1) I believe the polflip has some kind of slant detection for ceilings. It doesn't care for slopes though. https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=24442 If not the polflip, then the ceiling and floor stretch npcs in basegame share custom edge detection code that works similarly....

PROX wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 12, 2020 2:16 pm

We're crediting you for the npc itself, not the sprite. I made the sprite lol

OH now it all makes sense haha. Thanks and sorry for derailing the thread for a short bit.

Huh.. I looked up and down the thread 5 times and couldn't see what I'm credited for. I realize it's probably something not showcased, but the wording is a bit weird in that case. In any case, this looks pretty nifty, even if the palettes of all the custom stuff look a bit depressing. Keep it up! N...

world.playerCurrentDirection is a read-only variable... I tried this for myself and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to work. Ah... hm. In that case, that might be what stopped me from making a variable for it back in the day haha. Quickly asked Rednaxela about the matter and apparently that ...

Huh.. I looked up and down the thread 5 times and couldn't see what I'm credited for. I realize it's probably something not showcased, but the wording is a bit weird in that case.
In any case, this looks pretty nifty, even if the palettes of all the custom stuff look a bit depressing. Keep it up!

You'll need to set world.playerCurrentDirection to 3 when the player stops moving I think. https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/World_%28class%29 world.playerCurrentDirection is a read-only variable... I tried this for myself and no matter what I did I couldn't get it to work. Ah... hm. In that case, that m...

You'll need to set world.playerCurrentDirection to 3 when the player stops moving I think.
https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/World_%28class%29

Consider that this "slam like design" is just because people have become more familiar with deconstructing how nintendo makes levels in general. Previous contest winners also utilized four step design. The difference is that back then everyone else didn't know how to structure their levels. I believ...

can i get some screenshots? On a Level or Episode Base? I'd only need the spawnzones.lua for a single Boss right now. Any screenshots that would help provide further context so I would have a chance at figuring out what the current situation even is. If you don't know what this entails just zip up ...

can i get some screenshots?

I mean, that's almost half of the levels people submitted. um? none of the submitted levels have been posted in the Slam forum. Slam is a community project, if you make a level for it, you post it in the subforum. (also I realized that slam is inactive for quite a few months) I think what they mean...

DrMekar wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 11, 2020 5:50 pm

May I ask how to load this?

I tried the basic loadfunction

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local spawnzones= API.load("spawnzones");

Though it shows this Error:

Where did you place spawnzones.lua relative to the level or episode folder?

Using the event-based autoscroll you can only have autoscroll in the section the player starts in.

Are SLAM levels (especially with LUA scripting) generally preferred and judged better than other levels that have a good design? "SLAM level" isn't a design trope and therefore I don't see the distinction between that and any other level for an episode. Generally speaking, levels for episodes usual...

Goldenemerl64 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 10, 2020 10:05 pm

It's Still Not Working!

Did you try CJ's advice of not using unfinished content? Check first post on this page.

So from what I heard/saw, battles are still pointless aside from collectables costing a crazy amount of coins Pointless aside from things that don't make them pointless? Watching the treehouse it seemed like they're a pretty important resource gathering mechanism throughout the game. Battling every...

Origami is just a Japanese thingy. :lol: When a western guy first purchasing this and is first time playing a Mario game like this, it sure be strange that didn't know what a origami is. The word origami has been part of the english language since like the 1960s, too. I don't think there'd be too m...

Surprised that happens. You'll have to share your world map for that so people can have a look. In general, the code checks whenever the player stops walking to see if they arrived on a level or at an intersection, and if not, continues walking in the direction they didn't come from.

#1 HUDOverride.drawStarcoins is the function that draws the star coin display. With a bit of effort you may be able to get it to work on the overworld. #2 SMBX2 already keeps track of that. SaveData._basegame.starcoinCounter. See starcoin.lua in npcs/ai. #3 See 2. #4 Easiest way is probably to check...

https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=101&t=25779 Half-right. More like https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=372705#p372705 Not at the moment. I have something like that in my episode, but it works in a way in which it's not suitable for abstracting into a script,...