Thank you very much Yal for your response. I purchased this kit today to look into it. I was wondering if I could private message you a few questions on how to use this, and also had an idea on making a tutorial for others (unless there is one somewhere that I missed?).
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Hello Yal,
Thank you for your response. I think ultimately I need to brush up on my GML and a few common uses in GM that I'm unfamiliar with.
I was trying to redesign the map, I was hoping to make a test level to travel around and experiment with but became easily lost in either GM or how things were placed. I understand the Overworld room and such, but much of it wasn't apparent to me.
I feel that my issues are only due to unfamiliarity with GM 2, and being really unfamiliar in general. Honestly, this was maybe a bit too ambitious for me and I'll have to revisit this once I've spent more time with other tutorials perhaps. My questions, even public, I feel are basic understanding that I don't yet have.
For example, if I rebuilt a map using the tiles provided. I don't know how to find the code that says after the visit with Professor to start in my test world instead.
Anyway, thank you for your time and thank you very much for this engine. I don't think I'm ready for this, but definitely something I will hang on to for further reference when I'm ready to take this on. Appreciate it!
As you wish! Making an RPG is complex business, and it probably pays off to familiarize yourself some more with GMS2 before jumping in at the deep end. The engine isn't going anywhere, so you can come back whenever you feel ready! ^__^
To answer your last few questions:
A lot of map objects - doors, NPCs, items - has their variables set via the new-in-GMS2 GUI variable system (double-click a trainer NPC and then click the "variables" button on the details window that pops up for an example).
The code that warps you to the starting map at the end of the intro is in script cc_intro_startgame (cc is "cutscene command"). You can get some examples of how to make cutscenes by checking out any cis_* script ("cutscene initialization script")