RPG Maker VX Ace Main Menu Music

Make sure your event runs as either an Auto Run event or a Parallel Process if you have another event going on at the same time as this one. In my case, I have another event running simultaneously. Under 'Else,' I instructed the game to play the BGM that normally plays in Storm Point by using the 'Play BGM' command under 'Picture and Sounds.' I selected the music I wanted to play whenever the player stepped into the Grove.

To set this up, click OK and fill in what you want to happen when the player is in that region. The number will be whatever region you used (in my case, Region 1), so make sure to use that number. Now, you'll type in `$game_player.region_id = 1` as your script.

On the fourth page of the event editor, find the 'Script' option and set up a conditional branch under 'Flow Control.' This will be triggered only after the Lava Cavern Switch is turned on. In my case, I used the following conditional branch: `A bit of research revealed that yes, it's totally possible! Here's how you do it.`

First, you need to set up the region where you want the music to play. For example, I made Storm Point Grove into Region 1. This week, I wanted to see if it was possible to tie the music into a map's region.

All of the groves in my game have the same music except for the one in Storm Point since the Grove is part of Storm Point and plays the town's music instead. That way, our player will stay still until the menu is closed.

To prevent our character from wandering off while the menu is open, let's include a move route to make them wait the same amount of frames as when a button is pressed. If you playtest at this stage, you'll find that our character can still move around while the menu is open because the common event is a parallel process.

For this menu, let's have it loop around so that if our player holds down the left button, it will loop from the first option to the last option. Since there is a set minimum and maximum for the variable (the first option and the last option), we also need some conditional branches to check if our variable goes above or below those limits and set it to an available number.

A short wait after a button is pressed will help slow down the process to make it easier for our player to stop on the option they want. We can use conditional branches to check if the 'left' or 'right' buttons are pressed, and add or subtract 1 from our menu variable to change the selected menu option.

By putting this part all into a loop, our player will be able to move around the menu as much as they want since the control conditional branches repeat. With our menu visible, we can now move on to the interactive part of the game.

Rpg maker vx ace main menu music