How do you place Civillian Characters in RM2K 2000

[Mekichuu]

You know how when you are playing a RPG like pokemon or golden sun there are always random people that are walking around and you can like click "A" to talk to them and they will tell some random stuff that was already preprogrammed? Well, i was just wondering..... How do you place the civiliians in the game in RM2K 2000

[zuhane]

Ahhhhh... this is really nice and simple, so don't worry!

At the top left of the RPG-Making screen, you'll see 3 different coloured squares with mouse cursors over them.

One is for the lower building layer. (Grass, water, etc)
One is for the middle building layer (Trees, rocks, etc)
The last one (third) represents the event layer. (People, treasure chests, events, teleporters, battles, etc)

Select the third one. Next, double click wherever you want your NPC on the map with this event layer selected.
It should make a window come up showing you lots of different things. Try experimenting with every little
piece of it, bit at a time.

To choose what the character looks like, look to the left of the window to see something called "Event Graphic".
Click on "Set" underneath it, then scroll through whatever takes your fancy and select a character to have for an NPC!
Simples!

After this, you can select what they say when you press "Spacebar" on them. This is easy, too. The whole blank area to
the right of the window is what will happen when you interact with that person. So double-click the blank area and then
click the "Message" button, then type a message and click "Ok". Press "Ok" again to leave the window and be back on the map.
If you save and test your game, the person should exist and also say what you want them to say if you talk to them.

Let me know if it helped!

[X_marks_the_ed]

You forgot to mention setting the trigger to "action key".

[Shady Ultima]

Action key is the default starting one for an event though.

[Prpl_Mage]

Yeah, NPCs or civilians are actually events with character graphics that displays messages when clicked on.

[Mekichuu]

Thank you!

[SqareMan]

I had the exact question when I started with rpg maker. I started out totaly stupid and not knowing a thing. Now i'm building all sorts of things from a jumping system to a ghosts that haunt my maps and randomly appear and disapear.