Hello Alexanda :) thank you for the advice ,i'll try to keep things easy , i'm glad the boss is allright now so you could make it to the end of the prologue :) . i hope you right that many will like it :) , there many things in the maker i do not understand but i try to learn little by little. today i just figured out how to set weather to a map. though it looks difficult and there is only rain /storm(which looks the same) and snow, i'm not sure i'll use that but it's a good thing i know it now.
I only use the basic rain system too. But for weather changes I have a common event running with variables which change the weather. For lighting you can use tint screen to make scenes lighter or darker depending on the mood. I would imagine there are loads of people who have built systems for your version of rpg maker. Try some googling when you need to know something, or I might be able to help.
i see ,thank you :) i wanted to do something with snow ,i will try if i can do it. Built systems ? you mean plugins? i saw a few of them but my computer does not want them , it's ok anyway i have really a hard time to understand plugins. it will be fine with time maybe. thanks for offering to help :) will ask you if i encounter a problem .
Snow is really nice, I hope to have a snow map in the world I am making. When I buy MV I'll help you with systems that you can use, and if you need graphics I can make title screens, or even try a making a title logo for your game. Also, You can do almost everything using variables and common events. And, self control switch is great for chests, or even one time events. I did not know how awesome those switches were and kept making switches which did not need to be made. XD
there some snow & ice tilesets in the maker which is nice i just hope i'll be able to do what's on my mind .
I do not know anything about making graphics and all that stuff . if you buy MV will you be able to transfer your VX ACE Heaven Heroes to it?. MV and MZ are very similar from what i can see. buying MZ was expensive for me but i really like the scfi and modern tilesets in it . ( buying additional tilesets will probably not happen since all those are expensive)
I wouldn't mind a custom title screen or logo but no idea how that should be done , the current title screen is what's closest to dream-like in my point of vieuw on what's available inside the maker. it would be nice if you could do that ..only i do not want to make you even more work than your game require you already, is doing a title or logo takes a long time?
common event i used it 2 time just to test out ,i think i understand how it works, no idea about variables ,the only self switch i used so far is the A , no idea what the others are for.
yes i understand it took you some time to understand rpg maker too when you were new to it :D
Common event will keep an event in the background ready to run. Say you set the weather to rain as a common event it would always rain even when you move to a different area. Including in doors. But you can control the event by setting a conditional branch, which if you set a variable for the weather will stop the rain when going in doors, as long as there is a event which triggers the stop. Common events can do many things, they're great to use. Alse, Self switches can be great to use. You can use many in one event.
Variables are like probability. If I open this chest there is 1 in 3 variable chance I can have a special item, only as long as the variable goes to 3. Set variable random between 1 to 3,. If variable is 3 the item is mine, if not try again :) This event could be a common event, and then you easily make lots of chests that use the same event. Variables are really fun, and they can be like counters, or randomly decide a given outcome, they remember stuff, they're really anything you need them to be.