anothercurrency.lua - Count anything

[Enjl]

Download:
https://pastebin.com/ErKyfRGX

Another repurposed and expanded piece of code. I always wrote this one from scratch for all of my episodes. It's barely 50 lines of actual logic, so it's not much, but it's not such a bad idea to have that boilerplate extracted into something generic.
This library just counts stuff you collected across levels. You have to handle drawing or shops yourself.

Demo:

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Code I used for the demo:

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local anothercurrency = require("anothercurrency")

local myCurrency = anothercurrency.registerCurrency("Default+1up", true)
myCurrency:registerCoin(187, 10)
local myCurrency2 = anothercurrency.registerCurrency("Default", true)
local myCurrency3 = anothercurrency.registerCurrency("1up x2")
myCurrency3:registerCoin(187, 20)

local function doReward()
NPC.spawn(101, player.x, player.y - 150, player.section)
end
myCurrency3:registerLimit(100, doReward)

function onDraw()
myCurrency:draw()
myCurrency2:draw()
myCurrency3:draw()
end

Demo doesn't show all the library can do. There's comments in the code for everything. Additional features include
- comparison of a counter's value with a static value (shop price comparison)
- overrideable draw function (you should really override it cause the default is for debugging)
- being able to manually add/subtract from a counter (shops???)
- it saves reliably whenever smbx saves (SaveData) (make sure all the names are unique)

[The Toad Master BUP]

You can make shops using this?Cool!

[BlueInkling]

I was using your anothercurrency.lua file to make a shop system with Dragon Coins as a currency. It's working well, except for the fact that entering a level resets the Dragon Coin counter back to zero. How can I make sure that the Dragon Coin counter gets saved in between levels?

My code:
https://imgur.com/a/z9sAF5h
https://imgur.com/a/v6V1uxN

[Enjl]

I was using your anothercurrency.lua file to make a shop system with Dragon Coins as a currency. It's working well, except for the fact that entering a level resets the Dragon Coin counter back to zero. How can I make sure that the Dragon Coin counter gets saved in between levels?

My code:
https://imgur.com/a/z9sAF5h
https://imgur.com/a/v6V1uxN

Sorry for the late response. Just now got around to fixing it.
Either redownload the file, or alter line 85 of anothercurrency to set _value rather than value. Silly oversight, there.

[Wiimeiser]

I wonder if this could be used to override Rupees... You'd need a lot of overrides for all the hardcoded stuff, though...

[Murphmario]

I wonder if this could be used to override Rupees... You'd need a lot of overrides for all the hardcoded stuff, though...

Should be relatively simple to replace the Rupee counter. Just alter the hud to display the amount of currency you have instead of coins/rupees, and just keep the vanilla coin/rupee counter at one.

[Marioman2007]

Is there a way to change the font?

[Enjl]

Is there a way to change the font?

Read the first post and/or the in-file documentation.

- overrideable draw function (you should really override it cause the default is for debugging)

[Mal8rk]

Is there a way to change the Y/X position of your currency?

[Marioman2007]

Is there a way to change the Y/X position of your currency?

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local currencyX = 0
local currencyY = 0

function onDraw()
    Text.printWP(myCurrency:getMoney(), 1, currencyX, currencyY, 5)
end

[Enjl]

Is there a way to change the Y/X position of your currency?

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local currencyX = 0
local currencyY = 0

function onDraw()
    Text.printWP(myCurrency:getMoney(), 1, currencyX, currencyY, 5)
end

the recommended way is to override the draw function, as noted 3 posts above this one.

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local currencyX = 0
local currencyY = 0

local function drawCurrency(currency)
    Text.printWP(currency:getMoney(), 1, currencyX, currencyY, 5)
end

myCurrency.draw = drawCurrency

function onDraw()
    myCurrency:draw()
end

benefit being that you can do this in one script and call :draw from another, or easily have different draw functions for different currencies.

[Wooliestplate89]

No offences but, bro what on earth is that test level! At least make a good looking level to test stuff in, because this looks like [censored].