Item Repeating

[Viper]

In one of my quests I have a man offer the hero a grueling quest to obtain a certain rare item and the "bring it back" to him. This is not a problem to set the conditional branches and whatnot. The only problem I am having is the repitition of whenever I open the chest (for instance, right afterwards), I get the same item...over and over again.

Just for fun I was going through the maps and looking for errors and this popped up. If I have confused you thus far, then let me try to give you an example.

1. Created an event with a chest that is closed:
2. Wrote in this code to make the chest open and close, along with give the message "You have found the Nightmare Plate!" and the change of Defense Items.

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<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>SE: '044-Chest01'.80.105
:                : <>Lock Facing: OFF
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Up
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Message: You have found the Nightmare Plate!
<>Change Armor: [Nightmare Plate] +1
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Down
                : <>Lock Facing: ON


Now, suppose just for the hell of it I decide to open the chest again. I will get the message "You have found the Nightmare Plate" and will end up getting one more set of armor.

I want to do this without erasing the event. Erasing the event is as easy as cake, but I don't want the chest to disappear.

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm an idiot. Had my switches mixed around. But here's a good reference for any newbies who want to do the same thing and don't know how.

Step By Step:

1. Create a new event and add a closed chest you so desire.
2. Creat a new switch...call it Chest Open
3. Insert this information in which case is appropriate in your Event Commands window.

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<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>SE: '044-Chest01'.80.105
:                : <>Lock Facing: OFF
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Up
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Message: You have found [color=darkred]'What did you find?'[/color]
<>[color=darkred]'Change of what?'[/color]
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Down
:                : <>Lock Facing: ON
<>Switch: [Your switch here] = ON
<>



4. Create a new page.
5. Select the same chest image as the last page.
6. Insert this code in the Events Command window on the second page:

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<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>SE: '044-Chest01'.80.105
:                : <>Lock Facing: OFF
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Up
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Message: "Chest Empty!"
<>Wait: 5 frames
<>Move Event: This Event
:                : <>Face Right
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Left
:                : <>Wait: 1 frames
:                : <>Face Down
                : <>Lock Facing: ON


7. On the second page set the Preconditions to your Switch (Chest Open) and make sure it is on.

After all is said and done you should have a one time chest that will increase what ever you want it to, and will not delete the image itself. When you try and open the chest a second time, you will get the "Chest is Empty"
message.

Cheers

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[haloOfTheSun]

You should make use of a switch. If you don't know how to use switches, check out one of the tutorials. Also, just to note, the erase event only "erases" the event until you re-enter the map.

[Viper]

Yeah I know. I had my switches mixed up between ON and OFF. I wasn't able to finish editing my last post that tells the story. I also included a tutorial on how to do it without confusing the switches. Hope it helps.