Okay, so now you know what each value does.

If you don't know what these do, stick with Normal or 0.

Blend Type (0 is Normal, 1 is Addition & 2 is Subtraction).

Laymens terms, completely transparent/see-through or opaque/non see-through)

X Zoom (This is what percentage the image should be zoomed horizontally).

X Position (on the screen, not the map).

Picture filename (including the extension, such as PNG or JPG).

In side the parenthesis, there are 8 values you can change dynamically or keep them static using this method. So, () is just what you'd expect, it's the 'Show Picture' command in script form. However, using a variable will give you a beautiful shortcut. Without the process I'm teaching you, you'd still have to copy&paste the line for as many times as you want to have the picture fade in and out, so you don't gain much out of this method at all. This is because it's going to be used to replace the static number used for opacity. So, if you read the line, you'll see the variable i in there.

Now we get to how this simplifies the picture animation process.

It will auto-break out of itself so it doesn't loop forever. Simple, right? So, the loop will run while the variable i is less than 255 and will run once more at 255 before finally finishing. So, the do is literally saying, do this command that coming up. We can write an if/else statement to make sure that it breaks the loop. This loop will run as long as the variable i is less than i and will run once more once it reaches 255. However, doing Loops in eventing is tricky and, in my own personal opinion, messy. What this is doing is a normal Loop command. Okay, so, this looks confusing, doesn't it? If you're a programmer, not so much, but to the average joe/jane, it is. A good practice to have is to use names like iLetter, variable_i, or just i or even a simple name like opacity_vari if you really wanted. In Ruby, it's not needed.īy the way, the variable can be named whatever you want as long as you don't put spaces in the name.

For programmers, don't worry about using a semi-colon at the end. You may ask, well if you can just do that, why not do that instead? Because you're saving yourself a variable slot in the event editor and it's much simpler to simply type out i=0 than to event it. Still, when you call this, and it does need to be written every time you're doing something like this unless you're doing a for loop, but that won't be covered. It's setting the variable, which I have set to i, to a value of 0. The letter i is a variable, being used as such just as you would use a variable in the event editor. I=0while i<=255 do ('map_name1.png', 0, 48, 64, 100, 100, i, 0) i+=16 wait(2)endSo, what does this do? Well, let's take a look at each and every single thing involved here. With this method, you can throw that right out the window. This usually requires a lot of 'Show Picture' commands along with a Wait command after every single one to control how fast or slow the animation goes. Okay, so let's start with something rather basic, which is a simple fade in & out. Okay, now this does involve scripting, but not extensive knowledge in it and I'll explain everything so that you don't get lost. This simple, and very powerful, little script call will make all of that a quick and painless reality. So, you have pictures you want to animate, perhaps in a cycle or even to fade in and out things in an endless loop using a lot of frames but don't want to waste your time inputting each and every single 'Show Picture' command into the event editor? Neither do I.

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