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[NPC Pack] Donkey Kong NPCs! - DKC Tires (New Update btw) + Gnawty Bosses (Plus a jellybob)

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:51 am
by MegaDood
Hi everyone, this is my first NPC pack, which consists of some Donkey Kong Country NPCs.

Most of these were requested by FireSeraphim, and the graphics were also made by him as well, except for the Ghost Ropes, which were requested by Shinbison and were an edit of the original DKC2 sprites and the Tikis which were originally sprited by MiitopianOliveDA and their animations were expanded by SuperAlexMaker .

The zingers have many settings and ways to adjust their movement, the vertical and horizontal movements can be controlled by redirectors, and the circular settings can have their speed and sizes adjusted. They have also been updated to now work with graf movement, and some other quality of life changes.

The klaptraps have a new charge attack, to compensate for their lack of frontal danger since you can't roll like in the DKC games.

The klaptraps also come in four colours, blue turns at ledges unless looking at a player or charging, green does the complete opposite, the magenta ones act like a green one except they jump when the player does, and the brown ones kill a player instantly if they are caught by it front on.

Ghost Ropes appear and disappear, meaning you have to think fast when holding onto one.

Oil Drums act as they do in Donkey Kong Country, and the AI for these was based heavily on MrDoubleA's Piranha Plant NPCs. You can check them out here:
viewtopic.php?f=101&t=25011

Army rolls towards the player when they're within about 5 blocks from him, and gets stunned if jumped on while rolling.

The tikis were made for my episode and come from Donkey Kong Country Returns, but seeing as I made them I decided to release them here. They're not the most impressive, but there are 3 different NPCs included here and they should make for some nice theming.

The gnawty bosses act as they did in the original DKC. They run and jump and laugh when they hit you.

The Jellybob is something I made as a request, it acts basically the same as a cloud drop so I just threw it in here as an extra thing.

The DKC Tires come in two variants: A half tire and a floating tire that act like an immovable springboard, and a version that can be rolled around.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy these.

Big thanks to Quine for helping, as well as MrDoubleA with the zingers.
Others helped with other smaller things, and credits for them are also listed in the npc's lua files.

Thanks to 8luestorm for helping with the klaptraps.

Screenshots and gifs:
Zingers: show
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Klaptraps: show
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Ghost Ropes: show
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Oil Drums: show
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Army: show
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Tikis: show
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Gnawty Bosses: show
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Jellybob: show
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Tires: show
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Downloads: show

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
by Enjl
I'm surprised you didn't just resprite the Van de Graf. Van de Graf is basically a Zinger after all, with how it's immune to everything and has programmable parabolic movement.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:19 pm
by MarioLover64
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
with how it's immune to everything
Rambi, Winky, Squawks, Squitter, Rattly, and COCONUT GUN: are we jokes to you

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:24 pm
by Enjl
MarioLover64 wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:19 pm
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
with how it's immune to everything
Rambi, Winky, Squawks, Squitter, Rattly, and COCONUT GUN: are we jokes to you
I think it goes without saying that I meant elements present within SMBX. For a less immune variant of the Van de Graf, the Graf's AI file can always be copied to a custom range slots with harm types adjusted.

Btw, neural networks can come up with less tired response formats.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:37 pm
by TheTrueMarioMaster
MarioLover64 wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:19 pm
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
with how it's immune to everything
Rambi, Winky, Squawks, Squitter, Rattly, and COCONUT GUN: are we jokes to you
You also forgot to mention barrels which someone else made a script for and besides there is only so much you can do with respriting that if you want to bring more authenticity to an npc than sometimes it's better to code it yourself and I'm like how there are all these Donkey Kong Country NPCs being brought into existence even if only five that I know of exist at the moment.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:05 pm
by MegaDood
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
I'm surprised you didn't just resprite the Van de Graf. Van de Graf is basically a Zinger after all, with how it's immune to everything and has programmable parabolic movement.
Ah... That's true, I basically just wanted to add some new things though, such as the red ones being immune to everything except for explosions, having them work with redirectors and having turning animations. Just for more authenticity I guess I decided to make a new NPC.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2020 1:32 am
by Enjl
MegaDood wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:05 pm
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
I'm surprised you didn't just resprite the Van de Graf. Van de Graf is basically a Zinger after all, with how it's immune to everything and has programmable parabolic movement.
Ah... That's true, I basically just wanted to add some new things though, such as the red ones being immune to everything except for explosions, having them work with redirectors and having turning animations. Just for more authenticity I guess I decided to make a new NPC.
Totally fair. Those options are pretty rad. It might be cool to have a variant with programmable path using the graf code on top of that, too.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:23 pm
by Teemster2
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
I'm surprised you didn't just resprite the Van de Graf. Van de Graf is basically a Zinger after all, with how it's immune to everything and has programmable parabolic movement.
It's nice to have a fully functional version of Zinger even if it's similar to Van de Graf. I know it would have been easier to respite but this is still cool.

Now I have a honest question. I have yet to see anyone make bounty bass, bounty bird or breamin gleamin from DKC. Is it difficult to create enemies that give you items such as power ups or light up your path? I'm just wondering.

Added in 53 seconds:
MegaDood wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:05 pm
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
I'm surprised you didn't just resprite the Van de Graf. Van de Graf is basically a Zinger after all, with how it's immune to everything and has programmable parabolic movement.
Ah... That's true, I basically just wanted to add some new things though, such as the red ones being immune to everything except for explosions, having them work with redirectors and having turning animations. Just for more authenticity I guess I decided to make a new NPC.
I think these are amazing. I love enemies from DKC. Keep up the amazing work.

