when i go to data and pick the message string i want to play in a certain room, it doesnt work. help me out? and dont re-direct me to a tutorial, that is why the help section of the form is here.
Message Strings
Oh. Make sure the Dmap you're on has a level number greater than zero. Also, make sure it also has a Guy. (Fire, Abei, Goriya, etc. Just press G.)
what if i dont want a guy, and i put a tile of a person down?
You need a guy to use I think. Just make them invisible, and put your tile in its place.
One option is to cover your guy up with layers - as even if you make the guy invisible, he'll still spawn - leading to a random fart appearing in the place where the guy would be. But yes, you need a guy for message strings to show up.
okay, enlighten me on how to make the guy invisible?
whoa, coloral and i just posted at the same time
Just edit the tile they use in the tile editor. And that fart comment was priceless Cloral.😃
To do layers, goto data->layers and pick layer 6. Set it to some screen somewhere that you're not using. Then hit pageup/down until you reach the layers section. Click the option below layer 6, then draw a tile over where the guy would appear. This will hide him. You will probably want to make sure that area isn't reachable though, otherwise Link will also be hidden by that tile if he walks there.
BTW, please don't post twice in a row. Use the edit feature instead.
or, you can always delete the tile the guy uses, so there's no layers involved
That would still cause misc. spawn to appear though. I would also suggest putting a blank guy in, then put your sprite and use layers.
so according to questmaster i should go to the tiles' graphics, find a charaters sprite i will never use, then make it all little black X's for every movement of that sprite?
Well, you can just highlight (click on.) that fire tile, or that guy tile, .. in the tiles page, and press [font=courier]Delete[/font]. .. Problem solved. 😃 (But make a backup of that tile just in case. 😉 So instead of pressing [font=courier]Delete[/font], highlight it and press [font=courier]C[/font], then go to somewhere WAAY out of the way on your tiles page, and press [font=courier]M[/font] there. The tile should move to that spot you are now highlighting.
oh, alright. thanx "hero"