I'm terribly new with RMXP eventing, a lot of it I get, most I don't. I'm trying to figure out how to display a picture in a static place, that won't follow me when I walk... Can't seem to get that part. See, the picture I have chosen is meant to represent a light source from an inanimate object in the map, but it follows me as if it were the player's personal flashlight, a la Link to the Past. Don't want that. Somebody please help me out here.
Can you make it a character sprite rather than a picture, and use an event to place it?
You could always use Light Glow too:
http://www.reinorpg.com/forum/index.php?topic=66.0