I am used to using RPGmaker and there are alot of things I do not understand here. Im not sure if there is a way to do things or I have to do it from scratch.some of the question I will be asking might be designer questions, if so then just say I need to figure that one on my own :) I am just looking for some shortcuts or a way of doing things with this engine I dont want to re-create the wheel.

All of my questions are for a real-time RPG.

1. How do I make a dialog box? Do I need art assets to have a dialog box or is it something preset by this engine?

2. How do I set a button to perform a attack like Link from Zelda? (I read into the HookKey function, do I use that? and how?) Also how do I determine collision with objects that I attack? meaning is there a way to determine location of the entity and myself to check if i hit or miss?

3. I understand I declare global varibles within the System.vc but do I need to declare them once more in the game.vc?

4. For GUI's how can i have them update and display on screen as the player walks through the map and/or fighting?
IE: health/sats numeric/statusbar.

awesome thanks, I also had another question. I was looking through all the files in the tutorial and i notice, how do I link art assets such as GUI's and where do I make them then store them or convert them to work in Verge?

VERGE is so far beyond what you can do with RPG-maker that it's not even funny. But you have to be able to walk before you can produce something like Timekeepers.

There's no dialogue box function by default, but all the components are in place to allow you to construct one quite simply.

void UI_Textbox( string textbox_content )

{

//  A Very Simple textbox routine

//



int FONT_builtin = 0;



SetEntitiesPaused( 1 );  // stops all the entities from moving

textline = WrapText( FONT_builtin, textbox_content, imagewidth( screen ) );



while (!b1)  // while button 1 isn't pressed

  {  

  // Draw textbox.

  render();

  

  SetLucent(50);

  rectfill (0, imageheight( screen )/2, imagewidth( screen ), imageheight( screen ), RGB( 0, 0, 255 ), screen);

  setlucent(0);

  

  PrintString( 0, imageheight( screen )/2, screen, FONT_builtin, textline);



  showpage();

}

unpress(b1);  // This prevents the textbox from being fired off again immediately.



SetEntitiesPaused(0);  // unpauses the entities



// End of Function

}

This looks a lot more complex than it actually is. Basically all it does is draw a rectangle on the screen (http://www.verge-rpg.com/docs/view.php?libid=1&function=47) and print some text over it (http://www.verge-rpg.com/docs/view.php?libid=1&function=50).