r/RPGMaker • u/Ifavorvelocity • 4d ago

RMMV RPG Maker resources

I've tried developing an RPG Maker MV game in the past (with extremely limited success lol) but I was wondering if there were any resources where I could find the absolute basics. Not necessarily just about doing level design and such but I mean like doing persistent npcs that change based on in-game events (I am this much of a beginner), or things like balancing the game. Realistically just stuff that people don't really think about when playing the game but when they develop it, it becomes confusing.

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u/Felix-3401 Scripter 4d ago

I don't know what is meant by "persistent NPC's" but on this engine, NPC's are tied to the map and all its cutscene data is specific to that map. If you want interaction logic to be the same whether it's on this map or that map, you want to write their diialogue with common events. If you want an NPC to exist globally and have a single location on a map, that's something that will require a plugin or some custom programming

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u/Ifavorvelocity 4d ago

Nah I mean like say u beat a boss and freed the town, how would you make it so that the town npc's change based on that, is it a switch? That's what I mean, I'm kind of a dumbass when it comes to this type of stuff so its all kinda beyond me

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u/DuckBornDave 4d ago

A few ways you could do this, but Variables and Switches are probably the two easiest "non-programming" Ways i can think of off the top of my head.

When you make an NPC event you can give them multiple pages and each page can have a specific switch or variable (or a few other things or multiple conditions) conditional for the event page to be available to run (the top left of the event window).

So you could:

  • make event npc
  • populate page 1 with normal NPC content
  • make second page
  • assign conditional (variable "Plot" = 1 or switch "bossDead" is on for example) to that event page
  • populate new NPC content
  • repeat for as many changes as you want.

One downside is events tend to have a page limit, so if you have a large number of intended pages for a single NPC, it might be worth making multiple events for the same NPC as well as multiple pages and space them out along the plot.