make the event passable, etc.

 

When the order of switches matter

Spoiler

Which is when you want events to fire in specific order

Here we are going to use an integer variable

 

On the first switch, check that the variable's value is 0, if is then add+1 on value, on else, send a message warning the player that it's the wrong switch

this is our event

 

Copy and paste, and every time you paste change the conditional branch (right click and then edit)
if it is 1 on 2th switch event
if it is 2 on 3th switch event
if it is 3 on 4th switch event
and so on

 

For the gate on the first page of event, it doesn't need a condition, just a message that it's locked

 

For the second page, just check when the value is equal to the last activated switch

 

If you interact with any switch other than the one that checks to see if the variable is 0, you will have this

 

When you interact in the right order, you'll see this

 

And when to interact with the last

 

Redo all the steps in the two ways I showed you to learn more about how events work. Any questions you can send that I will respond as soon as possible. <3

[Kamus]

If you allow me, soon I can create the same tutorial in the Spanish forums
(Don't be scared if you authorize me and tag you later(?) hahaha
nice tuto~ +10

[Weylon Santana]

hahah It's ok, you can publish, we're here to help each other