Flaming buildings
 

I need help with the beginning of a new game. It starts out where you wake up and the village is on fire. I just need to know if there's some way to make burning buildings. Do I have to make them in the chipsets, or is it like some kind of animation picture thing I have to place as an event on the buildings?

or...maybe I'll just use some kinda cutscene or something...i dunno

And I'm using rm2k3

You could just have a simple event that starts whenever one of your switches does...have it a fire (I like to use the rtp fire when I do stuff like this) that moves however you want, and make the screen tone red.

Edit:

Oh, and place the fire events on buildings, trees, etc.

Oh...like set an event to have a fire chipset and then wait a millisec and then change the tile to a diff fire set?

I don't see why you can't make it a battle animation, and have an event that shows the animation over the building and keeps on looping.

Do you know how switches work, Sly? (Just wondering)

There's always the old standby of having a charset for fire and just having the sprite constantly move in place, thus animating it. As a bonus, you can have events attached to each one for blocking paths and the like.

Yeah I know how to use switches and 2nd pages and whatever. I thought battle animations would only be usable in battles, like the little code area for making monster parties in the database. I think changing charsets from one flame picture to another, to another, and looping would work.

Just use a charset and have it "spin around" in place, no need to switch between different ones. Treat each direction as a frame and you have a 4-frame animation that you can attach an event directly to. Flames don't need to be complicated.

Quick example I just found: http://rm2k3.venajugar.com/charset-FX-fire.php

Thanks cube, that's perfect