RPG Maker VX Ace Resources (Tips, Tricks and Links)

Tilesets

One of the ways to make your game stand out from the other RMVXAce games is to create your own tileset, or assemble one from the many tilesets created by others.

Tips to create or assemble your own:

Overview of the required sizes and filenames for the resource files
Official Tileset Resource Standards (unofficial HTML manual export)
Official Tileset Importing Guide
Part 1 (Tools) of Lunarea's excellent tileset creation tutorial, Part 2 (Perspective) and Part 3 (Shapes, Edges, and Palettes).

Overview of various (tileset) resources

RPGMakerWeb released 12 packs of RPG Maker resources supplied by various content creators such as the talented Lunarea, mjomusic, Celianna, Joel Steudler, RavenTDA, PVGames, Archeia, Yami, Sharm, Kairi Sawler, VexedEnigma and Quigon. Expect music, battlers, tilesets, scripts and more!
You can download all 12 RPGMakerWeb Resource Christmas 2013 Gifts combined into one single archive.
Various RPG Maker VX Ace resources
Mack's Seasons Tilesets
fbu's Tilesets
Various alternative Tilesets

RPG Maker VX Ace Resource Pack DLC (Steam) Import Guide

If you want to know how to import official DLC into the standalone or Steam versions of RPG Maker VX Ace, then read the official RPG Maker VX Ace DLC Steam Import Guide.

Info about tileset sizes

Each tile is 32x32 pixels.
Grouped in five sets: A-E

Tileset A

Contains lower layer tiles, such as floors, stairs, roads and water.
Sub-divided into 5 groups; most of them as auto-tiles (special tiles for which borderlines are automatically created).

For more details, see Tileset Resource Standards page from the RPG Maker Manual

Script resources

If you want to extend your gameplay even more from the details, you'll want to start looking at the various scripts out there.

Yanfly's Party System script
Gardening/farming System script
Keep track of your slain enemies with the Bestiary script
Script to have an RPG without battles and items
Keep track of your notes, rumours and quests with this Journal script
Yanfly's Active Time Battle System script
Steal items (and get punished?) with this Shoplifting script.
Enchant your equipment with Runes!
Ring menu script (in the style of Secret of Mana/Evermore)
XS Menu Delux (interesting alternative menu system)
Scripts.rvdata2 exporter
Simple Text Input
Custom Encounter Texts
Equipment Levels Up
Galv's Character Effects (for instance a mirror reflection of your game characters.)
Script call equivalents of event calls
Spawner script
Terrain Tags Script (useful for adding hidden passages, diagonal stairs, cover walls and over/under bridges)

Script lists:

Other script lists by other websites/communities:

RPG Maker VX Ace Master Scripts List (overview of just about any (English) script available)
Various RGSS3 (RPG Maker VX Ace) scripts [Yanfly]
Various RGSS3 (RPG Maker VX Ace) scripts [Grimoire Castle]
Victor's scripts

Script Equivalents of Events

Variables:

Game variables: $game_variables[n] (Where 'n' is the Variable ID (without the leading zeroes))
Game Switches $game_switches[n] (Where 'n' is the Switch ID (without the leading zeroes))

Create Move Route Events through scripting

You can find more of these on the separate Script Equivalents page I'm working on.

If you want to create move routes dynamically through scripts, have a look at the scripting equivalent page's section on move events.

Event resources

If you want to extend your gameplay some more, but don't want to use scripts, then have a look at these event resources.

Creating a mini-map without using scripts
Cool things people do with events (Fancy Shop, Furniture Selector, Hunger and Thirst system, Grapple Hook)

Mapping Tutorials

Create more appealing maps with these tutorials.

mark333's "How to design Dungeons"
BigEd781's tips for auto-tiling and shift-clicking.
Parallax Mapping tutorial
Steps for making your first RPG (some interesting pointers and suggestions)

Using Move Routes to Walk Through Walls

Ever wondered how to make a hidden passage through solid walls? Tried using the "Through" option on an event tile on top of a solid A tile and wondered why it didn't work? Don't feel like having to resort to using event tile graphics to obscure walkable tiles, or having to add duplicate passable 'A' Tiles either?
Then click on the instructions header below to follow the step-by-step instructions, which are accompanied by screenshots, to learn how to use Move Routes to accomplish this task:

Instructions:

First you start off by placing an event tile on the edges of the wall you want to walk through:
Add event tiles on the edges of where you want to make your wall passable.

