NIJINEKO'S PROFILE

Nijineko again.

For my second question regarding my current project, I'd like to focus on secret doors.

In the rogue-like i'm basing my project off of, secret doors are invisible and cannot be discovered until you cast a LIGHT spell. Once cast, all secret doors on the map which are not covered by fog-of-war will be revealed. (Just fyi, every map fits on a single screen, though I doubt I can pull that off in RMMV.)

I've been attempting to make certain wall tiles have the THROUGH quality, but that doesn't seem to be working like I expected.

Next, I tried making an event that turns the character THROUGH quality on if they are facing a certain direction, and off if they are facing another direction, but then they can't walk on that tile.

Finally, I tried making the event have the THROUGH quality, but then the event would not trigger no matter what.

I plan on making a magic skill called REVEALING LIGHT which will have a character level based or footstep-based timer. For the duration of this skill, the secret doors need to be revealed and passable, and once the skill expires, it needs to revert.



So, in any case I'm rather stuck. Any advice on how to pull this off would be appreciated.

Thanks for the replies so far.

I'm only addressing the first three questions at this point in time, but I appreciate the pointers on the other questions, so I will be certain to hone those before I actually ask them. They are simply there as placeholders at this point, anyhow.

In response to not getting the intent of 1-3, I am looking for some brainstorming about breaking a large map into pieces: basically into rooms and hallways. Then, taking those pieces and reusing them at different places in a given "level" and also on other "levels", maybe adding or changing a tile on the fly to give the illusion of variety. Doing something like this would also need a method of tracking where the characters are on the "level".

@LockeZ Thanks for the detailed responses. That gives me some insight. I've already poked through some tutorials on what is required to actually port an rpgmaker game onto android, and it does sound like a lot of extras. I appreciate the heads-up. Excellent comments on the fog-of-war effects and methods. And, yes, this is my first project. The original game didn't have randomized levels, oddly enough, but did support up to 1000 levels via the add-on level editor for it. Not many rogue-likes back in the day came with a level editor. Be nice to replicate that, but I imagine that is somewhat out of scope for rpgmaker having an in-game level editor! lol.