I don't think there are any good tutorials for V2 games. There's almost no good *docs* for V2 :)

Here's a quick walkthrough of making interactive maps, in two parts.

PART ONE - ENTITIES

Entities are the characters on your map. You place entities in maped by hitting E then clicking tiles. Shaded tiles are entities. Clicking a shaded tile brings up the entity properties box. You specify a CHR file here (use the CHR list button to load a CHR) and some other stats (read the maped docs for full info.)

In the entity window, specify an event number for when the entity is activated. Then, in your map VC file, you script all your events in VergeC (read the docs for info on scripting) There's an autoexec event that's first in every map VC, then events numbered 1 through whatever.

For the numbered event you gave an entity, script whatever you want in there, like a talk box. Boom! Entity talks :)

PART TWO - ZONES

Zones allow players to activate stuff by being in a certain part of the map, or to activate "tiles" (like treasure chest and stuff.)

In maped, hit N for zone mode, then lay down zones just like tiles. (Again, read the docs for more info.) Zones specify events just like entities do, and you script them the same way.

Normal zones activate when the player steps into the zoned space. If you set the zone to "enable adjacent activation" then the player can activate it by pressing ENTER *next* to the zone (like chests and doors.)

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That's how you do interactive stuff. It's really basic. The best way to learn is to try things, and when it doesn't work, fix it and try again. Experience is the best teacher (and crap like that :)

The only other option is to find a copy of V1 floating around somewhere, cuz it has lots of docs and tutorials. But it's more limiting :) Of course, it's more newbie-friendly (as our oldbie friends continually point out on the other board :)

That is all.

--Invicticide

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I'm having trouble with maped. When I click E and make a tile, nothing happens. Same goes for N and

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Que Sera Sera

thanks a ton, Invicticide. In case you couldn't tell (YEAH RIGHT!!!) I'm a newbie. Sorry for being such a pain!

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Que Sera Sera

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rwkl97/ep/data/tutorials/feyrv2tt.html

Feyr's V2 tutorial, though it was put out when the first version of V2 was around, it's still a pretty good resource. ^_^
Hope that helps, and good luck. =)

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ok.. don't laugh it's a stupid kind of premise. The main characters are Aiko, Mina, Li, and Skya. Aiko has to team up with Mina to win the heart of Li and make him dump Skya. At some point you have to trick Skya and Li into helping. The first thing you have to find is a staff. that's all I've been able to think of so far... because I've been so frustrated just trying to get my stuff to work. I'll zip my character file so you can see Aiko and Mina.

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Que Sera Sera