Making a new common event

[2] Once the “Common Event Editor” window opens, scroll down through the “Common Event List” (column on the left).

The list is pretty long, so just scroll all the way to the end.

As you can see, there should be one blank slot (219) for inserting your own commons.

[3] There is not enough space!

If you run out of empty commons, click the “Set Data Max” button below the list. The “Data Count Setting” window will appear.

Here you can change the maximum number of commons that can exist within the list.

(If you increase the “Data Count” number, then the max number of commons will increase as well. The same goes for decreasing the commons, but be careful not to delete the preexisting ones.)

[4] Let’s create a common event.

1. Choose an empty slot for the new common. (most likely slot 219)
2. Decide on a name for the common event. In this tutorial, the common name will be “Message Display 01“. (Note that you will not be able to call the common event if the name is left blank.)
3. In the “Run Condition” field, select “Call Only” because the common event is being called from a map event.

[5] Text Display

1. Click the button “|Display Command Insert Window|“
2. In the left column, select “1 Show Message“
3. In the blank field, insert the text you want to display. For this example, the text will be: “Hello.“.
4. Click “Insert” to complete the common event.
5. Click “OK” to save the event.

[6] Use the new common event

1. First, click on the “Map Selection” icon and switch to a map you can create an event with.
2. Click the “Event Layer” icon and create an event in an appropriate place. (Set the “Chicken.png” as the graphic)

For this procedure, refer to [1] to [5] of the “Events activated by confirm keys (Enter)” tutorial.

[7] Once finished, click the button “|Command Insert Window|“.

1. When the “Event Command Insert” window appears, select “I Common Event” from the left column.
2. Make sure that the circle “Call Common By Name” is selected. (A black dot inside the circle means that it is selected. If it is not selected, then please do so now.)
3. In the blank field next to step 2, clicking on it will display a list of the commons that can be selected. This time, we will call the new common event we made earlier: “Message Display 01“.

[8] Since there is no particular setting, just click “Insert“.

Now that everything is in place, you can close the event windows.

[9] Test Play

Let’s talk to the common event. If the text “Hello.” is displayed, then the common event was a success.

*There is a possibility that the event won’t work if:

1. There was a mistake in calling the common event.
2. The contents of the common event are empty.