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The Basics

RPG Tutorial

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Intro

There are many steps to making the RPG of your dreams.
The first step includes making your character, then all the
basics such as health, magic points, EXP and so on. Last is
battles.

Character

Let's make your character. And it could be a rainbow
cirlce, but nobody likes those. I'm going to create my own,
although it is recommended that you use sprites.

First, make a movie clip and name it "Player" with no
quotes. Now open it up and insert three blank keyframes,
making a total of four. In the first frame, he should be
facing up. Second is down, third is right and fourth is
left.

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Now insert four more frames, making a total of eight.
Each of these frames should have a movie clip in it
showing the character walking. Once again, the first
frame should be facing up, second is down, third is right
and fourth is left.

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onClipEvent(enterFrame){if(!Key.isDown(Key.UP)){_root.player.gotoAndStop(1);}}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){if(!Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){_root.player.gotoAndStop(2);}}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){if(!Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){_root.player.gotoAndStop(3);}}

onClipEvent(enterFrame){if(!Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){_root.player.gotoAndStop(4);}}

Put a stop action in every frame. Now exit out of the
movie clip, and give it the instance name of "player" with
no quotes. Now go back in the MC and put these actions
in the movie clips according to their frames. (Right click
on the text and hit "select all")

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onClipEvent(load){speed=10;}onClipEvent(enterFrame){if(Key.isDown(Key.UP)){this._y-=speed;this.gotoAndStop(5);}if(Key.isDown(Key.DOWN)){this._y+=speed;this.gotoAndStop(6);}if(Key.isDown(Key.RIGHT)){this._x+=speed;this.gotoAndStop(7);}if(Key.isDown(Key.LEFT)){this._x-=speed;this.gotoAndStop(8);}}

Exit out of your player MC and put these actions into it.
After that, test your movie. If you did everything
correctly, then this should've worked. If not, go back a
few steps or start over again.

Variables

Every character in an RPG has to have health and such. If
there was no health meter, then how would you know
when you're going to die? If there was no EXP meter then
would you just be guessing when you're going to level up?

At the top of your workspace, put in some static text
saying "health" or something to indicate your vitality. Next
to that, put in some dynamic text with the number "100" in
it. Give it the variable name of "hp" (without the quotes).

Now make some static text saying "Magic" or "power" or
something to show people that the text next to it is your
power meter. Put in some dynamic text and type in the
number "100" again. Give it the variable name of "mp"
(again, with no quotes).

Do the same thing so that you have gold and exp text
boxes. Give them the variable names of "gold" and "xp".
Type in the number zero for both text boxes.

If you don't have a menu scene (or frame) for your game,
then make one now. You can do that by going to Insert >
Scene. Now in the menu scene, make a new layer named
"action script". Put these actions in it.

_global.hp = 100;_global.mp = 100;

Those actions make it so whenever you start your game,
the health and magic will be full. Now make a play button.
Put these actions in it. On the first frame of your RPG,
put a stop(); action (NOT the first frame of the menu
scene).

Battles

Many people also want to learn how to make a battle in an
RPG. Real time battles are too hard, and have many
glitches. We must make a turn-based battle. Make a
button and put these action in it. Replace
"whateverscene" with the scene number.

Now create a new scene. Have two layers, naming the top
one "health" and the bottom "fight". On the second
keyframe of the "health" layer, put a dynamic text box and
label the variable name "hp" with no quotes.

If you test your movie, the "hp" box should be at 100. If
it's not, then you must have done something wrong. Also,
make another dynamic text box and label the variable
"bad". That is the foe's health.

It would be easiest to tell which is which by either
changing the colors of them or put some static text in.
Now put these actions in the first frame. You can change
the health to whatever you want.

_global.bad = 100;

Also add another text box and label it "mp" like before.
Now on the second keyframe of the fight layer, put these
actions. This makes it so you can actually die.

stop();if (_root.good<=0) { gotoAndStop("lose"); }if (_root.bad<=0) { gotoAndStop("win"); }

Also on the second keyframe of the fight layer, draw your
character in fighting form. It looks better if he's dancing
or something.

Make two buttons. One for healing and one for attacking.
We are only going to be simple here, but if you must, add a
super power attack button.

HEAL

ATTACK

on (release) {if (_root.mp<=0) {_root.gotoAndStop("begin");} else {_root.hp += 20;_root.mp -= 20;gotoAndPlay("heal");}}

Give the buttons these actions. I put the heal to +20, you
may change that.

on (release) {gotoAndPlay("attack")}

Attack button

Heal button

What all those actions do is that they put you to the right
frame, such as attacking and healing and so on. Now on
the same frame (the 2nd keyframe of the fight layer) draw
your enemy.

Battle - Fighting

To start off, we are going to label the frame that you drew
you and your foe in "begin" (with no quotes). You can do
that by click on the frame then going to the properties
menu.

In the fight layer, make a new keyframe (should be the 3rd
one) and label it "attack". Now animate your character
attacking, just as if you would in a movie. On the frame
where you hurt the foe, put these actions.

_root.bad = _root.bad-random(30);

You can choose whether to delete the "random" function
or leave it as it is. If you delete it, the enemy will hurt you
30 everytime. If you don't, then he could hurt you
anywhere from zero to 30.

On the frame that you are done attacking, put these
actions.

_root.gotoAndPlay ("badattack");

Make a new frame right after your attack. Name it "heal".
Animate yourself healing. When you're done healing, put
those same actions found in the last slide in the final
frame.

After you animate yourself healing, make a new frame.
Label it "badattack" and animate your enemy attacking.

On the frame where the enemy hurts you, put these
actions. The same thing applies when deleting the
"random" function.

_root.hp = _root.hp-random(40);

Where your enemy finally stops attacking, give the frame
these actions.

gotoAndStop("begin");

Now you can make it so that you all of the sudden lose
health, but do you really want that? If you want to see
your health be taken away, then extend your health layer
(2nd frame) all the way untill the end of the fight.

Battle - Lose & Win

What do you do when you die? Or when you win? We
already did the AS, but now we need the frames. Make
two new frames, and put a stop(); action in both of them.
Label one "lose" and the other "win".

If you lose, make a start over button or something. If you
win, put these actions in. You can change them depending
on how hard you make your enemy be.

_root.gold = _root.gold + 10;_root.xp = _root.xp + 25;

End

And that's it! There you have simple parts to an RPG, and
you can make more advanced parts by looking at other
tutorials. Hope you enjoyed!

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