Added in 7 minutes 38 seconds:
TheTrueMarioMaster wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:37 pm
MarioLover64 wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:19 pm
Enjl wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 9:43 am
with how it's immune to everything
Rambi, Winky, Squawks, Squitter, Rattly, and COCONUT GUN: are we jokes to you
You also forgot to mention barrels which someone else made a script for and besides there is only so much you can do with respriting that if you want to bring more authenticity to an npc than sometimes it's better to code it yourself and I'm like how there are all these Donkey Kong Country NPCs being brought into existence even if only five that I know of exist at the moment.
Eventually we may get all of them but some may be hard to recreate. I'm loving this though. Can't wait for more. Aqua npc's in Donkey Kong were amazing and then there is click clack and knick knack etc. If we patiently wait All SMB 1-3 games, SMW 1-2 and DKC 1-3 may get completed.

It would be nice to have a place where all polished npc's are located at for easy find, search and download since they won't all be in base game 2.0 and here they could get lost in all the threads being started.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:55 pm
by MegaDood
Teemster2 wrote:
Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:32 pm

Added in 53 seconds:
MegaDood wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:05 pm
Ah... That's true, I basically just wanted to add some new things though, such as the red ones being immune to everything except for explosions, having them work with redirectors and having turning animations. Just for more authenticity I guess I decided to make a new NPC.
I think these are amazing. I love enemies from DKC. Keep up the amazing work.
Thank you! I plan on releasing an update featuring Enjl's suggestion of adding a programmable path some time in the future, it really would add a lot of extra customization. However I'm not sure when this'll be since I'm pretty busy with general life.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:59 am
by The Thwomp King
Woah these look awesome! These would be perfect with my episode too. Are you planning to work on other DKC enemies in the future?

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:26 am
by MegaDood
The Thwomp King wrote:
Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:59 am
Woah these look awesome! These would be perfect with my episode too. Are you planning to work on other DKC enemies in the future?
Thank you!
And I've considered making more, though I'm not sure if and when I'd get the time to. If I do decide to make any more I'd most likely release them on the forums too.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 3:31 pm
by Roger Mario
I can't get it to work even though im putting the zingers ai in the right place. Plus what do these strings of text even mean? and how do I fix it?

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Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 4:55 pm
by Enjl
The error means that the code was looking for a file called zingers.lua in an "AI" folder and couldn't find it.

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:07 pm
by FirestarPlays
This may seem like a silly question, but how do I change the zinger algorithm?

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:38 pm
by MegaDood
FirestarPlays wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:07 pm
This may seem like a silly question, but how do I change the zinger algorithm?
If I interpreted the question correctly, when you select the zinger, on the right should be an extra settings menu with a drop down menu, you can change that to choose how you want the zinger to behave. It's similar to how you change the behavior of para-koopas and cheep cheeps.
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Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:36 am
by FirestarPlays
MegaDood wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:38 pm
FirestarPlays wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:07 pm
This may seem like a silly question, but how do I change the zinger algorithm?
If I interpreted the question correctly, when you select the zinger, on the right should be an extra settings menu with a drop down menu, you can change that to choose how you want the zinger to behave. It's similar to how you change the behavior of para-koopas and cheep cheeps.
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Well problem is its greyed out and I can't change the behavior (Also my array id is 178 for some reason?)
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Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:32 am
by MarioLover64
FirestarPlays wrote:
Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:36 am
MegaDood wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:38 pm
FirestarPlays wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 2:07 pm
This may seem like a silly question, but how do I change the zinger algorithm?
If I interpreted the question correctly, when you select the zinger, on the right should be an extra settings menu with a drop down menu, you can change that to choose how you want the zinger to behave. It's similar to how you change the behavior of para-koopas and cheep cheeps.
Image
Well problem is its greyed out and I can't change the behavior (Also my array id is 178 for some reason?)
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Save as lvlx

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:05 pm
by FirestarPlays
MarioLover64 wrote:
Fri Oct 09, 2020 11:32 am
FirestarPlays wrote:
Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:36 am
MegaDood wrote:
Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:38 pm


If I interpreted the question correctly, when you select the zinger, on the right should be an extra settings menu with a drop down menu, you can change that to choose how you want the zinger to behave. It's similar to how you change the behavior of para-koopas and cheep cheeps.
Image
Well problem is its greyed out and I can't change the behavior (Also my array id is 178 for some reason?)
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Save as lvlx
My level is lvlx

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2020 2:23 pm
by BroccoliRampage
Thank you for this wonderful creation!!

I have tweaked it a bit using the original sprites, both the PSD file and the PNG can be downloaded:

Zinger PSD https://www.dropbox.com/s/91rv54lwrg3bs ... s.psd?dl=0
Zinger PNGhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/mzus07xvwvtxg ... t.png?dl=0

Re: [NPC Pack] Donkey Kong Country Zingers!

Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 5:20 am
by MegaDood
BroccoliRampage wrote:
Sun Nov 08, 2020 2:23 pm
Thank you for this wonderful creation!!

I have tweaked it a bit using the original sprites, both the PSD file and the PNG can be downloaded:

Zinger PSD https://www.dropbox.com/s/91rv54lwrg3bs ... s.psd?dl=0
Zinger PNGhttps://www.dropbox.com/s/mzus07xvwvtxg ... t.png?dl=0
I'm glad you like them! Those sprites look great, they remind me a lot of the original DKC sprites.