[Scripting Question] Getting an Event to snap to the players position seamlessly?

[sleepysealion]

So I've kind of decided to keep this thing going for better or worse. And I was just kind of curious about getting a certain thing to look right. Basically, I thought it would be a cool idea to have underwater "routes" that you could explore or just use to get around obstacles that you couldn't clear until you get an hm or the pokeflute.

So the way these routes work is that you use your pokemon to make a bubble that you use to walk underneath the water. To try and make it look nice - I made a bubble event that's supposed to jump to the players position, which it does - but there's a slight delay that makes the effect look pretty bad.

Is there anyway to have this thing move more smoothly? It uses a parallel process to record the players x,y coordinates and then transfers itself to him.

 

[GT-Baka]

One way around this would be to make the bubble around the player part of the sprite sheet listed as an outfit, and to change the outfit back to the default when you leave the under water maps.

 

[sleepysealion]

One way around this would be to make the bubble around the player part of the sprite sheet listed as an outfit, and to change the outfit back to the default when you leave the under water maps.

I feel like that could work - but I'd have to give the bubble a really weird shape to fit into the sprite sheet. Although if that doesn't work, I did edit a sheet for a floating animation that would be cool on top of the bubble effect.

Also tried doing a little test on trying out how outfits and I can't seem to get them to trigger.
I went into the metadata and changed "xxx" in the metadata to boy_bounce and then
I tried adding "pbChangePlayer(7)" on to the events that transfer the player which didn't work.

Then I tried creating an event that triggers automatically which also didn't work.

I guess if I can't get this working at all I could try messing with the "dive" stuff, though I would have liked to keep this separate from dive.

 

[GT-Baka]

you can change the size of the sprite sheet to fit the bubble without an issue.

here is how to use an outfit. assuming your male player is trchar000 just name the alt. outfit trchar000_1 just like a pokemon form. Same rules apply for the female.

the use the script

$Trainer.outfit=1

 

[sleepysealion]

I was worried more that the sprite wouldn't fit through a lot of the tight passages - but it looks like rpg maker just treats every event like the same size - so now it works perfectly, and I was able to simplify some other similar events.

All that's left to do is edit stuff so it looks decent. Other than that it seems to be working fine - thanks for the help!