A: Alright. First create the outside of the building the characters will see while walking around town. Once you've got that done then procede to right click on the map your working with. Go down to create new map.  Once you clicked on create new map put Inn or whatever in the map title. Then choose the size. Next head over to Chip sets. Choose Inner (if you'd like to see what items each chip set has you can in the Database). Then click ok, and design the inside of your Inn. Now go over the the main map again with outside of your inn. Go to event editing. Right click on the door to the inn (make sure the hero can step on the square you right click on) now choose Move Event. It'll bring up a little menu and you just go over the maps on right side and choose "Inn". Now click where you want the character to enter the inn and click ok. Now whenever the character steps on the first spot you choose (where you made the move event) he will get teleported to the inn. Now just make an exit out of the inn the same way you made the entrance. Just start on the inside of the Inn and make a move event in there then choose a spot on your outside map for them to exit at. -Cooman

Event conditions are certain requirements needed for the event to occur. When these conditions are fullfilled the event occurs. With every event the event condition should NOT be check on the first page. The program won't register it if you. However if you make a second page to your event then you can set event conditions. When these conditions are met that event does whatever it's supposed to do on the new page instead of the old. So if an NPC said "Hello" on the first page and then something happened that you wanted him to say something else you create a second page of the event with the character saying something else. In order for the second page of an event to occur one of the event conditions must be met. The following are all the event conditions:

Switch (2x) - This makes the page of the event only happen if the selected switch is on.
Variable - This makes the page of the event only work if the choosen variable is greater then or equal to a choosen number.
Items - This makes the page of the event only work when the hero has a choosen item.
Hero- This makes the page of the event only occur when a choosen hero is in the group
Timer - this makes the page of the event only happen when the timer is less then the choosen time.

Switches are (well they used to be in RPG Maker 95, now variables probably are) the back bone of your game. Let's say your hero starts in a town and talks to the king. the king sends said hero to slay the dragon. after the dragon is killed you set your event to turn the dragonkilled switch on. now go over to the king and give him a second page. on that page set the event condition to switch [dragonkill] by checking the box next to switch and selecting the switch dragonkill

Variables are extremely versitile switches. think of variables as you would in algebra, they're numbers. every variable begins with a value of 0. lets say you wanted your hero to go around and take to people and he got a point for every person he talked to. so every time he talks to some one you use the change variable function and do the following:

1) in the create variable box make sure the button next to One is selected then select the variable you'd like to change: say peoplecounter.

2) go over to operation box and press the button next to the "+" so that you'll be adding to this variable.

3)now go over to the Operand box and choose set and put a 1 in the box.

now every time this event is activated the variable gets plus one

now say you want some minister to give you a prize if you talk to more then 20 people? well you go over to the second page of the minister and check the box variable in event conditions then you choose the variable people counter and put the number 20 in the box. now this event will only happen after the hero has talked to twenty people.

There's allot more to it then that, but hopfully that'll give you a starting point so you can start experimenting with these things to learn it yourself. - Coonman

1) Go to event editing mode
2) Right click where you want the NPC to be
3) click on make new event
4) go over to graphics and push the set button
5) choose the graphic you want for you NPC
6) go over to event commands
7) make a message saying "Hello!"
8) you've got an NPC!

Things to look out:

1) Make sure the Transp is NOT checked in the Graphics box

2) Make sure Piority Type is set to Common Char Above

3) Event Start condition is set to push key

Most of these settings are already done for you if you pick a person or animal for your graphic

If all of this is correct then your NPC is set to go! - Coonman
 

Q: What is Parallel Process?

Parallel Process is a mode you can set your event to so that action may continue while the event is running.  This means that if an event is on Parallel Process you can still move the hero around; unlike autostart where the hero cannot be moved until after the event is over.

Q: How do I stop my Autostart event from looping?

If your autostart event keeps going over and over again simply go to the end of the event and flip a switch on; say [Message End].  Then create a new page in the looping event and keep it blank and have it's requirements set to have [Message End] on.