Variables Guide

Are you a budding new RMVX Ace user, but still find it difficult to grasp variables? Look no further, this playable Variables Guide project will teach you what variables are, what you can do with them, and how to use it in gameplay. To get the full experience of this guide, please play through it first, and then when you're finished, open the project with RPG Maker VX Ace and look inside of the events. It has comments scattered all around to teach you how to use variables even further.

Warning! This guide is meant for people who have already started using RPG Maker VX Ace, and therefor already have knowledge about:

• (self) switches
• event pages
• conditional branches

Because otherwise, you're going to be very, very confused. This guide is not meant as a direct starting point to get to know the program, but it's to help people who struggle to understand variables. So are you a complete newbie? Please check out some other beginner tutorials first! For example, the switches tutorial.

Note: the mod operand isn't explained in this guide. If you want to know what it does, click here. This guide also doesn't cover map coordinates nor terrain tags. I feel that these will naturally come to you as you get better at the program.

I will not answer questions about variables in this thread, please use the support forum for that. I will however, answer anything about the project itself, or fix any bugs you might encounter and report.

Credit goes to JV Master for the Skip Titlescreen script.

Thanks for this guide. Enjoy the fish :)

There aren't really any bugs that I noticed, but there are a few lines of text that get cut off, though it is near the end of the text, anyway..

Bug report

In Room A1, playing through the first lesson straight presented no problems.  At the end, you are back in the room.  However, if you select the option to hear the lesson again, at the end of it you cannot get out of the loop.  I had the screen showing the variable box, and pressing enter only brought up the choice to hear the lesson again or not.  There was no way to get back to the game itself.

Thanks for making the tutorial.  Once I'm through it I'm sure I shall be a lot more confident about using variables

Eh, I already am able to use variables in the most advanced conditions but you're never too advanced to learn, right? *downloads*

Thanks! It was actually a picture I forgot to erase, it wasn't a loop :)


@Cartridge: you might enjoy the fishing event then.

Great tutorial, loved it. I always prefer learning through ways that doesn't involve a wall of text. :p
 

I am going to see what the demo can teach me.

Edit- After 60 lottery tickets I still didn't win.

That was a great tutorial!

Thank a lot!

:) Rik

Won the lottery on my second try!!

This tutorial was extremely helpful! 

Thank you so much for creating and uploading this Celianna, it was amazingly helpful in learning about variables.

I'm sure I'll be using this guide again and again if I ever need help with variables and common events.

So long and thanks for all the fish. 

This is such an awesome tutorial. It is very helpful!

Thank you very much for this, it´s really helpful for the beginners like me. Really nice work.

Thanks, great tutorial!

I learnt heaps :)

.. I'm off to rig the lottery!

This is very helpful for those who are just new to variables and switches

Maybe I should play the lottery more often, won it on my first try and even got a special message!

This guide was amazing, I thought I knew how to use variables but this has opened up my eyes to a whole bunch of new ways to use them.

This is superlative! Thanks so much for doing this!


Your explanations are clear and your examples are helpful.

I'm a true neophyte and this tutorial was outstanding.  Very creative and well done.  Thanks so much for sharing it!  I'm starting to understand that there is a lot more possible than I thought with this engine, once you begin to understand what's under the hood a bit more.

I still fiind variables kind of confusing, but I know more now then I did before, after playing the demo. The MOST important thing I got from it, was character levels..I got multiple character's in my game, and didn't know what level to make new joining characters, without playing through and estimating. But now I know

all I have to do is make a simple variable event, that will make their levels match my leaders. THANKS! ;)

Well I hope you all had a very good Christmas and new year,

The Variables tutorial is certainly the best I have seen for a long time.

Very informative,thanks for making it available to each and everyone of us....