Next you have to set the Priority to Same as Characters and the Trigger to Player Touch so the event tile will trigger when your characters walk into the wall:
Select 'Same as Characters' from the Priority dropdown list. Select 'Player Touch' from the Trigger dropdown list.

Now you can click on the Set Move Route button, so you can add the relevant move routes for this event tile.
Click on the 'Set Move Route' button.

First make sure that the Player is set as Move Route Target to ensure that you are making the player move, and not the event tile:
Select 'Player' as the move route target.

Next you can add the Movement Commands which will force the player through the wall, as well as making him semi-transparent:
Add the relevant movement commands using opacity.

Alternatively you can make the player fully transparent, so it looks like he is completely hidden by the wall: Add the relevant movement commands using transparency.

As you can see I added the following movement commands:

Change Opacity: 100 this will make the player semi-transparent, so you can still see him, but he'll be blended with the background. Instead you can also use Transparent ON to make the player fully transparent, so he'll be completely obscured by the wall.
Through ON this will allow the player to pass through walls.
1 Step Forward will force the player to move 1 step in the current direction. We repeat this as much times as needed to end up on a non-wall tile. In this case 4 times.
Through OFF this will stop allowing the player to pass through walls. We don't want the player to continue to freely roam while in a no-clipping mode. ;-)
Change Opacity: 255 this will make the player fully opaque again. If you used Transparent ON before, then you should set Transparent OFF instead.

Personally I prefer the Change Opacity option, so the player can see that his character didn't suddenly go missing, but is actually moving through the wall.
After you've set all this, apply your changes and close the windows. Now you can copy the event tile to the other side of the wall too, so you can move back through the wall again too. ;-)

Once you've set the events up like this, it should look like this tutorial video showing how to use Move Routes to move through impassable walls:

Too big?

If you want to create move routes dynamically through scripts, have a look at the scripting equivalent page's section on move events.

Tileset resources

Mostly ripped tiles from other games.

Battlers and Faces

Enemy battle graphics.

Thalzon's really awesome battlers and faces!

Interesting RSS feeds to follow:

Keep informed about what's going on in the RMVXA community by following these RSS feeds!

Official RPG Maker RSS Feed and Blog
Grimoire Castle's RSS Feed and Website
Bubble Blog's RSS Feed and Website
Gameclover's RPG Maker VX RSS Feed and Website
RPG Maker VX Resource planet's RSS Feed and Website
RPG Maker VX Community News'sRSS Feed and Website
Yanfly Channel's RSS Feed and Website
Galv's Scripts's RSS Feed and Website

You can also grab my RPG Maker VX Ace RSS feeds OPML file to more easily subscribe to a bunch of RPG Maker related RSS feeds.

Miscellaneous Links

Stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere; random links.

The excellent RPG Maker XP game To The Moon was for a limited time available on HumbleBundle.com in the Humble Indie Bundle X. Since it was in the below-average bundle, you could've gotten it for as little as 1 USD, or as much as you wanted to spend on it. It is playable on Steam for Windows, and soon also for Mac. It also has standalone versions already available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

This wonderful story-oriented game uses a graphics style from the SNES era that many of us love, as well as wonderful music that works well as a standalone soundtrack too.

The Humble Indie Bundle X came with Joe Danger 2: The Movie, Papo & Yo and BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm as well, and Reus and Surgeon Simulator 2013 as bonus games if you beat the average. Each game was accompanied by its soundtrack.
Multi-user Development discussion on Steam
RPG Maker VX Ace Resource Directory (a forum topic with links to other resource topics)
Generica - A sort-of 16-Bits Adventure - YouTube Playlist. Contains videos of Adam H's RPG Maker VX Ace game/cartoon ‘Generica’. Quite funny, and highly recommended to watch.

FiXato's resources

I'll keep track of my resources/scripts here.

Scripts.rvdata2 exporter
RPG Maker VX Ace Links (this page)
Tileset Templates (work in progress overview of PSD templates to be used for creating Tileset graphics)
First post announcing the Tileset Dumper/Exporter/Importer tool I'm working on
FiXato's YouTube video showing how to use Move Routes to walk through impassable walls.
G+ Post showing some of the progress on SleepableRegions, AncientCave and TilesetDumper.
the YouTube video showing FiXato's RPG Maker VX Ace RGSS3 scripting tests of SleepableRegions, AncientCave and TilesetDumper.

Too big?

FiXato's RPG Maker VX Ace Resources

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