Moving Layer Calculations

[Quantumenace]

You can afford to be a few pixels off if you're only moving the layers once, or if you're cycling with the same speed and delay in both directions (since then you know it moves the same distance both ways).

However, you need to be more careful if you cycle back and forth with unequal speeds and delays, otherwise even a small inaccuracy will gradually add up. There's an airship/fortress level in MAGL X where the section with moving platforms becomes impossible to complete if you take too long because they get higher and higher each cycle.

[Akyuu]

what i get when i try that is what i always get: invalid Input

the vbs is case sensitive, so you need to answer Speed or Time (capital letters)

[darkhog]

Good thing. However even after inputing formulas/using vbs I couldn't get it to move exactly the way I wanted to. Perhaps having a way in Lua to detect layer's offset from (0,0) would make things easier?

[Fuyu]

While the numbers should match and whatever layer you're moving should stop where you want according to the calculations, most of the time that won't happen, not because of the calculation, but because of SMBX itself. Like you said, you're better off using Lua as a means of moving layers since you can detect the exact coordinates yourself and prevent the layer from moving further or not reaching the end.

[darkhog]

I don't think I can detect coordinates myself, not without Layer.offsetY/layer.offestX or similar.

[Fuyu]

I don't think I can detect coordinates myself, not without Layer.offsetY/layer.offestX or similar.

You just mentioned how to get them :v

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[PixelPest]

I don't think I can detect coordinates myself, not without Layer.offsetY/layer.offestX or similar.

You just mentioned how to get them :v

But they don't exist

[Fuyu]

Sorry about that, I was lazy as fuck.

@darkhog: You can just print the player's coordinates and from there is you just try to get the correct numbers.

[PixelPest]

Btw if you want to use more exact numbers if syncing issues are a problem use 2500/39 instead of 65 or in LunaLua code just use lunatime.toSeconds()

[Zha Hong Lang]

Btw if you want to use more exact numbers if syncing issues are a problem use 2500/39 instead of 65 or in LunaLua code just use lunatime.toSeconds()

This, so very much.

65 is only one digit of accuracy, which is extremely gosh darn bad and I don't reccommend going by that at all.

[Fuyu]

Btw if you want to use more exact numbers if syncing issues are a problem use 2500/39 instead of 65 or in LunaLua code just use lunatime.toSeconds()

Added this to the main post.

[Devan2002]

TBH, I don't even calculate it, I just mess with the numbers and see what seems like a good speed and when to change directions of moving layers.

[Westretroman]

TBH, I don't even calculate it, I just mess with the numbers and see what seems like a good speed and when to change directions of moving layers.

Me too. Saves time and the thinking required to do the action.

[PixelPest]

The issue with that is that your layers will unsync or not stop perfectly against a block and making a 10 second calculation is all you have to do