Ultimate Guide to Import/Upload Characters - [Intermediate]RPG Maker MZ MV

A short but in-depth guide on how to import characters for those who are just learning RPG Maker!

Rule of thumb:
Each type is 48x48 pixels, 3 tiles across & 4 tiles down.
Use '$' for single character sheets
Use '!' for objects

0:00 Intro and important to note
2:00 Asset standards and prefix rules
4:34 Easiest way to create character sheets
6:20 Import custom characters into RPG Maker
8:08 Prefix and size differences
12:05 Outro

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[NicoleHam]

This is actually the tutorial I've been looking for. A lot of tutorials/explanations of the Galv character graphics plugins / similar dont mention the actual way that RPG MV/MZ uses character sheets. Its been extremely difficult to find an explanation this thorough that goes into the tile size, how to get around that, and more. Thank you so so so so much.

[Estellars]

I have a hard time understanding stuff like this, and I'd like to say that this was actually extremely helpful! Thank you so much!

[staciamyers]

thank you so much for made a video by my request, it helps me a lot. hope you have a nice day and stay healthy

[c.n.]

This is such a useful update on this old application tysm!

[adrienvv]

How do i make characters lower than 48x48, or even have the entire tile size lower, I would like everything to be in 32x32 or 16x16, how do I change that?

[manananaka]

Hello! Thank you for your tutorials, they are very helpful. I have a question - whenever I try to change sprites of the basic main character at the start of the new project to my custom sprites, everything is going ok till I try to test the game. Then it tells me "Cannot read property 'expParams' of null". Even when I change everything back as it was, it still says the same. What might be the issue?

[Notsuba]

Hi ! Super video thanks a lot for sharing tis guide !! But I still have a question ^^ I would like to create a village of giant (think it's a pretty cool idea and a bit original for an rpg maker game lol) so with your last technique, if you recreated the stickguy's size by 2, would it work ? My English isn't perfect so sorry in advance if the answer is clear that you can or not agfter watching your video ^^' maybe I didn't get everything perfectly :, D Anyway, thanks again for your answer and keep up the great content !

[LaDreamTeam-]

Hi, thanks for your tuto but at 5:55 How did you put a tranparent background ?

[anthonym]

I'm having issues. I have used Gimp to try to test out some basic templates. I use PVGames assets. And it still dosen't seem to visually read the images properly. This is my first time making an RPG. Do I have to use specific plugins? As of right now I don't have any of the basic plugins on the list. Is that possibly why? Or is it something else?

[SLEEPERER]

Hi do you have video the guide for tileset A B C D E?

[Retro-Future-Land]

Can you import your own game maps etc?

[WASDCVBN]

this didn't work, the game is asking for half of my sprite instead of the full one (I'm using MV)

[caccacUCgghxcjxn]

Hi, how can i change sprite of the main character?

[FiggsNeughton]

Looking through the game files, why do some spritesheets have the exclamation point, but others do not? What's the difference? What does it actually do?

[konosombrada]

How do I go about making a character from scratch too import?