Event Assembler Questions Thread

[Brendor]

screenshots of the glitch would be helpful

if you're using a cam1 code try changing the coordinates to be closer to the centre of the map

Edited November 22, 2013 by The Booty Wawriah

[Pack yak]

Alright for whatever reason the glitches have stopped.

Someone on here worked their magic through the ROM and helped me.

So I'll just thank all of you for it.

[Pack yak]

Two last questions for now (almost finished with the chapter)

How do I make units go offscrean?

I tried using a combination of Char Move [X,Y] and DISA [X,Y] but it crashed my game.

Also how would I make a protect character for X amount of turns scenario. I tried using Nightmare but it didn't work.

Edited November 22, 2013 by Pack yak

[Agro]

Two last questions for now (almost finished with the chapter)

How do I make units go offscrean?

I tried using a combination of Char Move [X,Y] and DISA [X,Y] but it crashed my game.

Also how would I make a protect character for X amount of turns scenario. I tried using Nightmare but it didn't work.

1. Did you use MOVE Char [X,Y] or Char Move [X,Y] because the latter will definitely crash your game. Order is important! You also need to use ENUN after any MOVE command (but not if you use the Move(X,Y) macro)

2. You'd need to use the death quote editor of the character and set Trigger ID to 0x65 so that it causes a game over if they die (make sure CauseGameOverIfLordDies is in the Misc events too) if it's a player character. Then you need to set the events so that the chapter ends on a certain chapter e.g.:

TurnEvents:
TurnEventPlayer(0x00,EndingEvent,ZZ)
TURN
 
EndingEvent:
MNCH 0xYY
ENDA

where ZZ is the number of turns in DECIMAL and 0xYY is the chapter ID in HEXADECIMAL

Lastly, in the Chapter Data Editor, set the Goal Window information to Turn number and change the value of "Turn to count down to +1" to whatever, and change the text slot to match whatever you want the turn goal to be i.e. use FEditor to change 0x800 to "Defend Lyn" and then change it in the module to 0x800

Edited November 22, 2013 by Agro

[Pack yak]

Thank you very much. This made it a lot easier for me.

[Pack yak]

Hi.

So after finishing the last two chapters with your help, I thought I could do this one on my own.

I was mistaken.

For some reason, instead of opening to the map (it did right after I edited everything in Nightmare) the screan simply turns black.

Yes its chapter 2.

#define DISABLE_TUTORIALS

#include EAstdlib.event

EventPointerTable(0x0F,Pointers)

ORG 0xD89000

Pointers:

POIN Turn_events

POIN Character_events

POIN Location_events

POIN Misc_events

POIN TrapData TrapData

POIN Bad Bad Bad Bad

POIN Good Good Good Good

POIN Opening_event Ending_event

Bad:

UNIT

Good:

UNIT

Turn_events:

TURN 0x00 (Opening_event) [01,00] 0x0 0x00

TURN 0x00 Turn1 [01,00] 0x8 0x00

END_MAIN

Turn1:

Character_events:

END_MAIN

Location_events:

END_MAIN

Misc_events:

CauseGameOverIfLordDies

END_MAIN

Opening_event:

ENDA

Ending_event:

MoveToChapter

ENDA

TrapData:

ENDTRAP

MESSAGE Events end at offset currentOffset

[Brendor]

well it's not going to do anything if you don't tell it to do anything. put

"SHOWMAP

STAL 20"

in the opening event just to test it

[Pack yak]

My previous maps didn't require them to load for some reason.

Regardless, its still a black screen.

[Brendor]

try OOBB

[Pack yak]

Well its not black anymore...

Its a screan full of the heads of enemy brigands.

[Brendor]

seems odd since you have no units

I'd suggest putting an ENDA in turn1, a chapter value for the MoveToChapter Macro and take out the enda after it and then the obvious things like check to make sure there's a map in the chapter slot you're using as well as correct object set config and palette

[Pack yak]

I know there is a map, saw it before I began to code (Assembled to check if a couple of things were working, thats when the map went black)

I'll recheck config and change those settings.

[Pack yak]

Tried options, didn't work.

Looked over config - no abnormalities.

[ShadielTH]

I think your problem lies in not having pretty much anything in the events.

No units, no opening event. Nothing, actually.

You should try to add some more things before you actually test it. Put some placeholder units and make them load in the opening event, assemble and check if it works.

EDIT:

Bad:

UNIT

Good:

UNIT

Also, this should be like this if you don't have any units:

Bad:
UNIT Empty
 
Good:
UNIT Empty

Edited November 22, 2013 by ShadielTH

[Pack yak]

By any chance is 00D89000 important?

As FEditor is giving me the error of not being able to open one or more files (with nothing else open)

[ShadielTH]

Nope. 0xD89000 is free space.

Dunno why FEditor gives you that error, though. Are you sure you're opening the ROM?

Try running it in VBA, perhaps you messed up something.

[Pack yak]

The problem is that the map doesn't load despite many peoples suggestions.

I have the apropriate info and commands on nightmare and the coding

FEditor I'm unsure about

[Agro]

What address is the map written to?

[Pack yak]

Details:

Mar was sent to 00D89000

ORG is 0x8D9000

Map and Events are 0x89000

Eventpointer is 0x0F (Chap 2 event)

All tiles are what is indicated, as are bytes.

If more details needed tell me

[Agro]

Mar was sent to 00D89000

ORG is 0x8D9000

Map and Events are 0x89000

This is really really confusing. Is it org 0xD89000 or org 0x8D900? The latter is not within free space and will probably break your game at one point or another. If it's the former, then your events are overwriting your map. Also, if you have org 0xD89000 in your event file, then your events are at 0xD89000, not 0x89000. Additionally, your map and events can't occupy the same space, since, as I said before, your events are overwriting your map. This is why your map is not displaying, because it doesn't exist anymore.

Edited November 23, 2013 by Agro

[Pack yak]

ORG is 0x8D9000

So this means new rom?

*shrugs I'm okay with that*

[Agro]

Dig out your fresh ROM, go to address 8D9000 and copy the length of your events (likely to be no more than 0x1000 bytes or so) and paste-WRITE (ctrl+B, NOT CTRL+V) at that address.

Afterwards, fix up your events so that you're not writing to 8D9000 anymore.

[Pack yak]

Alright I will thank you

[Pack yak]

So after rebooting everything onto a back up, I've come across my game not loading the opening event (which is a convo on a background) and I have no idea how to resolve it. I've looked for answers in other places, but once again I ask you guys for help.

[CT075]

if i could psychic troubleshoot i would but alas, i cannot read your script from afar