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[Celianna]

Celianna's
Beginner's Guide to Variables

Version 2.0

DOWNLOAD LINK VERSION 2.0 (without RTP data): http://www.mediafire.com/?zmvylnz3tim
Mirror link: http://www.4shared.com/file/cHhR4h44/Begin..._Variables.html
The file is packaged into a .rar file and you need WinRAR (or something equivalent) to unpack it.

Variables not working right? Please update your game interpreter and fix your variables!

NOTE: While this is a guide for beginners, you still need some general knowledge about RPG Maker VX. You need to know what switches, conditional branches and what event pages are - and how to use them. If you don't know, then I would happily suggest you play through Aindra's School before playing this guide.

Information
This guide is meant for teaching people who are confused how variables work, and what you can do with them. I made a guide in the form of a game that you can play through, and once done, you can look inside the game's events to see how everything was set up. I hope I explained it right (and correct ... haha), and I hope the small examples of what you can do with variables will help.

There are 5 rooms in this game that teaches the player how to use variables. Then there's an outside map in which I created a few mini-games using only variables, conditional branches and sound effects. Once you've looked through all the room's events, you can go ahead and check out the events for the outside map and try to figure out why those events are set up like that.

If anyone who plays through this game and finds bugs, and or spelling errors, please report them to me so I can fix it!

That said, happy playing!

Tips & Tricks covered in this tutorial:
- How to activate an event page through the use of a variable
- How to 'collect items' and keep track of them
- How to check the amount of an item in the inventory
- How to decrease a player's gold with variables
- How to use the 'random' feature with variables
- How to create a custom timer with images

Mini-games made with variables
I fixed up a few mini-game events consisting of variables that I'm sure you'll find very useful. Some mini-games I created in the guide;
- A lottery event
- A bank event
- A fishing event
- A digging gold in dirt event
- A catching chickens event
- A collecting event
- A timer

I don't mind if you copy the entire event and use it in your game. Credit isn't needed either.

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CODE

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Screenshots of the guide

[Yami]

Wow
This looks nice.
It would be helpful to lots of people who don't know how to use variables to do awsome stuff.
Let me try this out

EDIT: Room 4's door doesn't work (no transfer event ), and the character hasn't been direction fixed in some of the event pages in @_@

This post has been edited by Yami: Apr 20 2010, 06:59 PM

[Celianna]

Wow
This looks nice.
It would be helpful to lots of people who don't know how to use variables to do awsome stuff.
Let me try this out

EDIT: Room 4's door doesn't work (no transfer event ), and the character hasn't been direction fixed in some of the event pages in

I could have sworn I entered every room XD

Also the direction fix, thanks for pointing that out - I keep forgetting to tick that thing X_X

Version 1.1 is on its way!

Edit: Bugs fixed, and I even added another event inside the game, a banking event

[MagicKid]

Downloading now, and it looks okay. I pretty much suck at variables so this might help me for making my new game.

[Celianna]

Downloading now, and it looks okay. I pretty much suck at variables so this might help me for making my new game.

Wow, but you've been here for a while, figured you had it down already haha. Well tell me if it helped, and post any bugs and or spelling errors.

[MagicKid]

That tutorial really helped me with variables and I made a fetch-the-cactus quest.

[Cyl]

It's a little too flashy for a tutorial

Nicely done!

[Celianna]

It's a little too flashy for a tutorial

Nicely done!

Flashy, how so?

[MagicKid]

Hmm... this tutorial helped me.

I suck at variables, and btw, you called the file "Beginner's Guide to Vairbles". Lol. xD

[Celianna]

Hmm... this tutorial helped me.

I suck at variables, and btw, you called the file "Beginner's Guide to Vairbles". Lol. xD

I know haha (really bad typo), but I can't change the file name unless I upload a new one again, so I figured ... meh! XD

[MagicKid]

Lazy. Have fun not-fixing-the-worst-typo ever.

^^ This is the worst typo ever: samp instead of spam xD

[RyouKachi]

Its surprising how many people don't know how to use variables, I found them simple from day 1. Then again on day 1 I already made a skill shop and character select system, then an evented shop screen within a week...

I'll check it out .

[kirinelf]

I got them pretty easily too. But I didn't do the things you did. O_O

[Celianna]

I got them pretty easily too. But I didn't do the things you did. O_O

Well variables can do lotsa things! Sometimes even I'm surprised what I can manage to do with them. Seeing how other people use variables is actually a good learning experience for me XD

[CastleConspiracy]

Very good guide..

Tough, i did not understand much of it

[Celianna]

Very good guide..

Tough, i did not understand much of it

Why's that? Did you look through the events and read the comments?

[Rukiri]

This is very useful for beginners!

[Hyuga Tylor]

This looks very promising, I will practice with it later.

[Cyl]

Dammit, it took me forever to win that lottery. D-:<
Anyways, you did a good job. I personally like the fishing one, probably because of the balloons.

I know you have the ability to create a 'Hit On' Gauge where there is a bar with a part of it whited out and a small line going back and forth and the player will have to press a button when the line is on the white part of the bar. >_>

I did this once with variables and you might want to put it there, under 'Advanced Variable Usage' or something like that.

BTW: Candy cane borders? ftw.

[Celianna]

Dammit, it took me forever to win that lottery. D-:<

Would you believe me if I told you on my first test run, I got it on my first try?

I know you have the ability to create a 'Hit On' Gauge where there is a bar with a part of it whited out and a small line going back and forth and the player will have to press a button when the line is on the white part of the bar. >_>

I did this once with variables and you might want to put it there, under 'Advanced Variable Usage' or something like that.

That's some very advanced stuff! I don't think this would fit in a beginner's guide, but it would fit in an advanced guide, which might be a good idea to make. Maybe. Sometime