2 questions that I really need help

I'm very new to rpg maker and need some advice. I have 2 questions that I really need help with. 1 - Is there any posible way at all to increase the amount of tiles I can use in the game? 2 - Is it possible to use prerendered backrounds like in ff7, such as drawing a landscape from a birds eye view, making the all the screens nothing but battles and walking from screen to screen. (thats just one idea, any others would help) Any help at all would be greatly apreciated, thanx.

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1) No. There's only a certain amount of titles per tileset. You can edit the tileset, or add other tilesets, but you're only getting 480 tiles per set (yes, 480, some tiles on the lower layer "connect" to each other, however)

2) Yes, oddly. You basically set it up as a Panorama. (80x80 to 640x640, 256 colors). Then you'd add "borders" either by events or by making a tileset that's all clear, but one tile type can't be walked on. (In the database, Tileset tab, hit the Passability button and make one of the tiles have an X). This way, you'll have a background that you can walk around on..

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I think when Grav "summoned" me, he screwed up my ISP, because I couldn't connect last night for some odd reason... oh well.