Does anyone know Bowser's punch state ID and offset?

[SMB3]

I'm trying to make Bowser (the playable one) have a shorter punch animation. I tried using Text.print() to draw the current state of offset 0x122 (forced animation state, which is where I guessed it would be) during onTick(), but that drew 0 whether I was punching or not. (It was definitely working however, as grabbing a hammer suit changed it briefly to 12.) It's also not stored under 0x164 (tail swipe timer) in any way, as that stayed at 0 except when I had a tail, which changed it to stay at -2 instead.
0x160 (projectile timer + link slashes) changed only depending on my current powerup, and 0x162 (link projectiles) and 0x14 (link slash cooldown timer) didn't seem to do anything.

I'm about out of ideas for what else to try for this, so I'm guessing the current state of Bowser's punch is not stored anywhere in these offsets, and is instead either stored elsewhere, or in an otherwise-unused offset. Anyone actually know where it is? Thanks!

[The0x539]

Bowser, being a SMBX2 playable, probably doesn't store its own variables in player offsets. Check bowser.lua, adjust some values in there. Better to alter mechanics directly than to wrestle with them, and with anything done in Lua this is possible.

[SMB3]

Bowser, being a SMBX2 playable, probably doesn't store its own variables in player offsets. Check bowser.lua, adjust some values in there. Better to alter mechanics directly than to wrestle with them, and with anything done in Lua this is possible.

:facepalm: I hadn't even considered the new characters might have been added with Lua rather than directly coded into the base game. Thanks for the help!

EDIT: Hey, while I've (maybe) still got your attention, do you have any advice for how I could actually change Bowser? The variable I need to change to shorten the punch (punchDur in bowser.lua) is local, so I can't directly edit it from my own Lua file, nor can I figure out how to import or inherit from it. I think I'm just SOL, but is there any hacky way I could get around this?

[PixelPest]

I'd suggest not modifying Bowser's code rn since he's getting a rewrite by Beta 4 iirc which will change the code drastically

[HenryRichard]

If you really want to, you can make a copy of anything in the LuaScriptsLib folder and put it in your episode or level folder and your copy will be loaded instead. I'd advise against doing this most of the time since it will break in the future, but for the time being it will work.

[SMB3]

I was trying to avoid that for now for that exact reason, but it's either this, or finagle my own character entirely. It'll do for my purposes though, I guess. Thanks for your help!

[xDestroy]

:facepalm:

This is not discord...

[Julia Pseudo]

:facepalm:

This is not discord...

Most likely meant as humor.

[SMB3]

If you really want to, you can make a copy of anything in the LuaScriptsLib folder and put it in your episode or level folder and your copy will be loaded instead. I'd advise against doing this most of the time since it will break in the future, but for the time being it will work.

I'm having some trouble setting this up. I can't get it to work with Bowser (his punch remains way too long unless I change it in the base file), so I quit out of frustration and tried with Mega Man instead. I attempted to change the names of some weapons to see if it would even work, but they won't change either. With the Mega Man one I tried putting the file in the level folder, episode folder, and imitation LuaScriptsLib\Characters\ folders in each, but it's not being detected; the original megaman.lua is still getting loaded over my custom one, so I'm starting to think something's wrong with the order the game loads scripts in. Hopefully though, I just forgot something and can fix this with a little more investigation. If anyone has some help with this bug(?) it would be appreciated. Thanks!

:facepalm:

This is not discord...

Most likely meant as humor.

Correct.

(ignore my break and pseudo-necro, there was stuff happening)

[The0x539]

imitation LuaScriptsLib\Characters folders

This is wrong, Misc.resolveFile and by extension API.load looks inside LuaScriptsLib itself, so just a Characters folder in the level/episode folder will do.

[SMB3]

imitation LuaScriptsLib\Characters folders

This is wrong, Misc.resolveFile and by extension API.load looks inside LuaScriptsLib itself, so just a Characters folder in the level/episode folder will do.

There it goes! Thanks for your help, guys!