Sort of hard to explain, but listen...

      I was wondering if it was possible to create an event-like storytelling thingymajig... in the sense that, (for instance) when the player character is reading a letter, the screen can fade out to black and just show a sheet of paper with writing on it (symbolising the letter being read) or an npc telling a story and instead of the writing and the conversation being confined in the little box at the bottom of the screen, it will utilise the whole screen just for that short period of time...

Is it possible? Just hoping to confirm so I can plan for it, or work around this...

Thanks in advance for any contribution ()

It's very easy, If i understand what you want, all you have to do is fade the screen to black and use a show picture command, then when your done, a remove picture command, you should laso lock up controls and menus as well.

Easy for you but hard for me

I sort of understand what needs to be done, just not sure how to go about it... (if that makes sense)

You could essentially read tutorials for the older RPG Makers on how to do this stuff and it would be roughly the same thing as the newer ones.

Assuming this is RPG Maker you are talking about.

I suggest reading the help file first off.  It will get you started with understanding what basic commands are available.  Also, spend some time with each of the event commands and experiment with them to familiarize yourself with it before working on a game.

Secondly, there are plenty of video tutorials out there that have instructions on how to do something similar.  The event commands may be in different places or named only slightly different but for something like this, you should be able to figure it out pretty easily once y know the basics.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7hixiEYwiY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7hixiEYwiY</a>