Interesting things in SMBX

[Julia Pseudo]

You can stack Shy Guys, but not for example Gumbas.

That's because their tops are solid. And like RudeGuy said, this is very much intended and used in The Invasion 2's later levels.

[HeroLinik]

You can stack Shy Guys, but not for example Gumbas.

That's because their tops are solid. And like RudeGuy said, this is very much intended and used in The Invasion 2's later levels.

Also, it was spammed a lot in the later levels of the original Invasion. (does anyone remember that Clown Car level with all the Shy Guys stacked on top of each other?)

[zxcv]

Or the tank levels in the Bowser world.

[Cedrik]

You can stack Shy Guys, but not for example Gumbas.

That's because their tops are solid. And like RudeGuy said, this is very much intended and used in The Invasion 2's later levels.

Also, it was spammed a lot in the later levels of the original Invasion. (does anyone remember that Clown Car level with all the Shy Guys stacked on top of each other?)

Yes.

But an other think. If you stack Sniffits, it is unfair.
You die so often.

[Mable]

Why would you even do that.

[RudeGuy]

Why would you even do that.

I'm pretty sure the invasion 2 did that too. But the snifits were placed in a way that it's fair, and you even have a billy gun in the level.

[Mable]

Yeah but thinking about today people qould only spam it and don't put a gun therw.

[zxcv]

Why would you even do that.

I'm pretty sure the invasion 2 did that too. But the snifits were placed in a way that it's fair, and you even have a billy gun in the level.

I think that Redigit was the best level designer we ever had in this place.

[HenryRichard]

Most true to the original Mario designs, anyways.

Something that not many people seem to know: Using 2.0 you can make .png graphics that contain partial transparency and they will actually render correctly.

[zxcv]

Most true to the original Mario designs, anyways.

Something that not many people seem to know: Using 2.0 you can make .png graphics that contain partial transparency and they will actually render correctly.

I can use this in normal gfx placement? Like, name a PNG file "npc-1", will work in the game?

[h2643]

Most true to the original Mario designs, anyways.

Something that not many people seem to know: Using 2.0 you can make .png graphics that contain partial transparency and they will actually render correctly.

I can use this in normal gfx placement? Like, name a PNG file "npc-1", will work in the game?

Yes.

[PixelPest]

Most true to the original Mario designs, anyways.

Something that not many people seem to know: Using 2.0 you can make .png graphics that contain partial transparency and they will actually render correctly.

I can use this in normal gfx placement? Like, name a PNG file "npc-1", will work in the game?

Yes, but with pngs you don't use masks (m-files), you just make the background of the NPC completely transparent.

[Emral]

you just make the background of the NPC completely transparent.

Which is something you should've done in all your sprites anyways, as it makes sprites easier to edit later on than when using black (and since SMBX's gif system interprets transparency as black, there's nothing you'd lose from it).

[zxcv]

That's amazing! Some day I will make my own gfx!

[Meepingturtle]

If all players die in the outro while the credits are playing (you can do this by removing the floor in the .lvl file) it will cause the credits to stretch across the screen.

[Julia Pseudo]

Huh, I never even knew that could happen. I always assumed that the characters automatically walked straight forward without respect to the terrain.

[zxcv]

You can copy the "outro" and "intro" levels and use them as battle levels/normal levels.

I made some modifications in the intro level to play battle with my friends and it was cool.

[superhammerbros100]

You can copy the "outro" and "intro" levels and use them as battle levels/normal levels.

I made some modifications in the intro level to play battle with my friends and it was cool.

I don't take it as "Interesting" as it's kinda obvious you can do it because it's a level.

[JupiHornet]

24:15 in this video.
How does that even happen? ;-;

also 2000th post xdddddddd

[Fennor]

Increasing the speed of wart's bubbles to something like 3 and placing wart higher up on a platform makes it easier to avoid the bubbles, because the distance between two bubbles will be higher. Since the normal bubbles are very hard to avoid, most designers make it possible to simply outrange him which completly destroys the point of wart's mechanic. This way you can force the player to dodge the bubbles by standing/jumping inbetween them, without making it too hard.