Rpg Maker Developers Group

Hello Everyone! I would like to officially announce my joining of the RPG Maker Community. I hope to not only take advantage of the resources available to me, but I would like to in time also give back to the community through whatever talent I can offer. (Not much. Yet.)

To Business!

So I am trying to use eventing (parallel process) to create darkness in an outside environment. If you have ever played Pokemon, then you will know what I am talking about when I say that it is exactly the same as Flash.

Point is: It is supposed to be dark, and only a small area is visible to the player. It currently works perfectly fine, the darkness follows the player. Everything is fine.

Except.

Problem is: I have the darkness, it follows the player, HOWEVER, when I have the main character interact with another event (such as reading a note), the picture that I use to create the darkness circle starts drifting off to the top left.

So here is the Parallel Process event in all it's complicated glory. (Let me know if there is an official way to format posting these into the forums for easy reading)

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Control Variable: [0016: X-Axis] = Player's Map X

Control Variable: [0017: Y-Axis] = Player's Map Y

Show Picture: 1, 'Darkness2', Center (272,208), (100%, 100%), 200, Normal

Move Picture: 1, Center (Variable [0015][00016]), (100%, 100%), 200, Normal, @ 600

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If anyone knows how to prevent the image from wandering when I interact with other events, please let me know. It would be greatly appreciated.

Just in case you need some visual aid on what is happening, I have attached a couple images to help.



This is what happens when I try to read some notes on the ground.
 



This is approximately where the image should be. Don't worry if it looks off, I am using an image where I was having other problems I've since fixed.

I've noticed that it is slightly off even without interacting with events, and it may just be a weird load issue. Also could be that I need to increase the size of the image a few pixels. Beyond the 544 x 416 suggestion I've seen on other threads.